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Show Dream of Aerial Army Reality in France Huge Battle Planes and Cruisers Soon to Begin Offensive Movements Move-ments Against Germans Paris, Oct. 8. An aerial army Is no longer a drtam of romance. Such an army, formed In divisions unci squadrons, with battlo aeroplanes, cruisers, scouts and torpedo ptnncK, nil armored heavily and carrying threo Inch cannon and rapid fire guns is a reality. It has been mado possible through tho remarkable development de-velopment in military aviation In Franco. :!.'. Tho French government, today permitted per-mitted the first InsfjcftjtonVJf lta now licet of ncroplunes by correspondents. correspond-ents. Opportunity' wns given to Inspect In-spect tho largo nnd small types of tho new battlo planes, and watch them na they wero maneuvering high In tho nlr, tiring round after round from their threo Inch rifles whllo they soared, looped and darted about. Tho avlotlon field Is n vast cnclo-nuro. cnclo-nuro. Entering tho field n monster bnttlo piano loomed up thirty feet high with a number of plnncs stretching stretch-ing 130 feet ocroBs. Further hack was ranged tho fleet of battlo cruisers cruis-ers and scout planes They wero formed liko n battalion, twenty planes In a row acrosB tho front and ten deep. Their hugo wings mndo a front half a mllo wldo. Huge Machines Heavily Arn-fld Tho battlo piano nnd oil the cruls-ors cruls-ors wero armed heavily. Each carried car-ried both tho threo Inch cannon nnd tho rapid fira gun. I Tho hugo battlo piano wob tho I chief center of attention. Tho engl-1 necr who constructed It oxplnlned tho' dotnlla. Tho officers Bald this wns tho first actual realization of tho ' battlo plane, other nerlol dread-' noughts having proved to bo Impracticable Imprac-ticable This monster files, carrying carry-ing n crow of twelvo men nnd two cannon which throw threo Inch steel projectiles. Threo trial flights havo been mndn demonstrating that It has tho steadiness of on ordinary biplane. Tho hugo croft Ib now teody for tho battlo lino. Tho regular regu-lar crow for fighting will consist of rour men nnd on officer. Tho armored cruiser planes were then .brought oul nijd put' through tests In tho nlr. They aro small i.lr.in.. nf l.lnli tinu'rti- TTnrli nnn In hlplnncs of high powor. Loch ono Ib nrmod with a cannon nnd Is enpuh'o of rising nlraost vertically from tho iiround at a. speed of 'ninety mllen nn iti.u'r Captain Frantz and Operators Operat-ors Mondc'l! nnd Mallard mado biic-eeic'.vo biic-eeic'.vo flights In crulsora, rising off tho Ground nt nn angle of CO do-greos. do-greos. Mallard Most Darlnn Operator Tho steady roar of tho threo Inch rifles continued as tho crulsora circled cir-cled for above. Mallard was tho most dnrlng operator. Do fired tho big gun whllo plunging from sldo tn rldo and dropping rapidly, Imitating Iho maneuvers carried out whllo engaging en-gaging nn enemy. A largo number of thoso battle crulBcrs is now ready. Sovornl of them recently cnrrled out a night bombardment for back of tho Oer-man Oer-man line. During tho Champagne engagement thet-o cruUers hit a Oer-mon Oer-mon balloon which exploded In o moss of flames. Tho battlo plnneB and cruisers ore soon to begin movements in large bquadrons both defensive nnd offensive. offen-sive. They aro to attack tho Herman Her-man llnea of communication particularly particu-larly tho railway Junctions with the object of cutting off supplies and spreading demoralization In tho renr of tho Oermana. Each Bquadron win consist of nine aeroplanes of all types. Including one battlo plane, two battlo crulsorB and bIx scout planes. Tho complement for a squadron will bo upwards 'or fifty officers and men for tho operation opera-tion of tho ncroplnncs and their transportation on lorries, drawn bv automobiles with which each squad ron will bo equipped. Aviators Under Instruction During tho visit of Iho correspondents correspond-ents to tho' nvlatlon school It was learned from tho commandant, Captain Cap-tain Pegout, that about 100 military aviators wero under Instruction. Thle Is only ono of a largo number of tho schools which aro turning out train ed aviators. Captain Pegout said noncommls sionod olllcors nnd soldiers wrco making mak-ing cnpablo operators of fighting machines ma-chines after ono month's Inatructlon In tho aggregate, theso schools are equipping many thousands for the work of the now and torrlblo aorlal warcrnft. Seven American volunteer aviatora took part In aerlul reconnaissance In the battle In Campagno, flvo more American airmen aro scouting on other parts of tho French lino nnd - j jH cloven ore' now In training ;lnfv,on J J aviation school. |