NEW GERMAN PLANES
PERFORMANCE DETAILS
LONDON, May 30. | Details of the performance of some of Germany's newest planes are given by the aeronautical . editor of "The Times." The Messerschmitt 109 G6 single-engined fighter reaches a top speed of 400 miles an hour at 22,000 feet. The fighter-bomber version at the same altitude attains 385 miles an hour. These Messerschmitts carry three 20mm and two 13mm guns. The Germans have increased the wing-span of the Dornier 217 K2, which is equipped with two radio-controlled armour-piercing bombs, obviously for use against warships. Its total bombload is now 66001b. The machine carries nine guns. The Heinkel 177, which is the Luftwaffe's nearest approach to the R.A.F.'s heavy bomber, now carries a bombload of 12,3001b, and has a maximum speed of 285 miles an hour at 20,000
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 127, 31 May 1944, Page 5
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133NEW GERMAN PLANES Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 127, 31 May 1944, Page 5
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