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A Zeppelin Souvenir for Chelmsford. THE military authorities have presented a machine-gun from one of the Zeppelins brought down in Essex to the Chelmsford Corporation Museum. What the U.S. is Doing. SOME further details regarding the plans for an American Flying Corps have been published by the Aircraft Production Board of the Council of National Defence at Washington. Three huge aerodromes are being constructed in the United States. In France a position for the final training camp has been chosen. It is hoped that at least 500 men will be trained by the end of next month, and that in the forthcoming year 6,000 pilots will be turned out. In the smaller aviation camps already existing work is already proceeding vigorously. The Board expects to construct 3,500 machines during the next 12 months. Contracts for some of them are already let. There is a tendency among the general public to expect too much, and the New York World and the Sun, among other papers, are uttering warnings against this attitude. They point "out that when the war-started the American Aviation Corps scarcely existed, and that virtually all the American machines are merely training machines. The Sun says that much planning of facilities, human and mechani-" cal, remains before the great enterprise can be got fairly under •way. A Mid-Air Charge. ONE of the first cases of direct, deliberate ramming of one aircraft by another was seen a few days ago behind the German lines, says Mr. W. Beach Thomas in a despatch, dated June 1st, to the Daily-Mail. A British and a German machine charged each other direct from a considerable distance. The German, who must have been a very stout fellow, kept a perfect bee-line to the very end, apparently seeking mutual destruction. Our pilot turned at the very last moment, and so rammed not the centre, but the right wing of the opposing craft, which he carried away, and the German plane fell in a heap to the ground. The British machine was very badly damaged, but was still just airworthy, and the engines carried it in a wobbling declivity safe into harbour. An Air Raid on Venice. FROM Rome it is reported that on the night of June 2nd enemy aeroplanes coming from the sea flew along the coast towards Venice and dropped bombs in the environs of the city. The damage done was insignificant. Three civilians were injured, including a woman. Italian and French sea- planes went up, and notwithstanding the enemy fire success- fully bombed industrial establishments near Trieste, and military points near Parenzo. All the seaplanes returned to their bases. Attempted Air Raid on Odessa, &c. A PETROGRAD telegram states that four German aero- planes on June 2nd tried to approach Odessa, but were driven off by Russian airmen. Two enemy machines flew over Minsk, but immediately retired owing to the violent fire of the anti-aircraft batteries. A German squadron of aircraft dropped numerous bombs on Tiraspol and its environs. The Raids on Ghent. THE Telegraaf learns from the frontier that the heavy bombing attack on Ghent on May 28th occasioned a regular panic. Explosions began even before the alarm signals were sounded. The Allied air squadron appeared above St. Pierre Station, the junction of the Bruges, Dixmunde, Gourtrai, Oudenarde lines, which was the airmen's objective. The squadron was so heavily bombarded that fragments of shells fell in many parts of the city, causing great alarm among those in the streets. The station was hit and injured. Air- craft from St. Denis Westrem Square, near the station, ascended, a battle ensuing. It is rumoured that some of the most important Army authorities Were in the station, passing through. Swedish Warship and Zeppelin. Ix is reported from Malmo, via Copenhagen, that two Zeppelins appeared at 11 a.m. on June 1st over the Baltic off Ystad. The first turned immediately to the south-west, when the torpedo boat " Pollux " went out. The second came from the east and sailed within the territorial line scarcely two sea miles from the shore. The " Pollux " fired repeatedly at the Zeppelin, which, after some time, went out- side the three-mile limit and steered towards the west. JUNE 7, 1917. German View of Rival Air Services. GENERAL VON HOEPPNER, Commander-in-Chief of the German Air Service, in an interview with a Dutch journalist, d clared, it is reported from Amsterdam, that the German aviators have won the supremacy over their enemies, although ihe British and French on the Western front.were numerically superior. On the Eastern front, however, Germany is rather stronger, while in the Balkans the balance is again in favour of the enemy. The British, he said, showed in air fights that they are of the Germanic race, for they seek fight, and fight until either they or their opponents are killed. German aeroplanes generally are better than those of the enemy, though the new English Sopwith triplanes are excellent. The technical preparedness of the French he described as middling, and that of the British inferior. " While we Germans consider every flight as a military act, for the British flying is but sport, and, when it comes to a fight, good sport. The German is a soldier first. Our German military training cannot be outdone by Britain's three years' war-waging. Every o'ne of our fliers hopes to be a Boelcke, and their comrades' deaths do not frighten them." A Zeppelin Over Holland. A ZEPPELIN was seen in Holland on June 2nd, apparently following the railway line from Hoogezand to Groningen. The frontier guard at Bellingw'olden fired 70 shots at it. Swedish Aviator Attacked by German. FROM Malmo the National Tidende learns that the Swedish aviator, Dr. Thulin, whilst flying over Swedish terri- tory a few days ago, was fired upon from a German aeroplane. When near Landscrona he observed two aeroplanes which he thought were Swedish. He thereupon started his own machine and ascended in order to greet them, but when about 30 yards from one of them a machine-gun was pointed at him, and several shots were fired at him. He Was unarmed, and succeeded in escaping without being wounded. Some pilots who witnessed the incident state that the machine was over Swedish territory. Dr. Thulin has reported the matter to the War Department. H H H H PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. P.-B. ; The Story of His Life. Hertford : The ImperialistPress, Ltd. Price, is. net. Second Annual Report of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Washington, U.S.A. : Government Printing Office. H H H H Aeronautical Patents Published. Applied for In 1915. Published June yth, 1917. 16,788. F. LA ROCHI. Aeroplanes, hydroplanes, &c. Applied for In 1916.The numbers in brackets are those under which the specifications are printed and abridged, &c.Published June 7th, 1917. 5,270. J. AND I. TURNER. Textile fabrics used in aircraft. (106,113.) 5,818. MARTINSYDB, LTD., H. P. MARTIN AND G. H. HANDASYDE. Aero-plane controls. (106,116.) If you require anything pertaining to aviation, study •'FLIGHT'S " Buyers' Guide and Trade Directory, which appears in our advertisement pages each week. FLIGHT. 44, ST. MARTIN'S LANE, LONDON,|W.C. 2.Telegraphic address : Truditur, London. Telephone: i828Gerrard. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 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