AERIAL ANTICIPATIONS.
(AUSTRALIAX-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 16lh June.
"The Daily Chronicle" says: Secret War Office experiments with aerhllylauuched and \virele.™sly-coriti-oiicd projectiles is. bearing important, fruit. An entirely new type of aircraft, described as
"air torpedo-boats." y;r.s tested. These machines carry aloft lurpscloes with wings, sustaining _p!anes. rudders, and elevators like thore of an ci'iiinary aeroplane. "When fired the t-jvpadces glide to earth, and are slc.orsd by wireless from the aeroplane towards the objective.
The experiments suggest, thai squadrons of aerial torpedo craft could possibly destroy any objective, re^nrdless of its size,.from a O.'rt'n'a •' ;---iy miles. '
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 145, 20 June 1924, Page 7
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