An Air Special for an Iceberg. A step in the first known systematic attempt of man at destroying icebergs from aircraft is the lifting of 1,000 pound thermate bomb to the underwing of a Coast Guard plane by ground crew airman of the International Ice Patrol force at Argentina, Newfoundland. It is part of a research project of the Ice Patrol force to determine deterioration effects on icebergs from intense heat of bombs. The bomb here is a cluster type enclosing many small thermate bombs, each capable of burning at a temperature of 4,300 degrees Fahrenheit, half the surface temperature of the s
An Air Special for an Iceberg. A step in the first known systematic attempt of man at destroying icebergs from aircraft is the lifting of 1,000 pound thermate bomb to the underwing of a Coast Guard plane by ground crew airman of the International Ice Patrol force at Argentina, Newfoundland. It is part of a research project of the Ice Patrol force to determine deterioration effects on icebergs from intense heat of bombs. The bomb here is a cluster type enclosing many small thermate bombs, each capable of burning at a temperature of 4,300 degrees Fahrenheit, half the surface temperature of the sun. Using a standard operational type Coast Guard UF-2G amphibian plane (ordinarily used for patrol, search and rescue work), Coast Guard Ice Patrol airman dropped twenty cluster bombs of thermate and lesser heat producing petroleum types one at a time on selected icebergs in the foggy Grand Banks of Newfoundland. These destruction tests were made in June, and the height of this year's severe ice season. Never has an iceberg been destroyed other than through its normal course of melting in warm currents and warm air. In tests of previous years on this massive menace to North Atlantic traffic, men tried gunfire and torpedoes from ships and risked the hazards of boarding drifting icebergs to plant explosives. This year the Ice Patrol proved a standard aircraft is capable of successfully dropping bombs on icebergs and encourages this method in future tests.
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