IN THE AIR.
AIRCRAFT TltlU MPII. 1 AUSTRALIAN it N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] (Received This Day at 8.45 a.m.) LONDON November 16. The Australian Press representative participated in a record passenger-carry ing flight in a new HandleyPage aeroplane carrying forty passengers in addition to the pilot. The machine has just been completed. It belongs to a squadron which was specially designed to bomb Berlin. Some machines were actr.dly in readiness to visit Berlin on Monday night, but the flight was abandoned m consequence of the signing of the ai mistice. The machines arc capable of doing over one thousand miles in a non-stop flight. The weight of the machine is seven tons and it- carries eight tons.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 November 1918, Page 3
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116IN THE AIR. Hokitika Guardian, 18 November 1918, Page 3
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