MIMIC WAR IN AIR
FIiOUR-BAG BOMBS AND FILM MACHINE-GUNS. (Sun Special). LONDON, January 7. Flour-bag bombs will be rained in the mimic aerial warfare which will form part of the training of the new home defence air force. Machine-guns will fire/ photographic films instead of bullets. The guns expose a film each time the trigger is pulled, thus registering the exact part of the opposing ’plane which' would have been hit in actual war. Air-Marshal Sir John Salmond will have 600 ’planes for a scheme of complete home defence of Britain.
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Southland Times, Issue 19461, 28 January 1925, Page 5
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91MIMIC WAR IN AIR Southland Times, Issue 19461, 28 January 1925, Page 5
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