“QUEEN BEE” SHOT DOWN
UN NEKS’ MARKSMANSHIP WATCHET, June 18. A Queen Bee, radio-controlled target plane, flying at a great height seven miles out over the Bristol Channel, was shot to pieces to-day by ' gunners of the 12th Anti-Aaircralt Battery (R.A.), stationed at Watc'net. The only part of the plane salvaged was a section of one float. Queen Bee planes, which are made by the De Havilland Company, were flrst seen ‘‘in action” in 1935, when they were used for target practice by the Navy at the Silver Jubilee review. Guided from take-oil to landing by secret radio apparatus, Queen Bees can fly at more than 100 m.p.h. and rise to a height of 10,000 feet. They can be controlled over a radius of ten miles.
Ladies 1/-, Gentlemen 1 /fi. st)l
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20003, 31 July 1939, Page 2
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