MILITARY AVIATION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1083, 23 March 1911, Page 5

MILITARY AVIATION.

( M. PAULHAN'S NEW MACHINE. ■ By Telegraph—Pre6s Association—Oopyrieht Paris, March 21. M. Paulhan's new military aeroplane is made of steel throughout. It -has undergone a successful trial. Aeroplanes are not "sufficiently reliable" to justify the British Army raising an Air Corps (writes the "Daily Mail"). During tho coming summer experiments will be made with various machines, and perhaps after that something may be done. But in tho meantime what are other armies doing? ' Everyone who reads a newspaper must have been struck. by the : frcquency of (lights by ■ French officers. The reason for this is that the French War Office has decided to encourage officers to learn to fly. As soon as they obtain their pilot's certi'iicates they have aeroplanes allotted to them by tho Government. They are permitted to use these whenover it is possible, and at every military centre an aviation ground is being laid out. At one camp the Army has over forty machines in use. Very soon it will have a hundred altogether. Thirty havo lately been ordered from ona manufacturer. Germanv, although she is still inclined to put most of her money on dirigibles for war purposes, is by no means neglecting the handier and .swifter arm. The German Government have engaged Mr. Orville Wright to advise them and supervise their military flying department. By June next they expect to havo about a hundred machines and as many trained officer-airmen! The Berlin War Office did not take at all the same view of the French manoeuvres as our War Office. It came to a decision immediately after attention bad been called to the work done by aeroplanes around Grandvilliers in September.