Sometimes it is the battery which interrupts the work with the signal, "Avion ennemi," when the fire instantly ceases until the German aeroplane has disappeared or been driven off.
That meant the American Escadrille was to fly the Nieuport--the best type of avion de chasse--and hence would be a fighting unit.
Last night the captain sent out a request to the military authorities to have our troops advancing in the direction of Saint Quentin report immediately any particulars about avion 2055.
First of all I mount an avion de chasse and am supposed to shoot down Boches or keep them away from over our lines.
It may be a bombardment machine, a regulator of fire, an observer, or an avionde chasse looking for me.
As soon as he had climbed down, those of us who had never before seen this latest type of French avion de chasse, crowded round, examining and admiring with feelings of awe and reverence.
In Avion the enemy had already let loose floods to stop the way to Lens, and by the rain-storm they spread into big swamps.
On the right of Avion another smoke-barrage was discharged, and above it there rose one of the strangest things I have seen in war.
The pilot of an avion de chasse must not concern himself with the ground, which to him is useful only for learning his whereabouts.
Patrols went out every night through the ruins of Avion to try and locate enemy posts and whilst engaged in this work we lost two of our officers, Lieutenant C.
Just to the south of the Village of Avion there is situated a colliery called Fosse 4, with its necessary attendant, a large and ugly slag heap, shaped like a truncated cone.
Triumphant, with his fighting blood aroused to the highest pitch, the young combat pilot, yielding to the now irresistible call of battle, shot toward another avion de chasse which bore the enemy's markings.
Realizing that the biplane, which all now recognized as a Nieuport machine, an avion de chasse, as the French call them, would alight some distance away, the crowd started running over the muddy field toward it.
The Canadians, heartened by successes gained in a few days at a relatively small cost, decided to attack across the open ground sloping upwards to Avion and the village of Leauvette, near the Souchez River.
The Germans made huge craters at all cross roads in Avion and leading towards Lens.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "avion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
