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The bomb racks should be able to permit the easy change from one to the other of the following loads:

1. Entire load of bombs of 10 kilogrammes (incendiary of fragmentation.)

2. Entire load of bombs of 50, 100 or 200 kilogrammes.

FUEL - Tanks for seven hours' fuel for the motors at full speed at sealevel; one or several tanks representing about one fourth of the total capacity, should be easily removable.

EQUIPMENT - The airplane should be arranged to permit vertical photography from 50 to 120, installation of an automatic or moving-picture camera for vertical photography or oblique towards the rear (for photographing the results of bombardment), the heating of the pilot and passenger and eventually of the machine guns, installation of oxygen apparatus, two parachutes and eventually of night lighting equipment and inter airplane telephone.

CHARACTERISTICS - Ceiling, 7,500 meters. Speed at 5,000 meters, 190 kilometers per hour; minimum speed at sealevel, at most favorable angle, with motor throttled, 90 kilometers per hour. 

Military load: 580 kilogrammes. 

In this military load are included only the pilot, observer, machine guns, cartridges, machine gun supports, cockpit instruments, bomb-racks, bombs, oxygen apparatus, parachutes, photographic

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