REMARKABLE BRITISH DEVICE FOR LAUNCHING AEROPLANES INTO THE AIR WITHIN A CONFINED: SPACE. % A twin-engined Vickers Virginia bombing aeroplane, weighing 9 tons, waa successfully catapulted into the air by new mechanism designed at the Royal Air Force experimental station, Farnborough. This photograph'shows a single-engined machinei making «;test take-oft from-the-appara s, which dispenses with the takeoff run at present necessary for the launching or -
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20880, 23 May 1931, Page 13
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63REMARKABLE BRITISH DEVICE FOR LAUNCHING AEROPLANES INTO THE AIR WITHIN A CONFINED: SPACE. % A twin-engined Vickers Virginia bombing aeroplane, weighing 9 tons, waa successfully catapulted into the air by new mechanism designed at the Royal Air Force experimental station, Farnborough. This photograph'shows a single-engined machinei making «;test take-oft from-the-appara s, which dispenses with the takeoff run at present necessary for the launching or . > . i. – New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20880, 23 May 1931, Page 13
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