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the recoil of the guns. A belt box can be fixed across the frame between the two guns with sufficient capacity to take about 2,000 rounds of ammunition. An additional gun, if desired, can be carried on the top plane and this can be arranged so that it is possible to fix it in any position to fire from a few degrees from the horizontal upwards. The mounting of the guns makes them particularly accessibly. No armament is ordinarily supplied with the aeroplane.

VIII. LOAD CARRIED.

The normal load carried by the aeroplane is 400 pounds including the pilot but exclusive of fuel and oil. Forty gallons of gasoline and four and one half gallons of oil are carried which will give an enudrance of from 1 3/4 to 3 1/2 hours according to the speed and altitude.

IX. PERFORMANCE.

Carrying the load specified in the proceeding paragraph the speed will be 150 miles an hour near the ground, 144 miles per hour at 10,000 ft. and 130 miles per hour at 22,000 ft. The time to reach 10,000 feet will be 7 minutes: 20,000 feet, 25 minutes.

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