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[/QGHTI JANUARY 14, 1911. FROM THE BRITISH FLYING GROUNDS, SSSK-:i:fti*j4*^SS*^:5''W:'J^S!Kti'?^5 Capt. Burke in flight at Aldershot on the British Army Farman biplane during the first successful flight and before the mishap to the machine. Laffan's Plain. THE Farman machine which was purchased by the War Office was delivered at the balloon factory, South Farnborough, last week. Capt. Burke, who gained his certificate in France, also arrived to- pilot the machine, On Saturday morning Capt. Burke, RE., made his first flight, THE DE HAVILLAND ARMY BIPLANE.—View showing Mr. G. de Havllland—now a member of the War Office mechanical staff—in the pilot's seat on the occasion of the machine's successful flight at Farnborough on Tuesday last. Readers of FLIGHT are well acquainted with the pioneer work carried out by this designer, whose first machine was illustrated In these pages on April 9th, 1910. 28
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