BUILDING IN RUSSIA
WORLD'S BIGGEST 'PLANE
PURPOSE IN PEACE AND WAR
(Received Sfarch. l\ 2 p.m.)
LONDON, March 11. The "Daily Express" aviation correspondent says that RußSia is shortly launching the .largest aeroplane in the world, weighing 42 tons, with eight engines, capable of carrying 60 people at 160 • miles an hour. It.; will be used primarily for propaganda, carrying a printing press. It will be in continual wireless communication with the Government and thus receive instructions as to what to print and where' to scatter •propaganda. If1 successful, six similar machines will- be constructed. In the event of war they will ■ serve as bombers and troop-carriers.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 60, 12 March 1934, Page 8
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BUILDING IN RUSSIA
Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 60, 12 March 1934, Page 8
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