[18] The Huns always used to bombard certain areas in the morning and evening. These bombardments were known as the morning and evening hate.
[19] These rockets were invented by a Frenchman and used for balloon strafing. They were placed in cases on the struts, and were fired by electricity. The rocket was about 1½ feet long and the stick about 3 feet.
[20] These are used, generally in the ratio of one to four ordinary or armour-piercing bullets, to show the general direction in which the burst of fire is going. Instead of being filled with lead like the ordinary bullet, they contain phosphorus, which commences to burn as soon as the bullet is discharged from the machine gun, and leaves behind it a trail of smoke and fire to mark its course.
[21] A number of balls of fire fastened together and shot up into the air in order to fall over the attacking machine and bring it down in flames.
[22] A type of machine gun. The bullets are fed from a “drum” which is automatically turned when the gun fires.
[23] The tail plane which is used to direct the machine up or down.
[24] Tennis.
[25] A pilot who has brought down five or more enemy machines.
[26] Corresponds to an Adjutant in an infantry battalion.
[27] Bishop.