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Fligr". June "» 19I5- -y V!± «rf 'JX First Aero Weekly in the World. Founder and Editor: STANLEY SPOONER. A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice, and Progre»a of Aerial Locomotion and Transport. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. Mo. 337. (No. 24, Vol. TO.)] JUNE II, 1915. rR*f litand at tha G.P.0.1 rWeekly, Price 80. L as a Ntwqapv. J L Post FrM, 8W- FligKt. Editorial Office; 44. ST. MARTIN'S LANE, LONDON, W.C. Telegrams: Truditnr, Westrand, London. Telephone: Gerrard 1828. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free. United Kingdom ... 151. ad. Abroad 101. 0.;'. CONTENTS. Editorial Comment: The Zeppelin Antidote t Fact not Fiction The Record " V.C." Damage by Aircraft and National Reliei The Roll of Honour Aircraft Work at the Front. Official Information The British Air Services Royal Aero Club. Official Notices From the British Flying Grounds Thinning the Zeppelin Fleet Eddies. By".iEolus" "Aeromnia" Flying at Hendon The Screw Propeller. By F. W. Lanchester, M.Inst.C.E. Aircraft and the War Models. Edited by V. E. Johnson, M.A Imports and Exports, 1914-1915 PACK • 407 . 407 . 408 . 408 ,. 410 .. 41a .. 4" ,. 414 .. 414 .. 4>6 .. 417 .. 419 .. 4" .. 43a .. 423 .. 4*5 .. 4»6 EDITORIAL COMMENT. For years past the Zeppelin airships have _ The.. been a fetish in Germany wherewith to Anudote! Plav uPon the feelings and pockets of the people for various ends, according to the immediate pressing need of the moment. Even now, besides submarines, the airfleet of our enemy is the one saviour of the German nation in this world's struggle, to which they still cling as barnacles to a ship. This is easily accounted for, as little of the real truth is allowed to transpire through the German Press, the public being fed up upon the awful destruction already to the credit of the Zep. fleet, and the abject cellar-inhabitating terror which, as a consequence, has seized upon the small remainder of the British nation still in existence in these islands. As to the destruction of the various aircraft within our know ledge, this is so wrapped round with explanations that most of the totally destroyed units are, no doubt, still in existence in the minds of the general popu lation. As to mention of the British antidote, in the persons of our aeroplane flying officers, it is hardly to be expected that too much is made of the achievements of this splendid band of men. Their latest exploits, however, will be difficult to hush up. No possible fairy-tale can smother the unexampled work in the early hours of last Monday morning of Flight Sub-Lieut. R. A. J. Warneford, V.C., when he bombed a Zeppelin over Ghent, and after the re markable experience in the air, as set forth in the official communication elsewhere in this issue, regained the British lines unharmed. Equally will it be impossible to minimise the splendid attack on the airship sheds at Evere about the same time by Flight Lieuts. J. P. Wilson, R.N., and J. S. Mills, R.N., of which the official details are also recorded elsewhere. The moral effect and shock of these combined attacks must necessarily be very great, whilst the reduction of at least two of the units of the German air fleet is of considerable material importance, there being little doubt but that there was at least one if not two airships in the shed which these latter officers so successfully set fire to. It has, by the feat of Flight Sub-Lieut. Warneford, been demonstrated, as we have always held would be the case, that given daylight in which to operate, the results of contests between properly equipped aeroplanes and diri gibles, with reasonable luck, is a forgone conclusion in favour of the heavier than air machine. That the same opinion holds good in Zeppelin circles needs no argu ment to convince. All attacks hitherto have been made during the hours of darkness. The question of proper equipment, is one to be decided by experience only. Such bombs as are carried should certainly have good penetrating power at the point of impact, so that there is no chance of a well-launched missile proving harmless by reason of its shooting away off its objective. In the previous raid recently, when our officers made it hot for the gasbag visitor, there is good evidence of bombs having been accurately thrown, and one of the airships struck, but apparently the anticipated sequence did not materialise. Hence our query as to the mechanical penetrating power of bombs as at present in use. The performance itself of Lieut. Warne ford has in it the substance for an ultra sensational novel, which would but a few years ago have been treated with con temptuous scorn by the discerning reviewer. In this connection The Times agree that— Fact not Fiction.
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