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JANUARY 20, 1916. "AIRCRAFT IN WARFARE." [/DIE] The R.A.F. type S.E. 4 single-seat reconnaissance machine, one of the Illustrations From Mr. F. W. Lanchester's new work, " Aircraft in Warfare." SELECTING the above title, Mr. F. W. Lanchester, the eminent engineer and scientist, has had reprinted by Messrs. Constable and Co. a series of articles from his pen which originally appeared in Engineering. The author has added a couple of chapters so as to bring his views up to date, with no doubt the more recent happen ings in aviation and lessons learnt from the war in his mind. The book is a highly valuable contribution to the science of aviation, and being couched in non technical language almost throughout, is well within the understanding of the veriest tyro interested in aero dynamics. Not the least interesting addition to the previously printed chapters is an introductory pre face by Major-General Sir David Henderson, K.C.B., the indefatigable and capable Director - General of Military Aeronautics. General Henderson is distinctly candid and caustic in his comments upon the self- appointed "aeronautical expert," who is so frequently bobbing up under various guises, and in the most unexpected quarters. General Henderson, as a highly practical man, holds strong views of his responsibilities, and even records in the preface his difference of opinion with some of the author's contentions ; which all makes for efficiency, and is, therefore, the more welcome at the present stage of development of air conquest. Mr. Lanchester in his two new chapters has a good deal to say about air raids and the value of numbers; the strategic employment of air power; unsolved questions of national defence; radius of action and power of aggression; inter-dependence of naval and air defence ; aeronautical development being a national resposibility, and concludes by advocating that immediate measures should be taken. The book is published at 12s. 6d. net, and we shall hope to return to its subject shortly. Two pictures of R.A.F. machines which Mr. Lanchester, who is a member of the Advisory Committee for Aero nautics, gives prominence to are reproduced on this page. The R.A.F. S.E.4 single-seat reconnaissance machine, illustrated in Mr. F. W. Lanchester's new work, "Aircraft in Warfare." Three-quarter view from the back. 6l
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