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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: both may be put out of action readily, and the disablement of the
motive power of an enemy's craft, be it torpedo-boat, battleship,
or aeroplane, immediately places the same at the assailant's
mercy.
Nevertheless, of course, the disablement of the airman brings
about the desired end very effectively. It deprives the driving
force of its controlling hand; The aeroplane becomes like a ship
without a rudder: a vessel whose helmsman has been shot down. It
is unmanageable, and likely to become the sport of the element in
which it moves. It is for this reason that aviators have been
urged to direct their fire upon the men and mechanism of a
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