Spy basket
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The spy gondola, spy basket, observation car or sub-cloud car is a crewed vessel that an airship hiding in cloud cover could lower several hundred metres to a point below the clouds in order to incons
Observatory car drawing from a December 1916 Scientific American cover
Jaray fish-shaped spy gondola while crewed
An aeroplane photographed this spy basket in operation hanging from the American USS Macon in 1934-09-27.
A spy basket preserved at the Imperial War Museum, which fell from the LZ 90 on 2 to 3 September 1916
Hell's Angels (film)
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Hell's Angels is a 1930 American pre-Code independent epic war film directed and produced by Howard Hughes, with dialogue directed by James Whale. Written by Harry Behn and Howard Estabrook and starri
Spy basket
…It was found along with 1500 metres of cable. The winch was jettisoned near Bury St. Edmunds. The spy basket's use is dramatized in the 1930 film Hell's Angels and in the long-running British comic Charley's War (1979–1986). In both stories, ruthless German airship commanders order the jettisoning of their…
Theatrical release poster
Jean Harlow and Ben Lyon in Hell's Angels
Roy Wilson flying an S.E.5A (front) and Frank Clarke flying a Fokker D.VII (back) in Hell's Angels.