It is true that an enemy aerodrome was in the neighborhood but there was no trace of hostile pilots.
It was particularly difficult to find us because our aerodrome was not situated on an important highway or near water or a railway, by which one can be guided during one's flight at night.
They had landed not far from our aerodrome and had been made prisoners.
My favorable landing place outside of our aerodrome was the Buchow Estate where I was well known.
I was at the aerodrome of Metz and intended to return to my own quarters.
An English squadron had broken through and was being attacked above our aerodrome by some of our own reconnoitering aeroplanes.
The aerodrome did not have any device for keeping it on an even keel, such as the ailerons we know to-day, or the wing-warping system of the Wright machine.
The aerodrome also lacked the wheels now used on aeroplanes for starting and alighting, and even the skids that were used on the first Wright machines.
Within an hour they had breakfasted and were out on the aerodrome watching the machines being wheeled out, by the aid of the hand-lamps and electric torches.
A sound of footsteps upon the soft turf of the aerodrome was heard, and voices carried lightly down the soft morning air.
And so, after nearly six hours of a trying ordeal, "B" Flight returns safely to the shelter of the aerodrome behind the British lines.
That evening the dinner party which was held in the officers' mess at the aerodrome near Contalmaison, was less joyous and boisterous than the breakfast held there that same morning.
But a friend of mine has just recently returned from France, and has been appointed Commanding Officer of the --th Squadron, with its aerodrome about fifteen miles away from here.
It was well that they did so, for at that very moment Himmelman, with half a squadron of fast Fokkers, was leaving his own aerodrome but ten miles distant, having received information of the raiders' presence.
On the morning of October 10th we made our first flight, rising from the aerodrome in Druid Hill Park and speeding to the northeast, skirting the shores of Chesapeake Bay.
Shots were fired at us from the aerodrome of the League Island Navy Yard; so we flew on, searching for a safer landing place.
Well, there was certainly an aerodrome not far from one of the two places of death; but somehow, nobody believed that the Flying Corps harbored a homicidal maniac.
On the same night nearly one and a half tons of bombs were dropped on a German aerodrome near Metz, good bursts being observed in the hangars and hutments.
One German machine was encountered close to theaerodrome and brought down.
Three hundred bombs were dropped on an aerodrome southeast of Le Cateau used by the German night bombing squadrons.
Four tons of bombs were dropped on a large German aerodrome midway between Tournai and Mons, and on billets in the neighborhood of Douai.
In the boys' aerodrome they were hard at work putting the finishing touches on the Golden Eagle and adjusting the lever.
I can tell you my proposition and be back at the aerodrome by the time they return.
But the gayety did not extend inside the boys' aerodrome where, in fact, dismay reigned.
Billy Barnes, it had been settled, was to wait at the aerodromein order to save weight.
It was not long before, under the friendly administrations of the boys, Old Eben Joyce opened his eyes on a cot in their aerodrome and gave a long sigh.
You will see the colors of La Belle France floating over my aerodrome after the race," was the rejoinder.
After a little more talk the elder Chesters drove off, as the boys had decided to sleep in their aerodrome that night, on the two camp cots they had provided for such emergencies.
Not I," responded the machinist, as he slipped into the aerodrome and was soon wrapped in slumber as profound as if the thought of committing a treacherous act had never entered his mind.
By then the groups of friends and visitors had melted back to the rear into the misty regions where lay the small French village that had sheltered them together with the aerodrome itself.
The Lewis gun was the one then most in use at this aerodrome station, which was somewhere on that section near where the British and French sectors meet.
For, be it known, that fatal blue flare from the aerodrome a dozen or more miles away had filled those trenches yet more full of human cannon fodder.
Even the rest of the men at the aerodrome did not appear.
He knew the way, and though it was yet hardly midnight, he divined the safest way for him to make the familiar aerodrome was to get there as soon as possible, regardless of consequences.
When they reached the gravelly levels near the hangars, two of the largest biplanes in the aerodrome were already drawn up ready.
Dizzily, he managed mechanically to turn the plane towards where he knew the broad aerodrome was situated.
This last query was instantly replied to from below by the private sign denoting that the parties below were of such and such squad or escadrille quartered at Aerodrome No.
This from Sergeant Blaine as he jumped from his bunk in the aerodrome dormitory the following morning just as the dawn was breaking.
Then the three started on the way to aerodrome headquarters.
A few hundred yards further back, on the edge of a French village that now quartered a brigade of our Sammies, was the new aerodrome where (quite a number of Uncle Sam's new aviators were on duty, day and night.
After the evening meal was over, they cunningly tried to persuade him to go with them down to the aerodrome to see if anything had occurred there.
Not far off was a huge 'camouflaged' aerodrome and a village of hangars.
