NEW INCENDIARY BOMB
LIGHT AND SMALL
DESTRUCTIVE EFFECT y
DESCRIBED
LONDON, December 6.
Mr. A. R. Astbury, a Home Office air-raid precautions expert, in an address to scientists and engineers today, described a new incendiary bomb, so light and small that one large bomber could carry 2000 and release them from containers twenty at a time, falling 250 ft a second and spreading out.
"One large bomber, flying in a straight line at 200 miles an hour at 5000 ft, and releasing twenty such bombs a second above an area containing 15 per cent, of buildings, might start a fire every sixty to seventy yards," said Mr. Astbury.
He added that the bombs contained the inflammable metal magnesium, which would burn for ten to twenty minutes at 1300 degrees Centigrade. ",-.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 137, 7 December 1938, Page 13
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