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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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bservations. But practice, he added, was every-thing. Granted plenty of this, and sharp eyesight,he considered that an aerial observer should makefew mistakes in reporting what he saw when in anaeroplane. A military correspondent of The Times, who wentthrough these manoeuvres in Picardy, and thus hadample opportunity of studying the work of the air-scouts, declared afterwards: In my belief the aero-plane, given a trained pilot, and a skilled observer,must revolutionise the whole service of reconnais-sance. No statement could be more definite. This, as has been said, was the first practicalrevelation of what an air-scout might accompHsh intime of war. France was not slow to profit by thelesson. Without delay, she began to create an efficientaeroplane fleet. If feats such as those recorded in thePicardy manoeuvres could be carried out with a fewaeroplanes, what could not be achieved with highly-organised squadrons of machines? This, in effect,was the question which France asked herself.
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-< 7 -. THIRD SECTION THE GROWING AIR-FLEETS OF FOREIGN NATIONS I Activity in France—Two hundred machines at the end of1911; a thousand promised by the year 1914. Practically all leading nations, with the exceptionof Great Britain, are now equipping themselves, onan adequate scale, with the war aeroplane. At the time of the autumn manoeuvres in 1910,France possessed about a dozen aeroplanes. Butshe soon increased this number, being full ofenthusiasm, and determined upon a strong aerialpolicy. Thus, an official report, which was presented atthe end of 1910, showed that the French authoritieshad increased their fleet of machines, in two or threemonths, from a dozen to thirty-two. The list of theFrench war aeroplanes at this time was, it is interest-ing to note, made up as follows:— Wright biplanesBleriot monoplanes ...H. Farman biplanesM. Farman biplanesBreguet biplanesSommer biplanesAntoinette monoplanes33 5 4 11 42 42 34 THE AEROPLANE IN WAR To pilot these thirty-two aeroplanes

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