An Aeroplane of the American Flying Squadron in France

Fighting U-Boatsjrom the Sky By Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary

I or*, rieht. 1917, The Tribune Association
\o submarines found It de-
to ndvoeaUt o oyotom e/ aeronautical
enemy were
Ila August, 19ÍS, Admiral reen, bogan our entrance into nar vcloped that the supposed
submgnnes wer«
patrol,
.
inch the
'i gnicrnnicn', spurred ¡MÍO ac'ion hy from a trial
beginning to eotabhok. Tau ptan woo nrst 'he Aero trip. patrol
announced two motor boats returning
ngainai Germany, is tuoi non- hy Nevertheless the incident is illuminât-
hciorc ">e Rotary Club of Portland. Me., and ,t ua.< taken np promptly of the Navy
Çtub of imtrica and o few farooehty publie men, who organixoé the Narkmal Aerial ing, and the officiai statement
the honorary choir- Department closed with the »ords: "This in¬
Caaai Patrol issioa. Vko-s9room\rni Thomas R. MertkaU ii
idmiral Poary ii rMrstSS. The national Headquarters aretheM Far Washington. cident emphasizes the need of hydro¬
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editor of Kantern aeroplane« for naval scouting purposes."
,', rbarat <?> Secretary Karl Hamilton Smith, former
John Hays
Burra; AmOW§ ill nenher, are Mau ft. Hanley. Henry Woodhouse. The Case of Sperry
Hammond, jr.. Senator Norrio Sheppard. Representadle Julius Kahn, Representa-
.?
Murray Hulbert mid EnutTOOn M'Mtllin, the Sem
e
York banker.] It is also interesting to note what hap-
j pened when lawrence Sperry went out te
AS THE çhastly situation on the other f Mosquito Squadron in the gnnual manoeuvres sea one day last summer in his hydroplane
?«.» brr^rrii- dearer to us it is evi- of the Atlantic fleet, detectedobjects smaller and failed to return. Two sesplanes and
thal submarines are
,v-" '.erman than the latest type of German submarines I three naval destroyers were sr-nt in search
and to our allies than from fifteen to twenty feet below the sur- of him. In forty minutes the sesplanes re-
more dan^crou: to us
face. This unit has since been tsken over turned with the news that they bad located
even their mighty armie-, ami it has also
bodily by the navy, its commander, F. Trubee Sperry floating safely on the water. At the
become plain, even to lay reader«, that air¬ Davison, having been commissioned a lieu¬ j and on the tail are the red, white *-
Painted on the side is the head of the American Redskin. On the wings is the circle and star,in France to distinguish them from
end of the day, after several hours of
craft are Ht this time the quickest and most tenant, junior grade, in the Naval Flying Re- search, the destroyers esme back without
effective means of comba'ing the? Teutonic sc-ve. ¿tnd nine others of the unit have been having seen Sperry at all. blue stripes. All are insignia that have been adopted by the American Flying Squadron
vultures of the sea. made ensigns Those who may still believe that we Amer¬
the French airmen. This photograph was taken at an aviation station behind the lines "Somewhere in France'*
We are rrceivinp ajjrr-eable reports as to A more complete aerial submarine hunt icans cannot build aircraft and that all the
*he efficiency of the American destroyer ?ook plnce on March 26 of this year This exploits we read so much about in the news¬
floti'U now nperatinj- again«-! submarines in was the real thing, because the fliers
were
papers taking place on the other side are the very best possible in»uranee for Amuri- guard our roasts with aircraft just well marine by bombs dropped by German naval
as
handed attack bombed and dtatrojat g
man submarine off Oatend.
f*l
tne North Sea An unknown naval officer, looking for German I'-boats. Inasmuch as being done in foreign aircraft will be sur¬ as they have been able to do. aviators near Gotland.
lives snd goods on the high seas." Lieutenant Viney received the V«t»J
accerdiag to the new-paper« of May SO, calls the Navy Department is still waiting before prised to know that a large number of the
can
On February 5 I had the honor of msking I quote from The Associated Press report
On July 1, 1916. the Auatrian submarine
Cross and Lieutensnt de Sincsy *n »,
fer 'he immediate construction of from I«T establishing its first and only aeronautical big flying boats now in use in the English relative U-11 was destroyed in the Adriatic by a
s recommendation to the President, in from Tans on May 14 to show the
com
the Atlantic seaboard, the honor of seroplsne, «* h ich swooped suddenly ommended for the Legion of Honor fe,**,
to BOO additional American destroyers. base on navy, harbor and coast defence work are Sheppard, of French
Tv al! means let us have this force when Curtlss machines, designed and built in this psny with Senator Morris importance of aeroplanes in submsrine at¬ snd dropped three bombs directly on the ing flown over a Germsn submarina u«,
having conducted the first aerial hunt of Texas; former Senator Johnson, of Main»,
H «tea be miadc ready but it would take at the enemy submarines in American history country by Americans, with American ma¬
tacks: deck of »he submarine The craft was de¬ stroyed it with bombs off the Belpm t,
and Representative Julius Kahn, to the ef¬ "During the last three months French stroyed and the entire crew of twenty-Are November IP. «lill
