AVIATION.
AIR CRA FT DEF EN CE
["Sydney Sim” Cables.]
LONDON, Jan. 29,
The “Dispatch” states the Air Ministry is reviewing schemes to provide crews with long range bombing planes, Imllet resisting armour for mock aerial combats, in which the guns are exposed, the films revealed that machine gunners in the bomber's cockpit offer as targets their heads, shoulders and parts of bodies to a down swooping lighting plane, whereas the lighters pilot, is hidden by the engine, except the head. Experts recommend a metal helmet and special chain mail (indy armour, in preference to revolving turrets with bullet shields which are likely to interfere the view of fast flying attackers.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1928, Page 2
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111AVIATION. Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1928, Page 2
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