The Archive · 1939

Superiority of British Air Equipment

Faults in German Aircraft Revealed in Action

London, Nov. 29.

Superiority of the equipment of the Royal Air Force, compared with that of the German Air Force, is being widely commented upon by qualified observers here.

British bombers, for example, are fitted with gun turrets operated by power engines, and gunners can turn the turrets in any direction without exertion. The Germans have no such turrets on their machines and must therefore rely on speed a-7 evasion, owing to the difficulty of holding a machine-cun steady at present speeds of aircraft.

British eign gun. fighters have troved a great success, whereas Germen four-gun fighters have a number of drawbacks. Recent tests on a captured Messetschmidt 109, it is revealed, proved it to be tad aeroplane.—Reuter!

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