A NEW BIPLANE.
BRITISH BOMBING MACHINE, A FORMIDABLE FIGHTER. (Received 28, 10.20 a.m.) Nev/ York, Dec. 26. The “New York Times’s” London correspondent says a new type of bombing aeroplane, said to be one of the most formidable in existence, has boon adopted by the British Ministry. Tho machine can mount with a full load of bombs to a height of four miles and at that level approach its 1 objective at a hundred miles an hour. The machine is a medium-sized biplane of 650 horse-power, a gunner and two movable machine guns having a place in the cockpit just behind the pilot, who himself is armed with two fixed guns. The biplane also has a new moans of protection and new methods of cafrying bombs.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 12, 28 December 1925, Page 5
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128A NEW BIPLANE. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 12, 28 December 1925, Page 5
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