FRENCH GUN-PLANES.
ATTACKS ON GERMAN LINES
NEW MACHINES IN USE. (B*oeived October 4. 12.30 ».njj
Pabis, October 3.
* The aeroplanes being used in bombarding the German lines are called gunplanes. They are really biplanes, each carrying a small hotchkiss gun upon the upper plane. The first experiments were made in January, -when Captains Eeny and Faure were killed in Paris. The gunplanes have since been , improved. They are now able to bombard towns from the air. Many are being used at the front.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16039, 4 October 1915, Page 6
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