Cloud Protector for Aeroplanes.
While army ami navy ordnance experts nre giving much time ami thought to the best manner oa attacking airships aloft, flying men themselves are asking if it would not be possible to provide some mean*. chemical or otherwise, by which the aviator can. at his pleasure, produce some cloud-like vapour to envelop his machine and obscure it from the view of the enemy. The art)fi<»al cloud might be visible, but would only form a large target, while the machine, the real objective point of the firing lines, would form only a small part of the target, decreasing in proportion to the size of the cloud the prospect being struck by the projectiles.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 22, 29 May 1912, Page 2
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116Cloud Protector for Aeroplanes. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 22, 29 May 1912, Page 2
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