AERIAL PRINTERY.
SOVIET PROPAGANDA. HUGE ’PLANE CONSTRUCTED. CONVERTIBLE INTO BOMBER. United Press Assn. —Eire. Tel. Copyright LONDON, March li. The Daily Express’ aviation correspondent says that Russia will shortly launch the largest aeroplane in the world, weighing 42 tons. It will have eight engines and he capable of carrying GO people at 160 miles per hour. The 'plane will be used primarily for propaganda, carrying a printing press, and will be in continual wireless communication with the Government. Thus it will receive instructions on what to print and where to scatter its propaganda. If successful six similar machines will be constructed. In the event of war they would serve as bombers and troop carriers.
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Waikato Times, Volume 115, Issue 19203, 13 March 1934, Page 8
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114AERIAL PRINTERY. Waikato Times, Volume 115, Issue 19203, 13 March 1934, Page 8
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