Aeroplanes in warfare

• Book ID: 104118748
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1913
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 64 KB
• Volume: 175
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(13)90995-9

✦ Synopsis

Aeroplanes in

Warfare. A~ox. (Sci. Amo'., cvii, 19, 402.)

--A number of afiroplanes were used with great success by the Italians in their war in Tripoli. On August 24, 1912, Lieutenant Manzini fell into the Mediterranean and was drowned while reconnoitring. Turkey has more than a dozen officer aviators, who have learned to fly in England and France. They use Bristol, Bl6riot, and R. E. P. monoplanes and Farman biplanes. The Servian army has three aviators, with machines of the B16riot type; and the Roumanian and Bulgarian armies have strong forces of aviators with various tyt~s of afiroplanes. There are several good Montenegrin military aviators, and the Greek officers who learned at the Farman school in France are excellent flyers. The Bulgarian army has more than six Bristol monoplanes, while at the Roumanian army manoeuvres, Mr. C. H. Pixton made some good demonstration flights with one of these English machines. Ten Italian and Russian aviators, including Abramovitch (who recently flew from Berlin to St. Petersburg) and Nicholas Popoff, were engaged by the S,ervians and Bulgarians to 'scout for the allied armies. The two Russians used Wright biplanes. Popoff made several flights in the vicinity o.f Adrianople, and ;while soaring over this besieged city was struck by a shrapnel shell and fell to his death. A Farman biplane was used by the Greeks for scouting before the invasion o.f Turkey was decided upon, and a radius of fifty miles of country was flown over.