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Show Dally Aerial Trips Mndo Across English Channel. "In writing from France Bomo weoks ago, one of the American correspondents cor-respondents gavo a detailed account of how tho British replenish their supply of air craft on tho Somme front by flying new planes across tho channel from factory to field," says tho January Popular Mechanics Magazine. "During favorablo weather wea-ther the trips aro made almost dally a dozen or more machine being driven driv-en Into France, tho pilots returning to England by steamer, after making mak-ing tho dellvory, to repent the routine rou-tine the following day. 'The partl-I partl-I cular flight of which ho writes was I completed In 17 minutes, although ' better tlmo Is made when tho cros- M sing Is undertaken at a .narrower A - point." |