NEW DEADLY WEAPON
TORPEDO-BOAT OF AIR TESTS ON THE HUMBER (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (United Service) LONDON, Wednesday. Admiralty officials to-day witnessed an aerial torpedo-boat, a two-seater Blackburn-Ripton, piloted by Captain Blake, equipped with a 500 horse-power Napier-Bon engine, carry out demonstrations. Swooping down the River Humber at Brough at a rate of three miles a minute she discharged a torpedo into the water and climbed up into the air again. The machine can be operated amphibiously and also can be used for bombing work.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 356, 17 May 1928, Page 9
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85NEW DEADLY WEAPON Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 356, 17 May 1928, Page 9
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