escadrille

Life in the escadrille was glamorous and deadly.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2016

After the United States entered the conflict, the escadrille was absorbed into the American air service, and today its members are considered the godfathers of the U.S.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2016

“I don’t think Prince minded going,” fellow escadrille pilot James R. McConnell wrote.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2016

World War II's escadrille is the American Eagle Squadron, quietly recruited and energized by Colonel Charles Sweeney, a U. S. soldier of fortune who fought in the Foreign Legion last time.

From Time Magazine Archive

The escadrille had only just reached its new station, when Guynemer had to go into hospital, whence he wrote his father on July 18 as follows: Dear Father: Knocked out again.

From Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air by Louise Morgan Sill

Each group consists of dirigibles and aeroplane "escadrilles," and is fully equipped with establishments, etc.

From Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1913 by Various

The fighting enemy escadrilles, with their new series of machines and their improvements, won for a few days the complete mastery of the air.

From Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air by Louise Morgan Sill

The airplanes are organized in escadrilles, usually composed of ten machines each, for three distinct purposes.

From Italy at War and the Allies in the West by E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell

But these airplanes, while doing this special work, must be protected by patrolling escadrilles.

From Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air by Louise Morgan Sill

For instance, it is stated that there were thirty escadrilles of Bleriot monoplanes together with pilots at the front, in addition to thirty mixed escadrilles of the other prohibited types with their fliers.

From Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot