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Show WAR AIRPLANE NOW ! FLIES 140 MILES AN HOUR lines. It has been arranged that if they see a large or important movement, move-ment, such as the march of tin army division or a large section of transport, trans-port, they can give a certain signal which will call for help from every gun In that section. t "A third use to which we put our machines is night flying, which is mostly bomb work. The Germans, for some reason or other, do not 11 y ut night. Our bombers travel in squadrons squad-rons of 50 to 100. They start out in thu dead of night and Hy very low. not more than 300 feet up. It is practically prac-tically impossible to hit them and there are few casualties among our men. This night bombing was forced on us hy the fact that the Germans move their troops and stores at night. "The last Important work done at the front is the patrolling. This is ' done by two machines acting together togeth-er and Hying at five or six thousand feet. High above them, soaring and watching, ut about 20,000 feet, are some of the little, fast fighting machines. ma-chines. These we know as 'strafers,' and It is their object to drop onto any German machine that tries to cross over our lines. This patrol work, like all the other regular flying. fly-ing. Is done without regard to weather. weath-er. Pilots have gone up in a 70-mile wind, in snow, sleet and rain. "Phosphorous bomb raids are very popular methods with us for getting rid of the 'sausage' balloons the Germans Ger-mans use for observation. We used to wait for dark days for this work. Then we'd swoop down on the 'sausages,' 'sau-sages,' which were usually tied at between be-tween 5,000 and 6,000 feet. As we'd drive over them we'd pull the lever and let a shower of bombs drop. If It was hit the 'sausage' would burst into flames and then you'd see a lot of Germans drop out of its observation observa-tion car In their parachutes." French and German Speeders Go iluch Faster Than American Amer-ican Machines. THEY BATTLE 25,000 FEET U? Flight Lieutenant Faulkner Gives Interesting In-teresting Account of Fights Between Be-tween Hostile Bird Fleets in the War Zone Along Western West-ern Front. New York. The swift German Vokkcr, less than a year ago king of the uir on the western front, is now obsolete. This was the news brought here by Flight Lieutenant Lloyd Faulkner, of the Lritish army, recently injured in ii ii airplane when shot down near Ypres. In the desperate competition to build the most efficient hawk of the air, the Germans themselves have undoubtedly un-doubtedly improved over the Fokker type, but a new allied airplane has just arried on the front which exceeds ex-ceeds by far anything the world has ever seen, according to the lieutenant's lieuten-ant's story. "The new machine, the name of which may not be mentioned, makes 138 miles an hour," he said. "It is a great surprise and is only arriving on the front now. "The most wonderful feature is its ability to climb. It can ascend straight Op, without banking, and has reached 15,000 feet in seven and a half minutes. "This makes it the ideal machine for Zeppelin work, it can get height quickly enough to catch the dirigible. "Our new machine is the greatest fighting machine in the world and will guarantee that we maintain the supremacy su-premacy In the air." Lieutenant Faulkner received his preliminary training as an aviator in the Wright school nt Dayton, Ohio. He said the machines used in the United States were way behind those possessed by the belligerent nations. "Our battleplanes weigh two and a half tons," he said, "and are driven by two Rolls-Royce motors of 250-horse 250-horse power each. They have twin propellers, and can make more than 100 miles an hour. Other big 'planes have 300-horse power motors driving one propeller. Smaller Machines Faster. "The smaller machines, which carry car-ry only a pilot, are much faster. The Sopwith 'pup' makes 138 miles an hour ; the Nieuport 'bullet' 135 miles ; the Spat 140 miles, but all these are surpassed by the new wonder. "At the front our work is divided into four classes. The first is the reconnoissance, during which we sometimes fly from 100 to 150 miles back of the German trenches. This work is done by regularly organized squadrons, in which the most important impor-tant machine is the one carrying the camera. The reconnoissance unit is composed of five battleplanes and ten or twelve Nieuport scouts or Sopwith 'pups,' little fast machines, carrying only one pilot and a machine gun. The little machines are the destroyers destroy-ers or guards, for the big battleplanes. The big machines each carry at least tw-o men and two guns. "When in flying and working formation, for-mation, the reconnoissance squadron is arranged in this way : The camera cam-era battleplane flies at about 5,500 feet, with a fighting battleplane on either ei-ther side, . flying at about 6,000. To the rear, directly behind each of the fighting battleplanes, are two more battleplanes, flying at 7,000 feet. These five machines fly 100 to 110 miles an hour. The little destroyers with their faster speed fly all about them, always ready to attack an enemy en-emy squadron. "If the little fellows happen to be off on a bit of their own and the battleplane bat-tleplane squadron sees enemy machines ma-chines the pilots fire their alarm pistols pis-tols and call the destroyers, who drive off the enemy, unless he is in much superior force, and then there is" a fight. "Flying at six or seven thousand feet, the observation machines are always al-ways being "archied," which means they are being shot at by every sort of gun, even those firing five-pound shells. Hits by antiaircraft guns are one of the natural risks and we used to bank back and forth, or rlg-zag through the air, so as to throw the gunners off. That does not always work, as I found out when a shell carried away one of my ailerons and I landed In a smash that sent me to the hospital. Fokkors Very Speedy. "While doing this reconnoissance work it Is always necessary to look out for Fokkers. You'll see five or six black spots up twenty to twenty-five twenty-five thousand feet and when they get over you they'll suddenly nose-dive and drop. These Fokkers drive by at a tremendous speed, firing as they go, and then they scuttle for safety. "The second important use for airplanes air-planes is artillery observation work. First Lieutenant Vernon Castle was doing this when I last saw him In the late fall, and had been mentioned in dispatches for his excellent work. Before Be-fore going up, the pilot arranges his signals with his battery. He uses wireless. "Observation pilots also watch ev-ry ev-ry nwvkiuiient behind the enemy's |