They are able to carry heavy loads, and are used as bomb-dropping machines, as their fuselages are especially well adapted to carry and release the missiles, said the lieutenant.
"The Boy Volunteers with the French Airmen"
Kenneth Ward
For head-on fights, flyers went in at top speed, their planes whirling on the axes of fuselages, all guns going.
"Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930"
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