AERIAL DEFENCE
BELGIUM’S NEW PLANES. (United Press Association. —Dy Electric Teieymph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 9.25 u.m) LONDON, January 3. The biggest single order which any foreign Government has yet placed with the British aircraft industry has been given to the Fairey Aviation Coy.'of Hayes, by Belgium, which has ordered military machines valued at three hundred thousand sterling. The planes will be ol the “Firefly” type, which are believed to be the fastest fighters in the world, and to he capable of travelling at 220 miles pel hour. Belgium will possess more than one hundred British planes, valued at live hundred thousand sterling, when, this order is fulfilled.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1932, Page 5
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108AERIAL DEFENCE Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1932, Page 5
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