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1911
1911 - 1040.PDF
Lieut. Dunne Is seen in the left-hand view making a low flight at Eastchurch on his biplane. just alighting after a flight on the Short twin-engined machine. On the right Mr. McClean Fleming was first out, testing, afterwards taking up Warren as passenger ; whilst Gordon did two sets of two figures of eight, and Ben well flew two circuits. In the afternoon Gordon made two circuits in rather a gusty wind, which got up after a perfecily calm morning. Pizey then went out on No. 65, which had just been fitted with new plugs. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday were all blank days owing to the bad weather. Sunday for most of the day also proved bad, but Pizey and Gordon ventured out over Weybridge foraquarter-of-an-hour flight. Gordon put in some figures of 8, and Pizey carried as passengers, Longcroft. Capt. Raleigh, and Gibson. Lawrence indulged in some straight flights, and Kemp on the Flanders did four circuits. On Monday there was a dead calm, but owing to the fog little was doing, only Bristols and the Flanders being out. The latter was taken up by A. Dukinfield-Jones, who lost his bearings in the fog, and, when skimming over the grass, found himself confronted by the fence round the aerodrome, over which he jumped in the hope of landing on the track. This he failed to do, probably owing to the fact that he has had practically no practice on this machine before, landing on the road to the paddock, with a bump which buckled the wheels, broke several struts, one wing-tip, and the pro peller. Considering the force of the landing and the rough condition of the ground, remarkably little damage was done. The machine is now being dismantled completely for a thorough over haul. Pizey went out on the Bristol with Longcroft, and Gordon was doing circuits. Then Fleming, with Longcroft holding lever, took a turn, and Gordon did half the tests for his certificate, flying beautifully. In the afternoon, Fleming climbed to 1,200 ft., and finished off with a fine spiral vol plan4. Pizey followed suit with Game, getting up to 1,300 ft. Kemp was at work again on the Vickers, putting in circuits at a good altitude in excellent style. On Tuesday Pizey took up Game, Fleming carried Longcroft, and Gordon was flying circuits in the afternoon. Sopwith gave the repaired Martin-Handasyde a bit of a spin over two circuits, whilst Hitchcock was out on the Spencer, and Raynham on the Viale-Avro. Filton (Bristol) Flying Ground. MR. HOTCHKISS was testing a Bristol biplane on Saturday last, bought by Lieut. Harford for use in India. He found it to be working perfectly. London Aerodrome, Collindale Avenue, Hendon. Grahame-White School.—The weather was more or less favour able on the Wednesday of last week, and this enabled Fowler to take out the school Farman in the early morning and indulge in a spell of practice. During the afternoon R. T. Gates used the Gnome- Farman for about half an hour, making straight and semi-circular flights from one end of the aerodrome to the other. No further field work was done until the 27th, when Fowler resumed his practising on the school Farman, making straight flights and landing well. From this date idleness, as far as practical flying was concerned, was enforced, owing to the fog, wind and bad weather generally. However, on Wednesday morning both Fowler and Raphaite had control of one of the instruction machines, and both performed short flights. Valkyrie School.—On Wednesday last week the fog haying cleared off during the morning, the school pilot made a trial flight on the school machine, before allowing pupil-s to go out. He completed several circuits, and terminated the flight with a nice volplane, with engine completely stopped. Busk, the latest pupil to join the Valkyrie School, then mounted the machine and got half-an-hour's practice, making several successful flights. Meantime, Mr. Barber ascended on the Valkyrie racer, and for twenty minutes carried out many effective evolutions in the air, finally landing with a clever spiral descent. Capt. Loraine immediately set out on the Gnome-Valkyrie No. 10, and put up a really attractive exhibition, including numerous spiral vol planes and sharp turns. Having been in the air for half an hour, he terminated his flight with a long glide, landing perfectly in front of the hangars. Later, the wind increased considerably, and during the remainder of the week wind and fog held sway alternately. LIEUT. SAMSON, R.N., AND HIS BLERIOT AT THE R.Ae.CS EASTCHURCH GROUNDS.—On the right Lieut. Samson is making circuits on the machine. IO42
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