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...light blue ether above Fort Tilden, Rockaway Point anti-air defense base of Manhattan, soared, twisted, wobbled a deep blue cone of canvas, 15 ft. long, tapering in diameter from 5 ft. to 4 ft. Ahead, linked to the sky-target by a few scant hundred feet of rope, flew Air Lieut. Archie Smith in a Martin Bomber. From below anti-aircraft gunners launched torrents of gun fire, exploded thousands of pounds of powder into billions of cubic feet of gas. Sweated, toiled, emitted words peculiar to gunners...
Eighteen times, with the undeviating regularity of a sentry pacing his beat, Lieut. Smith towed his special high visibility target over their heads, he neither twisted, dived nor dodged. He flew at an average altitude of only 1,500 ft., the target trailing 300 ft. below. Cooly, Army anti-aircrafting gunners ignored all but four of his perambulations, loosed upon the target a total of 8,000 shots during those, scored five hits. Dauntlessly they loosed 8,000 more missiles, each costing $25, upon a second target, towed by another Air Service Lieutenant, scored 14 hits...
...Navy Department announced tests of anti-aircraft fire against a sausage-shaped target, 10 ft. in diameter, 45 ft. long, towed by the Shenandoah at 33 mi. an hour, more than 4,000 ft. up, and fired at by 3-in. guns from the battleship Texas. Six hundred and thirty-five rounds of shrapnel were fired. The target showed 763 holes, 11 made by unexploded shells...
...When planes attack, they travel about three times 33 miles an hour. There's a little difference in shooting at a slowly moving target and trying to hit one going 100 mi. an hour...
...Haven, exercises were held by the Winchester Junior Rifle Corps of which one Samuel Moore, 17, is a member. At 8:30 a. m., this Moore began to shoot. The range was 50 ft. The round black centre of the target was no bigger than a nickel. At 3:57 that afternoon, he stopped. During that time, he had scored 1,500 successive bull's-eyes-a world's record...