FIGHTING PLANES
MACHINES FOR AMERICAN ARMY SPEED OF 500 MILES AN HOUR CLAIMED. OUTCLASSING WORLD’S BEST. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 11.10- a.m.) LOS ANGELES, February 27. The Lockheed Company announces that it will shortly be delivering to the United States Army a fleet of dualmotored P3B interceptors, capable of a speed of 500 miles an hour. It is claimed that they will out-perform any of the world’s aircraft and are capable of sub-stratosphere combat. The machines are equipped with li-quid-cooled motors, tricycle landing gear and double-tail assembly. They carry six heavy machine-guns in the nose.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 February 1940, Page 6
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