RUSSIAN AIR FORCE
ANNUAL SHOW FEATURES. [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.) MOSCOW, August 19. The Soviet’s annual Air Show demonstrating “Russia’s safety from aerial invasion,” has opened at Tushino Airport in the presence of Soviet political and military leaders, the Diplomatic Corps, and half a million spectators. The features included four highspeed mystery bombers, one of which has a fishlike back, also 200 training planes flying in formation at 350 miles an hour. A train consisting of 27 gliders, discharged a swarm of parachutists.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 August 1940, Page 6
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