How it was to be worked he didn't see until an odd sort of American bombing machine fell, between an aerodrome it had attempted to destroy, and Herter's hospital.
A German aviator thinking he is near home circles downward on an overcast day toward a British aerodrome to find out his mistake too late, and steps out of his machine to be asked by his captors if he won't come in and have tea.
On Monday morning at the appointed hour I was walking past a soldierly line of planes flanking an aerodrome field scattered with others that had just alighted or were about to rise and inquiring my way to the "Ferry-Pilot's" office.
I need never have visited an aerodrome on the Somme to know whether Briton and Frenchman or German was master of the air.
My enemy," he wrote, "there is nobody in the whole of the Roullens aerodrome whom I do not detest with a detestation beside which my hatred for you seems as maudlin adoration.
My friend Épinard of the Roullens Aerodrome will act for me.
Professor Langley hired a houseboat on the Potomac River, and on the top of it built an apparatus from which the aerodrome could be launched into space at high velocity.
Professor Langley's aerodrome has told a very different tale, affording another instance of the truth of the saying that an ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory.
The pleasure aerodrome will take the place of the yacht and motor-car, affording grand opportunities for the mountaineer and explorer (if the latter could find anything new to explore).
The aerodrome officials, assuming that the car was for me, hustled me into it and it was driven off.
It was so large that a Bristol Bullet land scout was fitted on the top plane, which, while the boat was in the air, was successfully launched and flown back to an aerodrome by Flight Lieutenant Day, of the seaplane carrier Vindex.
The endurance data were prepared from tests carried out in the aerodrome and from cross-country trials accomplished under ideal or fair-weather conditions.
Curiously enough the projectile was perfected within gunshot of the British aerodrome of Hendon and is stated to have been offered to the British Government at the time, and to have met with a chilling reception.
A goat that wanders around the aerodromerisking life a dozen times daily from aeroplanes getting off and landing.
Tucked away in a corner of an unused Flanders roadway, a long straggled line of irregular shaped huts and sheds surrounding a wide open meadow land, several acres in extent, is the aerodrome I have in mind.
The first story concerns a well-known aerodrome somewhere in Flanders.
As I stood there on the dreary, wind-swept aerodrome in the chilly rays of the early morning sun, forebodings filled my mind.
The writer remembers well the case of an airman fog-bound last winter at an aerodrome near London.
Lionel Eastwell grew intensely interested in the new invention which everybody at the aerodrome was discussing.
After my own experiences I was careful to examine and to fly her machine several times around the aerodrome before I would allow her to go up.
True," I remarked, as I watched Teddy spring out of his bus, and make his way across the aerodrome in our direction.
Yet by night, if there be no mark in the aerodrome telling the pilot the direction of the wind, he has to take chances and risk it.
A lot of people were about the aerodrome that afternoon, and Teddy went off to test his engine, while Roseye, drawing on her thick gloves, mounted into her machine which her mechanic had brought out for her.
Lionel had returned from the North, but was gone to France in connexion with some trials of a new French monoplane at the aerodrome at St Valery-en-Caux.
We stood watching Eastwell as he banked first on one side, then on the other, until at last he made a graceful tour of the aerodrome and, swooping down suddenly, landed quite close to us.
It is rumoured that they will be willing to buy them back from the purchasers at an enhanced price in order to equip a new aerodrome in the same locality.
A morning paper reports that the Government is now offering for sale all machinery, fixtures and fittings installed in a certain large aerodrome in Hampshire.
A monoplane that flew very well at camp of Casteau Aerodromeduring May--October.
Special naval aerodrome for hydro-avions ordered for Golodai Island, near Petersburg, bringing total of military and naval aerodromes to 6.
The Hendon Aerodromewas acquired, and a factory established, which has grown continually ever since.
There was one, for instance, that made a landing on a German aviation field and after firing a few rounds at the aerodrome flew away again.
We also visited an English aerodrome which was not far from our headquarters.
The aerodrome beside it has been very furiously attacked during the last two days with considerable damage.
On another aerodrome just south of the village we found the Acting Commanding Officer of the Irish, also suffering from the same lack of instructions as ourselves.
From the neighbourhood of Ronchin we proceeded to Hallemes, where we settled down on a German aerodrome for a good halt for dinner.
A beautiful Sabbath stillness, a gentle calm hung over the aerodrome until the machines were run out and the engines began to tune up.
Dusk was just beginning to fall on anaerodrome in the British lines when the big black machines were rolled out of the hangars and lined up in a long row on the grass.
He circled over the aerodrome until he had attained an altitude of six or seven thousand feet, then steered towards the German lines, still rising steadily.
At the moment when this brief bombardment opened, Burton made his ascent from the aerodrome behind the British lines.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aerodrome" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
