Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-12-16 | Page 2 | British Bombers Score on Speed Boat Targets

British Bombers Score On Speed Boat Targets I Copyright 1933 United Press PreS LONDON Dee Dec 16 Royal 16 Royal air force I bombing airplanes have registered up to 75 per cent hits bits on targets moving move ing at 30 nautical miles an hour as the result of death defying experiments ments of ot Colonel T T. E. E Lawrence Lawrence- Lawrence of ot Arabia now Aircraftsman Aircrafts man Shaw of the army In the experiments conducted over overa a year two period Lawrence stationed sta himself in unsinkable speed speedboats speedboats boats of his own design while bombs were dropped on him Early in 1932 the I air r ministry asked the admiralty to lend its target target tar tar- get ship Centurion for use by bombIng bombing bomb bomb- Ing airplanes This plan was abandoned aban aban- first because of ot the heavy expense expense ex ex- pense Involved and secondly because the thc Centurions Centurion's speed was but 1 16 knots This was considered clent for air bombing practice and Lawrence suggested speed boats The suggestion brought nothing bu but ridicule from the admiralty Lawrence Lawrence Law Law- rence induced the speed boat designer designer de de- signer Scott Paine to make him a boat It was an armored speed boa and it was so successful in tests that tha criticism was overcome