Aircraft - Aviation - Balloons - Helicopters
Feb. 28 Dr. Banes Wallis Explains His Revolutionary Bomber - The Folding Wing Swallow - To Children: This afternoon's Christmas Lecture for schools - at the Institution of Civil Engineers was entitled High Speed Communications Link the Commonwealth - by Dr. Barnes Wallis - the 70 year old inventor of the aid of a model he explained his revolutionary Bomber The Swallow the wings of which are long and tapering and which canmove so the they are straight for take-off and landing but swept back like a dart-for flight up to the and a half times the speed of machine can carry an atom bomb for 5, 000 miles without the aircraft after1, 500, 000 had been spent on it. The United States Defence Department is very impressed with committee for Aeronautics to make an on-the-spot check for them. Photo shows: Looking down on the model - showing the wings in take-off position - and Dr. Barnes Wallis explaining the operation of the - which lifts up and down - like a lift
