AMERICAN FIGHTER
SAID TO BE FASTEST IN WORLD EIGHT HUNDRED ORDERED FOR BRITAIN. NEW LONG-RANGE BOMBER. LOS ANGELES, August 23. Claimed to be the fastest military plane in the world, a new interceptor aircraft .was unveiled by the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. It is disclosed that the army has ordered a large quantity, and Britain has a contract for 800 at a cost of 60,000,000 dollars (£15,000,000). The machine is a twin-engined pursuit plane carrying a one-pound rapidfire cannon and five machine-guns. The experimental model last year attained 460 miles an hour. Army experts are delighted. A London message states that the new American fighter plane is called the P3B and it is claimed that successful tests have revealed a speed of 500 miles an hour. It has a range of 1100 miles. A new American bomber, the biggest ever built, will take the air this autumn. It is claimed that it can fly nonstop from New York to Europe and back to Los Angeles.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 August 1940, Page 5
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