AIR SUPREMACY

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2781, 27 May 1916, Page 7

AIR SUPREMACY

ALLIES IN THE ASCENDANT

THE FOKKER BEATEN '•' 1

By ToJeßronh-Press Association-Coßyrieht'; ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Sorvicejs) • (Bee. May 20, 5.5 p.m.) . ; ' London, May 25. The "Times's" correspondent at British'-.* Headquarters staUi that'tho German.'-ait 1 leases are more than three ' daily on the ■ West front, whilo 191' machines have aetu- I ally been destroyed during the-last two : months. The Fokker' is still formidable, but even without the newest type of "Allied > machine it would have been robbed of ito ' chief terrors. The fighting methods aro -. moro a matter of "tactics 'than of- the . ' quality of the machines employed. AVe still continue to make more irips over the enemy lines than they' do 'over ours. ' A curious story ,is told of Lord Kitch-v oner w-hen, visiting un English llying ground at the beginning of the war. He ■advised the.'aviators to learn to fly iriy regular;' formation, arid'wa? told- that it was impossible, .because ; . the machines: could not travel far enough or stay; long enough. 111 the air. Lord Kitchener' replied, "Tou will have to do ;t before the : war is over." His renjarlc has oome' true, for the whole uf the,' Fwsncir .reconnainanoo and observations-work; is now'carried out iii regular .'tattle formation. .' . : Aerial warfare ingoing through tho vark ous stages .that sea'.warfare went under, and three months of war development hag .; been equivalent to a century of sea. d®i ; velopment.. . . .....