Machine-gun skeet makes flying marksmen
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Machine-gun skeet makes flying marksmen
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Title: Machine-gun skeet makes flying marksmen
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CLAY targets, streaking in front
of mobile machine-gun turrets
at an English flying base, are
now being used to perfect the marks-
manship of Royal Air Force gunners.
In the first World War, most air-
plane machine guns, particularly those
on pursuit ships, were fixed in place
and were aimed by pointing the plane
at the target. Today, in the latest
multimotored bombers, electrically
operated turrets, one at the
tail and one at the nose, house
as many as four movable ma-
chine guns and an expert
marksman to aim them. Some
bombing craft even have a
third machine-gun “blister” at
the center of the fuselage as
an added protection against
attacking planes. Merely by
pressing buttons, the gunner
can swing his turret in any di-
rection he desires. To train
experts to man these vital
posts, British officers are
mounting spare turrets on
rubber-tired dollies so they can
be wheeled to isolated areas
for gunnery practice. Just as
in skeet or trap shooting, clay
disks are sent skimming
through the air as gunners
attempt to shatter them before
they fall to the ground.
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1940-08
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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88-89
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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. 137, n. 2, 1940
