Germany Rules The Air.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 15, 1913:
Leads World in Aerial War Craft — United States Is Fourteenth.
    WASHINGTON, April 14,— The United States stands fourteenth among the Nations of the world in number of Government-owned aeroplanes and in Government expenditures for aerial navigation in the last five years.
    Figures compiled under the direction of Brig. Gen. Scriven, chief signal officer of the army, show that Germany leads the world with 400 aeroplanes and a total expenditure of $28,000,000. The United States at present owns 28 aeroplanes and its expenditure amounts to $435,000.
    Other countries rank the United States in aeronautics in the following order: France, Russia, Italy and Austria, Great Britain, Belgium, Japan, Chile, Bulgaria, Greece, Spain, and Brazil.