| Show i I I Flying Belts Work Defense officials in Washington Washing Washing- ton recently confirmed the report report re- re port that work is going forward on a flying belt something many of us first saw in ers comic strip It would enable a soldier to fly a few miles at several hundred feet or more and make hi him m a far more mobile mo- mo bile bUe combatant THE SPUR of war seems to bring us so many miracle In- In World War II H brought us jets the atom bomb the rocket etc for better or worse And now the Vietnam War may bring us the flying belt Because money is ir freely eel y spent for weapons and officials lend an open ear to would would-be inventors In war time wars see seem m to produce a science divi- divi di vi- vi But of course some or of orthe the Inventors are traveling down end dead streets which reminds reminds re- re minds one of a story told Arthur Harris of Bomber Command Com Com- mand In his memoirs DEFENSE officials had sent an over enthusiastic Inventor to see Harris during world war I when German Zeppelins were bombing London He explained to Harris You see you have this drum or of feet or of steel cable and on the end or of the cable is a large harpoon You fly above the Zeppelin and drop the harpoon harpoon har- har poon whIch goes through the envelope or of the Zeppelin opens Its barbs and catches In the structure and there you are arel Harris replied Well Vell where am I 11 The Zeppelin has horsepower and I have who 75 goes home wIth whom THE ZEPPELIN harpoon didn't work out in world war II but some think the flying belt will arrive during the Vietnam war With It many traffic problems problems lems could be solved for commuters commuters com com- and It would be a boon to bird hunters if H one could ire fire a gun while flying Hying In it The idea then might be for the birds birds' In either of two ways |
