GIANT BOMBERS
FOR BRITISH AIR FORCE THIRTY MACHINES ORDERED. ALMOST INVISIBLE AT NIGHT BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGfII Received 10.5 a.m. to-day. LONDON, Jan. 7. The Gazette states that in connection with the expansion of home air defences, the Air Ministry has ordered thirty giant Handley-,Page night bombers designed to attack enemy aeroplanes. They will be driven by two Napier engines, totalling thousand horse power. They are to be painted a greenish-brown, which experiments have proved render them almost invisible at night, even in the rays of a searchlight.—Sydney Sun Cable.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 8 January 1927, Page 5
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89GIANT BOMBERS Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 8 January 1927, Page 5
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