Air Warfare of the Future
Remarkable Armament it - Of British Flying-boat
SHELLS, BULLETS AND A TON OF BOMBS United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Tuesday, 9.25 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 10. A startling glimpse of future air ■warfare is provided by the launching of the first of the four Perth flyingboats ordered by the Air Ministry. She is armed at the bows with a quickfiring gun capable of discharging Impound shells at the rate of 100 per minute. She carrios also throe machineguns and a 2000-pound load of bombs. The flying-boat weighs about 15 tons and has three Rolls-Royce Buzzard engines, each of 825-930 horse-power. The masimum speed will bo 132 miles an hour and her normal range 870 sea miles. It is incredible that her structure should stand the recoil of the bow gun, but this is effectively absorbed.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7284, 11 October 1933, Page 7
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139Air Warfare of the Future Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7284, 11 October 1933, Page 7
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