AIR EVENTS
CAIRO TO TilE CAPE. Reuter’s Telegram. ' CAPETO WN, March 9. The Government has selected. _a bomb-dropping machine “to complete the Cairo flight. The machine is being put together Pfht toria, and is shortly to -fly to -Bulan ayo for the, ,uge .0f..-Van> ..Rjttevcld,’ "’hose machine, -the, .Silver- Queen, was reported recently. to -have been damaged. BIG AMERICAN - FLIGHT. Australian " and" N-ZT'Cable Association. T , . N»K YQRIS,- March 10.. it is underetpqa that the Do-* partment will, begin „the construction of a hugo~triplane to attempt a flight from San Francisco to Hongkong, stopping at Honolulu, Wake Island, Guam, and - Manila. It will be equipped with nine. Liberty motors, capable of developing 3600 horse-power,, will have a 140-foot wingsproad, 67ft hulls, carrying a crew of sixteen men-and a total load of thirty tons. The machine will have a- speed of 85‘ knots, and a cruising range of 2100'nautical miles. • * BRITISH AIR FORCE, LONDON, March 8. The Air Estimates total £25,000,000, and provide for a personnel of 29,730 exclusive of India... .
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10536, 12 March 1920, Page 5
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169AIR EVENTS New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10536, 12 March 1920, Page 5
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