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chutes; the installation of wireless (sending and receiving) with a view to regulating artillery fire; the use of instruments of goniometry; the installation of bomb flares; the installation of an arrangement for Very pistols.

CHARACTERISTICS - Ceiling, 6,000 meters.  Speed at 2,000 meters, 195 kilometers per hour; speed, minimum, at sealevel, motor throttled, at the most favorable angle, 90 kilometers per hour.

Military load:  400 kilogrammes and 450 kilogrammes if the armament includes a cannon.

In the military load are included only the pilot and observer, the machine guns, the cartridges, the machine gun supports, the airplane instruments, wireless, heating apparatus, lighting apparatus, parachutes, and the instruments of goniometry, pistols and signal guns.

OBSERVATION.

BIPLACES, C. A. and DIVISIONAL.     

AIRPLANE A.2 and Ad.2 TYPE

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS - The airplane should be very manoeuverable, and controls should offer a minimum of fatigue to pilot from sea level to 4,000 meters.

The span should not exceed 15 meters.

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