The Brussels Post, 1917-10-4, Page 2Bits of Knowledge For the Motorist
The holes, drilled in muffler some-
times are rough and ragged, with the
result that' the escaping gases set u
'a whistling noise anything but agree
able. Smoothing off the rough edges
Will usually eliminate the unweleom
sound.
A set f carbon scrapers should be
'part' of the equipment of every car,
•Besides using them to clean the cylin-
ders of carbon they are useful for
scraping mud from the engine or
other places.
It is not advisable to use them alone
when removing carbon. The lumps
of soot fall down on top of the his-
tone and help to' clog the muffler un-
less they are blown out by an air
hose or a tire pump.
If it is inconvenient to have the cyl-
inders burned out, then use a carbon
solvent. One of the best is half am-
monia and half kerosene. Put the pis-
ton at top of compression stroke so
that the valves will be closed. Fill
cylinder full of mixture, scraping the
piston head and head of the cylinder
with the carbon scrapers. The liquid
must then be removed with air oil gun.
If you are in doubt as to the value
of this treatment try the following
experiment: Place some soot in a
bottle and pour in equal parts of
kerosene and ammonia. Shake it
thoroughly. The mixture will be-
come so discolored as to be opaque
PERILOUS -DUTIES
OF WINGED ''NAV'
TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE
ENEMY LINES.
As a matter of sober fact, the bullet
entered his shoulder from above and.
behind, breaking his left collarbone,
and emerged just above his heart,
tearing a jagged rent down his breast,
Both his feet, furthermore, were
pierced by bullets, but the observer
Was plot concerned with petty detail.
"Observer head fire until -H, A., 'div-
ing on tail was within five yards,"
Here it might be mentionedthat
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CANADA WILL PROTECT BIRDS
Farmers and Sportsmen Benefit by
New International Measures,
The international Convention for
the protection of migratory birds in
Canada and the United States, ratified
in Doceniber last,' constitutes the most
shelving its solvent action on Carbon, important and fa:treaehing measure
"If you're in the least in doubt about I h t ever taken in the history of bird pro-
f Men Fuld They H Other Tl' to
the machines were hurtling through teetion It affords the best moans of
your tires
do Than Use a Camera and
Dodge the Archies.
better get new
win., i you Y ave ter anis ensuring space- at a speed in the'region of one g not chis a cassation of, the
p are going to drive on a vacation trip,
says a service man, "You don't want,
to carry the haunting thought that
e you have a casing 'or two that muy
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Recently the Royal Navy. Ai' Ser- gles and laughedtriumphantly as he hu ds, but, in many eases, it assures' an
numbers which
let go any minute when you are sup- vice undertook a photographic recoil took his sight for the shot that was to' increase In their numbers posed to be out for el joyment, The naissanee of the entire Belgian coast end the fight, But the'observes' had been ruth1eisly depleted. It affects
tires you. take off may be carried as from Nieuport to the Dutch frontier. his own idea of how the fight should over 1,000 species of our chlor insect -
spares, and you'll be assured of a The work in progress at Ostend and, end, eating and game birds, It guarantees
trouble-free trip." Zeebrugge, the activities of submar- "Then shot one tray into pilot's to the farmer the continued existence
When followingother cars on a y basins, face," be says with curt 'relish, "and of the insect -eating birds, the most
lues and destroyers inside the
crowded country road, watch out for locks, quays and gun emplacements watched him stall, sideslip and go spin- Powerful and active allies ,he has in
a -sudden stop. Get in the habit of and the results of bombs dropped ring earthward in a trail of smoke," the fight againet the destroyers of his
running the car slightly off the road, thereon the night before were all crops; and it guarantees to_the sports -
if there is room, so that if the braltes y Wounded Pilot Lands Machine
faithfully recorded 'by these aerial' men a 'never -failing supply of ducks,
do not ]told you will be in no danger cameras. The negatives were develop- He then turned his attention to his geese, and other game birds.
of hitting the car ahead. ed'and printed, the resultant birdseye p'u'n pilot. The British machine was In fulfillment of its obligations un.
