At first the enemy's aëroplanes came out to meet ours, but a few encounters with our men soon convinced them of the futility of this.
The two aëroplanes then started to have a little scout of their own, and doubtless those daring air pilots picked up more or less information that would prove of value to the defenders of the trenches.
They've got some sort of gun aboard, and mean to try and riddle the aëroplanes with it!
In this war they say aëroplanes and dirigibles are going to play great stunts.
Tubby, "and one of the aëroplanes seems to be further up, too!
Then that machine must have been one of the Taube aëroplanes they told us about?
Illustration: In the supports, waiting to advance] Besides your aëroplanes cannot inform your commanders of the size of the force they are going up against or much of the manner of its arrangement.
Reinforcements had come to us till our numbers stood at forty thousand, but with the reinforcements also came aëroplanes which later “spotted” for us the information that the Turks on the tops of the ridges outnumbered us by many thousands.
There was a dearth of men in the British air service at the time competent for an observer’s duty, scarcely more than half enough to man the hundreds of aëroplanes that were being turned out under forced pressure.
Before it was possible to produce a power-driven aëroplane, experiments over a long course of years were made with aëroplanes not provided with propelling apparatus.
In the making of aëroplanes wood is usually used for the framework.
He became at last one of the most influential shareholders in the company that owned the London flying stages to which the aëroplanes came from all parts of the world.
The weather was kind to them, the seat was sunlit and warm, and overhead the shining aëroplanes went and came.
And through the air a dozen little private aëroplanes sailed down towards the city.
When aëroplanes came over bombing, the dynamos used to stop for they supplied light to other places besides the cinema, and the shade of Charlie Chaplin would fade away.
But the men would wait till the aëroplanes had gone and that famous figure came waddling back to the screen.
In a neighboring wood a troop of cavalry were encamped and numerous automobiles and motor-cycles were parked, all hidden from distant outlooks or from aëroplanes overhead.
British aëroplanes have made reconnoissances at an altitude of only one hundred yards.
With our glasses we could see the German aviator looking down at us, and could distinguish on the under side of each wing the black Maltese cross which all German aëroplanes carry as "uniform.
If such a movement were performed at night, the presence of the division in a new spot would almost certainly be detected by the aëroplanes in the morning.
I have no knowledge of aëroplanes being used at night, although they sometimes return from daylight operations after night has fallen and make their landing with the assistance of beacons.
Aëroplanes have proved to be almost invulnerable in war.
There seems to be no difficulty encountered in avoiding aëroplanes already in the air, since they are usually visible at great distances.
The Austrian system of signaling is by means of evolutions of the aëroplanes themselves.
The French and German armies use aëroplanes and cavalry patrols as their principal means of reconnoissance; the latter scout in parties of from six to fifteen men commanded by an officer.
On the other hand, the Taubes likewise have escaped unwrecked, in spite of the fact that enough ammunition has been expended against them to have smashed all the aëroplanes in the world.
If your own aëroplanes are on the ground it takes them entirely too long to get to his altitude, and if he wishes to stay in the same neighborhood he himself keeps going higher as your aëroplanes mount toward him.
Anti-aircraft guns are mounted upon its various stages to protect it against aëroplanes and Zeppelins, and heavy barbed-wire entanglements are to be built all around it.
In the field, the principal targets aimed at by the aëroplanes are supply and ammunition convoys.
I have never seen any German aëroplanes other than monoplanes; these I have seen on ten or more occasions.
On all sides of Paris speedy aëroplanes and daring aviators hold themselves ready to dash upon any enemy who may approach by way of the air and, if necessary, fall with him to mutual destruction.
While arrangements were being made to visit the batteries, Lieutenant Puaux explained to me a method they had established at that point for measuring the altitude of hostile aëroplanes for the guns.
And there are German aëroplanes overhead all the time.
There were as usual aëroplanes overhead, clouds of shrapnel smoke, and not far away the thunder of cannonading.
It was necessary then to explain the various methods by which aëroplanes signal, giving ranges and locations.
At nine-thirty, when the aëroplanes had been overhead for three-quarters of an hour, there came a period of silence.
The mention of German aëroplanes reminded one of the officers of an experience he had had just behind the firing line.
No bombarding disturbed the heavy atmosphere; no aëroplanes were overhead.
A few more shell holes in the street, many more little crosses in the field near the poplar trees, more Allied aëroplanes in the air--that was all that was changed.
There is always danger, for there are German aëroplanes even in remote places.
Aëronautics) Defn: A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.
Many aëroplanes have no fuselage, properly so called.
She cut out all the pictures of aëroplanes from the Seaton Graphic, and pinned them up in her cubicle.
Nevertheless the incident is illuminating, and the official statement of the Navy Department closed with the words: "This incident emphasizes the need of hydroaëroplanes for naval scouting purposes.
It came in the shape of a telegram from headquarters, announcing that the trials at Fort Myer had been indefinitely postponed, and that, therefore, another of the Traquair aëroplanes would not be needed.
The government," laughed Cameron, "is buying these Traquair aëroplanes in spite of their limitations.
With the canvas covers of the aëroplanes Roy managed to fix up quite a comfortable bed on a pile of hay left in a sort of loft over the abandoned stable.
A short time after the blaze had been declared "out" the aëroplanes once more soared aloft, and the auto chugged off in the direction of Meadville.
As the boys' aëroplanes struck the earth not far from the bank of the pond toward which Peggy was at that moment valiantly struggling, the two young aviators leaped out and set out at a run to the rescue.
The aëroplanes were then trundled on their landing wheels into this shelter and the doors closed.
They dashed at top speed back to the spot where the aëroplanes had been left, and summoned Jake.
But either the other members of the band were far off, or else they did not care to attempt an assault, for the party reached the aëroplanes without further incident or molestation.
Jake had been told off to guard the livery stable and the aëroplanes while the rest remained with Miss Prescott, who was seriously agitated at the accumulation of troubles her party had met with since setting out.
Outside the grounds several of the frugal individuals who desired to see the flights without paying admission also watched as the quintette of strange aëroplanes dropped to earth.
At the starting line three of the Kelly aëroplanes were gathered ready for the signal for the start of the altitude flight.
Evidently the sight of the aëroplanes bewildered and amazed them.
In the distance, as the flock of aëroplanes arose, the sheep man waved his hat and shouted his adieus.
From dots in the sky no bigger than shoe buttons they speedily became manifest as two aëroplanes aquiver with speed.
They were half way there when Jimsy recollected that they had left the aëroplanes unguarded.
This machine he selected because, with the exception of the Dart, it was the fastest and lightest of the aëroplanes they had with them.
With a little practice he found he could start the slow match with such precision as to cause the aëroplanes to burst out into flight at any desired altitude.
There is a park of aëroplanes hardly two miles from here, on the road leading to Viviers.
What," exclaimed all the German officers in the tent, "the aëroplanes destroyed?
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