BRITAIN’S AIR FLEET

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 460, 18 June 1937, Page 5

BRITAIN’S AIR FLEET

CORONATION PAGEANT 500 Planes To Take Part In Hendon Display Press Association —Copyright. Rugby, June 17. Arrangements for the Royal Air Force Coronation display at Hendon on Saturday have been completed. The King will be present, and members of the British Dominion Governments, the whole diplomatic corps and many important service delegations from foreign countries will be amongst other attending. The number of aircraft taking part will be greater than ever before, nearly 500 being engaged. A feature of the display will be new types of aeroplanes recently supplied to the service squadrons. Amongst them is a Bristol Blenheim medium bomber with a top speed of about 280 miles Hn hour at a height of 14,000 feet, and a Handley Page Harrow bomber which has a top speed of 190 miles an hour and carries a much heavier load than the medium bomber class,

The flying programme will occupy five and a-half hours, during which the sky will never be empty. There will be low bombing and dive bombing attacks, aerobatics by single aircraft, by flights and by squadrons, demonstrations of army co-operation duties and the use of “smoke,” and as a grand finale a thrilling set piece illustrating methods of attacking and defending a port primarily used for the distribution of food supplies in war.