TRIALS OF AIRMEN.
SEASICK WHILE FLYING. A British aviator said to a London Standard coi respondent: —“The most trying part of our work is something that would never occur to you. We don’t mind the chances of a bullet hitting us. A fight with an enemy’s aeroplane is fine sport, and the Germans cannot lick us at that. But when they get their high-angle guns at work on us the disturbance of the air so great that it is as much as ever you can do to control your machine. It plunges up and down, and rolls sideways so that, do what you will, it nearly turns over. You hardly know whether you’re upside down or not. I’ve been in plenty of bad weather at sea, and its worse than anything I ever suffered in a boat. It makes me downright sick—just like a bad attack of seasickness.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1343, 5 January 1915, Page 4
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148TRIALS OF AIRMEN. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1343, 5 January 1915, Page 4
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