Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1915 — AERO SHOT FROM SHIP DECK [ARTICLE]

AERO SHOT FROM SHIP DECK

New Navy Device for Releasing ’Planes From Moving Vessels Proves Successful. Washington.—When a navy aeroplane was shot into the air at Pensacola from the deck of the cruiser North Carolina while the ship was in motion a new feat in aviation was accomplished and a device on which navy airmen have been at work for three years proved a success. The device consists of a track extending along the ship’s after deck, on which Is a car. An aeroplane lands on the device from the air and is secured to the car. On launching the car is driven down the track until It has attained high speed. Then it is brought to a sudden stop, and the aeroplane, released from its moorings. Boars into the air, shot over the cruis* er’s stem at a speed of 50 miles an hour.