The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1917-03-09

Teutonic and Allied Aviatoeo y I'M -
ina Sham Falls Out 81 coneros-
Work 10 Useful -
Vital.


The announcement that improves
weather conditions permitted increased
aerial activity along the entire frooe
is the laconic and prosaic way N
which the official cOmmuniQue DIS
misses some of the most spectacular
episodes Of the war.
To those who have once witnessed
this Increased aerial activity" sucA.
an announcement cOnjures up at once
a picture of countless airplanes in tho>
air-scouting, fighting. diving. spin
ming, lowering over enemy targets an.
calmly sending wireless signals
through the fountains of enemy 0ros
photographing the enemy lines. bomb
ing his ammunition dumps and sheds.
and supply columns. and otherwise
carrying on" in the sky In a manner
wholly bewildering to the OnlOOker, but
typifying in supreme degree the indlis-
penSable part aviation Is playing In
this war.
Work 10 Useful and Vital.
IN the aggregate the losses in the
flying corps are as nothing compared
with the useful and vital work tie
wings accomplish. Without tha1n
the big guns would have no far-seeing
eyes to correct their shells. With0ue
/ them and the hundreds of phOtOgraph1
1 they daily take the map makers could
/ not trace each detail of the trench Do
SiiionS. Without them the general
staff could not accurately know just
what is going on by day and night be-
hind the enemy lines. Without them
modern Wcr would lose its most faS-
cinaiing phase.
The good flying of single day on
the British front alone may represent
Il day of a hundred fights, a day Of
four-score airplanes in wing to wing
combat a day of a thousand personal
incidents and deeds of daring in the
once strange strata of high. thin air.
Ii might tell, for instance. of how
Lieutenant A in Il fast-flying scout
machine encountered q squadron of IL
German Rolands. The odds We're one
sided enough. but the young Britisher
decided TO take u chance. He climbed
swift: and surely until he got far
1 above and 10 the rear Of the hostile
craft. Evidently the Germans We're in
tent upon some errand which they pro-
: posed 10 carry ont in force. for they
paid no heed 10 the khaki-cl;id airHan
uufil he deliberately dived into them,
{. firing as he came. This threw the
: y into Il panic. and their formation
6 vas entirely broken up Meanwhile
: Lieutenant A. got beneath the near
81 machine and fired an entire drum
! e cartridges into it at yards. The
hostile machine collapsed and
crashed"
After seeing his particular enemy
crash" Lieutenant A drew off to
= link things over. He was somewhat
amazed Ia see still more hostile ma
chimes coming up in formation. But
! he dashed at the leader of the new
corners and Sont him in a spiral nose
dive To Il crash" This led to still
j i4ore complications. and the intrepid
little pilot soon fnund himself engaged
Nth three machines. His fight will
+, le~c WAS indccisiye.
4 For" SAYS the Official record. 'hav
II iu- expended all his ammunition. Lieu
II tenant a set of for home"
a 4 few days later it is related. h,
T took I; running dive into formation
II 20 hostile machines with all tn
-slf-aSsurance an eagle might have II
lie midst Of a flock Of sparrows. BE
fore he was through he had sent tire
y adversari"s crashing"
This time" says the record, ''he r.
of turned to one Of our acrodromes fo
$ more ammunition and returned to tn
y scene Of hatlle. where he engaged an
= dispersed such enemy machines as re
ainod in the vicinity. One was see
- crash upon II hnuSctop."
+ Airmen Shamming Falls.
r. The Germans lately have adopte
"a the ruse of 'stalling" and shammin
: Il fall out Of control 1t is "A thrillin
81 hui not Uncommon thing to see Gel
2 man machine when closely presse
- furn It's tail straight up in the air an
= afNe toward the earth for a di>tanc
~ II 1000 or 1900 feet. and just as I'll
q uninitiatcd onlooler would expect
81 crash. il faittns ont ana starts pc
k tneIl for It's own lius~. one does II.
IN alt.ays ~ AWAY with this lit of aeri;
ut strategy. however IA is shown by II
Record of CAPTAIN b. After attac
- three he~lii" machines he Saw OF
~ theta going down in a spinning no
tse IT. suspected rhe honesty
as that dive ana decided IL do little iii
in IL ION his OWN This dramat
4 downward duel continued for full so
~ feet. until the German was driven in
We spin and seen Ia crash"
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