BERLIN SAVED FROM AERIAL BOMBARDMENT.
' GIANT AEROPLANES READY FOR THE ATTACK. FLIGHT ABANDONED WHEN ARMISTICE SIGNED. V Anatolian »nd N-Z. Cable Association. LONDON. Not. 17. The Australian Press representatives participated in a record passenger-carrying flight in a new Handley-Page aeroplane, carrying 40 persons in addition to the pilot. The machine, just completed, belongs to a squadron specially designed to bomb Berlin. Some of these machines were actually in readiness to visit Berlin on Monday night, but the flight was abandoned in consequence of the signing of the armistice. The new aeroplane is capable of doing over 1000 miles non-stop flight. Its weight is seven tons, and it carries eight tons.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17011, 19 November 1918, Page 5
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