ARMIES FLYING IN THE AIR.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1366, 17 February 1912, Page 17

ARMIES FLYING IN THE AIR.

" -— Hudson Maxim spoke at the Hudson Theatre in New York recently, under tho auspices of the League for Political Education on "Aviation in Peaco and War." Ho said that tho light, swift aeroplane, carrying two men, will play a great part in scouting, and strong, staunch machines carrying six men, with arms and explosives, will lie wonderfully efr'ec'ivo as raiders. ' ' "An army of 100,000 men could readily l>e transported several hundred miles in a day by means of 20,000 aeroplanes," ho said. "Easily could such a fleet fly from tho Continent to London." Such' transportation would not cost anything like as many lives as oversea transportation, Maxim thought. The speaker pictured how an axmy of 100,000 aerial Canadian raiders could fly over the boundary line in the event of a war with Great Britain, capture Buffalo, and move on to Cleveland before we could touch, them, if not supplied with aeroplanes. In the next ereat war in this country tho whole land will thus bo on the firing lino, he said. "There is a wide, popular misconception about the.possible destructiveness of dynamite bombs dropped from aeroplanes," said Maxim. "Dynamite requires confinement to do much damage." Large steel projectiles that could do damhge aro out of. the question, he considered. because of their weight aud the difficulty of hitting a target from tho machine. By bringing war and its moves under the eyes of the world the war aeroplane will prove a veritable dove of peace, the speaker said. Automatic equilibration, making flight more the function of the machine and less that of the aviator, is what is most needed in aviation, he said.