Page:Popular Science Monthly Volume 92.djvu/498

 Netted!

���Mr. F. J. Lane, an Englishman, in a letter to the Editor of the Popular Science Monthly. proposes the use of nets for trapping raiding enemy airplanes. This could be carried out at night. The nets are to be made of piano wire, and are to be suspended from balloons. Thr space below would be barred by anti-aircraft guns. The enemy pilot is to be forced into them \' / pursuing airplanes through open lanes which he will consider avenues of escape. Then a net will loom up before him. It is too late to turn. He must face death eithei by crashing into the great net or by a hail of machine-gun bullets from his pursuers

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