Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 218
e ground. Duringthe second flight one shot was fired, but owing to thefact that the machine was not directly over the target(an eight-inch bulls-eye on a four-foot strip of whitecloth), and that there would be danger of a ricochetfrom the hard ground into the crowd if the rifle werefired at an… … LIEUTENANT FICKEL EXPERIMENTING IN SHOOTING FROM AN AEROPLANE.Copyright Underwood & Underwood, New York. with Glenn Curtiss at Sheepshead Bay, LongIsland, on the afternoon of August 20, 1910. Asshown in this novel photograph, the lieutenantCarried a gun to test the practicability of using…
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