Royal Air' Force. bombing machine weighing nine" tons shot into the air by catapult at the ROA. F. experimental station at Farnborough, Kent, to-da The idea of the catapult is not new as small aeroplanes have frequently been catapulted. from the cks of ships, but the principle of the catapult used to-day is unique. It 4,000 horse power and {the bombing machine. was shot into Rely the air at 60 miles an hour after only a few yards run, thus proving the possibility of launching! heavy bombers" with the same facility as small aeroplanes.
The system consists of a long rope fasten in front of the aeroplane land back under it. "The Yope is then attached to a drum wound by com-Dressed-air motors, When the inno is catapulted the rope ne tomatically disengaged.
Neither of the two pilots engaged the experiment: to-ay received the "slightest shock.—Through Reuter.
The "Human Bullet"
Paris, May 21.
Captain Frank Hawks, the Amertairman, flew today from South Sweden, to Paris ours and a_quarter. average speed was over 253. kilo-how,
Hawks, who is known as "the ana fortnight ago Cap-human bullet," flew from Croydon to Berlin in under three hours. He has also made record flights from London to Paris and London to Dublin—Through Reuter,
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