Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1916-11-17
AVIATORS FEAR
FLAMING ONIONS
British Filters Describe PeriIS of
Exploding Shells From De-
Tense Guns.
NOW HAVE THE SUPREMACY
Germans Seldom or Never Fly Over
Allied Lines in France-Machine
Is Hit Eighty Times-Air
Gets in Way.

LondOn.-"It'S all right so long as
you can't see 'em or hear en-" said
Tommy Brennan of the Royal Fly
ing corps, but any man who tells you
he can fly OVER an Archie and get a
flaming onion right ahead of him
without ducking and wishing they
wouldn't come so close or make so
much noise has never been up in an
aeroplane. Take it from me-"
YES" put in Gilray, land every time
you duck your old winger ducks with
you. AS 'Bren' over there says, it
wouldn't be so bad if you couldn't see
and hear 'em. Generally speaking you
don't hear them unless one happens to
break within 30 yards or so of you. It's
when you get down close to them and
look right down at them splitting fire
at you, that you have got to have every
nerve in your body tuned to the
minute
''Tll never forget the first time they
got close to me-" declared Boy" Tylie.
my only thought was that l would
never shoot IA pheasant again. l knew
exactly how bird must feel when a
hunter opens fire."
Machine Hit Eighty Times.
Brennan wore upon his left sleeve
the gold stripe of the wounded. "Gil'
had been on the official list of the
killed in action some weeks ago, but
somehow or other came back TO life.
When Brennan was "hit' and finally
came dovn safely within his lines, it
was founu there were no less than so
perforations in the wings of his ma
chine.
81 was so interested in looking over
their trenches 1 guess l got little too
low" he explained.
There is nothing more interesting in
all London than to sit through long
autumn evening talking to the young
sters of the wonderful aviation service |
Great Britain has built up since the !
war began.
We've got the German now where |
they have to fire blindly or shoot by |
the map" these intrepid men of the |
air will tell you. "Of what use are
their wonderful guns if they don't
know what they are shooting at?
They don't dare send a plane over our
lines. They don't even dare approach.
The minute they show themselves we
have an overwhelming number of ma
chimes to send after them and they
beat it for home again as fast as they
can CO. They can't take photograph
of our new positions. Their batteries
have been driven from the heights and
they can't observe. 1t is a big diff
ference from the first days of the
war"
Assoeiating much with Britain's fly
ing men one will soon learn that an
Archibald" usually called Archie" ,
for short is an anti-aircraft gun. {
The Air Gets in the Way. i
archie barks at you" said Bren- I
han. HE goes 'woof, woofP He isn't
to listen to either. but it's '
when you get down little nearer to L
earth and the machine guns get to d
that you feel you have got (
TO do what you set out to do right f
quickly and get started TO some quiet
ar spot just as fast as the air will get C
,ut of your way and let you through. il
You can't imagine how much that old s.
gets in your way when you p
ire really in hurry. p
when you get on speaking terms II
With machine gun you know that Ii 81
alks with putt, putt, putt The
hand rifle, which often takes
shot at you when you get too close
o the trenches, goes crack, crack. N
rack. Just as every one expects W
lie TO do. fl