Hi Richard, Since your primary interest is aviation, may I suggest that your next Luger should be a 1914 Erfurt Artillery. A little known fact (at least it was by me) is that despite it's name the Artillery model was initially developed for use by aircrew. Early testing showed that "At distances of 300 - 500m and under surface wind conditions of 8m/sec, satisfactory results were obtained against man-sized targets from a flying airplane. At this distance one hit could be expected out of each salvo of 8 rounds.... firing tests from 100m resulted in considerable damage to radiators and Gnôme-Rhône engines....". The Luftstreitkräfte actually ordered a few pre-production samples of the LP08 but, as we all know, this project "never got off the ground". By the way, all this is from the wonderful Görtz/Sturgess book "Pistole Parabellum". Best regards, Norm
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