PLANE AND SUBMARINE
.. Beinarkable-stories are reaching Xondon concerning :.% hybrid^man-carryirig apparatus which is '.said to be, part aeroplane and part submarine. > Soyeral. for-, eign Governments, it is reported, have been made aware oiC its existence. The machine is said to be undergoing secret tests at a lonely point Yon tho Danish coast.-;': The, air ■correspondent ot ' the f 'Daily Mail'Mdescribes it as having a- metal boat-like bodyiwith telescopic metal • wings, '■'„ss& .lattery 'apparently, can be drawn ■ in' or reefed, alongside the body; whereupon the crew, closing watertight compartments) can submerge the vessel 'and operate it;: beneath .the water. Beneath the body vis an. amphibian type of gear, with" wheels, ■ enabling the crafty "when desired, to. ;loava air. or water for land, and. move' about on. the .ground;!. !■/■'.■ /^'- .-i ;;^-j. ;'"•.' ■£.;'■-■
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 144, 21 June 1930, Page 6
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PLANE AND SUBMARINE
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 144, 21 June 1930, Page 6
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