SUCCESSFUL TEST
WORLD’S LARGEST,LAND-BASED PLANE
FLIGHT IN CALIFORNIA Rec. 9 p.m. NEW YORK, Nov. 23. Before a crowd of 100,000, the world’s largest land-based plane soared into the air at San Diego, California, to-day on its first test flight. The plane, which is designed to carry 100 fullyequipped troops, has six pusher type engines. Its weight is 132 tons, and it has a crew of nine. It was built by the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation and is known as the CX99. The plane is 182 feet long and its tail towers 57 feet into the air—about the same height as a five-storey building. It has a maximum range of 8000 miles, and a top speed of 300 miles an hour, and a ceiling of 30.000 feet. „ .. „ , It is, however, smaller than Howard Hughes’s, giant flying boat which made a short flight recently. Hughes’s aircraft weighs 200 tons and carries 700 soldiers, and is 219 feet long. After one hour aloft the plane landed, according to observers, as “ lightly as a feather.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26627, 25 November 1947, Page 5
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171SUCCESSFUL TEST Otago Daily Times, Issue 26627, 25 November 1947, Page 5
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