More important it it that the Germans, adhering to the mass formation attacks used by Richthofen in the last war, are using out-of-date tactics. Until, their encounters with French and British airmen there was nothing to suggest that these tactics were wrong, but now in practice against the small agile formation of the British ana French the German methods are clumsy and comparatively easily out manoeuvres, At a recent demonstration of concentrated fire on. a sandbank by a single British fighter, the bullets were described as churning up the sand like foam.
But the German machínes are now being armed in like manner, Also they have self-sealing petrol tanks, in which a bullet hole automatically closes up, and the hulls are apparently armoured. At any rate it is more dificult to down them than it was,
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