position. The following
Associated Press story illustrates the type:
=AERIAL TORPEDO BOAT INVENTED=
[_By Associated Press._]
|Washington, July 22.--An aerial torpedo boat for |
|attack on ships in protected harbors is projected, |
|it was learned to-day, in patents just issued to |
|Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, now attached to the |
|navy war college, but formerly aid for operations to|
|Secretary Daniels. |
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|The plan contemplates equipping a monster aeroplane,|
|similar to a number now under construction in this |
|country for the British government, with a Whitehead|
|torpedo of regulation navy type. |
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|Swooping down at a distance of five sea miles from |
|the object of attack, the air craft would drop its |
|deadly passenger into the water just as it would |
|have been launched from a destroyer. The impact sets|
|the torpedo's machinery in motion and it is off at a|
|speed of more than forty knots an hour toward the |
|enemy ship. |
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|Admiral Fiske believes the flying torpedo boat would|
|make it possible to attack a fleet even within a |
|landlocked harbor. The range of the newest navy |
|torpedoes is ten thousand yards and even the older |
|types will be effective at seven thousand yards. |
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|Carried on a huge aeroplane, the 2,000 pound weapon |
|would be taken over harbor defenses at an altitude |
|safe from gunfire. Once over the bay, the machine |
|would glide down to within ten or twenty feet of |
|water, the torpedo rudders would be set and it would|
|be dropped to do its work while the aeroplane arose |
|and sped away.[9] |
[9] _Minneapolis Tribune_, July 22, 1915.
=96. Climactic Order Difficult.=--Of the four organization plans, the
hardest by far to develop is the climactic order, which should be
avoided by young reporters. This method of arrangement is on the
short-story order, and the beginner will find it difficult to group his
incidents so that ea
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