BRITAIN'S NEW SUPERAEROPLANE
* • It is stated that the Royal Air Force will soon have swarms of a ne\f type of machine at tho battle front, from which great results have already been obtained. This machine is capable of carrying, with its pilot and observer, a great weight of bombs, machine-guns, and other equipment, to over 20,000 feet — beyond the range of anti-aircraft guns —and in an extraordinarily short time. It will be able to accomplish in a. couple of hours bombing raids which,.with tho older tyn© of machine, would perhaps need a whole day's preparation. The risk of engine trouble has been reduced to a minimum. It says much for the supreme value of the new type of aircraft, that, so far, not one has been brought down, In spite of the Huns' utmost efforts. When the weather will not permit high flying, their great speed will allow them to fly low, with; very little risk.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16313, 10 September 1918, Page 9
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