All the Battles fying controls mounted inside the main plane ai fuselage. and run on ball e; A complete automatic "pilot installed to simplify navig and contre! in thick weather and at night. The undercarriage retracts in fi. into the thickness of the wing two units are lifted by by er. In the fully withdrawn posi-m pari of the wheels is left protrading, a detail favoured if for some reason the pilot should be unable to get the undercarriage down. Visible and audible electrical indicators warm the pilot that the undercarriage is up whenever the engine throttle is closed, An extraordinarily interesting demonstration of how to repel an attack from the air is to be given at the end of this month by the two anti-aircraft cruisers the Curlew, at Chatham, and the Coventry at Portsmouth, the only floating anti-aircraft batteries in existence. Nine machines of the Fleet Air Arm will be used in each demonstration.
The "Daily Telegraph's" naval correspondent, who has been allowed to inspect the Curlew, writes:— threatened in the autumn of 19b the When the Mediterra
two ships, 4.290 tons, were cruisers of the Reserve Fleet. At that time their armament consisted of five 6in. guns. Taken in hand for conversion, th altered. ra place of the Hye 8bb gute mer, om dock: Y
they mounted 10 4in. A.A. qpicks. two multiple pompous and erous light machine-guns.
rts of ihe superstructure were cut away 10 leave the guns a free field of fire, and magazines were rearranged to accommodate larger quantities of the different types of ammunition.
The lofty foremast was reduced to a mere stump, surmounted by an immense rectangular platform—unofü- y known as the "bird bath"—for high-angle director tower. A director tower is mounted aft.
Thanks to the ingenious arrangement of the armament, several guns Can be trained simultaneously on any point of the compass, while the elaborate system of high-angle fire control ensures accurate shooting by all guns.
The Navy appears to have a high opinion of these ships, since five other cruisers of the "C" class have- been selected for conversion into antiaircraft vessels.
In the Navy Week display spectators On shore will be able to see and hear, through—loud-speakers, everything that happens on board the Curlew before, during and after the attack.
When the alarm is given, "general Ts" will be sounded by the s buglers Officers and men in masks will rush to their action stations, guns and controls will be cleared away, and look-outs closed The armament will then be "lined up," communications checked, and fung circuits tested. When the look-
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