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. | FORMIDABLE FIGHTING PLANE. tl \ I LONDON, June 6. A colossal "hush hush" machine, a which is the world's largest metal flying . I boat, and which has been under secret i I construction by the German Dornier Company, has just been purchased by I the Japanese Government, and will be j flown to Japan on completion 3 j It has accommodation for one hundred * people, and if used as a war machine ] will be capable of flying great distances ° ] without alighting and of carrying a I formidable load of bombs. I The machine's twelve engines develop 5 j 5400 horse-power, giving a tremendous I speed. 0 I It is understood that Japan will '• employ this mammoth plane in a series '• jof experimental flights across the Pacific from Japanese coastal bases.— .- (A. and N.Z. Cable.) t
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 133, 7 June 1926, Page 7
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