AIR PROTECTION
’PLANE-PROOF CURTAIN. ENGLISHMAN’S INVENTION. WIRE TEETH ON PARACHUTES. (United Press Association —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11 a.m.) LONDON, August 7. Referring to a declaration by 1 the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence (Sir Thomas Inskip) in the House of Commons that Britain had found means of killing air raids, the Star suggests that the invention of Harry Grindell-Matthews (the air research worker) has been adopted. The invention consists of an apparatus for firing rockets carrying parachutes, each equipped with numerous strands of milled wire with fretsaw like teeth varying in length from 250 to 1000 feet. . The parachutes can he released at heights up to 30,000. feet and would- form a ’plane-proof curtain, as the sharp wire would cut the wings and entangle propellors. Mr Matthews says that the apparatus is most mobile and can be used from any vehicle, from a battleship to a motor-car. The rockets take only a few minutes to fire and will reach 30,000 feet in 25 seconds.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 254, 7 August 1937, Page 7
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166AIR PROTECTION Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 254, 7 August 1937, Page 7
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