A MYSTERY RAY
MAKES PLANES RED HOT. • An/ invisible ray that* travels with the speed of light and on contact turns metal red hot has been the subject of a report to the French Government, following-laboratory experiments (says the “Daily. Chronicle”). It is said to be a form of ultra-violet ray, and its further development is being investigated with a view to its use against air raiders.
Experts say that the great problem with defensive rays ana forces of a _similar nature is the 'immense and costly power required to/generate them ? n ® really big scale, also the expense involved by any really conclusive, experiments.,. • Further reports are‘being, prepared -in regard to higlV,altitude gag: screens, which it is proposed.Hthat specially-equipped planes) should spßead in the upper air for the defence' of; great cities. Such screens of poison gns might, experts now consider, form effective harriers, mid it is said that after they have floated down' slowly to a certain lgvfel and encountered the
different atmospheric pressure at low altitudes they could be rendered innocuous.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12199, 25 July 1925, Page 11
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