At first the aim of the enemy's artillery was not very good, but speedily theiraeroplanes came circling over the trenches, and by throwing down smoky bombs revealed their whereabouts.
While the columns were on the march German aeroplanes frequently flew over them.
German aeroplanes flew over the place and dropped bombs, which killed many of the inhabitants and fired their houses.
On 7th August a swarm of aeroplanesflew across the border near Suwalki,[35] and soon afterwards General Rennenkampf's army set foot on German soil.
Maybe one of their aeroplanes has seen us and spotted us for the artillery," he said.
Yes, sir, there were some aeroplanes over about an hour ago and they dropped some bombs in there," said the Tommy indicating a street just back of the cathedral.
He signaled that the tanks were coming, but they mooed as they moved and the aeroplanes of which he spoke in dots and dashes cawed most distinctly.
They didn't shell us very hard; they didn't try any raids or any gas and the aeroplanes let us alone.
In the lulls between fire could be heard the drone of aeroplanes for a number of officers were flying to learn the principles of aerial observation in its uses for fire control.
From the top of Souville it was possible to see gun flashes and to spy, now and again, aeroplanes which darted back and forth all day, but not a soldier of either side was to be seen through the strongest glasses.
French and American flags floated above the guns and aeroplanes and minenwerfers.
At that siege, as the history of warfare will tell, bombs were for the first time dropped from aeroplanes upon troops and buildings beneath.
It is pleasant to reflect that the French aeroplanes came, nevertheless, and did no little damage to Ferdinand’s capital.
Toward evening several Italian aeroplanes flew low and performed tricks over our heads, upon which the outpost began to fire.
Day was about to dawn and from all the aviation camps aeroplanes rose in uninterrupted flight directed towards the front.
It must have been attacked by one of our aeroplanes but this time it escaped too easily.
And now what would happen; now that four of our aeroplanes would be against twelve of theirs?
Our aeroplanes would come by day and photograph our signals.
Several aeroplanes were then sent to photograph the regions selected by us, and in the enlarged photographs the brook was plainly visible.
The signals indicating "Troops are being moved towards the plain" was placed on the ground and at two o'clock our aeroplanes came to take photographs.
I had not even noticed that our aeroplanes had not come to fetch me as they had promised.
Also, in connection with the attack of advancing troops, aerial bombs dropped from aeroplanes may be used with effect, especially in disentrenching an enemy.
Aeroplanes capable of carrying at least a dozen soldiers each, with the arms and equipment of a raider's outfit, can now be built.
We must fortify our shores, police our seas with armor-clads, and be prepared to patrol the skies with aeroplanes around our entire national horizon when the need may come.
Aeroplanes have been used, however, as scouts, merely to detect a submarine and direct surface ships to the attack; also, aeroplanes have directed trawlers to a submarine lying submerged at a shallow depth.
It is probably due to this cause that we are now forced to go to France for plans of our aeroplanes and their driving machinery to enable us to compete with the Germans' machines.
For defense of coast lines aeroplanes and submarines may work in conjunction.
In that way the submarines can be kept in constant touch with the country's scouting fleet of high-speed surface vessels or aeroplanes and immediately be notified of the approach of an enemy's fleet or ship.
In deep water the submarine may readily escape detection by aeroplanes by sinking below the depth to which vision can penetrate.
Now we are dreaming of making such a journey in ten days and our aeroplanes are flying at a rate of speed that would take one around the world in eight days.
The personal bravery shown by the young officer was exceptional, as each of the enemy aeroplanes carried machines-guns, a pilot and observer.
They sent up captive balloons to watch for her and aeroplanes observers hovered over the spot.
All engines used in aeroplanes are of the internal combustion type, made purposely for aerial flight, and are as strong and as light as it is possible to make them.
Now, children, I have told you all about aeroplanes that I intended, though I may take up the subject again, when I try to explain the recognized theory of flight, and the making and flying of kites.
I have heard it said that aeroplanes are hard to manage, difficult to drive, and extremely dangerous.
Aeroplanes they knew, but the huge mechanical bird astonished them.
The Hun aviators for the most part contented themselves by merely patrolling behind their lines on swift Fokkers, swooping down upon the equally daring but under-powered aeroplanes employed by the British for observation purposes.
Far beneath them a squadron of British aeroplanes was actively engaged, for the British guns were strafing the Huns with terrible violence.
Aeroplanes hovering over the fronts of the columns direct movements by signalling.
