ALLIED AEROPLANES' BOMBS.
Th,' \llies' aeroplanes are lilted for the of one immense homh in preference to a number <> smaller Immulis which can he uropi over at intervals -writes a London correspondent !. This immense.hel . lookin..- like a torpedo. i«s fixed under tin' machine, and can he released upon its journov of awful destruction hy the mere tummy: of a lever. Its eflcct rml ] ( ] |„. jmlixod if .the press wore at liberty U> toll you its weijzht : hut all we can sav is that l/ondon has never had from a Zeppelin anything like so oivat a homh as we and the I'rench are now .railv dropping on (ierniau eoiiceiitrations 'from aeroplanes. Ihe feiid-,.m-v is to make the aeroplane heavier and' heavier, and rerst con tent with n mere «M) miles an hour. Alrea<ly w»■ the itistilicd hy results.
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Mataura Ensign, 14 February 1916, Page 7
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136ALLIED AEROPLANES' BOMBS. Mataura Ensign, 14 February 1916, Page 7
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