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Identifier: aeroplaneinwar00grah (find matches)
Title: The aeroplane in war
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Grahame-White, Claude, 1879- Harper, Harry, b.1880
Subjects: Airplanes Aeronautics, Military
Publisher: Toronto : Bell and Cockburn
Contributing Library: ASC - York University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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that is bosom of our pain,That breathes on the besieged brain,I And murmurs mercy of the rainLeave us the air! Hither and thither are we tossed.Speed have we gained, but at the costOf faded calm and firmness lost.Leave us tlie air! Whateer the silly crowd enjoys,Our progress is but stench and noise;We scream and shout and grasp buttoysLeave us the air! The earth is blackened from our eyes,And Filled with dismal hoots and Spare to profane the holier skies.Leave us the air! —Stephen Phillips. War Aeroplanes7?/3 j Announced That 1,X0 Russian OnesWill be Delivered Within Three \Years. LONDON, Nov. 21.—It is announcedhere that 1,000 Russian war aeroplaneswill be delivered within three years.It is believed a large number of thesewill be Curtiss machines, of whichRussian already possesses twenty-five. The War Office is much impressedbv the performance of the Curtiss Sea-plane, and four of them have beenpurchased for use in connection withthe new wireless stations on the coastof Siberia.
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CLAUDE grah.\.ml:-\\ IllTi:. Winner of the Gordon-Bennett Aviation Cup, u)io; aiitiior of Tlie Storyof the Aeroplane ; and joint autlior, with Harry Harper, of The Aero-plane : Past, Present, and Future, Heroes of the Air, and The Aero-plane in War. THE AEROPLANEIN WAR BY CLAUDE GRAHAME-WHITE AND HARRY HARPER AUTHORS OF THE AEROPLANE: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE TORONTOBELL AND COCKBURN Digitized by tine Internet Arciiive in 2009 witii funding from Ontario Council of University Libraries www.archive.org/details/aeroplaneinwarOOgrah PREFACE Although it is still a crude machine—in view ofthe perfected apparatus which is the aim of thoughtfuldesigners—the aeroplane has demonstrated, in aconclusive wav, its value as an instrument of war. In peace manoeuvres in France and Germany, andunder actual war conditions in TripoH, scoutingmachines have proved their ability to pierce mosteffectually what is known as the fog of war. Air-scouts have, indeed, revealed the dispositions of anene

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  • bookyear:1912
  • bookdecade:1910
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Grahame_White__Claude__1879_
  • bookauthor:Harper__Harry__b_1880
  • booksubject:Airplanes
  • booksubject:Aeronautics__Military
  • bookpublisher:Toronto___Bell_and_Cockburn
  • bookcontributor:ASC___York_University_Libraries
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