FLYING DREADNOUGHTS
AMERICAN AIR DEFENCE SECRET TESTS IN PROGRESS WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. (Received Feb. 27, at 7.30 p.m.) The Navy Department has placed orders for 54 flying boats, similar to the huge four-motored Sikorsky flying dreadnoughts which are now under secret tests, says the correspondent of the United Press. The new so-called battleships of the air will be mounted with guns capable of firing 200 two-inch shells a minute, being twice as large as any weapon at present mounted. These American fighting craft will also be equipped with regular machine guns and will carry 2000 bombs or more.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23437, 28 February 1938, Page 11
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