Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 13, 2025
It will get much cheaper, no doubt, and much swifter, and be improved in a dozen ways we must get self-starting engines, for example, for both our aeroplanes and motor-cars but it is available to-day for anyone who can reach it. An invalid lady of seventy could have enjoyed all that I did if only one could have got her into the passenger's seat.
As if by a common impulse they all looked up, for the noise seemed to come from above, and they saw dotting the blue sky many small, black specks. "Aeroplanes!" cried Blake. The Germans had seen the objects in the air at the same time, but on them the sight produced quite a different effect from that made on the boys.
As this is being written news comes from Washington that some recently imported very big and powerful Italian aeroplanes have made successfully a flight from Newport News to the Federal capital a distance of some 150 miles at the rate of 135 miles per hour and carrying ten passengers. This is typical of the recent development in the science of flying.
"But it is, sir," protested the Frenchman. "All right. Then let's have it." "The Germans are planning an aëroplane raid on the English," said the man, in a low voice. "There is a park of aëroplanes hardly two miles from here, on the road leading to Viviers. They are ready for instant flight." "What!" exclaimed Captain Anderson. "Are you sure?" "Perfectly," was the reply.
The German air craft shells fell hundreds of yards short. The aeroplanes soon rose to such a height that the German guns quit firing on them. The British naval planes were beautiful large craft. On the frontier we had already established air preponderancy and were also doing well now with our artillery.
Certain factories also had been established within the Empire, although the character of their work and its results and achievements were concealed from prying eyes. In Russia, however, an appreciable number of private aeroplanes were in operation, and these, of course, were placed at the disposal of the authorities the moment the crisis developed.
However, the year was not to close without some disturbance of the monotony of the situation that now set in at Saloniki. In the middle of the forenoon of December 30, 1915, an attack was made on the city by a fleet of the enemy's aeroplanes, which sailed overhead at a great height and dropped bombs, doing considerable damage.
A few aeroplanes burred overhead, the exchange of firing followed its normal daily course, quieting rather in the heat of midday; but to the waiting troops the long hours dragged. That wonder of what the future held, that ominous quiet before the storm, the preparations for battle all made the day long.
Is the news of the raid yet in the papers? I was told that there were thirty German aeroplanes and one zeppelin. Bombs were dropped on the soldiers' camp there, and a good many soldiers were killed. Apparently the operation made a big row, for it was heard across the water in the cathedral city in which we landed. " ... We went on board at 1.30, but the boat did not start until 2.50.
Thus, as the column swings past the pond and waiting cookers, the Band strikes up one of its best and loudest marches.... Such midnight music, if it drowned the drone of German aeroplanes, which ever and anon swam overhead, looking like white moths in the beams of our searchlights, served also to arouse the village inhabitants, whose angry faces were framed for an instant in windows as we passed.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking