For it is true, in a number of instances that the German aviators do drop within the allied lines news of any British, French or American birdman who is captured or killed inside the German lines.
These last are the personal records ofaviators in which they note the details of each flight made.
And so the new American aviators received their baptism of fire, and, to their credit, longed for more.
It did not need the wireless news to this effect, which the aviators sent back, to apprise the Allies of what had happened.
It was the first wholly American aircraft camp established since the beginning of the World War, and it was not even yet as wholly American as it was destined to be later, for the aviators were, as regards veterans, largely French and English.
Soon after the great world conflict started, they burned with a desire to fight on the side of freedom, and it was as aviators that they desired to help.
The two aviators had been in Paris before and they knew their way about, as well as being able to speak the language fairly well.
The reason his whereabouts was not mentioned before was that the Germans did not know they had one of the Allied aviators in their midst.
Jack, as he and his chum looked toward the cheering squad of aviators and their assistants.
Two veteran French aces were to be in command, with Tom and Jack as helpers, and some of the American aviators were to go into the battle of the air for the first time.
But it was known they were both daring aviators and good observers, and it was this latter ability on their part which counted in their favor.
Later some other new aviators would report for instruction on the battle front.
The aviators railed at their luck, and Tom and Jack dropped down a bit, hoping to get through the mist.
Oh, so you're the two aviators from the Lafayette Escadrille," commented the commanding officer, or the C.
After their thorough drubbing of the day before, however, the Boche aviators did not seem much inclined to venture forth for another cloud fight.
At three I was back in his office, where five or six young aviators were waiting for their orders as jockeys might wait their turn to take out horses.
I found it, identified by a white-lettered sign on a blackboard, down the main street of temporary buildings occupied by the aviators as quarters.
Even the aviators wanted to be nearer the enemy and were looking for a new park.
Although the constant falling rain made observation difficult the British aviatorscontinued active.
Numbers of American aviators were already abroad undergoing intensive training behind the battle fronts.
During the day French and British aviators were engaged in many successful combats in the air.
The Allies' aviators meanwhile, flying a few hundred feet overhead, were machine-gunning columns on the march and bombarding German batteries.
The arrival in France in the autumn of 1917 of a group of American aviators with American-built airships brought an administration announcement which viewed the event as of signal importance.
Owing to the fine weather the German aviatorswere active.
Over the battle field the British aviators were flying back and forth, dipping down now and again to drop bombs on the German positions.
Squadrons of tanks were active during the advance, while the French aviators distinguished themselves aloft by showering machine-gun bullets upon the German infantry from an altitude of not more than 100 yards.
The reason of the lack of German artillery work is explained in a report of American aviators that the Germans were busy all yesterday afternoon drawing back their guns from the heights north of the river.
French aviators were busy on this date as long as there was visibility.
On golden wings the girl aviators rose for many an exciting flight, and met strange and unexpected experiences.
The Belgian aviators with whom I talked assured me that they feared rifle fire more than bursting shrapnel, as the fire of a regiment, when concentrated even on so elusive an object as an aeroplane, proves far more deadly than shells.
Though the Zeppelin raids proved wholly ineffective, so far as their effect on troops and fortifications were concerned, the German aviators introduced some novel tricks in aerial warfare which were as practical as they were ingenious.
The craft came right out of a fastness in the mountain-side--a place difficult to reach, and which would not seem to attract aviators of the ordinary class.
We revenue agents are extremely anxious to overhaul and interview all aviators along the border.
They would be chased by French aviators as soon as they were sighted.
Where were the French aviators who had sworn to guard Paris from such a raid?
It was beyond a doubt that certain well- known aviators had been seen in Paris restaurants until closing time.
And yet, to the credit of airmen in general, let it be said that the German aviators treat their fellow, prisoners better than the Hun infantrymen do.
The intervening time was occupied by the aviators in getting everything in readiness.
The last slowly flying machine came to a landing finally, and there was a rush on the part of the other aviators to see what had happened.
The Huns seemed to realize that something more than an ordinary attack from the air was impending, for soon after the anti-aircraft guns began firing a swarm of German aviators took the air, and there was no shirking battle this time.
They also found, after being told that their leave was still in effect, that some of the aviators who had gone up the night before, to try to locate the German gun, were on hand.
There were a number of canvas hangars for the aeroplanes, there were living quarters for the men, a wireless station and a well defended camp where the aviators might live in comfort during the periods between their flights.
There go the aviators now, out to try to find the big cannon," observed Jack, as he gazed aloft.
The spinning nose dive was discovered by accident, but is now part of the regular flying features, and is often used by aviators to escape from an enemy.
Tom demanded of one of the aviators on the outskirts of the throng about the messenger.
The French planes were too much for the Germans, and soon drove them back beyond the Hun lines, though perhaps not before the enemy aviators had made the observations desired.
And, as a matter of fact, nearly all the aviators are young.
As aviators they had become accustomed to securing the very latest Government report as to the probabilities ahead, so that by now this had become a habit.
It is uncertain territory, covered with heaths and thick woods, and lends itself poorly to the reconnaissance work of aviators or cavalry patrols.
The force of the impact caused the collapse of both machines, which plunged to earth, both aviators meeting instant death.
Our aviators generally leave their generals' headquarters alone, and they usually do the same by us.
By good fortune one of the aviators in the school was a young American who had been flying with great success in England for a year.
Details of the flight were given in the Yale News, the names and histories of the aviators and the types of machines to fly.
In the insurance business, Abe, czars comes under the same head as aviators with heart trouble, y'understand.
Can you imagine how much money one of them aviators over in the old country ought to draw under such a wage scale?
With this train of thought, Bangs got out his remaining signal flares and flashed one of the code signals most in use among the Allied aviators along this front.
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.
With great care Stanley was placed as comfortably as possible inside the biplane, which the two aviators trundled to the edge of the shell-hole.
Up and down the long, long lineaviators were scrambling into their machines while the sputter and throb of many engines punctured the night air.
After the two aviators hurried the girls, meeting their father, and telling him what was occurring.
Ten seconds later their wheels dropped gently on the gravel at either end of the parade ground two tired looking aviators left their the waiting mechanics and walked soberly to the others.
Deeply depressed, for he was very young and impressionable, Stanley, regardless of his own safety, punched up the fire and from his own and his comrades' kits procured such remedies as aviators carry for just such emergencies.
By these two whisperings aside each girl was conscious of betraying to the other some sign of that deep, sudden interest with which at least two of these dashing young aviators had inspired them.
A heavier man might have toppled over the edge, perhaps hanging helplessly at peril of falling out, unless held by the straps which many old aviators neglect.
Byers was in charge, with Anson and one or two other British aviators detailed to help the new American airmen get into thorough shape and training.
There was a dinner of state that evening, to which not only these three aviators were invited, but also various other French and Americans who had more or less distinguished themselves.
Instead of covering and protecting the Germans, it was slaughtering them even more than the two aviators had done with their machine guns from a lower altitude.
Mounting swiftly, he presently became conscious that a machine was hovering above and behind, "getting on his tail" as the slang runs among aviators at the front.
This from Andra as they climbed the steps to the little platform where the two aviators were scanning the upper air.
With bayonet charges, bugle-calls, andaviators it has nothing in common.
Something in the direction of the mastery of the air already has been gained in pursuance of the principle that the main object of military aviators is the collection of information.
And in their operations in France and Belgium the British army aviators proved themselves highly efficient and earned unstinted praise from Field Marshal Sir John French, in command of the British forces on the continent.
The aviatorsoperating in the early engagements have undoubtedly flown down from Brussels and are in temporary camp at Liege.
Courage and modesty being inseparable, our aviators avoid print and cannot be interviewed with any satisfaction.
By day, aviators came back from flights over enemy positions and gave details of what they had seen.
It was noted that a large proportion of the bombs dropped by German aviators failed to explode.
Another hostile aeroplane was brought down by us, and one of our aviators succeeded in dropping several bombs over the German line, one incendiary bomb falling with considerable effect on a transport park near LaFère.
On October 11 two German aviators dropped a score of bombs on different quarters of Paris, killing three civilians and injuring fourteen others.
Germany's fleet of flying machines has been in action continuously and the aviators have proved a big aid in scouting as well as in dropping bombs and grenades on the enemy.
Flags and banners fluttered from tents and hangars, officials were hurrying to and fro, and some excited and anxious aviators were seeking missing parts which had been shipped to them but which had not arrived.
The queer aviators did not seem disposed to make any further trouble, for presently a stable man appeared with the gate key, saying that the two men were about to leave in their airship.
Yet by zig-zagging and other devices, the aviators are rarely brought down by anti-aircraft guns.
Austria, whenever possible, sent aviators over Venice and other Italian cities to drop bombs, although this warfare upon non-combatant women and children was contrary to international law.
Flanders to Belfort, and their aviators dropped newspapers containing the extraordinary but verified story, into the German trenches and back of the lines.
The only phenomena which the general staffs cannot predetermine are the activities of the aviators and the course of the enemy's shells and bullets.
We found the aviation squadron on a very large field near the top of a gradually sloping bare hill, comfortably installed, the machines in their great hangars, the aviators in their small tents.
It was, he said, absolutely forbidden that any one should go up in army aeroplanes except aviators on military duty.
Some of these had batteries ambushed in them, others were shams to divert the attention of the German aviators and the fire of the German artillery from the real emplacements.
His heroic deeds at the battle of Verdun when he fought with the American aviators in a sea of clouds is a classic that would do credit to the ancient Greeks.
There are undoubtedly a great many aviators listed as dead who are prisoners in Germany.
Motor cars and trucks carry the officers about and the troops of aviators are marching on and off duty—but most wonderful are the machines themselves.
It was a head-on collision, and all three aviators were killed.
It is very hard on some of the conscientious aviators who are anxious to fight.
This is the school where the poor aviators are weeded out.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aviators" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
