NEW FIGHTER
BRITISH LONG-RANGE MACHINE. POWERFUL ARMAMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 6. “It is now permissible to describe the Westland Whirlwind single-seater fighter, which has been on the secret list since it went into service two months ago,” says “The Times” aeronautical correspondent. “It is powered with two 850 horse-power Rolls-Royce Peregrine engines. The armament consists of four 20 millimetre cannon in the nose. The fact that Whirlwinds have escorted bombers to Antwerp shows that they have a fairly long range.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 March 1942, Page 4
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