Our country and its resources; . ry aeroplane being supposed tocarry out all or any duty as thenecessity arose. As a result qo aero-plane was really efficient in any func-tion. Curiously enougb the Germansstill adhere in some measure to thistheory which the British and Frenchair services rejected early in thewar. SCOUTING AEROPLANES The modern scouting developed by the Allies, is a two-seater of great speed rang*—else adetailed inspection of the underlying is as a rule a highly trained special-ist, who must he able to distinguishfrom a beight of several thousandfeet a convoy train
Our country and its resources; . ry aeroplane being supposed tocarry out all or any duty as thenecessity arose. As a result qo aero-plane was really efficient in any func-tion. Curiously enougb the Germansstill adhere in some measure to thistheory which the British and Frenchair services rejected early in thewar. SCOUTING AEROPLANES The modern scouting developed by the Allies, is a two-seater of great speed rang*—else adetailed inspection of the underlying is as a rule a highly trained special-ist, who must he able to distinguishfrom a beight of several thousandfeet a convoy train from guns from howitzers, or a sup-ply station from an aircraft park,and he conversant with the Morsecode, so that he may instantly sendoff hi- report by wireless fly hack to headquarters wouldmean too much loss of time. Theobservers duty is the more difficultas the enemy below will do every-thing t<» mislead him. by setting updummy guns and holding hack hisgun tire while the aeroplane hovers. FIXED MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT OF A FRENCH FIGHTING AEROPLANE objective becomes Impossible—whose only task consists in observing agiven objective and reporting the re-sult in the quickest way armament is purely defensiveand generally consists of one ma-chine gun firing broadsides andabaft (on tractors! or ahead (onpushers). The crew is composed ofa pilot and an observer; the latter above; troop columns on march willStop and seek shelter: positionswhich cannot he masked will he de-fended by anti-aircraft guns or pos-sibly by fighting aeroplanes which the observer will have to fight Offwith his machine gun. And reconnaissance is not limitedto Doting the movements and strength of enemy forces; it includes AERONAUTICS 377 gun-spotting, which consists in con-veying to the artillery the exactrange of an objective to be manifold duties of the ob-server explain why a scouting aero-plane must be a two-seater : the pilotis indeed kept
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