least two years to ron««ruct, equip and de¬ went to the civilian aviators who are soon terial and American engines. on
liver each a he«\y additional naval tonnage, Great Britain wants all the machines of
fect that 1.000 armed and properly equipped patrol boats have had twelve engagements were lost. Early in 1916 an Austrian gggplgga g
to be a part of the Aerial Reserve Squadron
«hile 200 lighting :«*arlarifs with a full seaplanes would increase our coast protec¬ with submarines, French hydro-a-eroplanes th« French gubmgnne Fo«je«ult in the agg
at Governor's Island and to the civilian In¬ this type that it csn get, and sees no reason
tion fiom 200 to .100 per cent. This recom¬
On July 27, 1915, a German submarine
I structors and aerial reservists connected have fouj*ht th«»m thirteen time«, and there in the Dardanelles waa about to launch a ern Adriatic Lieutensnt « gleteny .»..
«romplemen! of machine guns, bombs, micro- why we cannot do the same thing in pro¬ mendation mad» special reference to the sub¬ have beevi sixteen engagements between
phones and serial camerss, could be put in I with the Army Avistion School at Mineóla, tecting our own Atlantic geabosrd. I quote torpedo at a British transport filled with pilot and the observer ugj T.ieutcaaeti
marine menace and coast patrol. armed merchantmen and submarines." Klinburg After cnpp'.mg the lubaaj,
active Berrica ia the North Sea within si* Long Island. Eleven fliers participated in from C. G Grey, editor of "The London It would also be well to add to each armed troops and smmunition, when British avia¬
months. the hunt, and two of them, Brig-gs and Aeroplane":
Henry Woodhouse, one of the most distin- tor» gave the alarm to the transport, and they then performed ths remsrksb!» f«
merchantman or two properly armed
Arosta. were out three days, landing and I "Curiously enough, these big flying boats
one
guished authorities on aeronautics in the immediately began dropping bombs at the calling another Austrian seaplgng and >,
Morr Kffcctivp than Chasers seaplane» A large merchantman could (Jolted States, in his standard "Textbook on submarine, which had to submerge and es¬ ing the entire French crew, two oin*«*»«,
rising from the surface of the s«s J
at will. originated in America, and, if America is
carry two seaplanes, one on the fore deck Neva! Aeronautics," publiihed by the COB« twenty-seven men. in spite of the fun*
Seaplanes, small dirigibles on the order of The hunt began in the teeth of a gale that seriously perturbed about the fat« of Ameri¬ and ore aft. A smaller merchantman of cape hurriedly, without launching Its tor¬
the «Eaglisb "blimp" type, and kite balloons was blowing forty miles an hour, in addition can shipping and American citizens travel¬
tary Company, has assembled the following pedo a high sea was running st the time
from two to four thousand tong could carry da's on submarine and aeroplane combats: A few weeks ago Sir Edwsrd Csi*SSaVl
have already ahowa themselves to be more to rain and a bad fog Captain A. W. Briggs ling by sea in the vicinity of Europe, it one These seaplane^ could be launched at Bombed Single
Handed Lord of the Britiah Admirglty, offleisllfi
effective in detecting submarines than are and Lieutenant H. F. Wehrle flew 124 miles should not be a difficult matter for America Oa May i. 1916. the German Admiralty ported g great many other incidenti g
intervals, according to proper conditions of engagement between German On August 19, 1915. the Turkish Wir Of¬
submarine chasers or armed liners. in a driving rainstorm. to rig up in a very smsll spsce of time quite wind and wave, and in the danger zone could reported an a
sinking of submgrines with bomba èr*\
Nor only have the British, French, Orman These hawks of the air darted up and a fleet of seaplane carriers suitable for the cut circles round the merchantman, scouting
dirigible gnd several British submarines in fice stated that an Allied submarine had by seaplenes snd the smsl! cosst ft
and Turkish forces destroyed trawlers, patrol down the coast in search of the enemy, often handling of these big seaplanes. If each sea¬ the North Sea The submarines fired on the been sunk in the Dardanelles by a Turkish dirigibles.
for enemy submarine!. What the Europesns bava been doini.
but sue-
heats and transports by aircraft, fcubmanne j dirigible without success, wheress bombs aeroplane
cessful experiment^ in aeroplane
flying as far as eleven miles out to sea. plane ship were armed with guns hsving Is Europe More Capable? from the dirigible sank one submarine. On August 26 the Secretsry of the British including the Turks, we certginly o«j*
The inlets and bays were searched, vessels a range of five to ten miles, and if the gun¬ be able to do, unless we have grown K
haatiaaj have alo been made ia this country. plotted, compass direction and time when lo¬ ners were practised in cooperating with I.'nless we are willing to admit that Kurr« On May II, lill, the German Admiralty' Admirslty snnounced that Squadron Com¬ with easy living and self satisfaction g
In September. 1010, our rirst Aerial Coast aeroplane spotters, such ships ought to be | peins are more capable than we are, we can announced the sinking of a Russian sub- mander Arthur W. Bigsworth in a single- be hopelessly outclassed la modern Bart
cated were given.
Patrol I'nit, in acting as an auxiliary to ths

