The 1932 B.A.C. VIII was a two-seat flying boat glider using B.A.C. VII wings and tail. Nicknamed the “Bat-Boat” after similar craft described in a short story by Rudyard Kipling, it was tested in August 1931 by being towed behind a speed-boat on the River Medway at Rochester. On 7 December that year it was demonstrated from the Welsh Harp reservoir at Hendon.
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