TRIALS OF AIRMEN.

Western Star, 15 January 1915, Page 4

TRIALS OF AIRMEN.

A British aviator said to a London Standard correspondent:—“The most trying part of our work is something that would never occur to you. We don’t mind tho ohanoes of a bullet hitting us. A fight with an enemy’s aeroplane is fine sport, and the Germans cannot lick ua at that. But when they get their highangle guns at work on ua the disturbance of the air is so great that it is as much as ever you can do to control your machine. It plunges up and down and rolls sideways so that, do what you will, it nearly turns over. You hardly know whether you’re upside down or not. I’ve been in plenty of bad, weather at sea, and it’s worse than anything I ever suffered in a boat., It makes me downright sick —just like a bad attack of seasickness.”