FlightGlobal.com
Home
Premium
Archive
Video
Images
Forum
Atlas
Blogs
Jobs
Shop
RSS
Email Newsletters
You are in:
Home
Aviation History
1918
1918 - 1329.PDF
JSOVtMBER 21, 1918 H H H S H B E \ " Prisoners of War."—A batch of AlUed aero- planes captured by the Germans. In the foreground is a Hand ley- Page bomber. 0 13 H E H H E E E SI 'E E B E E E H E B E E E E E a E E E C. C. Wakefield and Co., and used by them recently as anadvertisement, and also the one created by the Grahame- White Co. A race between these two would surely provesensational ! Perhaps their respective ideas may not be so far from actual developments as we may at present think,and in the case of the Wakefield Trans-Atlantic Ship it is a remarkable fact that something beating a strong resemblancein its general outline is already in existence, although built in great secrecy, and, needless to add, not in any way re-sponsible for their design, which was purely fanciful. IN Germany, with the mark at about 6d., Iron Crosses ata halfpenny apiece, aeroplanes at ^5, and Zeppelins offered at £12 and no bidders, war trophies and the economic situationappear to be in for a little bit of a slump. IF true, wonder what on earth prompted Dutch aviatorsto offer last week a banquet of honour to Mr. William Hohen- zollern, the Skipper (over the Dutch frontier). Goop old Jules Verne (whom you used to pore over behindthe lid of your desk, or carefully camouflaged beneath the Algebra) produced a " new shudder " when he evolved the" Voyage to the Moon," but an officer of the United States Air Service, Capt. R. W. Schroeder (assisted by an oxygentank), runs him close. The gallant pilot managed to ascend five and a half miles from the earth's surface, and returnedintact. At the inconsiderable altitude of five miles he began to feel sleepy, and the sun above him grew dim. He couldhardly hear his motor running, and he felt hungry. In a dreamy way, it occurred to him that it must be getting IN AN AEROPLANE OVER THE BAVARIAN ALPS—The Munich hostel on the summit (2,963 metres) I33O
Sign up to
Flight Digital Magazine
Flight Print Magazine
Airline Business Magazine
E-newsletters
RSS
Events
