MYSTERY ’PLANES.
BRITISH MACHINES. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. NEW YORK, Oct. 10. The British ‘ ‘ mystery ship ’ ’ brought to the, Unitedi States by the Royal Aero Club’s team and entered . v for the Schneider seaplane trophy races at Baltimore on October 23, is revealed as a super-marine Napier SI of new design, embodying features entirely Hew in airplanes. Captain Herbert Broad, the British war “ace,” announced that the ’plane is the one. whose speedi of 22S miles per hour during recent trials in England is accredited as' a new world’s record for seaplanes by the International Aeronautical Federation.
Another “mystery ’plane” which Britain has entered is one which is the smallest seaplane in the world for its power, and has been built with the greatest secrecy. Captain Broad said it will travel between two and' three hundred miles per hour.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 12 October 1925, Page 5
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