GIANT BOMBER
BUILT FOR AMERICAN ARMY.
SIX THOUSAND MILES RANGE.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright, (Received This Day. 11.25 a.m.) WASHINGTON. March 22.
The Army announces that the Douglas Company is building a seventy-ton, four-engined super-bomber, which will carry twenty-eight tons of bombs, with a six thousand miles non-stop range. The machine has a wing-span of 210 feet, and a speed of over 200 miles an hour. The initial cost is a million dollars, but the machine can be produced in quantities at from 300,000 to 350,000 dollars.
Tests of the great bomber are expected early in the summer.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 March 1940, Page 6
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