OUR AIR SUPREMACY

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2743, 11 April 1916, Page 5

OUR AIR SUPREMACY

MAY REGAIN AND RETAIN IT WITHIN SIX MONTHS BRITAIN FIRST IN AEROPLANES ■ l By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ' London, April 9. Mr. Penibertpn Billing, M.P., and a well-known airman, speaking at Newcastle, said: "Instead of Zeppelins, we have the finest aeroplane in the world, and within a half-year may regain and retain the supremacy of the air. Wo aro able now to defend ourselves better even .than with anti-aircraft guns." . "THE EAGLE OF LILLE" FIGHTING TACTICS OF A GERMAN ! AIRMAN. ■ London, April 9. The "Daily Mail" states that the methods of immeknan, the German aviator, has brought down several French and British'machines, are less heroic than scientific. He mounts sometimes to a height of 13,001) feet over his own lines and awaits the invading plane. He then takes a long straight dive, passing diagonally. It is a case of hit or miss. He does not attempt to pursue, but merely continues his hawk-like dive home. He is called ''The. eagle of Lille," because -he usually hovers there. British photographers, who aro obliged to By low, aro much braver. AN AIR WAR IN TEN YEARS. (Reo. April 10, 8.40 p.m.) London, April 9. Mr. Pembertori Billing, speaking at Sunderland, said that within two years aeroplanes capable of a speed of 250 miles per hour would be possible.. He believed that Germany would 6eek within ten years her revenge in the air against Britain, but Count Zeppelin had laid the foundation of Britain's air supremacy.