Three French avions cannon (Voisin steel biplanes armed with 37-millimeter quick-firing guns at the bow) fought with German scouting aeroplanes of the Fokker type.
Through the middle of the Isle of Wight, there runs a ridge of hills of indurated chalk.
The diminutive avions de chasse are the merest pinpoints against the great sweep of landscape below and the limitless heavens above.
As the fuel capacity of a Nieuport allows but little more than two hours in the air the avions de chasse were forced to return to their own lines to take on more gasoline, while the bombardment planes continued on into Germany.
The principal task assigned to our "avions de chasse" is to keep the German airmen away from the French lines, and of attacking them when the opportunity offers.
Of course, our own "avions de chasse" are as liable to be attacked by the enemy, and they must in consequence be continually on the "qui vive.
To my surprise, they were not of the model I had seen at Pau and Chartres, but the latest and fastest "avions de chasse.
In chasse, unless you are sent out on a definite mission, protecting photographic machines or avions de bombardement, you are absolutely on your own.
They are at all altitudes, from the lowest artillery réglage machines at a few hundreds of metres, to the highest avions de chasse at six thousand meters and above.
However, being Americans, and recruited for a particular combat corps which flies only single-seater avions de chasse, we eventually followed the usual course of training for such pilots.
It is only in the air, when moving with them, that one can really appreciate the variety and grace of movement of a flock of high-powered avions de chasse.
A cloud of observation avions at low altitude, just in front of the line of tanks, dropping bombs and using machine guns on the trenches.
The operation works out this way: (a) A cloud of fighting avions at high altitude, to clear the air.
As the fuel capacity of a Nieuport allows but little more than two hours in the air the avions de chasse were forced to return to their own lines to take on more gasolene, while the bombardment planes continued on into Germany.
At other times it masquerades proudly under the fine French titles of "Avions de Chasse" or "Avions de Combat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "avions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
