ROCKET EQUIPPED BI-PLANES
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| Hale's story and others like it entertained readers, but World War I enlisted rockets once again for military purposes. French pilots rigged rockets to the wing struts of their airplanes and aimed them at enemy observation balloons filled with highly inflammable hydrogen. (Reproduced from a painting by Charles Hubbell and presented here courtesy of TRW Inc. and Western Reserve Hisotrical Society, Cleveland, Ohio). |