Show GIANT flashlights ROCK WHOLE CITIES aerial photographers uso use powerful light bombs dayton ohio when abe n tho the conven tion photographer saya bit ys hold itt and pulls the chain of his faeh aach pan he discharges only a pinch or two of flashlight powder but when george W goddard dard army aviator takes it flashlight of a city he explodes bombs measuring as much na as ten en feet in length and weighing as aa much as fifty pounds the detonation Is so grent great that it la Is not a few frightened girls who i jump unit and blink but a whole city that la Is slinking shaking and hundreds hundred of thousands of eyes ces that are temporarily blinded several night photographs front from have hae been taken of dayton and of rochester N Y soon all of the rint nations ions greatest cities are to be snapped as gigantic bombs are released over them with their warlike crash ant and rumble high explosives used the bombs are aie innocent looking at af fairs resembling bolts of goods in it deportment department store but under the told folds of cloth are arc separate loaded with special high explosive powders concocted to gle give a quid brilliant light each of the compartments la Is connected to an electric fuse which explodes them all simultaneously tho bombs vre anre carried under the fuselage of the airship and are dropped by the working of a lever ever as the plane readies reaches the designated point there Is first a discernible stream of sparks as the fuse burns burna and six seconds later comes the flare so are the bombs constructed ted und and so BO accurately timed that although of such large proportions they are exploded completely in as brief a space 0 ot time as one alf of a seco second n d so complete la Is the explosion that there Is no afterglow too quick for human eye never has the minutest bit of the bombs covering been found afterward the flah Is so quick that at though persons persona on the ground see bee tho the illumination it causes they do not actually see tile the flare itself it Is too quick for the human eye ra in dayton and rochester photographers also were stationed at various points on the ground in spires and on tall buildings to take panorama panoramAs of the surrounding country by the light of the bursting bomb some of these pictures have been exceptionally clear and have approximated daylight photographic to work the photographic plates are usually exposed when the warning warn ing trail of sparks Is seen and ahei are left eft exposed until after the flare the shutters on the camera carried by the planes in the test flights are usually four times as fast as those on the average commercial camera some of these cameras are between four and five feet long with SG 30 inch lenses measuring nine inches in diameter they take photographs measuring nine by twenty three inches the aie usual height at which these pictures are taken Is feet |