UNCANNY FIGHTING.
HAIR=RAISING DETAILS.
(United Service.) Received April 9, 8.30 p.m.,
LONDON, April 8
Mr. Beach Thomas says the new air fighting is most wonderful. The latest machines on both sides achieve most breathless speed, swishing past like birds or flying at viewless heights till one dives, winged and wounded, for its own lines. The fighting is now so quick and skilful that the slower and older machines have little chance. The newest British machine broke all records, destroying five of the enemy in one flight. The machines now drop from the clouds plummet-like 16,000 feet to bomb a train, fire at a balloon, or riddle troops with machine-guns. They come so quickly that men on the spot with loaded rifles are too slow to fire before a plane is out of range. Both sides exhibit uncanny skill in ambushing pr in .escaping amongst the clouds.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16949, 10 April 1917, Page 5
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