Parachutes trap enemy bomber
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Parachutes trap enemy bomber
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Parachutes trap enemy bomber
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HOT into the sky by an-
tiaircraft guns, scores
5 of odd parachute shells
burst open at various al-
titudes, releasing parachutes
from which dangle long wires
designed to foul the propellers
and damage the wings of at-
tacking enemy planes that run
into them. That is the unique
plan, devised by an anony-
mous American inventor,
which the French Army is
said to be considering as a
means of defense against air
raids on vital points. Like an
elaborate Fourth-of-July
rocket, the shell would be
fired up into the sky. Its
‘whirling movement automati-
cally unscrews its weighted
base, which drops out, drag-
ging with it a wire cable that
unreels from a spindle in the
shell. At a desired height, a
time fuse explodes a charge
that forces out a parachute
packed in the shell nose. The
extended steel wire, weighted
at the bottom, then drifts
slowly earthward. With hun-
dreds of these cables dangling
dangerously down from the
sky, attacking planes would
find it practically impossible
to avoid fouling against one
or more of them, the inventor
claims. A wall of these down-
drifting cables, military au-
thorities are said to believe,
would constitute a much
stronger defense against at-
tack from the air than the
elaborate and costly “balloon
barrage” which the English
defense forces employ to pro-
tect the city of London
(P.S.M., Aug. "38, p. 27).
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1940-05
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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110-111
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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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.136, n. 5, 1940
