Word: aires
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...constantly being told that America's airplanes will win the war, but this is not literally true," said Professor W. C. Sabine '88, in the course of his lecture on "Aviation and the War" in the New Lecture Hall last night. "Superior air service will make artillery work possible, and superior artillery will make infantry advance easier. It is upon infantry advance, however, that success rests in this as in former wars...
Professor Sabine, who returned last fall from a long visit to the front, explained in detail during the lecture the organization of the Allied air service. He spoke at length of the three types of machines, the scouting, the battle and the bombing planes, describing their construction and utility. He emphasized particularly the importance of the battle-plane in controlling artillery fire, and of the bombing plane in offensive work. In speaking of the latter, he expressed the hope that America would produce bombers who would have sufficient control and training in the use of bombing-sights to obtain better...
Throughout the winter the prolonged cold spell affected even the Southern camps, and flying was somewhat curtailed. Now that the warm weather has come, many more machines are in the air, and necessarily there are more accidents. As time goes on, also, more new planes are put into operation, and therefore much more flying is done. Our mortality statistics, if compared with those of the Royal Flying Corps camps in Texas and elsewhere, are very favorable, and yet these camps are not considered to be carelessly conducted...
...announcement that some American-built battle-planes, equipped with the Liberty Motor, are on the way to Pershing's forces comes at an opportune time, for they are needed immediately. The control of the air over the American lines is evidently not in our hands. When an official bulletin states that large numbers of German planes constantly penetrate behind our lines and yet make no mention of combats with our patrols, it is certain that we have not the requisite command of the air. The lack of planes is the only explanation of these facts, as we have many good...
...subject on which he will speak, for since to summer of 1914 he has been continuously connected with the British War Office. He was commissioner for Lord Kitchener in France until the latter's death. Then he became Lord Curzon's French representative in questions connected with the English air service. Since 1917 he has been Liaison Officer between the War Officer and the Minister of Pensions...