Aircraft in war - Eric Stuart Bruce

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.

CHAPTER		PAGE
	Introduction	[ix]
I.	The Earlier Aërial Scouts	[1]
II.	The Development of the Airship	[11]
III.	Types of Modern Airships: British, French, German, Italian, Russian, Austrian, and Belgian	[18]
IV.	The German Airship Fleet	[37]
V.	Advantages and Disadvantages of Airships	[50]
VI.	The Advent of the Aëroplane	[78]
VII.	Types of Aëroplanes: British, French, Italian, Russian, Austrian, Belgian, and Bulgarian	[91]
VIII.	Germany’s Aëroplane Equipment	[123]
IX.	The First Use of the Aëroplane in War—Tripoli—the Balkans	[137]
X.	The New Arm in Armageddon	[144]
XI.	Present Deficiencies and Future Possibilities of the Military Aëroplane	[166]

INTRODUCTION

When years ago we read in Tennyson’s “Locksley Hall” the following lines:—

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION