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Title: The aeroplane in war
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Grahame-White, Claude, 1879- Harper, Harry, b.1880
Subjects: Airplanes Aeronautics, Military
Publisher: Toronto : Bell and Cockburn
Contributing Library: ASC - York University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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mostimportant considerations in connection with militaryaeroplaning. This concerns the training of pilots andobservers at the military flying schools. France is devoting herself energetically to thiswork. Germany, now equally keen upon militaryaviation, is establishing schools in all suitable places.Russia is convinced that the right policy is to createa large and efficient corps of airmen. So is Austria.Japan, as representing earnest progress, is not onlytraining men at home, but is sending a large numberof officers to the various schools in Europe. As has been set forth before, in another con-nection, but should be emphasised again here, the truepolicy as regards military flying, in the present stageof development, should be: Test all new machinesthat are introduced; maintain a fleet sufficient to meetany emergency which may arise; and, above all,train men with the object of acquiring a far strongercorps of pilots and observers than any present situa-tion demands. 144 ^P j-^>*a.
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^ ■ ~ THE AEROPLANE IN WAR 145 Here, at any rate, is the clear-cut policy both ofFrance and Germany—a policy which Russia isbeginning to imitate, and a policy, also, that Japanis following. Having toured France quite recently, an expertthus describes the activities at the French flyingschools. Those who are not directly in touchwith the various Government departments cannotestimate how many airmen there are at work.Flying schools seem to be springing up everywhere.Depots are being established all over the country.Officers are flying from place to place every day. Tosee a military machine, carrying a pilot and observer,passing swiftly overhead, is now quite a commonsight. Orders are being received almost daily atthe military camps, instructing a machine to set forthupon a reconnoitring flight, or to carry a dispatchfrom one camp to another. It is the thoroughness, and the business-like wayin which this work is done, that are so impressive. Anorder for a reconnoitring flight is rece

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