PORTABLE CATAPULT
FOR SHOOTING UP AEROPLANES [United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) ■ ' 'i ‘ (Received this day at 10.30 a.rii.) LONDON, Noy. 16. The Air Ministry experts have perfected a portable catapult’ for sboot r ing up aeroplanes, obviating the necessity of large aerodromes. The Fairey Napier bomber was successfully launched in a space of thirty-,-,yards. Wheel brakes enabled the plane to land in the same space. A combination of inventions and the fact that the catapult can be packed up and transported by motor tractor, will increase the mobility of fighting, planes with Armies, especially where aero-' dromes are lion-C'xiistent.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 November 1930, Page 6
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100PORTABLE CATAPULT Hokitika Guardian, 17 November 1930, Page 6
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