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1914 - 0972.PDF
Germany has not built her Zeppelins for the mere pur pose of allowing them to rot in their sheds. They will certainly attempt to use them, somewhere and somehow. As for the feasibility of an aerial raid, we dealt with the possibilities in last week's issue of FLIGHT. Nothing has transpired since then to alter or modify the opinions then expressed. THE R.N. AIR ® ® ® ® SERVICE RAID ON ZEPPELIN SHEDS. IN the following statement issued by the Secretary of the Admiralty through the official Press Bureau, the story of the raid by the Royal Naval Air Service pilots on the Zeppelin sheds at Diisseldorf is briefly told. Diisseldorf is on the Rhine about 22 miles north of Cologne, and is about 103 miles from Antwerp. It, with Cologne (the headquarters) and Darmstadt, form the bases of Germany's third Airship Battalion. The statement is as follows :— "Yesterday British aeroplanes of the Naval Wing delivered an attack on the Zeppelin sheds at Diisseldorf. "The conditions were rendered very difficult by the misty weather, but Flight Lieutenant C. H. Collet dropped three bombs on the Zeppelin sheds, approaching within four hundred feet. " The extent of the damage done is not known. " Flight Lieutenant Collet's machine was struck by one projectile, but all the machines returned safely to their point of departure. " The importance of this incident lies in the fact that it shows that in the event of further bombs being dropped into Antwerp or other Belgian towns measures of reprisal can certainly be adopted if desired to almost any extent." On page 986 further reference is made to this splendid achievement. Lieut. Collet, RiN.A.S., who took such a prominent part in the air raid on the Zeppelin sheds on Tuesday, will be remembered as doing some notable flying at Brooklands. Above we give a couple of photographs showing him banking steeply on the D.F.W. all-steel Arrow biplane. 972
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