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...mounted parallel to axis of the airplane and was charged with a small film roll-like an ordinary Kodak. A fresh film was moved into position by pulling a lever. When in mock combat, the student tried to get his sights on his opponent and "fire" by pulling a trigger-the developed film showed the concentric rings of a conventional target plus the photograph of the "enemy" plane. These pictures were developed and graded like examination papers at school-for correctness of lead was easily checked from the picture. I doubt if such a camera was ever used...
According to Mrs. Cockburn-Lange the pictures were taken by her late husband with a camera mounted in the cockpit of his plane and operated by a shutter attached to the machine-gun trigger. She has refused to tell her husband's name because, she says, his superior officer is still in the R. F. C. and might be punished for permitting the pictures to be taken "against army regulations...
...shutter was said to be operated by the first pull of the gun trigger. In normal combat practice a pilot would fire a burst from his gun to make sure it was in working order long before approaching as close to an enemy plane as the pictures indicated...
...gives up, lets him arrange his suicide. Says Peter: "A man's but human. A woman can rise above being human seemingly; but I never met the man that could." One morning he is found dead in a hedge; a twig might have pulled his shotgun's trigger. Avis bears up, has her baby, goes on being dauntless. To Midwinter, on vacation this time, she has the nerve to tell the whole story, guessing he will let bygones be. How her infant son will turn out, hints Author Phillpotts, will be set forth in the next instalment...
Visitors at the sea lion pool in London's Zoo may now drop a sixpence in a slot to obtain the following result: a newly-devised tower, equipped with traveling chain and trigger, sounds a klaxon, hurls out a fat herring to make the sea lions snort and scramble...