Keep your eye on the road. Many pictures enlarged, studied through barely under control, but as the oh- der- the Convention, the Canadian
operators are continually looking down stereoscopic lenses and finally given serer rose in his seat to investigate Government introduced the Migratory
at their feet, at the accelerator pedals, to the monitors "for information and the foremost gun fired and the aggres- Birds Convention Bill to carry out the
etc., while operating. This takes their guidance," Since it is not given to 6'02: ahead went out of control and div -provisions of the Convention, and this
attention away from the road, which is every one to recognize the entrance to ed, nose first, in helpless spirals. measure has recently passed both
dangerous. With a little practice you a dugout or a group of searchlights as Suspecting ,that las mate was badly houses of Parliament As soon as as
hundred -dies an hour, The pilot of decrease in the numbers' of our migra-
the H. A. having swooped to within tory birds such. as the insectivorous
speaking distance; pushed up' his.gog- h!rde' the wildfowl, waders and seal
can soon locate all the necessary ped- they appear from a height,p£ 20,000
els, etc., without locking for them. feet, the photographs were embellish -
This is the only safe way to drive. ed with explanatpry notes for the
Make sure your breathing tube benefit of 'any one unaccustomed to
wounded in spite of this achievement, sent is given to the bill, regulations
the observer swung one leg over the , will be promulgated fixing close sea-
side of the fusilage and 'climbed onto softs.
the wing—figure for a minute the air In the case of insectivorous birds, it
screen is not clogged. Hold your such unfamiliar aspects of creation. .Pressure on his body during this will be unlawful to kill them or to take
hand over it while the engine is run- The Germans say they are a modest gymnastic feat -until he was beside their eggs at any time ' of the year.
ning and see if air is puffed oat. If people. They were as busy as beavers, the pilot. Faint and drenched with The close seasons on ducks and geese
not, investigate and clean out the and they resented these importunate blood', he had, nevertheless,got his
If allowed to remain it photographers with all the fervor that machine back into complete control will not exceed three and one-half
willobstruction.put
„ months, and the dates of opening and
will put a. harmful back pressure on springs from true modesty, Their` Get back, you ass!" he said closing` will be fixed in accordance
the pistons, which will cut down the anti-aircraft 'guns plastered the in-' through white lips in response to in,
truders with'Turstin shrapnel, and gnirdes as to ho}vhefelt. The ass got with local conditions and after consul•
• b talion with the proper authorities in
power of the engine g P
__. -._ ; from every coast aerodrome Boche ack the way he came and looked th diff
From the Ocean Shore
machines rose like a cloud of angry around for the remainder of the H. a crept provinces. On atnumber
CONSERVE PERISHABLE FOODS. hornets to give battle. Yet day after A.'s. These, however, appeared to of birds, suahias the cranes, swans,
1an11 most of the shore -birds,
with the exception of woodcock, snipe,
Th ddl d certain plover and yellow -legs, which
BITS OF NEWS FROM THB are becoming greatly reduced in num-
MARITIME bers, a close season of ten years will
MARITIME PROVINCES. be provided. The wood duck and
chard and garden products s lak ng
h truest duck will also be given special
protection. Where they are urious
to agricultural or other int eta, pro-
vision will be made for the killing of
protected birds under special permit.
Regulations will also be made to pro-
hibit the shipment of migratory birds
or their eggs during the close seasons
An Appeal to the Citizens of Canada
On a Matter of Vital Importance.
The Food Controller is informed
that avoidable waste of-' valuable or -
day fresh plates find their way to the have lost stomach for further fight}
developing trays, and a comparison ing and fled `
between the official reports of the'; a ri a machine returned home
flight, couched in a laconic terseness at 100 knots, while the observer, hav
of phrase that is good to read, and the ing.no .nothing better to do, continued t
amazing result§ . obtained gives per- take photographs. "The pilot,
cur ew
Items of Interest From Places Lap-
, ped By Waves of the
Atlantic,
The New Brunswick hay crop is ex-
pected to be the heaviest in recent
years.
The potato crop in New Brunswick
is suffering badly from rust or early
blight.
What promised to be a bumper crop
of oats and wheat in New Brunswick
has been spoiled by early rains.
The rain in Fredericton seriously in-
terfered with the operations at the
lumber mills, and some were com-
pelled to suspend operations,
Staff Sergi, Ed. E. Kelley, formerly
of Moncton, is in an English hospital
convalescing from wounds inflicted by
a half wild broncho.
