BOMBED FROM THE AIR
A NAVAL TEST
FAIR ACCURACY SHOWN.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIGIIT.)
(AUSTRALIAN - NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIVTION.)
(Received 3rd August, & a.m.)
LONDON, 2nd August. The old battleship Agamemnon, controlled by wireless from a torpedo boat a mile . away, was attacked in the English Channel by eight aeroplanes, which dropped practice bombs. No direct hits were made, but the experiment showed that bombs can be dropped with failaccuracy at a moving vessel from a height of 8000 feet.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 29, 3 August 1923, Page 7
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78BOMBED FROM THE AIR Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 29, 3 August 1923, Page 7
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