An interesting communication upon the same subject has just come to hand from the well-known correspondent of the _Chicago Daily News_, Mr. Edward Price Bell, in which he states that the British flying man is in the air every day between four and eight hours, constantly under fire. Ordinarily along the British front the flying men are in the air from two to three hours each day. Mr. Price Bell hits upon the basic reason for our superiority when he points out that our officers are always ‘hunting for trouble’ above the German lines, never declining a combat, and fighting, however outnumbered. Altogether he calculates that up to the latter part of 1916 British flying men on the Western front must have flown entirely over the enemy’s lines much more than a million miles. An officer of the Royal Flying Corps, also writing of the supremacy of the Allies, says: ‘Man for man, we undoubtedly are masters of the air on the west front. This fact I attribute to the mental and physical training we give our boys in England. Our youngest pilots have done wonderfully well. They learn quickly, are intensely keen, have great alertness of mind and act instinctively.’ ‘Our people have the tails up morally and mechanically,’ adds another, ‘and though they have plenty of fighting when they get to the other side of the lines, they are on the offensive all the time. The moral as well as the physical uplift is considerable, when one has a machine which will get above the German range of accurate fire in a quarter of an hour, and will do in or about 100 miles an hour when pushed. With such a machine one can attack and keep on attacking; and though perhaps not even the majority of our people are mounted on such machines, the worst machine at the front to-day is probably nearly as good as the best a year ago, and there are enough of the first-class machines to protect the weaker brethren. Despite all the errors of the past, our air service has certainly acquired dominance, if not absolute command, in the air, and for that fact very great credit is due to the officers who have so thoroughly reorganized affairs at the War Office, and who have so notably increased the performance and output of the machines now in use.’ The great improvement in the construction of machines for long-distance flying is particularly worthy of note. We have seen how Captain de Beauchamps, leaving France in the morning, flew in broad daylight as far as Munich, where he dropped bombs on the stations. Then turning at right angles towards the south, he flew over the whole of the Tyrol and crossed the Alps, to land at length 12½ miles north of Venice, in the village of Santa Dona, on the small River Piave, having journeyed without stopping a distance of about 700 kilometres.