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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: aircraft gun stationed upon the ground, or from a hostile
machine. It will be remembered that Flight-Commander Briggs, on
the occasion of the daring British raid upon the Zeppelin sheds
at Friedrichshafen, was brought to the ground by a bullet which
penetrated his fuel tank. Several other vessels, British,
German, French, and Russian alike, have been thrown out of action
in a similar manner, and invariably the craft which has been
disabled suddenly in this way has fallen precipitately to earth
in the fatal headlong dive.
Previous to the outbreak of hostilities there was considerable
divergence of opinion upon this subject. The general opinion was
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