WAR PLANES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 23 June 1923, Page 7

WAR PLANES

| A TRIAL ATTACK I

' WONDERS OF NEW MACHINES,

s f BY CABLE—fEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT I . LONDON, June 21. ■■ In the presence of thousands of, * people lining the foreshore six aeroplanes carried out a trial attack on- the ■ ' Atlantic fleet at Weymouth on Wed- ' nesday night, using aerial torpedoes, i All the ships' lights were put out, and | aeroplanes, though they flew low, had ' the greatest difficulty in spotting the , ' target. The Daily Express states that three ! out of six dummy torpedoes hit the i Queen Elizabeth, the Valiant and an- ! other warship during the night attack, j The mystery surrounding the new > equipment for the Royal Air Force has | been lifted sufficiently to show that the new machines are such as would have staggered the imagination only a year ago. It includes machines which fly with full military equipment, men and munitions at a speed of 150 miles an hour at a, height of over ten thousand ! feet, being capable of twisting and j turning with extraordinary facility. j Experts are gratified with the results of experiments in the naval department. The latest types of torpedocarriers are the Blackburn Dart and the Handley-Page Hamley. Both are single-seaters, with a speed of a hundred miles an hour. Several other types are ready, which it is considered will place . England ahead of other Powers in aircraft. j