The War Office announces that a flotilla of armored aeroplanes provided with machine guns has been organized to attack the German aeroplanes that fly over Paris.
But the distance was too great, and the two German aeroplanes vanished shortly before seven in a northerly direction.
Well, I'd hate to think that any maker of aeroplanes could descend that low as to want to steal ideas from any one," Frank answered.
His name is Frank Bird, and he knows more about aeroplanes in a minute than the rest of us do in a year.
Only for that how would the aeroplanes ever get started?
While I'm ready to meet him in any reasonable test, to prove which of our aeroplanes is the better, I don't want to act like a crazy aviator.
And how pitiful to think of those two little aeroplanes isolated so far away from any shelter.
Once the aeroplanes had soared aloft, their flight could be watched without trouble.
It would be only natural that he should; for if the aeroplanes were ever caught in the sweep of the furious tornado they would be as straws, to be toppled over and over to the ground far below.
To imagine that tanks and aeroplanes can ever take the place of infantry and cavalry is to do these marvellous tools themselves a disservice by expecting of them more than they can perform.
One company of such men arrived at their appointed camp, and the next day there was a fight with enemy aeroplanes overhead.
That is one of the aeroplanes owned by the secret police.
It was a delicate operation, and Tom had not had much experience in that sort of thing, for his other airships and aeroplanes worked on an entirely different principle.
We had, of course, a few aeroplanes at that time, but they were used chiefly as a sort of accessory cavalry for scouting; our artillery was light and our shell almost wholly shrapnel.
The fifth and last combatant Arm is the modern substitute for cavalry; and that also is essentially a force of aeroplanes supported by automobiles.
I counted nine aeroplanes and twenty-six kite balloons in the air at the same time.
An ideal modern pursuit would be an advance of guns, automobiles full of infantry, motor cyclists and cyclists, behind a high screen of observation aeroplanes and a low screen of bombing and fighting aeroplanes.
I did not feel it wonderful even when I saw the British aeroplanes lording it in the air over Martinpuich, and not a German to be seen.
These aeroplanes were in constant action; they fought, they were shot down, they had their share of accidents.
The aeroplanes and great guns have bolted with them, the tanks begotten of naval and civilian wits, shove them to victory in spite of themselves.
Thirdly comes the artillery, the guns and the photographic aeroplanesworking with the guns.
The British aeroplanes do not simply fight the Germans out of the sky; they also make themselves an abominable nuisance by bombing the enemy trenches.
Few people realize how much aeroplanes figure in this war, for war would be much different without them.
The enemy’s aeroplanes have their iron cross painted on the underside of their wings and are more hawkish-looking than ours.
I wonder if I told you that aeroplanesare all the time flying over our camp.
The “Archies” are used so much to keep the aeroplanes up, and next to the loss of his boots the officer in charge was worried by the fact that the enemy would send an aeroplane over to see what they had hit.
During the time that the King was on the parade ground in company with Lord Kitchener, two aeroplanes kept guard in the sky.
It is not only engaged in the manufacture of machines, and the development of aeroplanes for specific duties, but also carries out the inspection and testing of machines built by private firms.
As the policy of standardisation in the construction of aeroplanes was adopted the radius of action of each type became established.
Upon the outbreak of hostilities the French possessed an enormous number and variety of aeroplanes and this aerial fleet had been brought to a high standard of organisation.
Looking round, they observed three French aeroplanes soaring around and above them at high speed.
The decoy glider is generally accompanied by one or two aeroplanes under control, which keep under the cover of the clouds until the hostile aviators have been drawn into the air, when they swoop down to the attack.
This weeding-out process is being continued and there is no doubt that by the time the war is concluded the number of approved types of aeroplanes of military value will have been reduced to a score or less.
Up to the present the offensive armament of aeroplanes has been confined to light machine guns such as the Hotchkiss, Berthier, Schwartlose, and Maxim weapons.
Hostile airmen lie in wait, and a fleet ofaeroplanes is kept ready for instant service.
It appears that the French airmen have found a use for the aeroplanes which are considered unsafe for further use.
So far as the British Army is concerned a complete code is in operation for communicating between aeroplanes and the ground at night.
British manufacture may be divided into two broad classes--the production of aeroplanes and of waterplanes respectively.
But it is averred that this statement is purposely misleading, inasmuch as during the first fortnight of the campaign it was producing over 50 aeroplanes per week.
