WAR NOTES

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 7 March 1917, Page 6

WAR NOTES

THE WAR IN THE AIR. Surprising conclusions are arrived at by the aviation expert of the Field (a London weekly sporting journal), who has been examining the aeroplane losses on the western front in the last six months. "If we allow 20 machines wrecked to each one enemy destroyed," he says, "we see at what a -huge cost of an aeroplane roughly is about £IOOO, so that at this rate the British losses in material has been approximately over 4000 machines in six months, costing £4,000,000; the French very nearly the same; while the Germans must have lost 13,320 machines, with a total value of about £13,320,000. It may be that the German loss is not quite so great as Ave •have made otit, because there appears to be less flying done by German pilots in proportion to their strength.