A New Calendar Adventures of "The Navy-That-Flies" «?

Aeronautical Information
rT*HE Aeronautical Editor of The Neu York Tribute will
¿ngr aeronautics in this column etery Sunday. Be specific
»newer aurstiotu
and gut per]
rtft

John (linton Parker, designed a method for meas-

Philadelphia^ has
An Account of Thrilling Air Exploits in France, as name and address; otherutse questions u-ill not be ansii-ercd.

rering NOM, which proiides thirteen

a
months of tuenty-eight days each, with Chrontcled by "The London Daily Telegraph" S. P.-Count von Zeppelin's first air¬ to 4'* ounces per square yard; it taa
the 3t>ôth day-Christmas-not falling in any month or week, and with ship made its first flight July 2, 1900. hought at less than M ««'nts per yara,i
lum <uch days devoted to Christmatt in leap year. By
this the arrangement Navy-That-Flies had been in France country on some plateau or hillside, with return home at that height. As was to be
The F. A. W.-A machine gun may be fired it will not rip like cotton when it is|
ame day of the ueek has the same date in every
month. time before the army heard very the ceaseless murmur of the guns in their expected, his adventures were by no means
some forated.
through the propeller in two distinct ways.
much about its doings. This was not so ears, each of the squadrons rigged its flag- terminated by this decision. P. E.-Y«?s; one of the most faa
4 I CORDING to the Philadelphia "Eve- the year as it passes around the sun within
much the fault of the as the outcome Staff, and hoisted the white ensign, set up An astonished company of German cav¬ By the first method the gun may be fired military aviation schools m France a
circle of army at any desired moment irrespective of
**. nmg Ledger" there is a new agitator the compass of time. Outside the of the taciturn silence in which the Navy- the gray painted huts, and the ship's hell alry drew rein and peppered him with rifle cated at Pau, where the V» right brett
who time is infinite space. The six wheels may shots he whisked over the top of their the relative position of the propeller. In astonished the world b) their tint M
in the field <>f hydrography-a man
the That-Flies
set to work. It had been bidden that divided the day into ship-watches, as
Dana Window's "1
represent the six working days, and "Alba¬ order to protect the latter from damage flights. Carroll
to observe the traditions of the silent navy, slung their hammocks, and announced that lances. Five minutes later another
also
has devised a brand new scheme for the seventh the day of rest. the- French Flying Co'p'" will gin:
the portions of the blades which come in
calendar. The Philadelphia paper gives In commenting upon his new calendar, and it observed them, forbearing even to they were ready to "cooperate" with any- tross" attacked him. a description of an American's expen¬
this account of the matter: of Boche machines it body or anything. The Army-That-Flies He rocked the machine in giddy sweeps line with the gun are lightly armored and diere.
which he has named "Calabuy," Mr. Parker publish the number
"va ithin the next two weeks John Clinton said : accounted for day by day. But there came laughed at the ship's bell, and the rest of until within fifty yards of his opponent deflect the small percentage of bullets K. G.-The statoscope 1« an ana
, arkcr, a Philadelphias will present to the
"There is one point to whieh I would par¬ a time when its light could no longer be the naval shibboleth, but it took the visi-
and side-looped over him (this, remember, that strike the propeller. The second barometer which indicates any chana
Hydrographie Bureau in Washington a new ticularly like to call attention in the dia- laid under a bushel. "Hullo!" said the tors to its heart. With hands deep in the at 200 feet from the ground), fired a short method consists in gearing the trigger the elevation or rise and fall of an tim
.nethod for the arrangement of time as now «grasa. The working days are axled to the generals and others concerned with the pockets of its "slacks" and pipe in mouth, burst, and drove the Hun off for a moment of the machine gun to the engine or pro-; C. L S.- You will find some trotibk
expressed by the calendar. Simultaneously points of a star, representing our ideals The affairs of the entrenched army, speaking it came over and examined the fighting ma¬ while he regained equilibrium. peller shaft by means of a system of cams being ailmitted to the Aviation Cent
