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Show New Strato War Plane Flies 5 Miles Up With Deadly Armament at 300-Mile Speed WASHINGTON, July 19 (UP)r-Army (UP)r-Army air corps officials today bailed the advent of a new sub-i sub-i stratosphere fighting plane claimed to be the most desdly air weapon ever developed. Designed to fight at any altitude alti-tude from the hedge-tops to a height of nearly five miles above the earth, ths new plane Is ssid to be faster and to carry a more formidable assortment of weapons than any other "fighter" type plane. It was designed and developed to combat the giant bombing planes of ths "flying fortress" type. Tbs new plane, devised and s 1 built by the Bell Aircrart corporation corpo-ration of Buffalo, reportedly has a speed of mors than 300 miiea an hour. It is operated by five men, mounts six machine guns and carries a load of light bombs. It is designed to fight up to an altitude of "over 30.000 feet," according ac-cording to an official war department depart-ment announcement. , |