OFF SECRET LIST.
BRISTOL BEAUFORT BOMBER. Received May 22, 8.5 a.m. LONDON, May 21. The Air Ministry has removed from its secret list details of the Bristol Beaufort highwing monoplane which has been ordered lor considerable manufacture in Australia. It is a fourseater with two 10G5 horsepower Bristol Taurus sleeve-valved and air-cooled engines. it has a stressed skin and metal power-operated gun turret, and the machine can be alternatively used as a bomber,, a torpedo bomber or for general reconnaissance work.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 145, 22 May 1939, Page 7
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81OFF SECRET LIST. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 145, 22 May 1939, Page 7
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