GIANT MONOPLANE
SUCCESSFULLY TESTED WORLD’S BIGGEST EXPERIMENT. BUILT BY AIR MINISTRY. KY OAHI.B -Pttflas ASSOCIATION—OOPYIiI-itt) Received 10.15 a.m. to-day. LONDON, March 6. The Air Ministry’s and the world’s biggest experiment, an all metal monoplane, was successfully tested at Martlesham. It weighs nearly twenty tons, lias a wing span of 150 feet, three engines aggregating 2100 hoise-power, and seven and a half feet landing wheels. Twenty passengers can be carried. The design is an adaption of the German Doctor Rohrbach’s ideas.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 7 March 1928, Page 5
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80GIANT MONOPLANE Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 7 March 1928, Page 5
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