A well-organised Government manufactory for the production of aeroplanes and other aircraft necessities had been established, while the private manufacturers had completed preparations for wholesale production.
In modernaeroplanes it is that angle of incidence possessed by the surface when the axis of the propeller is horizontal.
I am a product of those two factors, and at the speeds at which Aeroplanes fly to-day, and at the altitudes and consequent density of air they at present experience, I increase at about the Square of the Speed.
In modernaeroplanes this tendency is not sufficiently important to bother about, except in the matter of spiral descents (see section headed "Spinning").
Unfortunately, where aeroplanes designed for fighting are concerned, the altitude where most of the work is done is that at which both maximum velocity and maximum margin of lift for power are required.
As a rule aeroplanes are designed to have at low altitude a slight margin of lift when the propeller thrust is horizontal.
Aeroplanes have 'just growed' like Topsy, and they consequently contain this and many another relic of early day design when Aeroplanes were more or less thrown together and anything was good enough that could get off the ground.
Aeroplanes have, in the past, been built with a stabilizing surface in front of the main surface instead of at the rear of it.
That is the way Aeroplanes speak to those who love them and understand them.
In the case of aeroplanes fitted with engines of the rotary type, the "flying position" is some special attitude laid down in the aeroplane's specifications, and great care should be taken to secure accuracy.
Illustration] Aeroplanes are, then, designed, or should be, so that the centre of gravity is slightly forward of centre of lift.
Therefore, all aeroplanes are designed as a compromise between Climb and Velocity.
All aeroplanes are, or should be, designed to assume their correct gliding angle when the power and thrust is cut off.
They were the only witnesses of the trial flight, and as the aged inventor saw his son's latest design in aeroplanes circling in the air he gave a cheer of delight.
Not that the sight of aeroplanes in flight were any novelty to him, but to see one flying over his house in the dead of night was a little out of the ordinary.
There'll be bigger and better aeroplanes in that meet than you can make, and you'll never win the prize.
That was a part of his monoplane of which Tom was justly proud, for though many aeroplanes to-day are equipped with the sending device, few can receive wireless messages in mid-air.
During these months Potter worked not only on the designs for his aeroplane engine, but upon collecting and preserving information of general importance to the manufacturing of complete aeroplanes in enormous quantities.
If the fire comes we've got to have aeroplanes to put it out.
I'm going to be the man in the United States who knows more about aeroplanes and how to build them than anybody else.
I can almost see it--hundreds and thousands of aeroplanes with their noses pointed toward Berlin, and nothing on God's footstool to stop them.
No matter where the talk started, aeroplanes seized it and flew away with it.
He thought and dreamed aeroplanes before because he loved the work, because he saw the value of the work, and because he believed enthusiastically that his country required the work of him.
Do you know that an army without aeroplanesis like a blind man in a duel with a man who sees?
Where would we get twenty thousand aeroplanes if they were necessary suddenly?
Supposing," said the major, "that we should need this twenty-five thousand aeroplanesnext year.
Aeroplanes were no longer contraptions which one went to the country fair to watch performing tricks.
He preached a religion, and the creed of it was, "By aeroplanes alone shall ye be saved.
A barrage of American aeroplanes behind the German lines--imagine that!
I have also under consideration, but have come to no conclusion, the employment through a committee of those best fitted for obtaining the manufacture of aeroplanes for the Government the proper amount of spruce wood which seems to be needed.
Equally striking results have been attained in the production of machine guns, aeroplanes motor bodies, and the other war supplies, for which demand and replacement have necessarily grown with the demand for guns and shells.
Before many days are past we shall need all and more aeroplanes than we have," he said.
I have been in Amerique buying and shipping aeroplanes to France from one of your manufacturers.
It was bombarded once by Zeppelins, seventy-seven times by aeroplanes and four times by warships.
Aeroplanes had to be instituted and prizes offered for them by a newspaper, and ammunition wasn't provided till a newspaper took up the matter.
In my dream I stood by the other people in the yard looking at the war in the air, and watching the circling aeroplanes and the bursts of smoke.
Five aeroplanes were overhead--Allies' and German--and there was a good deal of firing.
One sees one car in the endless stream moving slowly (most of them fly with their officers sitting upright, or with aeroplanes on long carriages), and one knows by the pace that more wounded are coming.
The wind howls, the sea roars, and aeroplanes fly overhead, but at least we have our fire and are at home.
These aeroplanes are quite beautiful in design, and fly with amazing rapidity.
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