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Aeroplane in War

Claude Grahame-White, Harry Harper

Read by Jim Locke · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

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PREFACE (8:05)
REVIEW OF PROGRESS PRIOR TO THE FIRST MILITARY TESTS OF AEROPLANES (48:54)
FIRST EXPERIMENTS WITH AEROPLANES IN THE FRENCH AUTUMN MANOEUVRES, 1910 (9:12)
THE GROWING AIR-FLEETS OF FOREIGN NATIONS (26:47)
IMPORTANCE OF ORGANISATION IN THE USE OF WAR AEROPLANES (12:09)
ENGLAND'S POSITION IN REGARDS TO MILITARY FLYING (35:54)
WAR AEROPLANES AT THE PARIS AERONAUTICAL EXHIBITION, DECEMBER, 1911 (28:43)
WHAT EXISTING WAR AEROPLANES CAN ACTUALLY ACCOMPLISH (31:06)
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND PHOTOGRAPHY AS AIDS TO AERIAL RECONNAISSANCE (21:37)
DEVELOPMENT OF ALL-WEATHER WAR AEROPLANES (24:27)
THE TRAINING OF ARMY AIRMEN (40:41)
THE COST OF WAR AEROPLANES (33:23)
PROBLEM OF ARTILLERY FIRE AND THE AEROPLANE (24:57)
DESTRUCTIVE POTENTIALITIES OF WEIGHT-CARRYING AEROPLANES (17:31)
WAR IN THE AIR BETWEEN HOSTILE AEROPLANES (12:43)
VALUE OF THE AEROPLANE IN NAVAL WARFARE (14:15)
AERIAL WORK IN THE FRENCH AND GERMAN AUTUMN MANOEUVRES, 1911 (27:58)