FARNBOROUGH AIR SHOW
New Missile To Be Shown
(N Z. Press Association—Copy right) LONDON, August 30. Civil aircraft experts from many Communist countries are expected to attend the annual air display which opens at Farnborough, Hampshire, on Monday. The Society of British Aircraft Constructors, organisers of the display, have received acceptances from Russia, Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
Britain’s newest guided weapon, the ‘‘stand-off bomb,” will make its first public appearance, carried in a Royal Air Force Vulcan delta-winged bomber. The aircraft will fly over the show-ground at 500 feet, but will not land at FarnboroughA prototype Handley Page Dart Herald aircraft, on its way to the show, crashed in flames at Surrey today. Eleven persons on board escaped. The plane was to have given 'demonstration flights at Farnborough.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28679, 1 September 1958, Page 10
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