A NEW CRAFT.
.ADMIRALTY TRIAL. AERIAL TORPEDO BOAT. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATIONUNITED SERVICE.) LONDON, May 16. Admiralty officials witnessed an aerial torpedo boat —a two-seater Black-burn-Ripton, piloted by Captain Blake, with a 500 horse-power Napier Bon engine, carry out demonstrations. Swooping down the R.iver Humber at Brough at a rate of three miles a. minute the new craft discharged a torpedo into the waters and climbed up again. The machine can be operated amphibiously and also used for bombing work.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 18 May 1928, Page 9
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84A NEW CRAFT. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 18 May 1928, Page 9
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