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The exercise created considerable public interest, firstly among the several hundred spectators who had gathered on the shoreline to witness the event first-hand, and also through the considerable press coverage generated nationwide both by this initial flight and the continuing trials of the Farman hydro-aeroplane over ensuing days.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDuring the middle decades of the twentieth-century, seaplanes would become an integral part of the life of Sydney harbour. 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The exercise created considerable public interest, firstly among the several hundred spectators who had gathered on the shoreline to witness the event first-hand, and also through the considerable press coverage generated nationwide both by this initial flight and the continuing trials of the Farman hydro-aeroplane over ensuing days.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDuring the middle decades of the twentieth-century, seaplanes would become an integral part of the life of Sydney harbour. 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