MARKED ADVANCE.
DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION. TROOP-CARRYING AIRCRAFT. Marked advance in design and construction of the heavy transport service aeroplane is revealed in the planning and performance of three new British twin-engined monoplanes which are now undergoing official trials. The heavy transport ’plane fulfills important duties with the Royal Air Force in the field, and has proved especially useful in the Near and Middle East, where policing responsibilities of I lie service are heaviest. Many notable achievements are credited lo these big machines, including Hie evacuation from Kabul of 600 refugees who were threatened by the Afghan civil war of 1 928-29, and the shifting at short notice of a battalion of infantry from
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19663, 24 August 1935, Page 22 (Supplement)
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113MARKED ADVANCE. Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19663, 24 August 1935, Page 22 (Supplement)
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