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FIGHTING PLANES

BOMBING ATTACK

MANY air experts are begin- speeds in excess of 460 mi.p.h. There aircraft factori

ning to ask whether the days seems little doubt that it will always sources of supp of the interceptor fighter are num- be possible to build. a very small tion of his bom bered,

highly powered 'plane which will be When choosin Despite a greatly increased out- faster than any multi-engine bomber. types of fighters put of these machines in Britain, But this is not the point. The rate pose the Air St only a proportion of our fighter of climb of an interceptor fighter consideration th squadrons have been equipped must be the primary consideration ty of defending with the latest types of intercep- in a country such as Britain, which important object tors, such as the Hawker Hurri- has little depth of territory for its with interceptor cane and Supermarine Spitfire. air defence.

is becoming obv Other fighter squadrons have Performance figures for recent tion of bombers been recently supplied with long- types of fighters' show that increases likely to occur w range twin-engine aircraft. This in maximum speed have not been ac- returning fron can no longer be regarded as a se companied by corresponding in- proaching, their

The Spitfire interceptor fight-

er (maximum speed 362 miles an hour).

cret, since the Air Ministry has allowed the machines to be

seen

at public air displays, and referen- these ces to the re-equipment o£ squadrons have already been made in the Press. The significance of the new move, however, may not have been appreciated.

From Shoeburyness, at the mouth of the Thames estuary, to the London docks is under 35 miles. The latest types of bombers now envisaged could cover that distance in less than six minutes at any height from 15,000 to 25,000 feet.

A Spitfire requires 6.8 minutes to climb to 15,000ft. If, warning of the approach of a bomber was not received until it crossed the Eng- lish coast odds would be heavily in favour of its reaching London be- Ifore an interceptor fighter could climb to the lowest height at which the bomber would be likely to be flying.

The new "long-nosed” Blenheim (maximum speed 295 miles an hour), now regarded as a general purpose plane for bombing, fight- ing or reconnaissance,

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But the inter its single engin not adapted for for long distance is it suitable fo war into the e attacking his bo they are parti that is, when t returning to the

Other countri new type of lon fighter-bomber. reason why we

same.

The types of with which ce auxiliary fighte country have no not be the mo purpose. But doubt that they to train fighter engine aircraf tended to repla possible, with s have been spec) employment eit or long-range p STRIKING 1 We need to f

creases in range or rate of climb, I the defeatist id give the following examples:

6.8 mins.

European war I must shelter b Maximum Maximum Maximum speed in range at rate of

short-range fig m.p.h., cruising climb to

guns and ballo speed 15,000 ft.

can never be a Gladiator 255 3.8 hrs. Hurricane 330 4.2 hrs. 7 mins. means of defer Spitfire 362 3.6 hrs. 6.8 mins.wers not t Sir Kingsley Wood, the Air Minis- menaced owing ter, declared on March 9: "Even the striking forces area to be defended increases in size utilise their po LOSS OF VITAL MINUTES with the increase in the range of air offensive in Actually a further five minutes- aircraft." The whole of the English choose. for the transmission of the warning East Coast is now within easy range We need, ra to headquarters, a telephone mes- of aircraft operating from, say, the unified inter-all sage to the fighter squadron, and the North Sea shores of Germany. If sessed of ad warming up of the fighter's London can expect little warning of forces, compos engine would be needed before the the approach of enemy bombers, long-range figl fighter could reach 15,000ft. If, towns farther to the north, and on sure that thes therefore, we assume that the warn- or nearer the coast, can hope for far not necessarily ing is received five minutes before less.

tries, but fro the bomber crosses the coast, the In addition to anti-aircraft guns enable them to answer is still the same..

and balloon barrages we have two bear on the e German Messerschmitt and Hein- methods of air defence, namely, the That Herr kel single-seater: land 'plane are breaking down of the enemy's scale gers to which claimed to have recently attained of attack by bombardment of his exposed if the

ISN'T IT JUST WONDERFUL? AREN'T YOU PROUD OF OUR SON? I JUST TALKED TO... HIM ON THE PHONE-NOW DAUGHTER IS TALKING TO. HIM-ISN'T HE PRICELESS?

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