Show NEW BRITISH MONOPLANE HAS MILE RANGE LONDON bombers capable ot of carrying a war load from a london airdrome to any point in europe except the eastern half of european russia and of returning to their starting point without intermediate landing are at present in large production for the british royal air force alongside the brooklands Brook lands automobile race track stands a factory expanded to many times its former productive capacity and ully fully equipped with the most modern plant and machinery which is given over to manufacture of the vickers wellington twin monoplane a craft of geodetic construction construct ioli credited by the air ministry with a range in still air carrying military load of miles substantial numbers of these for or planes are already in service and rate of output is constantly accelerated by the manufacturers the wellington is the second all geodetic plane to go into mass production duct lon invented by B N wallis and developed by him in conjunction with the vickers company over the past seven years geodetic con st ruction is aimed to reduce structural weight without resulting in loss of strength performance ot of the wellington bomber which Is powered with two bristol pegasus two speed supercharger air cooled radial engines includes maximum speed in id level night flight of miles an hour at a height of feet according to new figures just revealed by the air ministry later models wellington 11 II and III have more powerful engines and their performance in some respects is consid considerably drably bet better ter than the previous types |