Radio controlled planes tow antiaircraft gunnery targets
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Radio controlled planes tow antiaircraft gunnery targets
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Radio controlled planes tow antiaircraft gunnery targets
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LONG envisioned as an ulti-
mate weapon of war, radio-con-
trolled robot planes have been
put to use by the U. S. Army
for towing targets that test the
skill of antiaircraft gunners. As
employed overseas by the U. S.
Seventh Army, the robots are
miniature high-wing mono-
planes, powered by two-cylinder
air-cooled engines having
coaxial contrarotating propel-
lers. The upper photo at the left
shows two Army technicians
trying out the radio controls be-
fore sending up a plane, which
begins its flights on the portable
launching ramp at the lower
left. Since wind conditions us-
ually make a conventional land-
ing risky to the plane, it is
landed by means of a parachute
that is ejected at the touch of a
remote-control button. The
plane can be put through evolu-
tions that closely simulate those
of enemy planes, and gunners
can track the towed target with-
out the danger involved when
piloted planes are used.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1945-07
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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194
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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)
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Abstract (Dublin Core)
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targeting antiaircraft
Popular Science Monthly, v. 147, n. 1, 1945
