Flying Models for AA Training
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Title (Dublin Core)
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Flying Models for AA Training
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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Folding-Wings Gliders Train AA Gunners
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PLANES by the thousands are being
knocked out of American skies by antiair-
craft gunners in training at Army camps
and naval air stations all over the country.
They are glider models, shot into the air
with folded wings from slings or catapults
and used as targets for machine guns as |
they glide, circle, or dive realistically.
The model planes used are a product of |
the American Junior Aircraft Company, of
Portland, Ore. Designed originally for mod-
el-plane enthusiasts, they lend themselves
admirably to target use. With its wings
folded back against its fuselage, as seen in
the photograph below, one of these balsa-
wood “Interceptors” can be hurled to a
great height (300 feet when the catapult is
used). In the air, rubber bands snap the |
wings forward into position.
Models can be adjusted to glide straight,
. circle, or dive as desired, simulating the
maneuvers of enemy planes in low-level at- |
tack. At 300 feet, the scale effect is that of
a full-size plane at 1,500 {eet, traveling 300
gm miles an hour.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1943-12
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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76
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Matteo Ridolfi
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, vol. 143, n. 6, 1943
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