U.S. FIGHTER FOR BRITAIN
Claimed World’s Fastest (Received August 24, 12.40 a.m.) LOS ANGELES, August 23. Claimed to be the fastest military plane in the world, a now interceptor aircraft was unveiled, by the Lockheed Aircraft Corpora-. tion. It is disclosed that the army has ordered a large quantity, and Britain has a contract for 800 at a cost of 60,000,000 dollars (£15,000,000). The machine is a twin-engined pursuit plane carrying a one-pound rapidfire cannon and five machine-guns. The experimental model last year attained •160 miles an hour. Army experts are delighted. World's Biggest Bomber. LONDON, August 21. The new American fighter plane is called the I’3B and it is claimed "that successful tests have revealed a speed of 500 miles an hour. It has a range of 1100 miles. A new American bomber, the biggest ever built, will take the air this autumn. It is claimed that it can lly non-stop from New York to Europe and back to ,Los Angeles.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 283, 24 August 1940, Page 12
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