Nine-year-old Hilbert Scott of Ox-
ford, N.S., accidentally shot and killed
his little sister while playing with a I
gun, Itis father is overseas.
A serious railroad accident occurred
near River Deny's, not far from New
Glasgow. The air brakes on the head
engine of a •corking train gave way,
and the rear enema crashed through
the van. One man was killed and one
fatally hurt.
The strike of the York and Sunbury
Milling Company employees of the I
newly -incorporated town of Devon, 1
for shorter hours, has been settled. s
Donald Baxter MacMillan, who ar- t
rived at Sydney, N.S„ last Sunday, was
one of the assistants to Capt. Peary
a
when he set out in July, 1908, on the
"Roosevelt" far the purpose of reach-
ing the North Pole.
The Face in. the Periscope.
Anyone who has used a periscope
knows that unless you hold the in-
strument properly you will see your i
own visage instead of the landscape t
reflected in the lower glass. The An- e
zac Book tells the story of one Bill, a
soldier at Gallipoli, who did not hold
the periscope correctly. He saw in it s
a dark, dirty face with a wild growth
of black stubble, glaring straight back
at him; whereupon he dropped the
periscope, seized his rifle and scramb-
led up the parapet, fully intending to
finish the Turk who: had dared to look
down the other end of his periscope,
But he found no one at the top, and
returned to the trench amid the laugh-
ter of his comrades.
Paris has established a museum of
the horse, presenting a complete his-
tory of the animal from the earliest
known period to the present day,
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place in many towns and -villages ops the measure of the work though wounded made a , perfect land -
throughout Canada. perfoiiried by these very gallant ing." Thus the report concludes.
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In order to prevent this waste, an gentlemen.
appeal is made to the Mayors, Reeves Every Detail Photographed
and Officers of the respective muni- Not t. spadeful of earth can be turn- French Highways, Always Good, Are
cipalities to take immediate steps to ed over or a trowel of cement added to
conserve such products as cannot be a bastion along the coast but a note ' Being Improved by British Troops.
NEW ROADS IN' FRANCE.
made use of by thedproFlucers or dis- appears a day or two later upon the! Hundreds et miles of the smooth, and generally to govern the traffic in
posed of through the usual channels. long chart which adorns the record' white macadam roads of Northern them and their eggs.
To accomplish this object the fol- office of this particular squadron. A. France will remain for many years While -the numbers ofihe migratory;
lowing suggestions are made :— crumpled escorting' machine may have after -the war as a real memorial to birds In Canada and 'the United
1. Citizens are urged: (a) To use come down out of the clouds, eddying the devastated towns the Germans States have been most seriously de -
every means In their power to con- like a withered leaf, to crash some- left after. their retreat in the spring. plated by varloue pauses, confidence
lserve for their own use their full re- where behind the German lines; there All over Northern France the roads is felt that, with international co-op-
quiremeuts of fruits and vegetables; may be -somewhere near the shore a (b) To dispose of any surplus they broken boy in goggles and leathar ly- are being^ widened and resurfaced eration; and, particularly, the prohi-
with stone and rubble taken -from the bition of spring shooting, a gradual 1n=
e of our wild
lmay have through the usual channels ing amid the wreckage of his last, wrecked houses of Peronne, Albert, crease in the abundant
of trade, or turn such surplus over to flight. Such is the price paid for a' Arras and countless other ruined bird life will take Plato.
a local conservation committee. few more dots added in red ink to a towns and villages.
I of feet of chart. THE TRYST.
2. That the head of every Munici- coup As fast as the British soldiers clear
pality organized from representatives The work of these photographic re -1 As the as the of the towns it. it
of the carious local societies, orgam- •orders, pilot and observer alike, dif- piled into lorries and distributed in
=tons and religious denominations, Pers from all other forms of war fly- i heaps along the main roads. There
a civic conservation committee to ing, Their sole duty is to take .photo-'
take charge of the assembling of all graphs, not haphazard' but of a given ,German prisoners -,toil the day long
surplus orchard and garden products objective. This necessitates steering'. pounding it into level patches, which
that may be donated by the individual a perfectly steady course, regardless the great steam rollers, many of them
citizens by enlisting the cooperation of all distraction, such a bursting, bearing familiar American names,
of the public and high school teachers, "Archies" and angry Alba •oss fight- grind quickly into smooth macadam
utilizing parties organized from ers. They leave the fighting to their' for the business of•transport.
