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...Army's experimental station at McCook Field, Dayton, will soon test a new bomber built by G. Elias &; Bros. of Buffalo. Equipped with two 700-horse-power motors, the new plane will carry a deadly destructive load of 6,900 pounds of bombs-enough to wreck a city. Yet with this enormous load the plane will reach a height of 13,500 feet, and at lower altitudes be able to fly with one of its motors completely out of commission. With a wing area of 1,500 square feet, a span of nearly 100 feet, it will be second...
Lieutenant Leigh Wade, of Cassopolis, Mich., has crowded much flying and the Martin Bomber altitude record into his 27 years...
...public also saw the laying of a smoke screen by Sergeant Hudson in a de Haviland bomber, his ship disappearing completely from view...
Flying over Dayton, 0., the Barling Bomber carried 19 bombs having a total weight of 6,692 pounds-a world's record. The giant airplane is the largest in the world, and weighs nearly 20 tons when fully loaded. But Barling claims he can build a plane four times as large. He could, but it would be scarcely practical to do so. Landing a monster of 80 tons might offer considerable difficulties, and not a flying field in the U. S. is really equipped to receive such a ship as its guest. Moreover, dirigibles improve with size, but airplanes...