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#1 Posted : 05 January 2014 07:54:06

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When an early British sea plane, the S.80, made a three-month expedition south down the Nile in 1914, the mechanic was unnamed in the newspaper reports. But the adventure's success depended on his expertise.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25578363
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