PROPAGANDA AEROPLANE
Russian Monster Planned ‘ WILL CARRY PRINTING PRESS LONDON, March 11. The “Daily Express” aviation correspondent says that Russia shortly is launching the largest aeroplane in the world, weighing 42 tons. It will have eigjit engines and will bo capable of carrying 60 people at 160 miles an hour. The plane will be used primarily for propaganda, carrying a printing press. It will be in continual wireless communication with the Government and thus will receive instructions on what to print and where to scatter the propaganda. If successful six similar machines will be constructed. In the event, of war they will serve as bombers and troop-carriers.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 77, 13 March 1934, Page 7
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