Viewing page 270 of 415

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

(3)

dial on the instrument board. When it is desired to ascertain the amount of gasoline in the tank, a few strokes on a small hand pump brings the pointer to zero. If the pointer is watched it will be seen to creep steadily up to a figure which indicates that amount of fuel left. For about thirty seconds the pointer continues up-ward. For the next reading, the pump is again called into service.
In addition to the defensive armament referred to, the De Haviland 14 carries a nest of six 112 pound bombs, carried in two double and two single crates inside of the fuselage ahead of the pilot's cockpit. The fuselage floor is open at the points un-derneath the crates. To prevent the draught the openings are cov-ered with sheets of brown paper which are easily torn by the weight of the bomb. The bombs are normally under the control of the bomb-er who releases them by means of a series of toggles on the star-board side of his cockpit. Provision has been made, however, for enabling the pilot to discharge the bombs should necessity arises, by a similar set of toggles in his cockpit.
In this machine. the lower longerons are divided into relatively short lengths, the ends of these lengths abutting upon

766