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- Notes
- ↑ "Big Guns". Archived from the original on 27 October 2009.
- ↑ Bruce, J.M. (1969). British Aeroplanes 1914-1918 (2nd impression ed.). London: Putnam & Co. p. 1.
- Bibliography
- Goodall, Mike. "Wight Elephants: Murray Sueter's Quest for a Large Military Aircraft". Air Enthusiast , No. 73, January/February 1998. Stamford, Lincs, UK:Key Publishing. ISSN 0143-5450. pp. 14–19.
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