My assumption was that such a mechanism would have been used primarily to mark the location of some ground-based feature (like marking a target, but in some civilian capacity). Or perhaps just to torment folks on the ground below on an otherwise slow day
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I recently came across an article from Nov. 1955 Flying magazine which sheds light (pun intended
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http://books.google.com/books?id=FLPKvK ... na&f=false
I doubt the Feds would look kindly upon firing incindiary devices from a civilian aircraft today, but I still think it would be fun to do it once... but only from the ship-mounted method. I cannot imagine keeping the hand-held type described in the article within reach in the cockpit and then firing it out the window at strategic intervals!