BIG PLACES IN AUSTRALIA

Otago Witness, Issue 3495, 8 March 1921, Page 36

BIG PLACES IN AUSTRALIA

DESIGNED TO BOMB BERLIN. (Tjsom Oub Own Correspondent.) February 2. Types of an aeroplane winch was to hav< participated m a great aerial attack or Berlin had the war continued lia\e beei imported to Australia, and will be used fo; commercial purposes. The aeroplanes in question are De Ilavi land No. 10 bombing claries. They hay< a carrying capacity oi 16 passengers and twr tons of goods. The British Air Ministry had the planes designed specially for long distance flights, with big loads of bombs Ihe De Haviland 10 was tested and fouru to be capable of carrying, in additior to the pilot and observer, four tons o bombs and petrol supplies for 18 hours. Each piano is fitted with two 500 horse power Rolls Royce engines, and the maxi mum speed of the machines, when fully loaded, is 135 miles an hour. The engine' are equipped with two sets of magneto: and sparking plugs, which are so installer I that if one sets fails the pilot can s witcl j over to the other. j ’These big planes will be eh by then new owners, The “Diggers” Co-operative Aviation Company (Ltd.), in a continuoui service between Dubbo and Sydney. Mom bers of the Cabinet have been invited t< fly next month in one of the machines t< the centenary celebrations in Mudgoe.