CORONATION DISPLAY
THE ROYAL AIR FORCE KING TO BE PRESENT (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, June 16. (Received June 17, at 5.5 p.m.) Final arrangements have been made for the Royal Air Force Coronation display at Hendon on Saturday. The King will be present, and members of the British and Dominion Governments, the whole diplomatic corps, and many important service delegations from foreign countries will be among others attending. The number of aircraft taking part will be greater than ever, nearly 500 being engaged. A feature of the display will be the new types of aeroplanes recently supplied to the service squadrons. Amongst them are the Bristol Blenheim medium bomber, with a top speed of about 280 miles an hour at a height of 14,000 feet, and a Handley Page Harrow bomber which has a top speed of 190 miles an hour and carries a much heavier load than the medium bomber class.
The flying programme occupies five and a-half hours, during which the sky will never be empty. There will be a low bombing dive, bombing attacks, aerobatics by single air*craft, by flights and by squadrons, a demonstration of army co-operation duties, and the use of " smoke," and as a grand finale a thrilling set piece illustrating methods of attacking and defending a port primarily used for the distribution of food supplies in war.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23220, 18 June 1937, Page 9
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224CORONATION DISPLAY Otago Daily Times, Issue 23220, 18 June 1937, Page 9
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