UP-TO-DATE FIGHTERS
ORDER FOR THE R.A.F,
ALSO LONG-RANGE BOMBERS
LONDON, July 12. The Air Ministry has ordered two squadrons of the world's fastest singleseater fighters, the Gloster F 7/30, which carries four machines-guns with a converging fire of 3500 bullets'a mm Ute and flies at over 250 miles an hour. Other new orders include a large number of thrcc-seater fleet reconnais- | sance Faireys with a speed of 150 miles an hour. Intensive attention is being concentrated on heavy long-range bombers which, since the war researches, have been, neglected, _ _„
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 12, 13 July 1935, Page 9
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88UP-TO-DATE FIGHTERS Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 12, 13 July 1935, Page 9
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