NEW BOMBER

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 237, 13 November 1940, Page 3

NEW BOMBER

BRITISH HAVE POWERFUL IMPROVED TYPE PLANE SPITFIRES UPSET NAZIS "She's a wizard." said a Ilojjai Air Force test pilot, after Hying a new British bomber which is expected to revolutionise aerial warfare. This new bomber, which is noAv in production and wiil soon lie operating, will have a great range. "Should the Axis make war on Turkey," says Mr Noel Monks, aviation correspondent of the Daily Mail, "the new bombers will be able to make 'out and home' trips, using Turkish bases for refuelling and reloading. "Their advent is heartening in view of the desperate measures the Germans are adopting in daylight raids on Britain by sending fight-* ers, because of heavy bomber losses, to do the work of bombers, for which they are far from suited. "Probably the Germans have moved large numbers of bombers to Rumania, but it is an inglorious retreat, because they were moved only after every trick known in aerial strategy had been tried against Britain, with disastrous results." The famous aeroplane designer, Major Alexander Scversky, writing in ' the New York Herald-Tribune, says the Spitfires' 2,") miles an hour margin of speed over the Messersehmitts has saved Britain from disaster and provided an opportunity for Britain to undertake'a futlscalc offensive against Germany, "Before the war I flew Spitfires in Britain and then visited Germany and flew Messerschmitts," lie says. ■'I told the Germans that the Spitfires Avere the better. They smiled lcnoAvingly, but they AA*ere mistaken Avhen they relied on mass production to counter-balance quality. "The' Germans regarded the invasion across the Channel as child's play, due to their experience in the Skaggerak in the Nonvay invasion, when aerial superiority permitted a landing in the teeth of the Royal Navy. The speed of the Spitfires, hOAvever, permitted Britain, to take the aerial initiative OA'er the Channel and upset the Avhole Nazi strategy."