THE FRENCH AIR-FIGHTERS
DIFFERENT TYPES DESCRIBED. zJy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) London, March 27. Lord Northoliff®, after'visiting the aviation centres in France, writes: — "M. Bleriot explained tjiat there are four types of machines being used. The first is a fighting aeroplane, or chaser, for ..pursuing, encircling, climbing, or descending. The latest machines are protected in their vital parts by a thin armour of hardenod steel. The chasers are so powerfully engihed as to bo able to rise from the ground almost as speedily as a bird. The, second type is a bomb dropper, lightly armed: It is also armoured, and is chiefly intended for carrying a great weight of bombs. • The third type is for watching and signalling tlf® result of artillery fire. It has a speed sufficient to escape pursuing machines, anij must as nearly as possible be able to hover; The fourth class is used for aerial photography. It carries a telescopic camera, and plays an immense and important part m warfare."
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2732, 29 March 1916, Page 5
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167THE FRENCH AIR-FIGHTERS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2732, 29 March 1916, Page 5
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