Mr Parker Brill present his method to Con¬ belts, which turn
the working wheels, form
Then once more the enemy swooped upon and levers in such a manner that when a your hearing is noticeably defective
wheel. This themselves, "What about it?" They chines of the Navy-That-Flies and the "doo- cause one of the most thiite1
er« s-men, engineer», engineering
societies a star surrounding the centre mover and among
consulted the Army-That-Flies, and it said things under him. From this point onward
the reader propeller blade is in iine with the gun aviation is a keen senseimportant of hearing;
«sea b' considered as the prime hickies" thereof, the trigger cannot be pulled, thus pre- 1»
and tr twenty-seven foreign governments. governor. had been may be warned against vertigo. The pilot's renting firing until the blade has passed wi«e the aviator would not he able M
Thi«. calendar is to be dedicated to "the "Like the early railway strap-iron tracks,,
Now, the Army-That-Flies con¬ its breath.
own version, the bald official report of the the muzzle, when the trigger is released when his engine is not working prope
-oirfrs of mankind and to men who have the track of progress
has been elongating and fronted in the early days of the war with, The Navy-That-FIiesdid not waste much
from hammering of the
perhaps, the toughest proposition that affair, requires no embellishment or com¬ and the firing continued. It should be, Since the motor is the life of thi a
bein loyal to duty at a great personal sac- curling up in waves was time looking about it. One fire-eater, set-' and the very life of the a vieta
wheels which make friction and war. The ment, though the latter is not easy to sup¬ understood that in both cases the gun is plane
r-.-'-cc." It is planned to have the new chro¬ world needs an invention like the modern ever faced by mortals of even their imper¬ ting off to explore the country some thirty immovably fixed to the aeroplane, sight¬ pends upon the «moothn^ss with «gíchí
press. "These operations." he states,
nology commcrue on Monday, December 24, T rail that will not curl and can be se¬ turbable courage. In numerical inferiority miles behind the German lines, came upon "were ing being accomplished by steering the engine runs, and since hearing if pt*
IH1 curely spiked down to the graded course of to the enemy, it had been called upon to a school of "Quirks." Quirks, it may be repeated several times with a slight machine itself. cally the only way of detecting ttft
I looped over him
Cnder the proposed calendar every year progress. There have been six waves of
maintain a ceaseless photographic recon¬ explained for the benefit of bipeds, are variation in the way W. B.-The usual charge to learn to fly fundamental defects in the eng'ne, you«
frictional disorder in the Christian era. flying against a head wind ). is $1 per minute in air with or without a see how important hearing i« Hoar«
would begin on Monday and end on Sunday. "We are on the crest of the seventh wave, naissance far behind
the enemy's trenches; young Boche aviators in an embryonic
Tsre daVfl are devoted by it to the Christmas with good prospects that a league of nations to spot for the guns of the army along a stage. "When he was about 150 yards behind pilot. There is a minimum and maximum in the physical examination which iii"
him. and charge for the course at each school, which to candidates for admission to the H
fsstival e.ery leap year. According to the will follow. With the track well
the circle of time, progress obvi¬
fastened suddenly extended front ; to 'keep the wind From the convenient ambush of a cloud me. I looped straight over coming
\aries considerably. tion Corps, tests of eye ight. hoannf <
new arrangement a year consist« of rî>i4 days down to
up" the Boche so that for every ten of our out of the loop dived at him and fired a R. H. W.-What r.erves are very vigorous.
ously will be steady and more rapid than he watched their antics for a while as they good long burst. I saw nearly all the bul¬ is a spiral spin?
grouped in Iftj-tws weeks, distributed over ever before. machines that crossed the German lines There is a minimum speed capable of P. G.--(l) Yea; danger ef fire ii «

