Air Stories, April 1936 — page 5: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

ato tee hoe Pash ory 9 ba =e baa hs BRING ’EM BACK ALIVE! When Sergeant Westringham Introduced the ** Funk, Hole ’’ System to the R.F.C. it was Generally Agreed to be the Neatest and most Efficient Method ever Devised for the Destruction of Enemy Aircraft. And not the least Remarkable Features of this Amazing System were that it Rendered Guns Superfluous and Inflicted no Greater Hurt on its Victims than a Severe Shaking-up and Chronic Loss of Temper By WILFRID TREMELLEN Lieutenant, R.A.F. (retired) CHAPTER I The Funk-Hole System HE ‘‘ Funk-Hole’’ System was the neatest method for the destruc- tion of Hun aircraft that had so far been devised. That, at all events, was what we thought in our squadron. And other squadrons must have been of similar opinion, or they would never have sent their representatives to listen, take notes, pinch a free lunch off us, and return home to copy the idea for themselves. For the fame of the system had spread ; before it had been in use with us for a fortnight nine Huns, destroyed by the Funk-Hole method alone, had been added to the squadron ‘* game-book.’’ A peculiar aspect of the system’ was that the ‘‘ dudder ’”’ the pilot who made use of it, the more successful he seemed to be. Before long there was not a camp-bed in the squadron whose rough brown army blankets were not hidden from sight during the daytime by a 291 CoOmiclboolks (Cl QO)