Hudson Bombers Eminently Suited To N.Z. Defence
TSpecial to "Northern Advocate”] AUCKLAND, This Day,
Lockheed-Hudson bombers, newlydelivered from the -United States, were flown for the first time in the Dominion this week when one of these fast and modern warplanes was tested.
The Hudson is already famous as a U-boat destroyer and its long range, good speed and heavy offensive power make it an eminently suitable craft for use in an insular country such, as New Zealand. The bombers were assembled by a New Zealand ground staff. Each machine has two twin-row Pratt and Whitney engines, each of 1200 horsepower. Reconnaissance Bomber Developed from a successful commercial machine, the Lockheed 14, the Hudson has proved itself as a reconnaissance bomber. Many New Zealanders serving with the Coastal Command of the Royal Air Force have successfully engaged not only enemy ships, but enemy warplanes, for the Hudson, apart from the turret armament, carries a forward firing machine-gun, and has a sting in the tail, in the form of twin Vickers guns that command a wide arc beneath the machine. Hudsons for Britain regularly fly the Atlantic from Newfoundland bases, and operating from English aerodromes fly hundreds of miles on escort duty, and in search of enemy ships.
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Northern Advocate, 22 May 1941, Page 3
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