AERIAL TORPEDO BOAT
DEMONSTRATION WITNESSED. (Rec. 11 p.m.) London, May 16. Admiralty officials witnessed an aerial torpedo boat—a two-seater Blackburn— Ripton piloted by Captain Black with a 5000 horse-power Napier-Bon engine—carry out demonstrations, swooping down the river Humber at Brough at the rate of three miles a minute; despatch a torpedo into the waters and climb up again. The machine can be operated amphibiously.— United Service.
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Southland Times, Issue 20489, 17 May 1928, Page 5
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