In the Air

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 45, 27 May 1916, Page 5

In the Air

COMPARATIVE LOSSES. United Pbebp iabsooiaiton. London May 25. The .Times' correspondent states that British headquarters consider that the German air losses are more than wiree machines daily on th e West front. One hundred and ninety-one machines have actually been destroyed during the last two months. The Fokker is still formidable, but even without the newest type of Allied machine the Fokker would have been robbed of its terrors.

Fighting methods are more a matter of tactics than quality of machines employed. We still continue to make more trips to the enemy lines than ♦hey accomplish to ours.

DEVELOPMENT OR AERIAL WARFARE. London, May 25. A curious story is told of Lord Kitchener, who, on visiting an English flying ground at the beginning of the war advised the aviators to learn to fly in regular formation. He was told it was impossible, because the machines could not travel far enough nor stay long enough in the air. Lord Kitchener replied: "You will have to do it before the war is over.'* His remark has come true. The French reconnaisance and observation work is now carried out. in regular battle formation. Aerial warfare is going through various stages that sea> warfare wont under. Three months of war development proved the equivalent of a Century of sea development.