THE BALLOON BARRAGE
How London Protects Itself SIGHT to which Londoners will A already be accustomed is the balloons of the balloon barrage fiying at about 2,000 feet over the roofs of the town. The function of the balloon barrage is to keep hostile bombing aeroplanes above a certain height, a result which they achieve by their mere presence in the sky. The menace to the aircraft is constituted by the cables attaching the balloons to their lorries. The individual balloons are not joined to one another in any way. It is difficult to imagine anything nastier for a pilot than to run into an unseen cable when travelling at high speed. A balloon barrage does not, of course, give immunity from the attentions of hostile aircraft. Its effect is to keep them flying high in a position where the high-angle anti-aircraft guns can get at them.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 14, 29 September 1939, Page 23
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