IN THE AIR.
AEROPLANING EXTRAORDINARY, THE HANDLEY-PAIGE MARVEL. Received 8.40 a.m. LONDON, Nov 16. " Members of the Australian Press participated in a record passengercarrying flight, in a new Handley-Pagb aeroplane, carrying forty in addition to the pilot. The machine was just completed and belongs to a squadron specially designed to bomb some -were actually in readiness to visit Berlin on Monday night, but the flight was abandoned in consequence of the signing of the armistice. The machine is capable of doing over 1000 miles in. a nonstop flight; the weight is seven tons, and it carries eight tons.
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Taihape Daily Times, 18 November 1918, Page 5
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98IN THE AIR. Taihape Daily Times, 18 November 1918, Page 5
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