Los Angeles, Aug. 23.
Britain has made arrangements to purchase the Lockheed P-38 i terceptor pursuit planes which "are without doubt the fastest military planes in the world," the Lockheed Aeronautical Corporation announced today, The planes are capable of flying faster than 460 miles per hour with ease.
Britain has signed contracts ordering the Lockheed plants to turn out U.S.$60,000,000 worth of the fast pursuit planes.
The new Lockheed planes were examined yesterday by Mr. William Knudsen, chairman of the National Defence Commission, and Major-General H.H. Arnold, Chief of the US. Air Corps, as the United States Army also had ordered a large quantity of the speedy craft.
The P-38 carries a one-pound rapid-firing cannon and five machineguns. A test model last year flew at 460 miles per hour with its throttle only 65 per cent. open.
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