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...dummies secured in the bomb rack beneath the fuselage. About 100 ft. aloft, the parachute of one of the dummies worked loose, streamed aloft, was jerked full open by the wind. Down snapped the nose of the plane as if an anchor had suddenly been dropped. The short dive wrecked the ship, set it afire, seriously injured Lieut. Commander Oscar W. Erickson and his two assistants...
...near Toul, France in 1918, I saw a lone enemy plane attack and destroy a captive balloon, miss a second, destroy a third, return and destroy the second, then fly home. The whole operation required but minutes, was done at a very low altitude (following a power dive) in broad day light, and in spite of the activities of anti-aircraft gunners stationed at balloon positions. I feel the same thing could be done today (TIME, June 23). I remember H. C. Barnes (then Major), onetime commander of our Battery "B" as the man whose answer to my question...
...swimming bull, who submerged when capture seemed near, to come up snorting, blowing and swimming further away. After one such disappearance the pursuers gave the animal up, thought it had drowned. Hours later, a fisherman inbound off Sea Gate, some seven miles from the bull's dive, beheld a horned creature swimming out to sea with the tide. The fisherman approached, threw an anchor rope, caught and towed the beast, still belligerent, to shallow water at Coney Island. To get the animal into an S. P. C. A. ambulance required two ropes, 18 policemen...
What is a power dive of attack? I have never heard the expression before...
...plane for the Navy. In an official test last week a few hours after the stock deal was completed, Vice President Joyce, who is one of the ablest demonstrators in the business, put the XFJ-1 into-and easily brought it out of -a spectacular 12,000-ft. power dive. Navy specifications also demand that the ship maintain a speed greater than 180 m. p. h. at 6,000 ft. altitude...