GERMAN AEROPLANES

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21246, 17 October 1940, Page 3

GERMAN AEROPLANES

1 IMPROVEMENT IN DESIGN SUPERIORITY OF BRITISH I The He 113, designed to 'combat i the superiority of our Spitfires and : Hurricanes, does not appear to have come near achieving this object, says the London Sunday Times. In the ' next few months we must expect to i see new German types in service. More than a year elapsed since any striking advance in technical equipment has gone into squadrons of the Luftwaffe, but we know that the German designers have not been idle. Already there has been one report of the new Focke-Wulf. This is a radically new type of singleseat fighter with the engine placed behind the pilot, and has a wonderful view, but it is left quite unprotected in front. The top speed is reputed to be 3GB miles an hour; the armament four machine-guns and two cannon. This Fw 198 is known to have been beset with one or two serious “teething troubles,” and certainly need not cause any apprehension to our fighter pilots. But the Focke-Wulf fighter is not the only new fighter Germany is known to have in- production. Dr. Ernst Heinkel. always an original thinker, has been working for some time on a two-seat two-motor allwing long-range fighter and a new lour-motor bomber. The Dornier combine also have a new fourmotor bomber and a little twomotor “attack bomber,” the Do 29, probably intended chiefly for ground strafing. Professor Messerschmitt has designed the Me 115 to replace his not-too-successful Me 109. Its success seems doubtful, as it is believed to have a bigger engine and a smaller wing.

i To Carry One Big Bomb Finally, the Henschel Company, at present making Dornier Do 215 s under license, is known to have a new advanced type of long-range two-motor dive-bomber, which is believed to have been in action already. Unlike the Junkers dive-bombers, which normally carry a number of comparatively small bombs, the Henschel is said to be designed to carry only one big bomb of about one ton weight. The policy is obviously one of chancing all on one direct hit—a bomb which, if it connects, admits of no argument. We should be foolish if we shut our eyes to these advances in Germany's technical equipment. But the new machines cannot be in service in number for some time. Meanwhile our own new types, yet to be officially made known, are likely to maintain and even enhance that technical superiority which has been such a feature of the war so far. And all the time our production goes steadily upwards. Keep Regular and Keep Well 1 this favourite medicine ! RELIEVES CONSTIPATION | CLEARS OUT THE SYSTEM I To look and feel bright, clear eyed I —full of pep and energy all day— I every day—you must have clean ! bowels, a healthy stomach, good di- ■ gestion and regularity. Nature some--1 times needs a little help and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills supply this I help without the use of harsh, habiti forming drugs. j Backed by many years of satisfac- ' tion, this dependable remedy, with 1 its special vegetable ingredients, clears away impurities, keeps the i system right and regular.