SUPERFORT'S VISIT
WORLD'S BIGGEST BOMBER , A, Boeing 829 Super Fortress, largest operational bomber "in the world, took off from Wheiiuapai aerodrome last night after a brief "stop-over" of one day in the Dominion. It brought here BrigadierGeneral. J. H. Davies, U.'SA.A.F., and . other, high-ranking American officers engaged on a special mission. The machine was the first of its kind to land here. The Super Fortress has a wingspread of 150 ft, a weight, empty, of 70,0001b, .and is powered with four 18-cylinder Wright radial engines, developing over 8000 h.p., and giving a top speed in the vicinity of 300 miles an hour.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 163, 12 July 1945, Page 7
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