BIG AEROPLANES IN AUSTRALIA.
DESIGNED TO BOMB BERLIN,
SYDNEY, February 2.
Types of an aeroplane which was to have participated in a great aerial atlack on Berlin had the war continued will be used for commercial purposes.
The aeroplanes in question are do Haviland No 10 Bombing planes. They have a carrying capacity of 16 passengers and two tons of goods. The British Air Ministry had the planes designed specially for long-distance flights with big loads of bombs. The de HaviI a lid 10 was tested, and found to be capable of carrying, in addition to the pilot and observer, four tons of bombs and petrol supplies for 18 hours. Each plane is fitted with two 500 h.p. Rolls Boyce engines, and the maximum speed of the machines, when fully loaded, is 135 miles an hour. The engines are-equipped with two sets of magnetos and sparking plugs, which are so installed that if one set fails the pilot can switch over to the other. These big planes will be run by their new owners, the Diggers’ Co-operative Aviation Co., Ltd., in a continuous service between Dubbo and Sydney. Meiti- | bers of the Cabinet have been invited I to fly next month in one of the machines to the centenary celebrations in Mudgee. I
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1921, Page 4
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