Automatic cable cutters set along bombers' wings edges
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Automatic cable cutters set along bombers' wings edges
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Article Title and/or Image Caption
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Cable cutters
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CABLE CUTTERS. Automatic
devices set at intervals along
the leading wing edges of
Britain's bombers (see inset)
are enabling the planes to cut
their way through the bar-
rage-balloon cables that the
Germans are employing as
protection_against low-level
attacks. When one of the
cutters is hit by a cable, the
contact sets off an explosive
charge. This drives home a
chisel that snips the cable.
Metal reinforcements protect
the wings as the cables slide
along the leading edges to
enter the aperture of a cut-
ter. The drawing at the right
depicts an American-built
Ventura, a medium bomber
used by the British, equipped
with the new device and slic-
ing a path through a screen
of German cables. Extending
from the trailing edges are
the ends of the tracks upon
which the Fowler flaps are
extended to reduce the speed
of the plane in landing.
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Autore secondario
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B. G. Seielstad (illustrator)
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Lingua
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eng
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Data di rilascio
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1944-02
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pagine
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62
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Diritti
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by
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Lorenzo Chinellato
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
