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Show PROBLEM TO HIT AEROPLANE IN FLIGHT WASHINGTON, Julv 15. Critical observation of the flights daily being made at College Park, near this city, by army aviators, has confirmed army and navy ordnance experts in the opinion opin-ion that with the present type of ordnance ord-nance it would be practically impossible to bring down an aeroplane high In the air and in full flight, save bv a chance shot. The musket would be entirely useless, its range being only sbout 3000 feet whea any considerable elevation is given the weapon. The only hope of the ordnance experts ex-perts is the development of a goa oa the lines of one now being made in Germany for use against aeroplanes i only. This gnn, of great length, shoots a light six pound shell three and a half miles, but the novel and promising fee ture is the use of a compound in the shell which leaves a trail of dense black smoke. This is expected to enable the gunners to find tha rsngo of aa aeroplane, aero-plane, ' . -k |