Handley-Page bomb-carrying biplane, WW1
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Handley-Page bomb-carrying biplane, WW1
A British Handley-Page biplane, equipped with two Rolls-Royce engines at 250 h.p. each driving a tractor screw. It was also fitted with three machine-guns - one forward-facing and two backward-facing. Its wing span was close to 100 feet and was able to carry up to twenty-one passengers in flight. It was used by the Royal Naval Air Service in 1917 to carry out raids. The Graphic reports that the capture of one of these planes enabled the Germans to develop the Gotha plane. Date: 1917
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