By JOSEPH A, EDITOR SKIERA
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He hauled back on the stick when he got the "cut gun" and floated over the entire gear, finally crashing into the barrier. The principal damage was done by the prop cutting the top barrier wire so that a taut whip end of it came back and broke the spars of the right tip and lower wings, broke the left V-strut, broke two engine cylinders and ripped the fuselage. Also he blew his right tire and broke the tail skag. Fore and aft wires could never have took saved him. The second egg was laid by Ens.
Under the leadership of Rear Adm. Joseph M. Reeves, the air squadrons were based on shore and exercised in gunnery and air tactics under a progressive schedule. This served to develop tactical doctrine and gunnery procedure that later stood the fleet in good stead. S. Navy conceived and developed the dive bomber and its tactics. But as an example of the state of mind of the period, some "seagoing" units anchored in California harbors resented the basing of aircraft units on shore, and even some of the 33 carriers took the atti- tilde that the aircraft were an integral part of their interior organiza- tion, rather than a concentrated force to be serviced Adm.
Of minor crashes we have had twenty-nine. Thirteen of these have been merely broken tail skid or tail skid shoe casting. Seven have been blown tire or broken wheel. Five have been breakage of a landing gear strut, some involving bending or pulhng out spreader tube, one caught aileron horn in wire, one tore wing fabric on a pie, 16 one bent axle on a pie, one pulled spreader out after a bounce. Worst of these have happened in FU's, with weak landing gear and tendency to bounce due to rubber shock absorber.
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