CONSOLIDATED COMMODORE. The Commodore depicted here was operated on the South American route by the New York, Rio and Buenos Aires Line. The type was developed from the Consolidated PY-1 naval patrol flying boat, and fourteen were built, deliveries starting in 1929. Accommodation was provided normally for twenty passengers but the machines delivered to N.Y.R.B.A. had a fuselage lengthened to 68 ft. and could carry thirty passengers. Engines were two 575-h.p. Pratt and Whitney Hornets. Span was 100 ft., loaded weight 17,600 lb. and top speed 128 m.p.h.

De SCHELDE S-21. Designed in 1939 by the late Mr. Th. Slot, the prototype Dutch De Schelde S-21 was nearing completion when the Germans occupied the works in 1940, and it never flew. It was to have had a 1,085-h.p. Daimler-Benz DB-600G pusher engille with which a top speed of 367 m.p.h. was estimated. Armament consisted of two 7.7-mm. and two 23-mm. guns, two firing forward and two aft. One 23-mm. gun was positioned to fire through the propeller boss.