Word: bomber
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Rochester, N. Y., locus of the Eastman Kodak Works, came news. An experiment had been made with aerial photography at night by flashlight. A Martin bomber 3000 feet up dropped 50 pounds of flashlight powder which was detonated in midair. Seven special cameras and a cinema machine clicked. There was a swift and powerful flash-it lasted only one-fiftieth of a second-then a tremendous explosion "rocked the buildings," "broke windows" (a few). The photographs were a "success." "Useful in war," said observers...
...anti-air defense base of Manhattan, soared, twisted, wobbled a deep blue cone of canvas, 15 ft. long, tapering in diameter from 5 ft. to 4 ft. Ahead, linked to the sky-target by a few scant hundred feet of rope, flew Air Lieut. Archie Smith in a Martin Bomber. From below anti-aircraft gunners launched torrents of gun fire, exploded thousands of pounds of powder into billions of cubic feet of gas. Sweated, toiled, emitted words peculiar to gunners...
...biplane with a 12-horse motor and antique arm controls, in which the Wrights effected the first heavier-than-air flight at Kittyhawk, N. C, in 1903. Scores pilgrimaged to this aeronautical shrine, the door of which was blotted in the shadow of the huge three-winged Barling bomber, Exhibit Z in aviation history, the last word in size with its three Liberty motors and 43,000 Ibs. of weight...
...helicopters, parachutes, bombing-planes are gradually being perfected and strength- hened. It is all a question of design; a compromise must be struck between speed and carrying-power, between maneuvering ability and the rate of climbing. As an example of carrying power, General Patrick showed picture of the Darling Bomber, the largest air-plane in the world, which is as high as a three-story house, carries 2500 H.P., and weighs 4300 lbs, when loaded...
...Army's experimental station at McCook Field, Dayton, will soon test a new bomber built by G. Elias &; Bros. of Buffalo. Equipped with two 700-horse-power motors, the new plane will carry a deadly destructive load of 6,900 pounds of bombs-enough to wreck a city. Yet with this enormous load the plane will reach a height of 13,500 feet, and at lower altitudes be able to fly with one of its motors completely out of commission. With a wing area of 1,500 square feet, a span of nearly 100 feet, it will be second...