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1928
1928 - 0781.PDF
AUGUST 23, 1928 INTO THE CLOUDS [" FLIGBT " Photograph No. 25 (Fighter) Squadron (Armstrong-Whitworth " Siskins ") off on the first night patrol of the Air Defence Exercises. caught in the beams. Often as they get close they catchsight of his exhaust, and then they can deal with him. With- out the lights, the fighter pilots confess that they cannot domuch at night. Clouds do not always absolutely conceal the bombers. Where they are thin, some light filters throughand sometimes shows up the " Virginia " or the " Hydera- bad." The resources of the searchlight crews are various.The sound-locator is only a sort of !ast resort. Visual observation is naturally preferred. When the beams aresearching, men sit in chairs well tilted back with binoculars in their hands, at a considerable distance from the light, andsometimes are able to spot a bomber before the beam has caught it. Reports go in from each light to a centre, as inthe case of the obser\'er corps, and as a bomber leaves one group of searchlights, one beam endeavours to pass it onto the next group. I should dearly have loved to stay with ["FLIGHT" Photographs NO.32 (FIGHTER) SQUADRON IN ACTION : Above, three Armstrong-Whitworth " Siskins " returning from a patrol. Below, a squadron of " Siskins " ready for the fray. 725 D 2
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