SECRET AEROPLANES.
GREAT SPEED ATTAINED. LONDON, April 8. Britain hopes to retrieve her former prestige in the air and to obtain tho world’s speed record with a secret monoplane, whose wings are of the shortest length compatible with safety, and which carries a (150-h.p. engine. Pilot Larry Carter, who is carrying out the tests, expects to attain a speed of 299 miles an hour. If he is successful he will go to America to compote for the Sohneider Cup.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 123, 28 April 1925, Page 5
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79SECRET AEROPLANES. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 123, 28 April 1925, Page 5
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