Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-08-22
ALL A|RPLANES TO
Be BOMB CARRIERS
That Glass of Aircraft Found
to Give Greatest. Serv-
Ice to Armies.

With the American Army in England.
(by mail.)-Alfaost every airplare USED
by the allies soon will carry bombs
Experts in aerial warfare are convinced
that the general efficiency of the corps
will be increased if a bombing device IS
added to every plane sent out eNeR
though it be OF the type once intended
only for rccognizance work, AID Amer
a n nov training IN England are be-
ing as carefully drilled In bombing as
il handling q machine Gnc.
Lessons learned during the resistance
offered IN the recent offensive have
served tc increase she already high
regard % both British Il American
officers in the Air service TO, the .ow-
flying, bomb -carryin. craft. and. over
the camps and countryside where AVA
tors are being trained, planes are In
evidence limos every hour. dipping
down from high in the air and SKIM
ming the nearby country, barely miss
ing treetops and ouses. 1t IS the
newer lessons they are earning. and
observers back from the front wslere
the allied planes did such remarkable
work not only In scoutin. and distract
ing the enemy but actually in breaking
up formations inc at po.i.ts checking
the onward movement have u.Ged ION.
.%centration on that form OF training.
British trainers, detailed to American
aviation campo. have bven iibera: n
their praise of the new f.ia.ts from
overseas. their only criticism being that
the Americans are "a DIT too reen.
Their tendency has been TO go II for
flying stunts rather too early in an
ing but ever this, the trainers have
admitted is n valuable fault, although
n not to be encouraged.
1t has been pointed out TO the Amer
leans that team work as we'll as in
dividual efficiency is a prime requisite
n the Americans have steadied them
selves to the routine their trainers
have found makes for general advances
ment If not for individual applause.
Fancy flying. the acrobatic work that
once foundf favor and drew heavy rate
receipts at aerial exhibitions in the
United States. still is taught but the
learning OF that form of flying ais"
has come to be regarded merely as
routine and wholly incident to the
steady, low flying desirable for attack
ing camps and troops in formation.
Accidents have occurred III the camps
where the Americans are being trained
and Il few men have been killed blu,
the records show that the percentage
is far less in England than in tho
United States. Those in training her,
are inclined to attribute the disrerence
more to luck than to anything else. AL
though there also is pointed out tao
probability that the average airpiane
used in England is a better made ma
chine han the average that has bean
used in the United States.
The bombing devices being attached
to virtually every plane is not the
c~ontrivance that vas used in the earlier
days of the war. That used then was
little more than a mechanism thai re-
leased the projectile, allowing it to fall
at a point approximately near the tar
get. The device now being used is
with which the operator may with
much practice become almost as pro-
ficiant in craftsmanship as an artil-
leryman is with his gun. Almost every
light plane will carry bombs of at leas.
25 pounds and from the heavier types
there Will be hurled the huge conlain-
ers of high explosive not materially
different from those used by the Ger
mans in some of the more recent raids.