Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1917 — Costly Warfare in Air. [ARTICLE]

Costly Warfare in Air.

Surprising conclusions are arrived at T by an aviation expert, who has been examining the airplane losses on the western front in- the last six months. “If we allow 20 machines wrecked to each one enemy destroyed,”*' he says, “we see at what a huge cost this war in the air is being conducted. The average cost of an airplane Is roughly about £I,OOO, so that at this rate the British loss in material has been approximately Over 4,000 machines months, costing £4,000,000; the French very nearly the same, while the Germans must have lost 13,320 machines. with a total value of about £13,320,000. It may be that the German loss is not quite so great as we have made out, because there appears to be less actual flying done by German pilots in proportion to their strength,"