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Show Costly Warfare in Air. Surprising conclusions are arrived at by an aviation expert, who has been examining the airplane losses on the western front in the last six months.. "If we allow 20 machines wrecked to each one enemy . destroyed," de-stroyed," he says, "we see at what' a huge cost this war in the air is being be-ing conducted. The average cost of an airplane is roughly about 1,000, so that at this rate the British loss in material has been approximately approxi-mately over 4.000 machines in six months, costing 4,000,000; the French very nearly the same, while the Germans must have lost 13,320 machines, ma-chines, with a total value of about 13.320,000. It may be that the German Ger-man loss is not quite so great as we have made out, because there appears to be less tictual flying done by German Ger-man pilots In proportion to their strength." |