Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-07-16 | Page 1 | America's First Sky Dreadnaught

L Americas America's First Sky SIT j Y t tr r f r i M Mi I I 1 W i perhaps ol of a great aerial fleet ot of similar winged death-dealers death is Tile Condor Undo Uncle Sams Sam's r first dread naught of oC the skies here photographed upon its initial test flight by army pilots at Mitchel lItchel field Long Island Armored with six machine guns arrows and designed to carry two tons of or high hl h explosive explosive explosive sive bombs and a of five it Is by far the most formidable weir war airplane yet constructed It weighs pounds rounds fully lully loaded and is powered by two horsepower motors motors' which give it an mlle SOO-mlle mile cruising radium at miles an hour A graphic Idea of Us ts foot 90 wingspread and of Its foot 47 lengths length len th Is afforded by these two views while below below- 7 t d 1 1 i f. d iP i z ft I i 0 b I T. T h d f Ik P if t 11 J f 11 v 4 l r 4 wa wai i a i. i G K e I C of oC the effectively mounted machine guns ot The Condor the tho army's aerial battleship At the v left Idt you ou see sec the twin rifles In hi the nose of the tho ship elevated to demonstrate their comprehensive range They can bo ho fired at as great an angle anglo forward or to right or left In the rear of each outboard motor housing are arc turrets bristling with similar twin guns as shown at the right All six of ot them fire several hundred shots a minute Thus Taws above and below the path and wake wako of the flying man war man o war is adequately protected against faster hostile planes which might attack it as it drones over enemy terrain sowing death with its two ton cargo of bombs