atddta 32: aeroplane state of the art 1910

[rich]

Like Luke making the shot that nailed the Death Star?

Rich

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 1:13 PM, grladams at teleport.com
<grladams at teleport.com> wrote:
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>  Side note, ...Even in >  September 1910, NYT reports "George Von L Meyer, Secretary of the Navy, who
>  was one of the most interested spectators in the recent Bomb-throwing
>  contests at the recent Harvard aero meet, to-day gave his views of the
>  danger to battleships..."In the first place, the aviator would have to go
>  up several thousand feet to be out of rifle range, and the size of the bomb
>  he would be able to carry would not seriously hurt any battleship, unless
>  it went down the funnel..." foreshadowing to the sort of moves Kit can make
>  in an aeroplane later?
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