AEROPLANES AND BOMBS.
Bomb-dropping from aeroplanes has not proved a success at Los Angoles, according to American' advices. Experiments were made in the presence of army officers of Germany, France, and the United States recently. Soaring to a height of 250 ft. with M. Paulhdn, Lieutenaut Beck, of the American Army, l repeatedly failed to hit a 20ft. square marked on the ground, the dummy bombs falling many feet outside the line. ,
*&. Paulin, with his ,wife as passenger, made a twenty-two-mile cross-country trip, flying half, a, milo out to sea and back. Throughout the voyage, which lasted, 33min., lime. Paulhan, chatted brightly with her husband. Subsequently M. Paulhan started what he jokingly described as an "aerial bus service," taking successively 'Sir. AW E. Hearst, the newspaper proprietor,, Jlrs. Cortland Bishop, wife of the president of the American Aero Club, Mr. Clifford- Harmon, and. a. reporter, for flying trips. '.• . The aviation week at, Los Angeles resulted in a profit of ,62000 a day.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 754, 1 March 1910, Page 8
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162AEROPLANES AND BOMBS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 754, 1 March 1910, Page 8
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