Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-02-11
Era of Flying Machines Is
Made Truly Great By The
Teutons andEnen1ies in War

vas only taken up again after German
armored flying machines had been
captured.
The French also stuck to the mono
plane until they had captured enough
oi the German biplanes to give them
!demonstrative proof that they were
superior for most different kinds Of
work. The French also learned from
the Germans that security at great
height is fallacious. Fragments of
shells reach them even at height Of
$500 yards, while at 1900 yards it is
often more difficult for the gunners to
get the range. The fire at that point is
generally too high.
Again, at the beginning, the French
aviation service used the same type of
machines for all kinds of missions. All
at once they discovered that the Ger
mani machine that made .. raid on
metropolitan center or military point
was not the same as the machine that
regulated the fire of the artillery. The
result Of this was the beginning of a
classification of aircraft with reference
to special adaptibility.
Theer was also at the beginning
marked difference in the tactics en-
ployed by the German and Frech air
men. The former appeared to avoid
contact with the latter, either with a
view of concentrating their efforts up
on other objects than individual COM
bats or with the idea that the encount-
er might not be equal The explana-
ton now given by competent auth
GRITTY is the Germans lost their best
aviators at the very outset of the war.
This fact was disclosed by the note
book of German aviator killed near
Verdun, February 4, this year. AS
early as September IL, 1914, the Ger
mans had lost Furstenair, Neumann,
Dallurg, Beaulieu, Gresch, Jahnow,
Koch, Blutgen ,Heyden and Baurissin
This Is further confirmed by German
aviator, made prisoner, who said that
they had found the greatest difficulty
ia replacing these men killed or cap
tured.
This seems to explain the French
claim that with less efficient material
French aviators accomplished more
tangible results, such as the destruc-
ticn of Zeppelins, and Zeppelin sheds,
and damage to the enemy's field works.
The French army is said to have ample
proofs to this effect in orders of the
day issued from the German general
headquarters, impressihg upon the
officers and men carefully studied ways
Of avoiding dangerous arms of the
French flying corps.
There seems to be more esprit dc
corps among the airmen than in any
other branch of the service and gerate:
mutual courtesy between officers or
tie different armies. The most recent
manifestation if it was the dropping by
Corporal Kandulski, of the German
fyin gcorps, of wreath upon the spot
where he had brought the celebrated
Pegoud to earth, bearing this inscrip-
ton: ITO Pegoud, our enemy, who
died like a hero. Signed his advers
aries"
In September 1914 German pilot
established this precedent by dropping
in the French lines courteous notice
to the effect that Lieutenant Fouret
had been made a prisoner at the camp
Of Chalons. Later on a German avia-
tor dropped behind the French lines a
letter from the pilot Senouque, who
had been captured by the Germans. In
May of last year when Thauron AMI
Blancpain were brought down by the
/ German artillery, a German aviato.
flew over the lines and dropped paper
giving the circumstances and termin-
ating with these words; "Thauron
and Blancpain died the death of the
brave. Military honors were accorded
to them When the we'll known artist
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