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AUGUST IO, 1912. l/usilll Three more Bristol School men who have secured their brevets—Capt. Nicholas, Lieut. Atkinson, and Mr. Pickles. type of Army machine quite well, made several flights on factory 'bus. Lieut. Longcroft several flights on BE 4, one flight at 1,000 ft., Capt. Rayleigh on Breguet B 3, Mr. de Havilland on BE 3, Capt. Reynolds on Henry Farman while taxying on flying track broke propeller. Early Saturday weather good but misty. Major Burke on BE I, Capt. Mackworth on BE 4, Lieut. Longcroft on BE 3, all flying well. Mr. de Havilland on factory 'bus, later on Breguet B 3. Fine exhibition of flying Monday by Mr. de Havilland on BE 2. Watched by a large crowd of visitors. Tuesday early Capt. Rayleigh on Breguet B 3, Major Burke and passenger on BE I, Major Moss on Henry Farman, all flying well in spite of gusty wind. London Aerodrome, Colllndale Avenue, Hendon. Grahame- White School.—Haifa gale most of the past week, so not very much doing. Wednesday morning gusty, but calm compared with previous days. School out at 4.15 and Mr. Cholmondeley and Capt. Salmond out for circuits. Then Mr. Wynne went for straights with Mr. Blackburn, followed by Commander Yeats-Brown solus. Then Mr. Cholmondeley and Capt. Salmond out for their brevet tests, both passing on No. 7—good work this, for No. 7 is an extra strong school machine, and is very heavy. After this, Lieuts. Allen and Stopford out for straights with Mr. Blackburn. School out at 7.40 Thursday evening. Lieut. Rathborne, Mr. Wynne, Lieut. Allen, Lieut. Stopford and Mr. Fuller up in turn with Mr. Blackburn for straights. Friday, school out at 6.20 a.m., when fog cleared. Lieut. Rathborne making good straights, followed by Mr. Wynne and Lieut. Stopford, also doing straights alone. Then Lieut. Allen attempted same for first time, but was rather unsteady and finished with a " pancake," which drove chassis into lower plane—machine in fact suffering pretty badly. Bleriot School.—In between showers of rain, the school managed to put in a small amount of work on Friday evening last week. Messrs. Hall, Sacchi and Welburn each doing straights on LB 2. Next day no school work possible outside, but Mr. F. M. T. Reilly, a new pupil, was trying the controls of the machines inside the sheds, prior to doing more active work outside as soon as the weather improves. Deperdussin School.—No flying Monday and Tuesday last week, too wet and windy. Wednesday morning, Lieut. Tucker, Mr. Andrews, and Lieut. Hooper all out on taxi for about 20 minutes. Lieut. Hooper got tail too high and broke skid and propeller. No flying in evening because of wind. Thursday again no school work, too windy, but next day Lieuts. Brock and Harrison each did six straight flights on brevet machine. Very good neat landings. Mr. Hooper and Lieut. Andrews each did three tarns on taxi, both making excellent progress. Lieut. Gill doing circuits on racer and trial straights on brevet. In the evening Lieuts. Brock and Harrison doing good straights on brevet for half an hour. Lieuts. Hooper and Andrews both doing good work on taxi. Lieut. Gill trial run on brevet. Saturday, Lieuts. Brock and Harrison doing right and left-hand turns on brevet, and making excellent progress. Lieuts. Hooper, Andrews and Hawker three turns each on taxi. All doing well. Lieut. Gill four circuits on racer, and trial run on brevet. Monday and Tuesday, no flying, too windy. Salisbury Plain. Royal Flying Corps.—On the evening of Tuesday week Capt. Hamilton was out on the Depedussin and did seveial circuits with passengers. He was followed by Major Brooke-Popham on the Avro biplane, also making several circuits with passengers. These same officers were doing similar work on Wednesday morning. No further flying was possible until Thursday evening when Major Brooke-Popham made a short trial on the Avro. On Friday morning Major Brooke-Popham started work on the Avro biplane taking up several pas sengers and the next out were Capt. Hamilton on the Deperdussin and Lieuts. Hartree and Porter and McCudden on biplane F 7. The Nieuport mono plane B 4 arrived from Farnborough piloted by Barrington-Kennett with a passenger, the time for the trip being 35 minutes. Capt. Hamilton after wards made three further flights with passengers and Adjutant Barrington-Kennett went for a long trip on the Nieuport with a passenger. Serjt. Ridd made a wide circuit on biplane F 7, and Major Brooke-Popham several passenger trips on the Avro. Lieut. Conner had a run on the Nieuport B 4 around Bulford Camp, Salisbury, and the outskirts of Devizes. McCudden finished the day's work with a flight on biplane F 7. On Saturday morning Lieut. Conner with a pupil flew to Knighton flagstaff on B 4 Nieuport. Lieut. Hartree made one flight on F 7, and Lieut. Porter made several on it, in one with Lieut. Hartree as passenger, going over to Tidworth and back. While taxying the machine back, the left aileron caught a post and was broken and so put an end to flying until the evening, when two Maurice Farman biplanes, one equipped with a quick-firing gun, arrived ifrom the Central Flying School. One of these machines flew back late in the evening, when Capt. Hamilton was out on the Deperdussin and Major Brooke-Popham on the Avro biplane. There was no flying on Sunday or Monday morning, but in the evening Major Brooke-Popham made one five minutes' flight on the Avro, but it was too windy for further outdoor work. On Tuesday morning, Capt. Hamilton on the Deperdussin, Major Brooke-Popham on the Avro, and Lieut. Porter on F 7 all made some good circuits. • Flight" Copyright. Slg. Jules Nardini, who is now well known through his fine flying at Hendon. 731
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