Pictures received in Shanghai of aerial battles show that British fighters carry cameras using 16 min. film which automatically commence register when the plane's machine-guns go into action. Hits on enemy planes are thus recorded without a shadow of doubt, and when an enemy plane is shot down, the picture proves the victorious pilot's claim. With this method of checking, there is-no- possibility of claims being faked, and when the Air Ministry announces that a certain number of enemy craft have been destroyed by fighters, presumably they have photographs to prove it. The inclusion of these cameras in the equipment of British fighters is just one other instance of the perfection to which these planes have been brought. Nothing has been omitted which might increase their quality, in spite of the speed with which they are being turned out. This cannot' be said of the German planes, which have been rushed through with the minimum equipment, and with the apparent idea that numbers count above everything else. This miscalculation is being brought home to the Nazis with the terrible losses that they have suffered since} they began their air compared utmost to repair this error, and they announce the production of a new fighter, No. 80215, which is said to be a great improvement on previous German fighters. So far there have been no reports of this plang, in action, and until it has actually encountered ithe British impossible to assess the value of the Nazi claims. The terrific gun power of the British fighter is not generally realized. The Hurricane and the Spitfire have eight machineguns, the fire power of which is greater than the entire hine-gun strength of a 1914 infantry brigade. When once one of these planes gets on the tail of an enemy, it is all up with the enemy, the hail of bullets making escape virtually impossible.
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