thirteen month-. The number of days and "Our present method of dividing time, ex¬ barely one of his would dare to cross ours. flopped
about above their aerodrome; and lets go into the pilot's back, just on the an aeroplane in the air which of the most serious danger« t«h> a»*
holding
week« are the «ame in each month. The same pressed by the existing calendars, is not at This is called aerial
all simple. It is quite cumbersome. Their ori¬ supremacy, and they
then, descending like a thunderbolt, he edge of the cockpit.
tumbled three over, scattering the rerrraln-
varies inversely with the spread of the has to -confront. The L'nited
"He immediately dived straight into the wings. When a projection of the vertical specifications require that tire exfirf**!
Staten^
gin and growth are most interesting. The established
anti maintained it with fewer ground. I then went over the German side areas of a seaplane or aeroplane are ers be mounted on a convenient brw
der, and returned to make his report.
Kgyptians were the first to institute a sacred and worse machines than they care to talk The trenches filled with soldiers, and was fired incorrectly proportioned and the areas on all planes and flying boat.-.
calendar, m which every day almost everv about to-day. squadron listened gravely to the on by machine guns, rifles and small field rhead of the centre of are too'
hour had its special religious ceremony. story, and concluded that the Golden Age guns, in or out Ive gods and little fishes) great the machine will gravity (2) The most common tente of fir»!
"Of course, we know all about these tend to pivot due ?> a leak in the gasolene tank M
'

