BOLTS FROM THE BLUE.
\ j BOMBS DROPPED BY CURTISS. 1 (Received 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, July 14. Glen Curtiss, the well-known American aviator, while aeroplaning at Atlantic City, dropped many dummy bombs on the deck of a yacht. It has been contended that the aeroplane would be of little use for dropping of bombs in 1 val warfare, because the chances of hitting a vessel would be very . remote, owing to the difficulty of judging I the position from which to drop the I missile. Sir Hiram Maxim supported j this view, and further said that bombs 5 bursting on deck would do little damage, > and they would have to explode in a confined space to be effective. Curtiss' experiment, following up the recent destruction in Canada, by real bombs from an aeroplane, of earthworks, goes to prove that the theorists have missed the mark, and that the plane wiU be a terrible weapon of attack when the clash comes.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 166, 15 July 1910, Page 5
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