Aeroplane with one machine-gun rigidly mounted to fire rearwards, or several such machine-guns rigidly mounted parallel

摘要

170,294. Rumpler-Werke Ges. Nov. 9, 1917, [Convention date]. Sights and methods of sighting.-One or more rearwardly-directed guns are fixed parallel to the fore-and-aft line of an aeroplane, and sighted by means of a mirror 7 and a fiducial mark so arranged that the forward field of view of the gunner pilot is not obstructed. In the construction shown, a single gun is mounted in a part-tubular recess formed in the aeroplane body 5 at the side of the pilot's seat 1.