THE NEXT WAR

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 24 February 1925, Page 5

THE NEXT WAR

TERRIFYING PICTURE. PILOTLESS AEROPLANES. PROBLEM NEAR SOLUTION. BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEICHT, Received Feb. 24, 10.25 a.m. LONDON. Feb. 23. Shoals of pilotless aeroplanes, controlled by a far distant enemy wireless station, pouring volumes of death-deal-ing poison gas bombs over a defenceless city is the terrifying pictnr© the Daily Mail’s aeronautical correspondent draws of the next war. He asserts that recent Anglo-French experiments reveal that there is every probability of the problem of pilotless flying being solved, tnus creating the most terrible weapon for the destruction of man ever handled. Equilibrium is made automatic by gyroscopes, which respond instantly to tapped cut orders of an operator located in a safe position in a secret station. Even after the' ’plane has passed out of visual range the operator can stiff control it, because the ’plane automatically emits tell-tale wireless signals indicating its exact position. The correspondent points out that the engine’s propeffers can be adapted to function at a height unattainable by human beings. The production of machines would not be limited by the necessity of training crews, and there is nothing to prevent an unheralded ®isitation to some great centre of population, which could be blasted into eternity at. a single tap of a distant operator’s key.—Sydney Sun Cable.