Show MARVELOUS FEATS ON FRONTS or OF AVIATION SQUADRONS MANY KABLE nia rs MANY TI PES or 01 flaking MACHINES IN USE LONDON may 29 in a service like the flying corps the standard of values is on a very different plane piano from that of average lay minds writes a british expert aiom the front what is little choit of miraculous to the uninitiated is but a commonplace common toabe to the airman and a pilots achieve abent must be very fine andeer it is regarded with undue inte interest iest by his fel fellows loNs far less by himself this enlarged perspective jus jos extended tho the to a less degree to tha soldiers in the trenches to whom the th antics of an airplane or squadron of airplanes have long since ceased to be a novelty but sometimes an touch of class about the manner in which a pilot handles his machine immediately attracts atti acts the attention of the men belon belo and the hole kiench heie will be filled nith mth eager andl and observant spectators watching matching his en e cry maneuver maneu vei I 1 every plane coming up from the rear is earnestly scanned until its ita identity is established and once it is id known that he is coming coining the soldiers lean back on the fire step and wonder onder N ahat hat new stunt stunt v will ill be introduced for their delectation the pilot in turn stems conscious of what ahat is expected of him and the more aneer fully full takes his dicks among tho the archies archias Ar chies because it provides the tired trench dweller mith a little mild amusement anu I 1 one such plot existed just at ali time when the beimans introduced their much overrated over rated I 1 this ape t pe of machine and the tactics evolved with it certainly scored tin an initial initia success against some british airmen but improved impi oved planes are constantly being brot out and bac each h side has alays in use a certain number of machines inferior to the later enemy planes when the ano types come into conflict the odds ate aie naturally in favor of the beitf r machine supremacy in the air however depends more on the skill and resourcefulness of the pilot than on the quality of thu tho biplanes an wi planes he flies and it is to such resourceful men that the british oc their undeniable supremacy of the air a supremacy often challenged hut but never broken een when for the time the crimans have had the better type of machine then fame of the pilot mentioned vias not confined to uny any particular sector the whole kinf line know of his exploits his name was never mentioned in print at home but out in fiance in every rest camp village and town men chuckled hugely over his doings and were mere greatly cheered thereby here is one of them A british machine aa was engaged on a reconnaissance reco over the german lines shen it was attacked by two rok fok kers the observer saw the first rok ker coming and used his kian bun so well that the german fluttered down to earth sorely damaged I 1 he second fokker however homeer dived right behind the antish machine and so deluged it with nith machine gun fire arc that the pilot had no couise left but to attempt a forced landing the germin quickly quick li le ie covered from his dive and was coming back to finish off his adversary when our pilot dived from behind the |