amongst the pupils, aided by convey- escorts and their fate to Providence. The.brick and stone of these old
ances donated for the purpose by the The observer, peering earthward,bui'ldings make as good road material
citizens. through his view finder, steers the as could be obtained anywhere, and
3, That the Various conservation pilot by means -of reins until he sights the work of the German dyn'amiters
committees make immediate and ads- the line on which the desired_ series of has been so thorough that much of it
quote arrangements for the safe ator- photographs are to be taken; once. is crushed Inc enough to need no fur -
ng of all such surplus products until over this the pilot flies the machine on ther preparation.
uch time as they can be disposed of an undeviating course, and the obser- The roadsrof Northern France al -
o the various charitable organizations ver proceeds' to take photographs. ways were excellent, but they never
r soldiers' homes or sold by such When all the plates have been exposed were better than to-day.'The only
pmmittee to thoso unable to purchase they turn around and return home complaint travellers had against them
at regular prices, or disposed of with what remains of the escort. On in the old days was that the paved
through the regular trade channels occasions the escort have -vanished, strip in the centre was too narrow.
and the proceeds of all such sales do- eitherearthward or in savage pursuit That complaint cannot fie made after
noted to the Red Cross or similar or= of resentful though faint hearted the British highway plans have been
ganizations as the discretion of the Boches; this ,is when the homing completed, for all the main. highways
committee shall direct. photographers' moments are apt to will be macadamized to a width per
become crowded with incident. mitting three broad gauge lorries to
Adventure 12,000 Feet Above Earth run abreast, and even the byways will
One such adventure deserves to be have a paved surface wide enough to
recorded. It happened about 12,000 allow traffic to 'pass easily at any
feet above Mother Earth. The official point.
It is urged that the widest possible
ubliclty be given to this appeal and
he earnest co-operation of all citizens
niisted in its behalf.
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Sliced bananas sprinkled with brawn reports, typed in triplicate, covered
ugar 'and juice of lemon is an yp p
some dozen lines; the actual events, an
`economy
ea dessert that should have equal number of minutes; but th`e
a place often on a wartime menu. story should live through eternity.
In Dutch Guiana the women carry , "While exposing six plates," says
upon their persons all' the family the official report of this youthful re-
savings in the shape of heavy brace- cording angel,- "observed five H. A.'s
lets, anklets, necklaces, and even cruising." ,' H. A. stands for hostile
crowns of gold and silver, aeroplane, "Not having seen escort
Many plant students are led to won- since turning inland, pilot prepared to
der how ears of corn become eo well return. Enemy separated, one tak-
poilenated that no vacancies oceux ing up position above tail and one
among the kernels, for the tassels are ahead. The other three glided toward
so far above the silks and winds blow us on pdrt side" (observe the nevi
freely- throughout the fields. But speaking) "firing as they came,
close observation has shown that there "The two diving machines fired over
are 7,000 pollen grains -to every ovule, one hundred rounds, hitting pilot in
and only one is necessary. shoulder." -
Excessive dustiness is the only
fault to -day, for war economics will
not permit the use of precious oil on
roadways.
There is little need anywhere in this
district for straightening roads or
altering routes, because the roads of
Northern France mostly run straight
as an arrow's flight. Most of the
great highways were laid out in Na-
poleon's time by military surveyors,
and their strategic value and import-
ance always has been kept primarily
in mind by the French Government,
A mash, made of milk with a mix-
ture of shorts and crushed oats, Will
reduce the cost of feeding fowls,/"
She came with luring looks;, she came
With golden beck and wiles;
"And will you go with me," she said,
"Adown the amber aisles?"
Right willingly with her I went;
A rustling path she took;
With her eyes there were the dyes
Of gentians by the brook.
Her hair gave back the dappled sheen
Of sunlight on the corn,
And she had all the lovely mien
Of one to beauty born.
Harkl—'tis her wooing voice again
Calling from wood and rill!
'Tis Autumn bids me to the tryst
''Beneath the crimsoned hill.
—Clinton Scollard.
