AERIAL ARMAMENTS
PREPARATIONS BY RUSSIA FIVE-ENGINED AEROPLANES. TRAINING OF THE PILOTS. FREE SERVICE BY WORKERS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 12.10 o.m. to-day. THE HAGUE, Juno G. The Dutch aviator, M. Fokkor. who has returned from Russia, has drawn attention to the Sovietv’s aerial armnmerits. He says he saw hundreds *>f machines at tho> Moscow aerodrome. At least twentv were four-engined ’planes and several were five-engined: All were I'ullv armed. The training of pilots was proceeding ou a large scale. Workers give their services without payment on their weekly holidays in return for instruction. ' M. Fokker also saw an air experimental station, surpassing anything he had previously seen.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 7 June 1934, Page 5
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110AERIAL ARMAMENTS Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 7 June 1934, Page 5
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