New York Times 100 years ago today, February 5, 1913:
French Invention Said to Make Them Capsize, However High Up.
PARIS, Feb. 4.— An apparatus has been devised which, if all that is claimed for it is substantiated, may have an important bearing on the aeroplane as an engine of war.
Gen. Hirschauer of the Flying Corps has received a communication from the inventor of the apparatus, Dr. Cousin, a scientist, who has recently been experimenting with, his device with Jules Vedrines, the aviator. He informs Gen Hirschauer that the apparatus, which is small and simple and can be carried in a soldier's knapsack, by provoking disturbances of the air will cause any type of aeroplane to capsize, even if it has ascended to a height of more than 9,000 feet.
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