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Show First of New Navy Fighting Planes f ' Vs if Fifteen fast Boeing wasp-powered fighting planes, which reached a speed of 359 miles per hour in a 10,000-foot vertical power dive and which will be used as deck fighters and diving bombers by the nnvat nlr service were delivered in Seattle, Wash., to the airplane carrier Lexington by the Boeing Airplane company on its contract for 40 airplanes air-planes of this type. They are said to out-speed the navy fighters of any other nation. Special flotation bags keep the plane afloat if forced down at sea. These fighters carry machine guns and bombs. |