The Archive · 1939

Britain Completed Warcraft Identical to Record Breaking Plane

New York, Jan. 18.

The first of the 250 Lockheed bombers purchased by the British Government arrived at the Floyd-Bennett airport today, having completed its flight from Burbank, in California, to New York, in twelve hours. It is a monoplane, of 3,000 kilometres radius, equipped with two Wright-Cyclone engines, each of 1,100 h.p. It is an exact replica of that in which Mr. Howard Hughes recently broke the record for a round-the-world trip, with the necessary additions for m: tary use. The plane will be shipped to England on January 21.—Havas. necessary level, will wipe out any differences. Already intermarriage is relatively high—Reuter.

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