GIANT BOMBING ’PLANE
HENDON PAGEANT FEATURE. (■British Official Wir*-it-rr.. RUGBY, June 17. Among several new types of aircraft which will he seen for the first time at the Royal Air Force pageant at Hendon on Saturday Week will he a huge four-engined Vickers night bomber. The plane is considerably larger than the 8-ton Vickers Virgin a bomber, hitherto the biggest and most powerful fighting aircraft in the world. The new machine has four RollsRoyce engines developing 1920 horsepower. Two engines are mounted as tractors and two as pushers. The plane is 67 feet long, 22 feet high and has 90 feet wing spread. It weighs 12 tons, and in speed,range and load shows a considerable advance on any other bombing type.
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 19 June 1931, Page 5
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121GIANT BOMBING ’PLANE Hawera Star, Volume LI, 19 June 1931, Page 5
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