BRITISH FLYING CORPS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16539, 12 November 1915, Page 5

BRITISH FLYING CORPS.

MASTERY OVER THE ENEMY IMMENSE INCREASE IN OUTPUT. MARVELLOUS IMPROVEMENTS EFFECTED. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON, November 10. (Received Nov. 11, at 6 p.m.) An unique series of visits to the Empire's war wonders, arranged for leading dominion, allied, and neutral journalists, has done excellent service An securing the neutral press support. Last wee.k the journalists visited the aerodromes and aircraft factories, where they saw astonishing activity and' the fine results of the Flying Corps. " Nearly a score of .aerodromes were busy training pilots and observers. There are also aircraft stations *filled with all kinds of machines ready for anything, and more stations are being established. The War Office and Admiralty have practically taken over the motor industry, and the output of aeroplanes is immense. It has increased sevenfold since the beginning of the war, and we will soon have at least double that number again. In four months the output has been quadrupled. They are of all sorts and sizes, and every model is better than the last. The problem of stability has been solved to perfection, and has given us the undoubted mastery of the air. Some of the fighting machines are capable of covering 135 miles an hour, and an ordinary node! can fly 99 miles. We have aero-dreadnoughts—double=ended battleplanes—and are experimenting with others. The navy has separate shops, and is now experimenting with super-seaplanes, armed and armoured, carrying many passengers. A new German armoured aeroplane has been seen on the Russian front, fitted with two propellers, two Maxims, and a wireless installation, and is of 350 horse-power.