A MOONLIGHT RAID. •
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Where riseth Britain
Like a strong castle, +r
Mooted and girt by sea-
Ocean her vassal—
See, in the moonlight,
From the North Sea flying,
Come the great man -dragons
All earth defying!
Out of the Norseland,
Past where the Maelstrom roars,
Once sailed the twilight gods
Unto her shores;
Chained a millennium
Were Thor and Odin - -
Who came with their raven wings—
Now cometh Woden.
Rule, rule, Britannia,
Moated by sea—
Yield unto Dragon Gods
No sovereignty)
-M. E. Buhler,
ARRAS: CITY PRESENT-DAY
OF DESOLATION ,RATTLEPLANES
MONUMENT/TO THE BARBARITY) .UP-TO-DATE AIR -FIGHTING MA.
SOF THE GERMANS. CHINE IS BIPLANE.
This `Once Beautiful Trench City, aei hs 1. 0
W g ,4 0 Pounds ,and Has a
Noted Centre of Culture] is Speed of From 60 to 125 Miles
Ruined Beyond Repair, Per Hour.
It was raining and a chilly wind -gust as there are many species of
blew as we passed beneath a battered birds, so before longwe shall have
arch into the tragic desolation of many different kinds of flying ma-
Arras. I chines. Already we have hydroplanes
I have seenvillages pounded by and flying boatia correspondingto
gunfire' into hideous mounds ofdust waterfowl, But the most .highly dif- ,
and rubble, their very semblance fatentiated type of aircraft thus far
blasted utterly away; but Arras,
shell developed is the battleplane-the air-'
torn, scarred, disfigured. for all time, plane built for fighting.
is a city still—a City of Desolation. It is battleplanes that ere chiefly
Her streets lie empty and silent, her needed, and unlimited numbers of
once pleasant squares are a dreary de- them,' on the Alliesrfront in France.
solation, her noble buildings, menu- Swift scout planes and bombing
ments of her ancient splendor, are planes have important value; but the
ruined beyond repair. Arras is a dead fighting aircraft milt do the work
city, whose mournful silence is broken of destroying or driving, away the en-
only by the intermittent "thunder of envy machines. When the Allies have
guns. a sufficient number of them on the
Thus, as I -paced these deserted fighting line the Boehes will be at our
streets, where none moved, save my- mercy, because their artillery will be
self (for my companions had hastened -blinded. • •
on), as I gazed .on ruined buildings It is worth while, then, to explain
that echoed mournfully to my tread, just what the typical battleplane is
what wonder that my thoughts were like, inasmuch as most people have a
gloomy as the day itself! I paused rather hazy notion in regard to this
in a street 'of fair, tall houses, from kind' of machine. They have an idea
whose broken windows curtains of that it is armored in some fashion,
lace, of plush and tapestry flapped and that one man operates a machine.
mournfully in the chill November gun ih a fight while another steers.
wind like rags upon a corpse, while Whether it is a monoplane or a , iii-
from some dim interior came the plane is not clearly understood.
hollow rattle of a doom while in Sixty Miles an Hour.
every gust a swinging shutter groan-
ed despairingly on rusty hinge. '
Relics of a Vanished People.
Now, the fact is that the up-to-date -
air -fighting machine is a one-seater—
carrying, that is to say, only one man
Wherever I looked were evidences —and of relatively small size, It is -a
of arrested life, of action suddenly biplanel.and, being very swift, needs
stayed; in one bedroom a trunk open coniparativelyaemall wings to support' ,
with a pile of articles beside it to be- it.' The upper of the two planes may
packed; in another, a great bed, its be no more than thirty feet long, and
sheets and blankets tossed askew by the lower one ten feet' shorter. On
hands wild with haste; while in a viewing it one marvels that so small -a
room lined with bookcases a deep -Wing-spread can uphold the engine,
armchair was drawn up to the hearth, the man and the body of the aphara-
with a email table whereon stood a tus, corresponding to that of a bird, in
decanter and a half emptied glass which he sits.
and an open book whose damp leaves' The machine weighs 1,400 pounds,
stirred in the wind now and thenof which 500 pounds is the weight of
as if touched by"unseen fingers. In- the engine. 1S'can travel sixty miles
deed, more than- once .I marvelled to an hour, but this is its .minimum speed
see how, amid the awful wreckage of for staying aloft,in.the air. -Its maxi -
broken floors and t(imbled ceilings, mum speed is .
