AIR TORPEDO-BOAT.
AMAZING DEMONSTRATION. (tJKITED PBISB ASSOCIATION—BI ILBCTBI6 TILEOBAPH— COPTBIOHT.) (Received May 16th, 11'-p.m.) LONDON, May 10. Admiralty officials witnessed an aerial torpedo boat, a two-Beater BlackburnRipton, piloted by Captain Blake, with a 500 horse power Napier-Bon engine, carry out demonstrations, swooping down the river Humber at BroUgh at the rate of three miles a minute, discharging a torpedo into the waters, and climb* ing up again. The machine can bo operated amphibiously and also used for bombing —Australian Press Association, XJnitea Service.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19312, 17 May 1928, Page 9
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