ITALY’S AIR FORCE
Increases to be completed in Three Years Instead of Six COST IS TO BE £2 1,000,000 CONSTRUCTION OF BOMBERS ‘United Press As^socLation —By Electric Telegraph Copyright). Received 2 p.m. to-day. ROME, March 27. Signor Valle, Under Secretary for Air, has announced that instead of the increases in the air force occupying six years as Signor Mussolini announced on May 26, 1934, the}' would be completed in three years at a cost of £21,C00,C00.
Construction has begun on a number of bombers, carrying 1£ tons of explosives, with a range of 1250 miles and a ceiling of 30,000 feet.
A squadron of super bombers is being built in 1936. They will have a speed of 275 miles an hour and a ceiling of 37,5Q0 feet.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 28 March 1935, Page 5
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127ITALY’S AIR FORCE Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 28 March 1935, Page 5
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