NEW PLANE.
GREAT HEIGHTS TO BE CLIMBED (BI CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTRIOHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, December 8. The new Bristol biplane, specially designed to climb hitherto unattained heights, is awaiting favourable weather at Famborough Aerodrome. The Air Ministry is anxious to test their theory that there is a constantly moving wind, ten or twelve miles high which blows at the rate of 200 miles an hour. Such conditions might have a revolutionary influence on long-distance 'The' engine is specially equipped for maintaining its power in the ranfied The pilot will use,air suits and, hornets similar to a diver's. He will be enclosed in a glass-windowed cabin and automatically supplied with oxy-
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19180, 10 December 1927, Page 15
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112NEW PLANE. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19180, 10 December 1927, Page 15
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