The Independent . (c) Vndericood & Underwood FRENCH AVIATORS WHO WILL HELP THE AMERICAN EAGLE LEARN TO USE ITS WINGSThese aviators, sent from France to instruct American airmen, are inspecting a Now York aviation training station in company with Americanofficers and aeronautic men. They are, from left to right: Lt. de Mandrot; Henry Woodhouse, governor of the Aero Club of America; Lt. Marquisan ;Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, U. S. N.; Lt. Montriol; Allan R. Hawley, president of the Aero Club of America; Capt. Fitzgerald ; Lt. Ducas; Lt. Rader, of the U. S. Air Service; Lt. Mairesse; Lt. Nasse


The Independent . (c) Vndericood & Underwood FRENCH AVIATORS WHO WILL HELP THE AMERICAN EAGLE LEARN TO USE ITS WINGSThese aviators, sent from France to instruct American airmen, are inspecting a Now York aviation training station in company with Americanofficers and aeronautic men. They are, from left to right: Lt. de Mandrot; Henry Woodhouse, governor of the Aero Club of America; Lt. Marquisan ;Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, U. S. N.; Lt. Montriol; Allan R. Hawley, president of the Aero Club of America; Capt. Fitzgerald ; Lt. Ducas; Lt. Rader, of the U. S. Air Service; Lt. Mairesse; Lt. Nasser; and Lt. Lemaire. THE THIRDDIMENSION IN WAR BY PARK BENJAMIN NO new invention for the destruc-tion of the German U-boatswhich are blockading the Britishcoast, nor for effectively pro-tecting ships against them, has as yetcome to light, nor does there now ap-pear any more chance of such discov-eries being made than has existed eversince the war began. The resurrec-tions, and re-resurrections, and re-re-resurrections of old ideas, of course,have been legion. In France twentythousand plans have been offered to theGovernment, out of which ninety-sevenper cent went immediately into thewaste basket. Of the remaining threeper cent, held for further examination,but one-third were thought worth con-sidering, and from these last nothingappears to have materialized. In thiscountry the mail is crammed with let-ters on the subject to the War Depart-ment, and the Navy Department, andthe Commission for Technical Research,and the Council for National Defense,and the Naval Advisory Board; andnow comes a Submarine Defen


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