AIR DISPLAY
SOVIET MYSTERY BOMBERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) MOSCOW, August 19. The Soviet Union's annual air show demonstrating “Russia’s safety from aerial invasion” was opened at Tushino airport in the presence of Soviet political and military leaders, diplomatic corps and half a million spectators. Features included four high-speed mystery bombers, one of which has a fishlike back, and also 200 training planes flying in formation at 350 miles an hour. A train consisting of 27 gliders discharged a swarm of parachutists.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1940, Page 5
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81AIR DISPLAY Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1940, Page 5
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