ST 17, 1939.
THE AIR
TAIN
AIRD,
Jamous er.
Moor
fical course.
The tiny shadow, which is you, dies infinitely slowly along this line.
Now and then it veers fractionally to left or right of the line; and you immediately adjust your instruments, banking a bit left if the shadow has gone to the right, and vice versa:
Very pretty it all is and amazingly useful, for blind flying at night or in bad.fog.
General staffs in many countries are crying out for more and more mach- ines to-day. They take deadly seri- ously what Marshal Blucher once said: "The future of land armies lies in the sky."
are on
For land armies are not what they used to be... If there is ever anything. I may not men- remotely approaching trench warfare again it will ebb and flow around he is when you some such vast fortification system as on the foreign
the Maginot Line. But I do not think baht'at, there will be. gh it is a stormy
Land armies, nowadays, are allowed.
wheels, and the wheels are motorised by some of the finest engines in the useful little con- world. These armies can sweep spy's rigout. It across, perhaps two hundred miles of which shows a country in a day.
aeroplane, flying Conceive the problems of a Com 8 screen in front mander-in-Chief who found his cockpit.
enemy besieging York one morning, and encamped outside London the next, with full supporting artillery and tanks, and proper lines of com-. munication established!
ap, marked with ting your theore-
Now
R
m at Macao. two by his
second.
And that is where the "eyes in the sky" play their part. Mechanised arm-
combatant nations will throb in their thousands about the skies.
Apart from working as "eyes in the sky," theirs will be the task of flaying the crawling armies with gunfire and bombs.
use flame-
They will inevitably throwers, disease germs, hideous gases which attack any fragment of unprö- tected skin, They will carry whole armies, and deposit them by para- chute, with guns, ammunition, even horses, thousands of miles away in a few hours.
and
They will paralyse strategic points, roads and, I suppose, when war has blow up distant railways, destroy brutalised the combatants, attack hos- pitals and dressing-stations,
one
war; and the last war was not car- After all, it was done in the last ried on as viciously as a new would be. Nasty-yes. That is why France, Russia and elsewhere, want to all flying men, of Germany, England, avoid it.
and will do them if it comes to the Aircraft could do all these things,
portant of all, behind and around and folly of war again. But, most im- between the other activities, the "eyes in the sky" would be recording, night and day, vital facts on issue of a future war
which the
Knowledge is power, in war no less would turn.
sees all wins all. than in peace. The General who
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As the gigantic, steely serpents crawl about the earth beneath, we hum like dragon-flies through the He skies, photographing, jotting down first notes, reporting by radio.
And our own Brass Hats know in a Robert Morri-three minutes, and launch a shatter- ished career in ing mechanised spearhead within the China and Hong same hour, just where we tell them. malarial fever in We shall be harassed of course. The umn of 1834. Sir enemy won't let us do our aerial t, G.C.B., who scouting without displaying ungentle- st Governor of manly annoyance.
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3, 1789. He With the help of infra-red photo- elfast Academy, graphy, radio, television, and two in- was only twelve ventions of which I may not write, they will be able to keep up running commentaries on enemy movements over any country less vast than, say, Russia.
sea. In 1803 here he receiv- native army on Castlereagh in is country with India, Persin, g, that gifted
There will be a duel for a definite superiority in the air over the fight- ing fronts. That is inevitable.. But erman was ap-I don't think it will be conclusive. If one side could drive the other out of le returned to the air, of course, the war would end
quickly. It would be all over
the Cape of
Madras in 1847
arch, 1854, and
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the theft of "reparations."
bar
But I don't think that can happen. As the mechanised millions sweep to and fro beneath, the aeroplanes of the'
By George McManns
HERE - DAD-
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the commander-in-Chief will brood listen to radio reports, and examine over maps and charts, pin little flags,
every minute through the gas-proof messages and telegrams coming in
doors.
Deep down there, the Man Who Runs, the War will sit, blind to the outside world, deaf to its beseechings and commands-intent only on seeing, through the eyes of five thousand air- men, what is happening on the enemy front and in the enemy capital.
That is what they turn man's mar- vellous inventions to, nowadays, and that is why the birdmen of the world are asked to fly.
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