AIRCRAFT IN WAR

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A FARMAN ARMED SCOUTING BIPLANE,

showing gun mounted in position, Gnome motor, ailerons on upper plane, rudders at rear (see [Chapter VII].).

AIRCRAFT in WAR

By
ERIC STUART BRUCE, M.A. Oxon.
Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society; late Honorary Secretary
and Member of Council Aëronautical Society of Great Britain;
Vice-President of the Aërial League of the British Empire;
Membre d’Honneur of the Aëro Club of France

Illustrated

HODDER AND STOUGHTON
LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO
MCMXIV

TO MY WIFE,

who during the eight years of my Honorary Secretaryship of the Aëronautical Society of Great Britain incessantly and most materially aided me in my efforts to secure the united interest of the British nation in the mastery of the air, I dedicate this little volume.