"Junior crash boats" rescue remote control target planes
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"Junior crash boats" rescue remote control target planes
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EIGHT seafaring soldiers of the Panama Coast Artillery
Command have saved Uncle Sam close to $100,000
during the past year by retrieving eight out of every ten
ground-controlled target planes shot down by machine
gunners and ack-ack men at their station. They brave the
choppy Pacific in a flimsy 16-foot, oar-powered crash boat
to rescue the bullet-peppered robots.
‘When they recover an aerial zigzagger they rush it to a
hangar where they administer mechanical first aid. More
often than not, however, a “hornet” requires a complete
overhauling. After the preliminary job done by the sea-
going grease monkeys, a crippled robot usually is shipped
inland to a repair shop. Bullet holes in gas tanks are
welded, and the control mechanism and failing motors
are doctored. Also, wing struts are changed, and new
fabrics are grafted upon perforated fuselages.
According to Lt. Chester W. Silkworth, of Brooklyn,
Mich, in charge of the rescue detachment, ten crashes
are about as many as a plane will survive.
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eng
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1945-05
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81
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Public domain
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Sami Akbiyik
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 146, n. 5, 1945
