--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 21 number: 6 published: 1918-04 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “An Air Battle in Progress,” *Improvement Era* 21, no. 6 (April 1918): 488." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2106unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera2106unse start_page: 488 end_page: 488 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1918-04) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2106unse publication_year: 1918 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1918, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # An Air Battle in Progress An air battle in progress. — Photographs of the actual maneuvering of the battle-planes in the realms above, have been extremely few, and have not shown in any sense the graphic tenseness of an actual air fight that is shown in this photograph. The French plane at the top is maneuvering for position preparatory to swooping down on its German adversary. After a short but thrilling machine gun duel, the Frenchman in this case, it is reported, suc- ceeded in downing the Teuton. The photo was made by an observer in another French battleplane. This wonderful photograph illustrates how the warplanes are handled in battle. Often to get over the enemy, French planes seem to climb directly upward and then make a sudden swoop downward to get the enemy.