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14  The Times-Democrat: Sunday, October 22, 1911.

Planning Aerial Warfare

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NUCLEUS OF THE WINTER HEADQUARTER AT SAN ANTONIO
CAPTAIN CHANDLER
THE NAVY MACHINE IS PERFECTLY AT HOME ON THE WATER
LIEUTENANTS MILLIG AND BIRTLAND
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WHAT THE ARMY AND NAVY ARE DOING TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS OF THE FUTURE

The Government Maintains Two Schools in Which It Teaches Its Young Men of Iron Nerve to Navigate the Upper Air—The Kindergarten Work in Training That the Authorities Recognize iIs To Be important in Wars to Come.

For The Times Democrat

MAY A 200-POUND BOMB BE dropped from a rapidly moving aeroplane high in the skies without upsetting the machine and dashing its occupants to death?

If such a weight in explosives may be dropped would it be possible to let fall a spy equipped with a parachute at any point within the enemy's lines and thus learn his secrets?

Is it practicable to supply the United States army with a corps of aeronauts that might take the initiative in scout work in time of war?

Should this force participate also in work of destruction and drop bombs and fire upon the enemy?

Should every battleship be equipped with an aeroplane?  May an aeroplane be launched from a battleship upon a tight rope in lieu of a running board?

May maps be drawn from an aeroplane and may reliable pictures be so taken? May shots be fired from these fast-moving machines with any degree of accuracy?  May they in turn be hit by marksmen on the ground? How [[incomplete]]

[[?rets]] of a battleship and that the aeroplane might gain its speed gliding down this instead of running along a gangway.  So at Hammondsport they built a platform high in the air, upon which the aeroplane might be placed, as it might find abundant room on one of the higher portions of a ship.  From this platform they ran a three-fourths inch wire cable.

The experiment was new and the aviators did not know if the wings of the machine would balance it as it took the strange runway.  In fact, two smaller wires were run parallel to the big one for the purpose of supporting the wings, and men with ropes sprinted alongside to attempt to balance the machine.  The first [[?ride down]] the tight wire was one full of uncertainty and in which the aviators expected that almost anything might happen.  But, as they had figured might be the case, the machine took to the wire like a trained performer, maintained its own balance and soon rose into the air like a bird.  The experiment was an immediate and unqualified success, and showed that the former argument against the aeroplane

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