....................................................... FIFTH SECTION ENGLAND’S POSITION IN REGARDS TO MILITARY FLYING .... I. Lessons which were ignored—Work of the Parliamentary Aerial Defence Committee. .............................................. II. Policy of "moving cautiously"—Peril of lagging behind in aerial armament. ................................................ III. The financial aspect—Money England is spending—The airship policy—Insufficient provision for aeroplanes. ................... IV. Dangers of a policy of "drift"—Experience which money cannot buy—Trained men, not so much as machines, the criterion of strength. ....................................................... V. England’s official awakening—The training of 100 airmen—The forthcoming trials of military machines. ........................ SIXTH SECTION WAR AEROPLANES AT THE PARIS AERONAUTICAL EXHIBITION, DECEMBER, 1911 .................................................... I. Latest-type military monoplanes—Two-seated, reconnoitring machines—Single-seated, high-speed aircraft. .................... II. Latest developments in biplane construction—The engine-in-front, weight-carrying machine. ....................... III. Healthy position of the French industry—What England has lacked—Danger of neglecting home builders. ...................... SEVENTH SECTION WHAT EXISTING WAR AEROPLANES CAN ACTUALLY ACCOMPLISH I. Plight of a Commander-in-Chief without an aeroplane corps—The work of cavalry reconnaissance. ................................. II. Work of a squadron of air-scouts described—Tasks of the pilot and observer—Combined reconnaissance by many machines—Effect of aeroplanes upon tactics. ........................................ III. Other uses of the war aeroplane—Surveying—Dispatch-carrying—Directing gun-fire—Transport of staff officers. .............................................. EIGHTH SECTION WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND PHOTOGRAPHY AS AIDS TO AERIAL RECONNAISSANCE .................................................... I. First tests and successes with wireless telegraphy—Difficulty of equipping an aeroplane with transmitting plant. .............. II. French triumphs with wireless telegraphy—Messages sent over a distance of thirty-five miles. .................................. III. Practical uses of wireless upon aeroplanes—England’s lack of effort. ......................................................... IV. Photography from a war aeroplane—The use of special automatic cameras. ........................................................ NINTH SECTION DEVELOPMENT OF ALL-WEATHER WAR AEROPLANES ........... I. Flights in thirty-five-mile-an-hour winds—Arguments of sceptics—What the great contests of 1911 proved. ................ II.