IN THE AIR.
AERIAL POST TRIALS. PARIS TO LONDON AND BACK IN < 5J HOURS. Received June 10, 5.5 p.m. Paris, June 9. Two hydroplanes carried out aerial post trials from Paris to London, completing the return journey in five and a half hours.—Pres3 Association. GIANT HUN PLANE CARRIES CREW OP NINE. Received June 10, 9.15 pjn.. Paris, June 10. The Havas Press Agency states that the latest giant German aeroplane downed carried a crew of nine specialists, also four motor engines, each of three hundred horse-power. The machine is fortythree metres across the wings, twentyeight metres in length; its weight when empty i 3 9200 kilogrammes, and when loaded 14,000; its maximum speed is 130 kilometres an hour, and its armament is four machine guns.—Reuter Service.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 June 1918, Page 5
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126IN THE AIR. Taranaki Daily News, 11 June 1918, Page 5
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