COMING TEST

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1941, Page 6

COMING TEST

CASE l-'OK BIGGER BOMBERS The validity uf the claims that have bt cis made fur the large-size bombing aeroplane will : hnrtly be put to tile • test, write:; the :ur c«<i respondent of the' Daily Telegraph." Both ourselves and - the enemy Will be bringing into opera-; tp ’.a! service number:. of aircraft far. larger than any that have hitherto been; used in the present war Controversy; has raged fol' long, both m the Royal . A:: Emce and oUI-Midc it, on the useful- ! in-; sof these very large machine- One I argument has held that they were too; vulnerable to attack by lighters anti by j asiti-inrvrafl j'tms owing In their seep and relatively hr.’. speed .Another ar-i gurnent n that they are nu>r<- economi-p cal >n the in;m-hours of production. mid • that they ran deliver a given load '-f-• bomb- al a target for fewer man-hours j than th.e mi,,.!’•■»- machines Mew Brit-i. h bomber- may li"! y<l be desTl died; .o detail. but the Coir.didated B-TIJ, -,..h.,h I.a br-ii reiea-.i-d f<-r delivery | , fr.-e- tiic I 'micd States, i> a sample of ( the i-.md >f thini; that p<r.-,ihle with i t anvam.ed dv'.ign and a total engine-! t - mn, hp B has a range iff, --oh and !--r Ip'i't Jafljp' , t bot'.'.b i< ad .a' ea-.iviy f.,ar to!:-. A' the belief ( that damage - groriter v.'heti a few v< - lai go eahbrv brimbs are used! . rutlV’! that! mat small calibre un<- s.; . m<> oiffs.iiai.i <■ of the Bill bomber., . ; r w Ahoihrr ■ *113! .*i* ■ < f..' BnUiHi hrr <h j