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Felixstowe in November 1924 for acceptance trials. Although the flying-boat met the type and air-handling requirements it did not meet the Ministries' requirements for seaworthiness. Modifications were made to N9709 for improvements including four-bladed propellers. On 25 May 1925, just after
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for experimental work and sometimes as a crew ferry. It was intended to produce a metal-hulled variant of the
Kingston III but the day the Kingston III left Lytham for Felixstowe in 1926 the company closed its aircraft department. Following some
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January 1923 the Air Ministry contracted English Electric to build a prototype and the new design was built at Preston, then moved by road to Lytham for flight trials. Following an inspection by the Ministry on 12 May 1924 the prototype,
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was ready a few months later, only small changes were made from the prototype including a slightly larger beam and two-bladed propellers. The flying-boat was delivered by rail to the
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becoming airborne the engines left their mountings and the wing structure failed causing cracks in the hull, the aircraft floated and the crew escaped without injury.
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reconnaissance flying boats. Redesigned, the Cork reappeared as the
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first flew on 13 November 1925 at Lytham and was flown to
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British twin-engined biplane flying boat built by
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61:Reconnaissance and anti-submarine flying boat
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652:Ransom, Stephen; Fairclough, Robert (1987).
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126:brought with it the two prototype
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146:Phoenix P.5 Cork MII (N.87) with
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160:Air Ministry Specification 23/23
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234:The last aircraft to be built,
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132:English Electric P.5 Kingston
116:English Electric P.5 Kingston
793:Aircraft first flown in 1924
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255:Specifications (Kingston I)
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285:General characteristics
184:. The first Kingston I
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196:The second Kingston I
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405:Related development
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53:General information
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346:Performance
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229:Kingston II
202:RAF Calshot
148:Linton Hope
767:Categories
505:30 January
466:References
433:Boeing XPB
421:Fairey N.4
359:Endurance:
316:Wing area:
265:Felixstowe
737:Lightning
361:8–9 hours
304:Wingspan:
276:Data from
225:duralumin
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727:Canberra
712:aircraft
400:See also
373:Armament
164:ailerons
154:In 1922
78:Designer
310:Height:
298:Length:
249:wartime
98:History
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186:N9709
150:hull.
752:Wren
747:P.10
742:P.1A
658:ISBN
639:ISBN
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336:2 ×
175:N168
114:The
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58:Type
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