A Handley-Page bombing plane was used to carry a huge piano from London to Paris
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A Handley-Page bombing plane was used to carry a huge piano from London to Paris
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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Hark - There's Music in the Air
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THE most remarkable job in
piano-moving that has been
recorded was put through when
one of the big bombing-planes
used by the Allies flew from Lon-
don to Paris freighted with a
full-sized instrument of the up-
right type. The airplane was
not competing with union piano-
movers, nor was there a sudden
shortage of musical instruments
in the French capital. The
flight was made to bring home to
the dullest understanding the
carrying capacity of a modern
airplane.
Big bombing-planes, such as
the Handley-Page which carried this
piano, carry crews of from three to
five in addition to a considerable load
of bombs, and the Handley-Page has
a record of carrying on a “stunt”
flight twenty-one passengers—more
than three thousand pounds. Perhaps
the greatest weight-carriers now are the
Zeppelin airplanes, capable of carry-
ing two bombs each weighing a ton,
besides gasoline and a crew of four.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1919-02
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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38
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Davide Donà
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 94, n. 2, 1919
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