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(/ycHf Eric Conran, and Mr. H. James each made six straight flights on the same machine. These three pupils are flying the Caudron excellently, and ought very soon to increase the number of Caudron brevets. Ouite a good morning's work was got in on Sunday. M. Baumann got some splendid results on the school monoplane, with Mr. L. Russell rolling and hopping and Mr. Lawford making several fine flights and good landings from 20 ft. Mr. Pickles made a short test flight on the 35 Caudron, after which he handed the machine over to Capt. Chamier, who made six very fine straight flights, keeping the biplane absolutely steady in the air and landing well. Lieut. Eric Conran and Mr. H. James thereafter put in several fine flights on the same machine. Jameson and TempU School.—The school officially opened on Wednesday last week, when G. L. Temple, the first pupil, who will be remembered as a racing motor-cyclist, received instruction in controls. Following up on Thursday with constructional work in hangar, weather being too rough for flying practice. Next day he was rolling on Bleriot, and made some excellent straights, appearing to have the machine well under control for a novice, improving further on Monday last, including turns in excellent form. Salisbury Plain. Bristol School,—On Monday, last week, weather too bad for flying first thing ; later, Harrison out for trial, and then with Messrs. Greig and Penfold and Lieuts. Sabri, Aziz, Fethe and Solvet. In the afternoon Harrison took Capt. Lucina on biplane, and then trial solo side-by-side monoplane. Pizey out for solo on same machine, afterwards taking Lieut. Hall, Capt. Lucina, and Lieuts. Sabri and Fethe. Lieut. Hall, fine solo on one of the tandem monoplanes ; good landing. Geoffrey England giving in struction to Lieuts. Sabri, Fezel, Solvet, Aziz and Fethe on biplane. Busteed testing two new monoplanes just recently assembled. Harrison made test, Mr. Lywood as passenger, on Tuesday, but found conditions too bad. Pizey out for trial Wednesday, and then with Mr. Lywood on side-by-side monoplane, afterwards with Mr. Lywood and Prince Cantacuzene. Harrison taking out Capt. Lucina on biplane, then with Lieuts. Sabri, Aziz, Fezel, Fethe, and Abdullah. Busteed made two excellent flights on new machine, climbing quickly, and showing the machine possessed of fine speed. Lieut. Hall made good trip on tandem monoplane, landing well. Jullerot first trial in the evening, taking Mr. Lywood and Lieuts. Sabri, Abdullah, Fethe, Aziz, and Fezel. On Thursday, Harrison'.out for test, and then with Capts. Williams and Kunhardt. Pizey made solo on side-by-side monoplane, then making long flight with Prince Cantacuzene on same machine. Busteed was up for a number of circuits on one of the new Bristols, making really fine flights and England was busy taking up Lieuts. Aziz, Fethe, and Abdullah. Jullerot on tandem monoplane for solo, then with Lieuts. Abdullah and Sabri. Good solos were made by Lieuts. Sabri, Safet, Fethe, and Fezel, whilst Lieuts. Parker and Grace were also out for trips, all on biplanes. Prince Cantacuzene was out >TES ROYAL FLYING CORPS. THE following appointments were announced in the London Gazette of the 4th inst. :— Spjciil Reserve of Officers. Royal Flying Corps. Military Wing. —To be Second Lieuts. (on probation), dated October 5th, 1912, Henry de Grey Warter and Edward Keith Davies. Competition at Brooklands. FOR this Saturday afternoon a bomb-dropping and alighting competition has been arranged to take place at Brooklands, for which half-a-dozen biplane pilots have entered, including T. Sopwith (Sopwith), F. W. Merriam (Bristol), H. Barnwell (Farman), S. Hedley (Sopwith), H. Spencer (Spencer), E. C. Pashley (Sommer). For to-morrow (Sunday) afternoon an altitude test is arranged, in which the entries are G. Sabelli and S. P. Sippe on Hanriots, R. Macdonald