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Title: Ellington 1918
Year: 1918 (1910s)
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Subjects: Air bases--Texas--Houston Flight training--Texas--Houston
Publisher: (Houston, Tex.) : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Rice University, Fondren Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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Headquarters Staff—San Leon Page 131 ) ( ELLINGTON FIELD—1918
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Caught By The CameraA Battle Above San Leon ELLINGTON FIELD—1918) (Page 132 making the proper adjustments, the pilot would be skidding, side-slipping, zooming, and otherwise keepingthe bomber busy retaining his balance as well as fixing the gun. The result was that often in less than aweek the bomber would feel so at ease in the ship that he could operate the gun expertly when his feet hadleft the floor of the fuselage and he was hanging by the belt. Shadow shooting came next, and was perhaps the most pleasing in the entire course. The shadow of aship, flying 200 feet or so above the one in which the gunner was riding, was thrown on the water andserved as the target. The splashes would indicate the success of the bomber. A target towed behind another ship was the next object of the bombers markmanship. Great care hadto be exercised in this stage to stop shooting when the pilot was turning, as the tail surfaces would oftencome between the gun and the target. There are several instanc

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