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AMERICAN NAVY’S LATEST DIVE-BOMBER. STUKAS & OTHER TYPES OUTCLASSED. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) BUFFALO, June 10. | The Navy’s secret new dive- ; bomber has surpassed all hopes, I The Curtiss Wright Company designed it “to out-perform anything in the world.” The plane attains a top speed of “a hundred miles an hour faster, than existing types," including Stukas, and carries 20001 b of bombs, compared with the Stuka's 5001 b. It flies twice the distance of any present model, and stays aloft four and a half hours longer. It is powered by a Wright Cyclone engine of nearly 2000 horsepower, and is armed with a power-operated machine-gun turret, sweeping in a full circle. It is believed that it dives at a speed exceeding 500 miles an hour.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 June 1941, Page 6
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