AEROPLANES IN WAR
PETZES POE PEACTIOAIi TESTS. Messrs Miohelin and die.. the well-known motor-tyre manufacturers, who have already done much to encourage aviation, have ottered prizes amounting to £6OOO, with a view to testing the practicability of tho aeroplane tor offensive purpose© l in time of war. The object of the competition is to demonstrate whether aeroplanes can be used to drop projectiles on fortresses, arsenals, bodies of troops, bridges, railway • lines, warships, etc. Aviators must take up at least five projectiles, each weighing a minimum of 441 b, and must drop them-from a height of at least obs foot. The projectiles are to be dropped one by one each time the aviator passes over the target, 10 metros in diameter. Another tost is to drop projectiles from a height of 3280 feet in a rectangle 100 me tree long by 10 meters wide. - Since 1908 Messrs Miicnelin' aud do. have given over £20,000 In prize© to encourage aviation in England and France.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7929, 12 October 1911, Page 5
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