IN THE AIR.
NEW AIR TORPEDO. RAID PREDICTED. AN AMERICAN OPINION , Received Jan. 28, 11.30 p.m. New York, Jan. 27. Mr. McMillan, president of the American Aeronautic Society, in an interview stated that Krupps are perfecting a pneumatic tube capable of launching an eight-inch torpedo from an airship which will strike with an impact of fourteon tons, and will bo able to accurately overcome cross currents of the air from a height of fifteen thousand feet. Ho predicteA that the German fleet would soon come out to give battle to the British navy with new seventeeninch guns. He based his predictions upon information which he said he had received from a satisfactory source. The air torpedo had been successfully tried under practical conditions, and an air raid could be looked for in two or throe, weeks, and on the result of that venture would dlpend the dash of the fleet from Kiel.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1916, Page 5
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152IN THE AIR. Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1916, Page 5
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