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Updated: May 24, 2025
By the conspicuous marks on the wings and fuselage Wilmshurst made the disconcerting discovery that the aircraft was a British machine, and that it was diligently engaged in attempting to bomb the Waffs out of existence under the mistaken idea that they were an enemy patrol. "That's done it!" muttered Wilmshurst. "The silly joker has put the kybosh on our chances of surprising the Boches.
By actual and repeated reconnaissance both from below and in the air, this bluff was considered as deserted, or held at most by a very small force. This was owing to its supposed isolation. Evidently Erwin had just made a great discovery. At least he hoped so. On he flew. His machine was hit in many places, principally the wings, the tail and along the under side of the fuselage.
So engrossed was he with his plan that he did not see Tam until the Scot was driving blindly to meet him until the first shower from Tam's Lewis gun rained on wing and fuselage. The German swerved in his drive and missed his proper prey. Tam was behind him and above him, but in no position to attack. He could, and did fire a drum into the fleeing foeman, but none of the shots took effect.
I had to keep turning toward the boche every second, as he was circling around towards me and I was on the inside of the circle, so his gunner had all the advantage over me. I thought I had him on fire for one instant as I saw or supposed I did flames on his fuselage.
Second-Lieutenant Tam, who was a frequent visitor at One-Three-One, had at an early stage struck up a friendship with Hector and had, I believe, taken him on patrol duty, Hector strapped tightly to the seat, holding with a grip of iron to the fuselage and chattering excitedly.
He rubbed his fingers lingeringly over the smooth fuselage, and smiled quietly as he regarded the name "Sky-Bird II" lettered in large blue characters on her sides and underneath each long bird-like wing. Then he mounted a folding step and went through a neat door into the glass-surrounded cabin.
"Rot, Tam!" said that youthful officer. "Why, your nose is blue!" "Aweel," admitted Tam. "But that's no' cold, that's will ye look at ma altitude record?" The young man climbed into the fuselage, looked and gasped. "Dear lad!" he said, "have you been to heaven?" "Verra near, sir-r," said Tam gravely; "another ten gallons o' essence an' A'd 'a' made it.
The fuselage of my own machine was once set on fire by a chunk of burning H.E. The flames died out under pressure from gloves and hands, just as they had touched the drums of ammunition and all but eaten through a longeron. Escapes from personal injuries have been quite as strange.
First, there is the long and comparatively narrow body, or FUSELAGE, at the end of which is the rudder, corresponding to the bird's tail. The chassis, or under carriage, consisting of wheels, skids, &c., may well be compared with the legs of a bird, and the planes are very similar in construction to the bird's wings.
The great wing spread of the triplanes, and the huge, ugly fuselage of the bombing machine, were in sharp contrast to the dainty, wasp-bodied hunters. Richardson's little major sat behind the machine-gun that was mounted on the front of the fuselage of the big bombing machine.
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