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Aviation History
1951
1951 - 1536.PDF
FLIGHT i 10 August 195 x 167 A de Havilland Vampire F.B.S of the Central Gunnery School, Lecon field, is seen (from a Meteor 7) at R.P. practice GUN MBS, R Illustrated with " Flight" Photographs Armed w;t/i eight 25 /b concrete-head practice R.P.S, a Vampire (above) turns to dive on its target. Below, a Lincoln comes in for rear-turret firing. Reference to a demonstration, during the course of which these and other photographs were secured, was made in last week's issue. M The armourer above is affixing 8£ Ib fragmentation bombs to the carrier of a Vampire for a dive-bombing demonstration. Note that the light- bomb carrier is attached to the main (500/1,000 Ib) carrier. Below, the 20 mm guns of the Vampire are in process of being re-armed.
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