delicate vase's and chinaware had hour. It carries110 thirtoty gallons
125 ofmiles gaspan-
miraculously escaped destruction, line and can stay tip in the air three
Upon one cracked wall a Targe mir- hours. At a pinch, it can travel 400
rd' reflected the ruin of a massive miles. Bigger machines; such as
carved sideboard, while in another bombcarriers, are provided with much
house hard by a magnificent ivoay more 'gasoline and can travel over far
and ebony crucifix yet hung above an greater distances. But the battleplane
awful twisted thing that had been -a is not designed for long journeys. Its
brass bedstead. (.business is fighting. The duels in the -
Here and there on either side this air that one reads about in the news -
narrow street ugly gaps showed Papers are not ordinarily fights be -
where houses had once stood, .tom- tween air scouts or bombers, though
fortable homes now only unsightly they are liable to be attacked, but
heaps (•rubbish; a confusion of brok-
en beams and rafters- amid which one another. •
divers familiar objects obtruded them-' Are Not Armered.
selves, broken chairs and tables, a No fighting airplane has ever worn
grandfather clock and a shattered armor except in the shape of a rcc-
piano whose melody was silenced for--tangular piece of sheet steel placed
ever. • +beneath the seat of the aviator. Such
Through all these gloomy relics of a protection is of very little use. the
a vanished people I went slow -footed air -fighter to -day usually discards it
and heedless of direction - until by to get rid of its weight. Every extra
chance I came out into the wide Place pound he has to carry interferes a.by
and saw before me all that remained just that much with maneuvering
—
of
of that stately building which for in other words, with his chance
for
centuries had been the Hotel de '.Wille, life in an air Amp.
the City I•Iall, now nothing but a Flying machines of large size now -
crumbling ruin of noble arch and mas- adays often are equipped with gyro-
sive,.tower; even so, in shattered fa- scope stabilizers. But the battleplane
cede and mullioned -windows one might man wants nothing of that :sort; be
yet sae something of that beauty will not have it, because it interferes
which had made it famous. 1 with ,maneuvering. Suppose,+fbr in-
Qbliviovs of driving ram I stood stance that he wishes to loop the loop
bethinking me of this ancient city; ie such fashion as to drop from in
how in the dark ages it• had endured frontof his adversary and come up
the horrors of battle and siege, had from behind—the+4ost advantageoue.
Meted the catapaults of Rome, heard tactical position. Oh, no; the spilled
the fierce shouts of barbarian assail- airfighter prefers' to bet'his own stabil-
ants, known the merciless savagery izer.
of religious wars and remained `a Biplanes Are Safer.
city still only for the cultured barberIle carries no bombs; he is previa-
-ian of to -day to make it a desolation.' ed with no wireless. His only weapon
ii5 a machine gun—though sometiines
hs has 'rwo such guns, ' The gun is
The potato, .long regarded by the operated by the motor of the flying
fastidious as vulgar, is now joyously machine. All the man has to do is to
hailed as a life presetvor. press a button or -put his hand .on a
mechanism that connects with the
Instead of planting a horse -chest-
nut, why not plant -a real nut tree?
Pecans, hickories, or -English walnuts
cost very little more than horse -chest-
nuts, make less litter, and produce a
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tor, does the -rest, discharging a
stream of bullets.
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propeller, But they do not strike the
propeller's fans because the sction
of the motor is so "synchronized"
with the discharge of the projectiles
as to prevent this. Oil should 'under-
stand that the propeller of a battle -
plane is in front of the machine; it is
ra tractor, pulling the machine through
the
olr, .
The old fashioned flying machines
catried their propellers behind The
aviator. (perhaps two of them) sat in
' front of the engine If the machine
fell and dropped, as was likely, no•e-
, foremost,C the men were liable to be
smashed beneath the engine. But the
driven of the biplane sits behu}}d hie
engine, and, if there is an accident or
he is knodked down in a duel he fells
on top of it and the propeller takea.
stip some of the shock .
The principal reason why the typi-
cal battleplane is n biplane and not a
monoplane it that with the former iy
slower landing speed can be used, Th"
is, therefore, safer,
"ttft heal 'even a whole city renped
the evil feint of a bad man."
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