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Aircraft and the Future of Warfare

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 10, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 35.

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Aircraft and the Future of Warfare

In drills held at Newport on September 1, Aviator Magee, from a height of 1,000 feet, dropped two bags into the center of the torpedo station at that place. The officials in charge of the test say that if the bags had contained gelatin explosives instead of flour, they would have destroyed torpedoes and other ammunition worth millions of dollars. The air-ship is proving to be an awful success in the struggles to devise new engines of destruction in the field of war.