THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 21, 1939.
Uhry, Supreme Cou
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NEW R.A.F
R.A.F. FIGHTER
REPORTED SPEED
OF 435 M.P.H.
Details have recently appeared in a French aviation journal of a new type of twin-engined fighter now being developed for the R.A.F. and said to have a maximum speed of about 435 m.p.h.
No official details have been disclosed and it is not clear whether it is intended to be an intercep- tor or pursuit machine.
There is, however, reason to think that the Air Ministry is becoming increasingly interested in long-range multi-engine fighters.
Single-engine interceptor fighters, Seversky 2 P.A.-L. convoy or pursuit such as the Hurricane and the Spit-fighter had been demonstrated at fire, are designed to engage enemy the R.A.F. Experimental Establish- bombers, which may be flying at ment at Martlesham Heath, Suffolk. considerable heights, before they A range of 3,000 miles and a maxi- can reach their objectives.
mum speed of 300 m.p.h. is claim- Consequently the interceptored for this aeroplane, which can be must have a very high climbing fitted with either four or eight rate. This limits both the fuel and machine-gunis firing forwards. the ammunition it can carry.
MORE PETROL CAKRIED
The larger multi-engine fighter,
tances of bombers returning from raids, need not have such a rapid climbing rate, and can carry much more petrol and ammunition.
"BRITAIN FOR
Guerilla
THE BRITISH Coup Near
Peiping
HEILS!
Demonstrations were staged in Piccadilly by a large body of Fascists, who paraded with posters and pamphlets, and shouted such slogans as "Don't shed blood except for your own country"--"Britain for the Bri-
tish."
Thousands of stickyback posters were plastered on the walls and windows of restaurants and cinemas in Piccadilly.
REARMING BLENHEIMS
Peiping, To-day. THE wrecking of trains
and blowing up of coal mines are among the latest activities of Chinese guerillas in North China.
Travellers describe seeing a very long military train complete- ly wrecked at a point a few miles north of Paotingfu. The train The British Blenheim is now off-had apparently been wrecked in. cially regarded not merely as a the last few days. bomber but as a general purpose air- Very reliable foreign sources craft, also capable of use for recon-learn that last week-end gueril naissance or fighting.
las captured from the Japanese Lrrison the Toli coal mines, 25 miles south-west of Peiping.
If used as fighters, the older types The French Air Force has been of Blenheims would require rearm- ing, as they carried only one for- supplied with the Potez 63, which ward firing machine-gun in can be used as a twin-engine fighter port wing and one machine-gun in and, when so adapted, is equipped the aft turret.
the
COMPLETE WRECK
long enough to explode charges The guerillas held the mines
in all the shafts, completely
intended for pursuit over long dis- with two 20mm forward firing can- The latest type of "long-nose" wrecking the mines, before they
nons and one movable machine-gun Blenheim has a range of 1,900 miles fled to the hills again. in the gunner's cockpit. Its maxi- and a maximum speed of 295 m.p.h. mum speed is 285.6 m.p.h., but its Details of the armament to be fitted considerable quantities of coal The Japanese have been getting range, 620 miles, seems rather into this machine have not been re-from these mines during the past adequate.
vealed.
year. Reuter.
It was reported that an American
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