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(/yoHi Aerial Reconnaissance. [1655] Pray do not allow the Editorial mind to be disturbed by the theories of warfare evolved in the half-penny Press and else where. No great changes in either strategy or tactics will be made in consequence of the modern air reconnaissance. Every invention gives rise to wild theories, but they are soon forgotten. Every competent commander in the past has had a very fair idea of his enemy's dispositions and intentions, for campaigns and battles are rarely decided by accident. The complete command of the air, if it could ever be obtained, would give its side little more advantage than Stonewall Jackson's cavalry gave him in the Shenandoah Valley, to take a well-known instance. Perhaps the commonplace leader will be levelled up somewhat as compared with the leader of genius and intuition, whose imaginative faculty was always busy over what was going on " on the other side of the wall," but the difference will probably be slight. Night movements will be more common, and atmospheric conditions will be closely studied, so as to take advantage of storms, fog, and so on, for the movements of troops, but there is nothing new in the latter. Hannibal studied the morning mist before he laid his celebrated ambush at the Trasimene Lake. To talk of mass formations, either in strategy or tactics to day, is misleading—the "far-flung line" (Kipling's, is it not?), if it provides four or five men to the yard, or even much less, provides a very serious resi-ting power. It might interest some wiseacres to work out how "Jar-flung" such a line could be wiih some 3i millions of French and 5 millions of Germans in the field .' R.A. (Retired). ® ® ® ® ADRSHBP AMD BALLOON MEWS. A 30.Hour Trip by "L. 1." THE new Naval Zeppelin airship carried out a 30-hour trial trip at the beginning of this week. With Count Zeppelin in com mand she left Friedrichshafen at 8.35 on Sunday morning and did not land until 3.43 p.m. the next day when she came down at Johannisthal, near Berlin. By that time a distance of about a thousand miles had been covered, and she had sailed over Fulda, Emden and Hamburg and cruised over the Baltic. The airship carried twenty-one persons on board and during practically the whole of the time she was in the air was in wireless communication with Cologne and other stations. Disaster with " M. 3." MISFORTUNE again overtook the Gross dirigible, " M. 3," on Thursday week at Tegel. After a trip over the city she had been returned to her shed, and a slight leakage of hydrogen from the envelope was being made good when an explosion occurred. At the time of the accident the airship was being prepared for a voyage to Metz. The Ae.C.F. Balloon Race. THE awards in the Grand Prix balloon race have now been issued by the Aero Club of France. The first prize has been awarded to M. Leon Barthou, the Belgian, M. Demuyter, being awarded second prize, M. Blanchet third prize, and M. Bienaime fourth. ® ® ® ® A Fatality in Italy. WHILE flying from Gallarate, near Milan, on October 7th, a machine piloted by Lieut. Gordesco capsized when at a height of 80 ft. and fell to the ground. The pilot was seriously injured, while his passenger, Signor Piccoli, was killed through the motor falling upon him. Volunteer Airmen for Bulgaria. IT is announced from Sofia that the Bulgarian Government have accepted the offer of their services of five Russian and ten Italian aviators as volunteer airmen. They will all be mounted on French machines, including Farman biplanes and Bl^riot, Deperdussin and Nieuport monoplanes. Sommer Blplines for Bulgaria. SEVERAL Sommer biplanes of a new type, fitted with 70-h.p. Renault engines, have been ordered by the Bulgarian Army. Testing one of them on Sunday, Burri flew from Mourmelon to Mouzan, via Rheiras, Charleville and Sedan, at a speed of 93 k.p.h. The machine carried a load of 400 kilogs., and kept at a height of 1,000 metres. Some Bulgarian officers are being trained by Tetard at Mourmelon. OCTOBER 191 1912. AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN. Official Notices. Meetings.—The first general meeting of the Society for this session will be held early in November, when the recent military trials at Salisbury will be discussed from the military point of view and from that of the constructor. Full particulars will be issued later. Library.—The Council desires to thank Mr. Mervyn O'Gorman for the gift of a copy of his book "Airships and Aeroplanes." BERTRAM G. COOPER, Secretary. ® ® ® ® Oxford Flying Meeting, October 24th. WE understand from Mr. Claude Grahame-White that owing to local difficulties which have arisen, the meeting which was to have been held at Port Meadow, Oxford, on Thursday next, has had to be postponed. An Helicopter at Dresden. A LARGE helicopter machine has been built at Dresden by Otta Baumgurrel, and it is said to have made some very good trial flights, and shown itself capable of remaining poised in the air. The machine has two six-bladed horizontal propellers of about twelve feet diameter, placed one below the other. ® ® ® ® PUBLICATION RECEIVED. The Boys' Book of Model Aeroplanes. By Francis A. Collins. London : Eveleigh Nash. Price 3^. 6d. net. ® ® ® ® IMPORTS AND EXPORTS, 1911-12. AEROPLANES, airships, balloons and parts thereof (not shown separately before 1910):— Imports. Exports. Re-Exportation. 1911. 1912. 1911. 1912. 1911. 1912. £ £ £ £ £ £ January... 1,196 619 1,088 2,412 Nil Nil February 3,129 3,110 1,786 36 Nil Nil March ... 11,327 640 1,027 950 357 600 April ... 2,110 4,820 807 72 4,343 50 May ... 1,707 7.494 2,471 1,350 1,972 154 June ... 3,225 7.928 2,432 419 1,682 300 July ... 9,822 13,794 2,256 5,376 643 967 August ... 2,873 8,559 2,153 1.342 265 2,040 September 1,839 6,575 1,183 2,885 — 1,626 9 months 37,228 53,539 T5,203 14.842 9,262 5,737 ® ® ® ® Aeronautical Patents Published. Applied for In IBM. Published October lytk, IQI2. 20,722. A. SUGDEN. Aeroplanes. 21,360. F. W. LANCHESTER. Alighting mechanism for aeronautical machines. 21,436. J.ANDERSON. Feathering wind-sails or propellers. 21,722. SIR H. S. MAXIM. Bombs for aeroplanes. 22,789. A. VALENTINE. Flying machines. Applied for in 1813. PublisJiedOctober xyth, 1912. 11,594. L- HASTIER. Tails of aeroplanes. 13,180. P. P. CARMICHAEL. Aerial machines. FLIGHT 44, ST. MARTIN'S LANE, LONDON, W.C. 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