NEW BOMBER TESTED
British Air Force Machine (British Official Wireless.) (Received March 20, 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, March 19. The first of the new class of hignsliced bombers for the expanded Air Force was publicly flown yesterday at the Falrey Aerodrome, and, aithougn its performance remains a secret, tne impression it gave in flight was favourable.
Th© exhibition flight, which was made by 'Flight Lieutenant F. L. Stanland, included upward rolls, loops, stalled turns and slow flying with wing flaps fully depressed, and ended .with h series of vertically-banked turns and an impressively slow landing.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 151, 21 March 1936, Page 11
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94NEW BOMBER TESTED Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 151, 21 March 1936, Page 11
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