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Flight, March 14, 1918. ENGINEER? r :"T^"' First Aero Weekly in the World. ' ''•''•;'-'•'•"• :';~~ Founder and Editor: STANLEY SPOONER. A Journal devoted to the Interest*, Practice, and Progress of Aerial Locomotion and Transport. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. Na. 481. (No. 11, Vol. X.) MARCH 14, 1918. rwaekly. Price ad.L Post Pr*e, 4d. :. Fllgjlfct. sufficient American troops to redress the balance and The Airmaft Engineer. have been brought into. line. As to guns, there is Editorial office: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, w.c. 2. very little need for disquiet. With all the manu- T«iegramj: Trudhur, westctnt, London. Telephone: Genard 1828. facturing resources of the Allies, and their ready Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free. access to the world's raw materials, the superiority united Kingdom ... ISs. zd. Abroad K«. od. of munitionment certainly ought to be maintained, _.. . , „ CONTENTS. though at the same time we shall have to put our Editorial Comment: • PAGE . * • • . i , 1 r •. • •• ir,i r-> Aerial supremacy and Production 273 backs into the task of keeping ahead of the Germans. The shipbuilding impasse 274 It is only necessary to mention, in order that tooRank in the A«-Force a75 much importance may not be attached to Germany's Good Work at the Front 6 .. j i. _. xx'ij-1-xi.i. 1 JThe Fokker THpiane 277 alleged shortage of material, that she has already Honours 281 imported since the beginning of the year enoughTh. Royal Aer. club. Official Notices 283 Swedish iron ore to fill her requirements for 1918. , The Roll of Honour 283 . , ,•• r .-, • •, • j j. 1"X" Aircraft Raids 4 As to the supremacy of the air, it is good to know in the Hands of the Enemy 284 that at last we have attained a position which justifiesAn Aibatros Fighting Biplane 5 the military authorities in the pronouncement that' Airisms from the Four Winds .. _ 288 11 j r -. -i . .1 ^irThreeMeninaFMngBoat. By D. w. Thorburn 2 QI we are really definitely superior to the enemy. We international Aircraft standards 292 have been long enough getting there, and the task conditions of service in the Air Force 293 has been a difficult one—but it has been surmounted Je^TtandFutU"G™^ 22997 successfully, and we ought before long to begin to' The British Air Services \ .. .. !! 298 see the fruits of our efforts. But there is a warning sidewinds ... .. ... «99 which it is necessary to utter. The simple fact Legal intelligence 300 that we have passed the Germans in our rate of con- Index and Title Page for Vol. IX. " struction must not lead us into a mood of false The 8-page Indeffor Vol K of « FLIGHT" (January secunty- NJW that ™ are oa top we must stram to December, 1917) is now ready, and can be obtained every nerve to ensure that we stay there. We know from the Publishers, 36, Great Queen Street, Kingaway, *er?eIman" are, ta^ng ^advantage of everyW.C.I. Price 8rf. per copy, post free. faculty they have for the production of aircraft. They 2_ are doing very well, too, and at the best it will be "PfllTaTi^ I /k ¥ f*r\lkAikjfW?1*JT some months more before we have attained to the ***^* * UKIAL CONN£NTi absolute supremacy in the air which is the goal on " Mewspapen u« an MMatUl part of our wmr orraniaation.-— which we have set our eyes—and that even with the (Sir AuMand Geddcs, Minister of National Service.) assistance of America. We do not know the exact ROM an authoritative source it is formula of supremacy set by the authorities, but learnt that the position on the whether it is a superiority of two or three or four Western Front is that the Allies machines to the enemy's one does not affect the argu- j have a slight superiority in rifles, ment that what we have to strive for now is, not to I a fair margin over the enemy in keep up our production figures to what they are now, r guns, and are greatly superior in but to increase them and to increase them yet again, the air. So far as concerns the As we said in writing on this same subject in a recent first, the balance will, there is little issue of " FLIGHT," there is only one ideal to which doubt, be turned slightly against us as soon as the we can work, and that is the absolute maximum of Germans have concluded the withdrawal of the possible production. Nothing less than that will do, divisions now doing nothing in the if we are, as so many people think—and with reason— Aerial East and have conveyed them to the figuratively to win or lose the war in the air. aimaCy t>attle-fronts of the West. That means Every week that passes strengthens our conviction Production. we shall be outnumbered to some small that it is in the air that we shall have to seek the extent in the early fighting of 1918, ultimate decision. It really appears that modern war though there is every probability that the enemy's on land has reached such a stage of perfection in defence advantage will only be a transient one, lasting until that, given anything like equality in numbers and in ' - . G
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