Rene Fonck, the great French flyer and ace of aces of all the belligerent forces, had only nineteen successes to his credit, but during the last days of fighting the wily Lieutenant scored many victories bringing his totals up to seventy five enemy airplanes officially destroyed, with forty more probable successes awaiting official verification.

Nelia Gardner White (A); 7Jan57; R183876. WHITE, PERCIVAL. How to fly an airplane.

Was it a hobby, or was he saving up to buy an airplane? "What on earth do you want a pound for?" "I don't want to tell anybody.

They destroyed more than 300 airplanes and 100 balloons.

It was when America was beginning her great effort in the war, and she was trying to build airplanes fast enough to win the mastery of the air frae the Hun.

But scouting airplanes, such as those were, do not go in for bomb dropping.

Since it is almost certain that they have never seen an airplane, it seems likely that they considered it to be old Thunder-bird come to carry them off.

There, above, waited the airplanes.

And so, every once in a while, an alarm would sound, and all hands would crane their necks upward to watch an airplane flying above with an iron cross painted upon its wings.