A FLOOD OF AEROPLANES.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2701, 21 April 1915, Page 4

A FLOOD OF AEROPLANES.

The Hague, Feb. 20. Belgium is being flooded with German aeroplanes — Aviatiks chiefly, judging from reports of visitors avlio have talked with officers at Brussels I and Antwerp. This type of machine appears to have shoAvn greater stabil- , ity and mobility than its rivals in the German air fleet. : An aviation school for volunteer pilots and observers has.been established by the German aircraft depart. : meat near BrusselSj where new machines, shipped in parts from Germany, are engined arid fitted together. 1 This branch of the service is especially popular Avitli German youths, OAving to the exceptional inducements offered for daring flights against the English and the chance of winning an Iron Cross by a* Channel flight Avith . bombs for women. Experimental flights are made over ihe Antwerp fortifications and other German, by the embryo airmen, who are subjected to severe tests in observation. "Dummy" guns and devices calculated to deceive the enemy arc prepared for their instruction, and they also drop "practice" bombs. Sometimes five or six of these aeroplanes circle daily above the level plain betAvecn Brussels and Antwerp, carrying observers Avho are learning lioav to hit a baby at 1000 yards.