BRITAIN’S BIG BOMBER
TO BE SEEX AT PAGEANT THE LATEST AlltWAHSillP (Auist- ami N.Z. Cable) Ruglby, Juris? 10. several new types cf aircraft not publieiy sho w u which w ill be seen for file first time* at the Air Force Pageant at Ilcmlon oil Saturday week w ill bo a hwge iour-engim d Vickers night boruber which is ca'isiderubly larger ti.ia.u the Hu A in-kers-Virginia bomber.—hitherto tho largest and m>sfc powerful fighting aircraft in the world. The new machine lias four KollsItu.vce engine*?. -d< •*• eloping 191*0 • Ilct e
power, and two of tie engines arc mounted u s ‘Tractors'’ and two 1 ‘pushers.’’ Tile plane is 07 feet long, 22 feet high, and bus a 00, -foot w ing spread. It weighs 12 tons, and in speed. Gauge, and load show's a considerable a avarice on a. 113 other bombing t\pe.
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Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2450, 20 June 1931, Page 7
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