THE AEROPLANE.
Lecturing at the Camera Club in London, Mr E. Stuart Bruce, late honorary secretary of the Aeronautical Society, said that the aerial surprise of the wa,r was the durability of t!io aeroplane. Most people thought that thei aeroplane was a light and fragi"? thing, succumbing easily to wear and tear, and very vulnerable to bullets But aeroplanes" seemed to have a charmed life. During eight months of war the French had made 10,000 reconnaissances, corresponding to 18,000 hours of flight, representing a distance of 1,300,000 kilometres, equal to 45 times round the world. One aeroplane now on view in Paris had been 250 hours in the air, and 48 times directed the French artillery, and had been seven times engaged in single combat with German airmen.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXV, Issue 10713, 6 July 1915, Page 4
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128THE AEROPLANE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXV, Issue 10713, 6 July 1915, Page 4
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