Lonidon, Feb. 23, 'An amazing new alr weapon has just, successfully completed tests a Royal Air Force' experimental station, It is a "Gloster" single ter fighting and is armed "with machine guns. Two of these guns Jare synchronized to fire through the propeller while the others. are arranged in pairs on each wing.
All six ung are, controlled in unison from the cockpit and. the sights of each pair are so arranged hat the lines of fire converge along path between one hundred and three hundred yards from the machine.
This new aeroplane has a speed of nearly 200 miles an hour on the flat but in diving it can do as much as 320 miles an hour.
It climbs at a terrific speed, 15,000 feet in nine minutes, and " its absolute "ceiling" is the tremendous freight of 26,000 feet, almost five miles. "Because of "the " ratified Jatmosphere at that height from the hi earth's surface the machine. will jerry a, supply of oxygen for the Exchequer will save, @, substantial
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