Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-05-09 | Page 10 | Winged Bomb

i t Winged Bomb I II r I LONDON May 9 The The flying lying bomb a terrible new weapon o ot of aerial warfare has recently been perfected and successfully tested It is not restricted like Uke ordinary I b in its field of ot action It can I be launched at aeroplanes soaring ahead or above the altitude of the attacker as well welI as at distant objectives objectives objectives ob ob- ob- ob I on land This torpedo of the skies weighs about twenty-five twenty pounds and is nearly five feet long It can be filled with deadly poison polson gas with incendiary material or with hIgh higl explosive Others of oC far tar greater size sige are ale likely to to be developed In Inthe Inthe inthe the near future Biplane wings with an area o of eight square feet support the aerIal aeria torpedo on Its flint Experts de declare declare de- de clare dare that when it is launched from froma a machine soaring a mile in the sky not not a particularly great to for fo- modern aircraft aIrcraft an an object on the ground or in the air eight miles distant could be tilt with precision A wind driven gyroscope assures stability The rest is merely a IJ question of oC adjustment in exactly the same way as with a naval tor tor- Any ordinary bombing aeroplane aeroplane aeroplane aero aero- plane could carry a hundred of ot the present type of flying bomb