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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 16135, 11 January 1913, Page 6

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Tho difficulty of hitting an aeroplane in full flight is illustrated by the negative results of the tests just carried out by a shore battery at Toulon. The target was a "glider" towed along at a height of eight or nine hundred yards by a destroyer travelling twenty-five to thirty miles an hour, the Tango being about five miles. Shrapnel was used fifty shots being fired ia a quarter ol an hour, but the target was not touched. Airmen arc thus encouraged in the belief that in time of war their main danger will come, not from the cartb. but from their rivals in the air.