One of the mest important developments in the sphere of military aviation in recent years Jand vividly dem the present war is ning of the last war when British fying, forces Icomprised a queer assortment of machines, Balloons and snarl-carrying kites, there was 10) question of armament, The sole function of th Infant air unit was observation, and it was not until well into 1915 that machines took the alr carrying pistols rifles as their "only armament. Once the potentialities of armed faireraft. was realized, machine guns "were [equipped and a new technique of aerial conflict was evolved, extending, futile from the land and sea into the air. Even then, air combat was fan individual and primitive sort of business in comparison with developments noted at the present time. The principal types of machine Row used in this form of warfare are nothing, Tess than fying' machine-gun scolions, some of them having eight machine aunted in the: wings, and the pilot docs not train his guns on the enemy: he simply trains the aeroplane itsd fand permits his mechanism to spill out thous.
ids of rounds of ammunition at a speed of several hundred rounds a minute, Loading the: fseroplane with ammunition nowadays is as ex-Hensive and important a task as fueling, petrol tanks. With the ta ised for bombing purposes, almost. ike respect, Britain's develop operated gri turret has ead in armament over German the Uhura "evades" tye of be loud for prot ion, the Hoy to reach their objectives though they fay have to fight the way
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