LOOPING THE LOOP IN AIR FIGHT
BRITISH FLIER'S DARING AND SUCCESSFUL RUSE. The following extract from a recent report of tho R.N.A.S. was issued recently : — On July 15 one of our aeroplanes, a Nieuport,, patrolled ten. miles out-to sea, and when approaching Ostend, at about 12,000 feot, encountered a German single-engine tractor . type—soo feet below him. Tho enemy manoeuvred for a position behind and below the Nieuport, both machines . meanwhile executing a steep glide. The British pilot thereupon looped over the enemy, who passed underneath him. He thus gained the desired posv tion behind, and opened fire into the seaplane at a range of 100 yards. The > Gertnan pilot, who was_ evidently hit, made a vertical noso dive. The machine was last seen in flames, falling . headlong downwards.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2886, 26 September 1916, Page 4
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128LOOPING THE LOOP IN AIR FIGHT Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2886, 26 September 1916, Page 4
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