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I/SUP FEBRUARY 26, 1910. THE SANDERS AEROPLANE. THE SANDERS AEROPLANE MISHAP.—Two views of the biplane taken immediately after the fall. LAST week we recorded the mishap to the Sanders aeroplane, and we are now able to give some photographs of the " incident." Captain Sanders, of the London Aeroplane and Aerial Navigation Co., has been working very quietly in conjunc tion with Messrs. J. W. Brooke and Co., Ltd., of Lowestoft, on this biplane on the Benacre Denes, about 5 miles from Lowestoft, and has gradually built up this machine to a successful issue, a number of flights having been carried out from time to time. The accident, which took place at 8 o'clock in the morning, was not the outcome of any fault of the machine or the motor. As we stated last week, it was owing to the close proximity of some coastguard telephone poles, the tip end of one of the wings catching the top of one of these poles, and so bringing the machine right round and com pletely upsetting the balance. The motor used in this bi plane is a 30-h.p. Brooke, and weighs as much as 240 lbs., as after building several engines for flight purposes, Messrs. J. W. Brooke and Co. came to the conclusion that it was better to sacrifice lightness to obtain reliability. Captain Sanders has looked after the engine himself for several months without any trouble, and intends using the same engine in his new aeroplane. The Sanders machine weighs in flying order 1,100 lbs. THE SANDERS AEROPLANE MISHAP.—A few moments after the crash, Capt. Sanders standing by the machine. Note the splintered spar which passed through Capt. Sanders' clothing, fortunately without injuring him. Bristol as a Flying Centre. PRESIDING at a meeting of the Bristol Tramways Company last week Sir George White, Bart., said that for some time he and his brother had been giving their attention to aviation, which seemed to offer promise of development at no distant date, and they had determined to endeavour to develop the science both from the spectacular and the manufacturing point of view. They had already ordered three aeroplanes with a view to testing them, and when they have decided which is best they hoped to start a factory at Bristol. Probably public demon strations would be held during the coming summer, and this ought to secure for the tramways a new and important source of revenue, as they would take care to ensure that the demonstration ground was alongside the tramway lines. The flying meetings should attract great crowds to Bristol, which would benefit thereby. A School Magazine—" Aviation." OFTEN as we have advocated the popularisation of aeronautic study and experiment with the younger generation, who are now preparing in our schools for the work of life a decade or so ahead, we have never before the present week received a real school magazine devoted exclusively to this fascinating subject of human flight, written, reproduced, and circulated by some of the boys themselves. The magazine in question hails from the Liverpool College, and its sheets are printed by C. H. Rowed, the Editor, on a hectograph which he made himself; while in addition to a full page of sketches—of the Bleriot monoplane—the illustrations include a photograph of Mr. Cody's biplane awaiting trial at Eccleston Park. Its printed cover, which bears the- name of "The Park Press," gives, moreover, quite a business-like air to this enterprising " monthly." 138
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