BOMBING BIPLANE.

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 551, 28 December 1925, Page 8

BOMBING BIPLANE.

BUIT AIN ’ S N K\V MA O H INE. . (A list. ami N.Z. Ca l.lc). (Beeeived Deo. 18, 2 p.m.) London, Dec. 27. A now typo of bombing aeroplane, said to bo one of I lie most formidable in existence, lias been adopted by the British iAr, Ministry. The machine can mount with a foil load of. bombs to height of four miles, and at that level approach its objective at KIO miles an. hour. Ibe machine is a medium-sized biplane of 650 ’ horse-power. A gunner and two movable machine guns have a place in the cockpit, just just behind the pilot who himself is armed with two fixed gaps.

The biplane also has a new moans of protection and new methods lor carrying bombs.