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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. | | | |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. | | | |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. | | | |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. | | | |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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