BRITAIN’S LATEST
AN AIR El (ill IT! It. (United Press Association.—lsy Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Roceivcc. this day at 9.25. a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 0. “A hurtling arsenal of the air,” is how one paper describes the ITawkerJupitcr Hawfinch, the Air Ministry’s new all-metal high altitude lighting aeroplane, details of which are now, for the first time, disclosed. It can climb to four miles in twelve minutes, maintaining at that height a speed of 11(5 miles per hour and with a full service load, consisting of two machine guns, ammunition and lour twenty pounds bombs, can actually climb to a height of six miles. It is driven by a super-charged Mristol-. Jupiter engine. ils iunelion is to boat oif enemy raiders. This aeroplane is a dmelopni,mil of the I lawkci-Molls-Moyce. ol which it was the first of this type i.T lighting plane.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1929, Page 5
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