FAST FIGHTING ’PLANE
- ADDITION TO BRITAIN’S FORCE. GUNS SET IN WINGS. (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) LONDON, Feb. 22. Additional machine-guns fitted on the leading edges of wings to increase the fighting power of aeroplanes employed to intercept enemy raids is the newest idea. „„„ One aeroplane, the G. 5.179, successfully tested by the Gloster Aircraft •Company at Martlesham, has six mach-ine-guns capable of a converging file on the target. Four are mounted on the wings and. one on each, side of the fuselage. •The ’plane is equipped with a. 480 horse-power Bristol Jupiter engine supercharged for altitudes. A speed of 194 miles an hour has been achieved with a full military load, and the machine climbed 15,000 feet in nine mmTho greatest efficiency was attained at 10,000, but 176 miles an hour was reached at 20,000, and the machine can be operated at 26,100, being equipped with oxygen breathing apparatus. It dives without vibration at 320 miles an hour. The pilot can operate the whole six guns simultaneously.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 24 February 1931, Page 5
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