Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1918 — HAVE LITTLE TIME TO THINK [ARTICLE]

HAVE LITTLE TIME TO THINK

Air Fighters Must Be Constantly “on Edge," and Not Infrequently Make Terrible Mistakes. Indicating some of the thrilling features of 8 battle in the air and to the death between belligerent fliers, one British pilot said: “When with an accompanying roar a German plane goes whirling down, dizzily groping for the crater-studded earth, its engine out of order, its mechanism out of action or one of its complements hors de combat, it is followed with the persistency of a hawk. “Sometimes the game is for one machine to make a sudden dive at another; sometimes It is to suddenly commence climbing out of an assailant’s reach; sometimes it is a case of trying to get the foe into the observer’s Held of fire; but whatever the idea may be for the moment, hunter and hunted are both in deadly earnest. “The slightest error of judgment may at any moment send him like a stone spinning to the earth, with a velocity that can only be described as terrible. In the mad excitement of the moment, time and again Hun plane has encountered Hum British, British, with results that need hardly be