Then there are the Hebrew calendar and the

had dawned. But sterner work lay ahead, of range. There were many shells burst¬ around its nose or tail. This spiral insta¬
Mahometan, Republican, Chinese, Julian and r.aval johnnies," said the Army-That-Flies ; ping on the exhaust, causing ignitrt*'
the German trenches."
Gregonan calendars, the latter being the one "they'd steal gray paint from their dying and a fair sample of it is contained in a ing in and about bility may not be revealed until the en¬ the inflammable liner ««>.er;ng of J
used by us at the present time. It is the re¬ report of another young gentleman who The report concluded with estimates of gine stalls rounding a sharp turn or when wooden framework o( the luseleg* orb*
formed .Julian calendar, introduced by the grandmothers, and they fear nothing
in various hodie« of infantry insufficiently banked on a low rate of in which the
went scouting single handed over the Ger-' the strength of an«l his i bser-**et' a:
bull of Pope Gregory XIII, in 1682, but was the heavens above nor the earth beneath and cavalry, movements of convoys and I speed. The nose then will drop and the seated. Duringpilot aerial fight? bul!«« ?**'
man lines what time the "Gentlemen of
not adopted in England until 170 years later. nor the waters under the earth. They are artillery, noticed during the intervals be-' tail start to swing round, describing a sometimes pénétra te«! the gas tank Si
"When we consider that the world suffered
complaining that things are getting a bit
England" were, if not abed, cracking the tween aerial somersaults. The pilot landed circle larger than that of the nose. The the same result. If fire occur« it» *.*
for 1900 years to gratify the vanity of the first of their breakfast eggs. at the first aerodrome he saw, adding in circles described by the nose and the tail J
Lmperor Augustus, who had the then present dull along the coast. We might altitude the chance of e**< ape btt°n
. .

explanation of such an irregular proceeding will be apparently concentric. Occurring aviator can land is small.
calendar altered so as to give August as many show them a thing or two «if they cared to A Fight Against Odds that his machine was badly shot about. near the ground, a loss of speed is cer¬
days as July, one would have thought that join up with us for a while." "Let's ask K. T.-The leading aeroplane m
been tain to result in a smash-up. If high in facturers
(the Gregorian calendar would have He was attacked by two single-handed factories r.ear v*>«". aa «r

