NEW BRITISH PLANES
A GIANT BOMBER SOME STRIKING FEATURES LONDON, June 17. Among several new types of aircraft not before seen publicly is one which will lie seen for the first time at the Air Force pageant at Hendon on Saturday week. It will lie a huge four-engined Vickers night bomber, which is considerably larger than the 8-ton Vickers Virginia bomber, hitherto the largest and most powerful lighting aircraft in the world.
The new machine has four Rolls-Royce engines, developing 1920 li.p. Two of the engines are mounted as tractors, and two as pushers. The piano is 67ft. long, 22ft. high, and lias a 90ft. wing spread. It weighs 12 tons, and in speed range and load shows a considerable advance on any other bombing type
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17498, 19 June 1931, Page 7
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126NEW BRITISH PLANES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17498, 19 June 1931, Page 7
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