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White & Thompson No. 1 Seaplane
The White & Thompson No. 1 Seaplane (also No. 1 Flying boat) was a British twin-engined biplane flying boat built just prior to the outbreak of the First World War to compete in an air-race around the UK. It was unsuccessful, only the single prototype being built.
==Design and development==
In 1914, the White and Thompson Company Limited, of Bognor Regis, England, who had become exclusive licence holders for Curtiss flying boats for Great Britain the previous year, decided to build two different flying boats, designed by Norman Thompson, co-owner and the driving force behind White & Thompson, to compete in the ''Daily Mail'' £5,000 Circuit of Britain race for seaplanes, scheduled to start on 10 August that year. Thompson's designs were a single-engined flying boat, similar to the Curtiss Model F flying boat which Thompson had a licence for, and a larger twin-engined aircraft.〔''Flight'' 17 July 1914, p.731.〕〔London 1996, p.71.〕
The twin-engined aircraft, the White & Thompson No. 1 Seaplane, was a biplane powered by two pusher Curtiss OX water-cooled V-8 engines driving three-bladed propellers with adjustable pitch.〔〔 It was of wooden construction, with the fuselage built of elm and spruce planked with mahogony. The crew of two sat side-by side in a cockpit fitted with dual-controls just ahead of the wings. Its tail assembly had a large fin which was supplemented by two auxiliary fins mounted on the upper wing, and a high mounted horizontal tail.〔Goodall 1995, pp. 25–26.〕〔''Flight'' 9 October 1914, pp. 1014–1016.〕
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