WORLD’S BIGGEST WARPLANE
POWERFUL NEW BRITISH CRAFT. British Official Wireless. Rec. 5.5 p.m. ■ WW™® 17 ’ Among several new typos of aircratt which will be seen for the first time at the Royal Air Force pageant at Hendon on Saturday week, will be a huge four-engined Vickers night bomber. Ihe plane is considerably larger than the Brton Vickers Virgina bomber,, hitherto the biggest and most powerful lighting aircraft in the world. , The new machine has four RollsRoyce engines developing 1020 horsepower. Two engines are mounted as tractors and two as pushers. The plane 18 67 feet long, 22 feet high and 90 feet wing spread. It weights twelve tons gnd in speed, range and load shows a considerable advance on any other bom hilig type.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 June 1931, Page 7
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124WORLD’S BIGGEST WARPLANE Taranaki Daily News, 19 June 1931, Page 7
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