BRITAIN'S BIG BOMBER
TO BE "SEEN AT-AIR
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(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, 17th June. Among several new types of aircraft not publicly shown which will be seen for the first time at the Air Force Pageant at Hendon on Saturday week will be a huge four-engined Vickers niglit bomber which is considerably larger than the 8-ton Vickors-Vivginia ■bomber—hitherto tho largest and most powerful fighting aircraft in the world. The new machine has four RollsRoyce engines, developiug 1020 horsepower, and two of the engines are mounted as "tractors" and two as ".pushers." The' 'plane is 07-feet long, 22 feet high, and has a 90-foot wijig spread. It weighs 12 tons, and in specdi range, and load f/.ows a considerable advance on any other bombing type.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 143, 19 June 1931, Page 7
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