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how guns on planes started :] - cammoammo - 08.08.2011

In WWI there were 2 spy planes that alwaysed passed by very close and were on different sides.
Then one day one of the pilots was drunk and threw his beer bottle at the other plane. That pilot forgot the next day and had a brick neerly hit his plane and he said [What the Crap!!!]
Then they brought guns to the fight and.. well you would know how that went..
And thus.. Guns on planes started :]
:lol:

A story made by my brothers teacher 1 day lol
hope u like it :]
cammoammo

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Re: how guns on planes started :] - RadPig94 - 08.08.2011

it's not hilarious because it sounds like a true story

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Re: how guns on planes started :] - Serpiko - 09.08.2011

Extracts from "History of airplanes" (Christopher Chant - Michael J. H. Taylor, 2001):

1910-01-19: Lt. Paul Beck (U.S. Army) , passenger on an unspecified plane, drops fake bombs (sandbags) over Los Angeles.

1910-06-30: Glenn Hammond drops fake bombs over a ship-shaped target, on Keuka Lake.

1910-07-24: German flyer August Euler patents a plane-mounted machine gun, and later demonstrates it on his own biplane, "Gelber Hund".

1910-08-20: Lt. J.E. Fickel (U.S. Army), passenger on a Curtiss plane, fires a Spingfield rifle at a ground target in Sheepshead Bay (N.Y.)

1911-10-22: Capt. Piazza (Italian fleet) flies a Blériot monoplane from Tripoli to Aziza, in a recon flight to locate Turkish troops: this is the first recorded use of an airplane in an active military action.

1911-11-01: 2nd Lt. Giulio Gavotti (Italian fleet) drops grenades over Turkish troops in Taguira oasis and Ain Zara: first bombing action performed by an airplane.

1912-06-07: first airborne firing tests of a plane-mounted machine gun (a Wright B model)

November 1913: Mexico houses the first air combat, as the crews of two planes (flown by Dean Ivan Lamb, flying for Venustiano Carranza and by Phillip Rader, flying for Gen. Huerta) engage a firefight using conventional rifles.

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