HUGE VICKERS BOMBER TO BE SEEN AT PAGEANT.
(United Press Assn.—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyrl gh t.) RUGBY. June 17. Among several new types of aircraft not yet publicly shown, 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, which is considerably larger than the 8-ton Vickers Virgin bomber, hitherto the largest and most powerful fighting aircraft in the world.
The new machine has four Rolls Royce engines, developing 1920 horsepower. Two engines are mounted as tractors and two as pushers. The machine is 67 feet long, 22 feet high and the wing-spread is 90 feet. It weighs 12 tons, and in speed, range and load shows a considerable advance on anv other bombing type.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 144, 19 June 1931, Page 1
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