Lewis machine Gun (Airplane Type) Savage Arms Corporation | 19?? | 61 pages | PDF | 13 MB
The Airplane Type gun is moved through the air at the rate of from 90 to 140 miles per hour. This corre sponds to a continuous air-blast on the gun, whether it is firing or not, of from 132 to 308 feet per second. The gun is in action generally at great altitudes, where the
cold is intense. Also there is no opportunity in aerial warfare for sustained machine gun fire and the firing consists of short, infrequent bursts.
he Lewis Gun was extensively used on British and French aircraft during World War I, either as an observer's or gunner's weapon or as an additional weapon to the more common Vickers. The Lewis' popularity as an aircraft machine-gun was partly due to its low weight, the fact that it was air-cooled and that it used self-contained 97-round drum magazines