“BOMBS FROM THE AIR.”
Reports state that bomb-dropping from aeroplanes has not proved a success at Los Angeles. Experiments were made in ithe presence of army officers of Germany, France, and the United States. Soaring to. a height of 250 ft with AI. Paulhan, Lieutenant Beck, of the American Army, repeatedly failed to hit a -20 ft square marked on .the ground, the dummy bombs falling many feet- outside the line. M. Paulhan, with his wife as passenger, made a twenty-two mile crosscountry trip, flying half a mile out to sea- and back. Throughout the voyage, which lasted 33min, Mme Paulhan chatted brightly with her husband. Subsequently AI. Paulhan started what he jokingly described as an “aerial ’bus service,” taking successively Mr. AV. R. •Hoarst, the newspaper proprietor, Airs. Cortland Bishop, wife of the president of the American Aero Club, Mr. C'lif ford Hannon, and a reporter for flying trips. The aviation week at Los- Angeles resulted in a,, profit of £2600 a day.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GIST19100319.2.60
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2764, 19 March 1910, Page 3 (Supplement)
Word count
Tapeke kupu
164“BOMBS FROM THE AIR.” Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2764, 19 March 1910, Page 3 (Supplement)
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in