LATEST BATTLE PLANE
GREAT RANGE OF FIRE What is declared to be the most important battle plane developed since the war has been turned over to the French Government by the Bleriot aeronautical works. It is a huge 1,000h.p. ship armed with six machine guns, and designed principally as a protector plane for bombing squadrons. Powered with two Hispano-Suiza motors, it attains a speed of 130 miles an hour, and carries a crew of six men—two pilots, a mechanician, and three machine-gunners. Four of the machine guns are placed in the forward part of the cn*aft, and two in the rear, giving a ranjie of fire said to be the largest yet attained in an airplane.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 378, 12 June 1928, Page 13
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116LATEST BATTLE PLANE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 378, 12 June 1928, Page 13
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