AEROPLANE IN WAR.
SIR H. MAXIM ON LONDON'S RISK Off, BOMBARDMENT. ; Lecturing at tho Society of Arts on "Me-, . chanical Plight" (states the London "Daily.: . News"), Mr. Erie Stuart Bruce (secretary of the Aeronautical Society) said' that even in" its partially developed stato the acroplano might prove: a potent'factor ,of war.
... Sir: Hiram Maxim said that tho ,2-1-h.p. •Wright machine, with very little, improve-, ment, would be a. very, efficient'' military weapon; It would-do a great.-deal'that, a gun could-not do, and at. a greater distance.
. Did anyone'doubt for a single moment,that in case wo should find ourselves' at 'war.' such machines, would not be used to bombard English towns? ' A Frpn'ch cu'giueer who was in a position to know .informed him that in one yeav machines-would bo made ill France that would fly : from-Paris to London without a stop. . .: :
Such. machines were possible,' and when they came Londqn might bo attacked without the foe having to encounter the dreaded British Navy. •.'■The only; way'to' meet thorn was to make flying machines ourselves. Major-General Baden-Powell urged that it was of the greatest importance to England from the military point of view to push ahead with this subject. • . .
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 407, 16 January 1909, Page 9
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196AEROPLANE IN WAR. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 407, 16 January 1909, Page 9
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