NEW ALLIED AIRCRAFT
LONDON, September 29,_ Particulars are now released of an aircraft which has been in action tin the battlefronts, and has proved its worllt. The men of the Eighth Army call it the “buzzard —the eyes of the British Army.’ It has many remarkable features. It is a low-wiug monojilane with a maximum speed of 120 miles an hour, but it can take off in 50 yards and can land ou roads and in fields. It climbs at more than 1000 ft. a minute. It. is not armed, and carries no armour, and for its defence relies on its ability to fly in small circles, presenting an extremely difficult target. It is fitted with a 1.30 horsepower engine, and ean do 25 miles on a gallon of fuel. The name of the aircraft which has been on the secret list since the war began and has been in action on all fronts, is Tiiylorcraft Auster .111. Armour protects the pilot from ground lire which it draws by its tactics, thus revealing gun positions.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 5, 1 October 1943, Page 5
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175NEW ALLIED AIRCRAFT Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 5, 1 October 1943, Page 5
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