AERIAL WARFARE
NEW SCHEMES AFOOT.
; , (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, January 29. ~ The “Dispatch” states that the Air Ministry is reviewing schemes to provide crews with long range bombing planes, bullet resisting armour and mock aerial combats.
Camera guns, with exposed films, revealed that ■ machine gunners, in a bomber’s cockpit, offer as targets, heads, shoulders and parts of the bodies to a down-swooping fighting plane, whereas, a fighter’s pilot is hidden by the engine, except the head. Experts recommend metal helmets and a special chain mail body armour, in preference to revolving turrets, with bullet shields, which are likely to interfere with the view of fast-flying attackers. —Sun.
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Northern Advocate, 31 January 1928, Page 5
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107AERIAL WARFARE Northern Advocate, 31 January 1928, Page 5
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