Show Big Big- War too Soon for Air Fights 1 iJ Gw 4 Claude Grahame White the for tr aviator tur thinks that If It the great Euro Curo peen pe war hud had t come ome ten years later Inter the r best results from craft in the air would hare bare been secured In a recent article he writes h The great war has las come soon for aviation aviation almost almost too soon Splendid aerial nerla scouting should be done doue vital Information gained both above land jl and sea Aerial duels should be fought Diri Dirigibles which are the Dreadnoughts Q k of the air air- should be attacked by tight fight fightIng t in Ing planes But Rut If It had bad been only ten years jears years hence benle This Is what nhat those r rr F Jf Oc- Oc r will tl think who tia have e studied the vast t. t powers of perfected d air craft when if- if available fn In Jarge numbers large rs f foe t the purposes pur purt poses of ot warIn war In ten teny years ten years ars the th great nations would have had air ah air fleets not tentative aad aed experimental but highly organized and andS S ready to prove to prove In a way that could t F not be gainsaid gainsaid- the gainsaid the value of the flying machine not only as a scout t. t but as a ar r 5 Ja weapon for tor destruction and offense In ten years had the war come then the first battle would have beenK been K f In the air the rival flying fleets contending con c tending for tor that supremacy which would have been all an Important and t would have enabled a subsequent blow by land or sea to be delivered le-delivered delivered with a 1 crushing force torce unhampered either by hy attacks or spying from above But at present presen fighting aircraft are aref f r 5 experimental Armed machines that are ore In existence carry only the lightest fJ 0 of ot guns Numerically the air ah- fleets are I b by no means strong strong not not st strong ong that is isto isto to say for th the ravages of a great cam Germany which has been buildIng build buildT T f Ing Lug war craft craft with th the the- utmost speed r Is reckoned to have about 1000 ma machines map J p chines for active service servie fr |