»«lopted at once, a« it was so far an advance them," said the army. So the Navy-That- "Albatross" machines and a Halberstadt Canada's Experience uith the air the machine will come down in a are: The with Standard Aero i onitruf*
m the right direction. Even to this day the Flies was invited to "cooperate with the
Returned Soldiers whirlpool, ».pinning like a match in the
Company. Plainfield, \. J The W
Mechanum nf the H Month (alendar Julian calendar is used by both Russia and Royal Flying Corps on such portions of fighter. Into the engine of the latter he waste of a basin. The machine makes a
Greece, whose dates consequent.y are now THE Conference of Chanties and pivot of the corner of one wing and Eastern. DeKalb Avenue, Brooklyn. I
day of tne week ha.» the «ame éott is >»ry
' thirteen days behind those of other Christian the line where its experience of escort work emptied a tray of cartridges, with the re¬
Corrections, held in Pittsburgh last revolves »bout it. The first turn is very
The New York Aero ( onstructiof)
C«j
month. Christma«, the mmtb day. doe« rot countries. and offensive patrols would prove of the sult that it immediately went spinning week, developed no more interest¬ glow, but the speed ncreases with each pany. High Street, Newark, N- «W
orrie La »iv week or morth It i« made the
"It i« not mv purpose to change
ber of month«, but to add another
the num¬
greatest value." Or words to that effect. oown; to make assurance doubly sure he ing topic than that brought from Canada revolution. The only hope for the aviator The
fired another fifty rounds into the whirling, by Miss Helen R. Y. Reid, director of the is to make the machine dive into the vor¬
L. W. F.. College Point. Leng
Gallaudet Aircraft Corporation
WJJ
keystone day r,f 'he year, "to celebrate the month, making thirteen, each containing Sending of Its Best wreck fell. Women's Patriotic Fund of Canada, who an office in the Marbridge Building.1
.nal triumph sf 'he ChriStSBSfl spirit over twen'y eight dava. That would give a total The Navy-That-Flies accepted the invi¬ as it By this time a veritable tex of the whirlpool. Even then, if the Broadway, and the Aer.manne Plat**'
of 3M day», with Chnatmaa not coming in tation with suppressed exultation, and de¬ hornets' nest appears to have risen about fold a moving story of the pitfalls that, motor is turned on. the planes will fold Motor
rgi»i»m, »Balte sad »»r''
The old Gregorian cal¬ beset the returned soldier and of how like a book. Among accidents to be¬ an Company, of Keyport. N. J«.
Toe emtet Biri Is is 'he calendar represents any week or month of fighters. It his ears. up office in the Times Building.
endar end« on December 22, 1917. Christmas tailed certain squadrons social agencies were organized to assist ginners this, next to faulty landing, is the
tMas d vided ir.'o '*,*>. inv«. tne number« lea« is advanced two days to December 23. The admits having selected picked pilots, be¬ Three more "Albatross" machines, him. most common. «if.
Z -The firat air raid on Enf^J
leeeatiag *n» Sunday«« Three hundred and new calendar begins on December 24. Fach cause there wa* the credit of the old Navy whirred to the attack, and in his subse- Miss Reid told of the changed mental at- A. B. C.-Write to the chief signal offi¬ was made January 19. 1915 nira»*
»ixty-rv» and ¡"UV*, represent the "aeyatone" year end« on the shortest day. which is De- to consider. Karh squadron was intrusted quent report he noted with artistic enjoy- t'tude of the returned soldier from the cer, Brigadier General George 0. Squier, loas of life, including Wednesday'«*
rember 21 or 22 in the old calendar Every trenches, of his new view on life formed by 531 person«.
lay» rrrri.»ry >,, BSSSSitHe the r.rcuit around
month and every year begins on Monday io to the care of a seasoned veteran of fully ment that the head of one pilot precisely the months of regulsr discipline gnd life in Washington, D. C, for blanks to join the'
the SBS f"r regular and leap years The next the new calendar, and the same date of the Aerial Reserve Corps. S. 0.-Eugene Ely was the first »
summers, and of the flight filled the ring of his sight. This eye for the army Often when and
twenty-five R. B.- (1) Linen is used for the cov¬ f-om the deck of a ahip He arcompi'»'
men return ar«
inner «.rcie represen*» the fifty-two weeks. «ame week has the «agme dgte in every month. from the rgnks they gre not physi-
leaders there was one that had even turned detail enabled him to recall the fact that I ischarged of the .. «*H
lally fit to take up the old kind of life, and ering of the wings and the fuselage or this feat from the deck
In short, the Navy-That-Flies he saw three bullets actually strike the rather than learn any new trade they will body of aeroplanes and hydro-aeroplanes. j P.irmingham November 14. Itt*
Th» name» of the original thirteen Amenran This is simplicity personined, and to my mind
Beleaiee era u»*d tr, teaejeamui th» thirteen i« a sensible and logical way to overcome a twenty-one.
problem. was sending of its best; and its worst was pilot's head, with the not surprising result loaf and shirk their responsibility to the It is drawn up taut and covered over with cial platform had been erected
f»*"AJ
«-,'-?' '
'wenty-eight days each The inner complicated "We must not forget that time is the meas¬ family Many man finishing his term of
i rr.r g v.--re thirteen week« in (»rh qu»r- ure of motion not the motion itheif. It ia very good
indeed. They flew away from that the would-be avenger heeled over and a
Hope or varnish According to govern- pur-pose
t«r. Tbt «e'.er'h month 1» the "keystone" th« enveloping circle of our sphere of life, the coast and the sea, and their motor spun
to the ground.
Ml «Ice would rather reenli»t than face the ment
Specification 100*2 the linen must M. P. W. The Curtiss aeroplaM
.«truggle supporting
of hi« family. have per square yard a tensile strength t .ries are located at Buffalo. N V
thought, knowledge and action. It is the transport rumbled through the empty By this time he had been driven down to These aim» problems are going to face this
of seventy pounds with the filling and manufacture aeroplanes and
mor,"
bonton of lif»
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