DEVELOPMENT OF AEROPLANES.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14407, 18 May 1917, Page 6

DEVELOPMENT OF AEROPLANES.

SPEED AND FIGHTING POWER

!An airman writing recently to friends

an. .Nolfion says :—'

Aeroplanes still be-

icome comparatively obsolete in six - months, the development being "mainly in speed and fighting power. One' of our chaps made a flight recently from aerodrome- to aerodrome, covering the distil nee of eighty ."miles iv thirty minutes. This was done on a machine of fairly recent type, but • not one ol: the latest." '~.