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Handbook of
Aircraft Armament

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Preface



Section A:
List of reference books


Section B
Machine guns:

Machine guns
General precautions before flight
General precautions after flight


Marlin aircraft machine gun I
Marlin special tools


Lewis aircraft machine gun
Lewis magazine rack
Lewis precautions before flight
Lewis special tools


Vickers aircraft machine gun
Vickers precautions before flight
Vickers "Speeded-Up"
Vickers 11 m/m aircraft machine gun


Tools supplied in armorer's chest
Tools supplied in armorer's truck


Metallic disintegrating link belts


Section C
Machine gun mounts:
Machine gun mounts
Fixed mounts
Belt Boxes - Shell Chutes
Flexible mounts
Single Lewis gun yoke
Double Lewis gun yoke
Lewis magazine rack


Section D
Synchronizing gears:

Synchronizing
Hydraulic-C.C. synchronizing gear
Mechanical synchronizing gear


Section E
Machine gun sights:

Theory of ring and post sights
Auxiliary ring & post sight
Ring and wind vane sight
Unit sight
Sight mountings


Section F
Aerial Drop Bombs:

Aerial Drop Bombs
High capacity drop bombs
Fragmentation bombs
Incendiary bombs
Dummy bomb, Mark I
Marking of bombs
Packing of bombs
Storage of bombs


Section G
Bomb-release mechanism:

List of bomb-release mechanisms
Mark V bomb-release mechanisms


Section H
Theory of bomb sighting:

Principles of a Bomb Sight
Mark I-A bomb sight


Section I
Aircraft ammunition:
SPECIAL AMMUNITION
     Armor piercing
     
Tracer
     
Armor-piercing
          tracer

     
Incendiary
     
Armor-piercing
          incendiary

Storage of incendiary
     ammunition

Packing of aircraft
     ammunition

Cartridge gauges


Section J
Pyrotechnics:
35 mm. pistol aviation,
    Mark, I

Airplane flare, Mark I
Wing-tip flare, Mark I


Section L
Small arms:
Browning machine rifle
Winchester rifle
     caliber .351
Colt and Smith & Wesson revolvers

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