ENEMY'S LATEST GIANT WAR 'PLANE
| CREW OF NINE MEN AND FOUR MACHINE-GUNS. (Eec, June 10, 9 p.m.) ■ Paris, Juno !). Tho Havas News Agency N slutes that the latest type of giant German aeroplane which has been brought down carried a crew of nino specialists, and also four motor engines, each of 300 horse-power. It measured 43 metres (about 46 yards) across tho wings, and was 28 metres (about 30 yards) in length. Its weight, when empty, was 92C0 kilogrammes (about 9 tons), when loaded 14,000 kilogrammes (over 14 tons). Its maximum speed was 130 kilometres (7S miles) an hour, and it carried four machine-guns — Eeutor.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19180611.2.34
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 225, 11 June 1918, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
105ENEMY'S LATEST GIANT WAR 'PLANE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 225, 11 June 1918, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in