on the Vickers, F. P. Raynham on the Flanders, G. H, llandasyde on the Martin-Handasyde, together with the above biplanes, with the exception of Pashley's. The Forthcoming Exhibition at Olympla. THERE will be one distinction about the forthcoming Aero Show at Olympia in that it will be entirely given over to aeronautic exhibits, whereas hitherto it has been combined with a show of marine motors and boats. The exhibition will be run on inter national lines, and it is hoped that the exhibits will include, in addition to the British machines, all the leading foreign makes, so that mmy people will b: relieved from the necessity of going to OCTOBER 12, 1912. for a long flight on tandem monoplane, putting up remarkably fine performance. Very little flying on Friday morning, weather unfavourable. Good work in the evening, Pizey starting things by ascending on side-by-side monoplane with Lieuts. Sabn, Fethe, Fezel, Abdullah, and then with Prince Cantacuzene on tandem machine. Capt. Williams was then taken up on biplane for couple circuits, after wards Lieut. Safet on tandem monoplane. Harrison busy giving two flights to Lieut. Shakelton and then to Capt. Williams; Kunhardt and Penfield also; one trip to Lieut. Parker. England was giving biplane tuition trips to Capts. Williams and Kunhardt and Lieut. Aziz, and on monoplane with Lieut. Sabri. Jullerot took Lieut. Sabri for tuition on monoplane and Lieut. Abdullah on biplane. Good solos were made by iLieuts. Aziz, Fezel, Sabri, Fethe, Grace and Parker. Capt. Lucina and Mr. Lywood each made two trips whilst on side-by-side monoplane, Prince Cantacuzene two good flights landing perfectly. Mr. Smith Barry also on same machine flying well. Mr. Bettington three good solos on monoplane each lasting 15 minutes, landing well every time. Lieut. Hall fine trip on side-by-side machine. Busteed occupied in testing new machines putting them through tests. On Saturday, Pizey, as usual, first up, taking Lieut. Tapple for tuition, and then Capts. Penfold and Kunhardt. Harrison solo on side-by-side monoplane and biplane tuition to Capts. Williams, Kunhardt and Penfold. Jullerot, trial of monoplane, and then with Capt. Lucina (2), Lieut. Parker and Mr. Lywood. Mr. Bettington out on monoplane for fully 20 minutes making good flight. Jullerot trial in the evening on side-by-side monoplane, and then taking up Capt. Penfold on one of the tandem machines. Pizey was out with Capt. Kunhardt in side-by-side, and also Prince Cantacuzene. Harrison was out on biplane for two instructional flights with Capt. Penfold, and then twice each with Capts. Williams and Kunhardt and Shakelton. Mr. Lywood made a good flight on biplane with right and left- hand turns although weather rather bad. Mr. Bettington was out on one of the tandem monoplanes and put up a very clever show. Prince Cantacuzene also carried out a good solo on side-by-side. Mr. Smith Barry bringing work to a close by ascending on side-by- side and making an excellent flight, showing himself to be a splendid pilot. No flying Sunday. Royal Flying Corps.—The two factory-built biplanes, one with Gnome motor and the other with Renault engine, and the Maurice Farman machine, have been kept very busy during the past week or so, and on Saturday, for instance, despite the wintry conditions, Major Brooke-Popham and Lieut. Wadham made ten flights, mostly with one or two passengers each time. Some fairly high flying has been indulged in, and 2,000 ft. is now quite a usual altitude. Among those seen in the air have been Capts. Dawes and Allen, Lieuts. Ashton, Porter, Fox ; and some very good work has been done on the Maurice Farman biplane by Sergt. Ridd and Private McCudden. On Monday, Mr. Cody passed over Larkhill about 8.30 a.m., flying at a height of 2,000 ft. ® ® ® ® Paris for the Salon. In addition to aeroplanes, it is proposed to have hydro-aeroplanes, hangars, &c, on exhibition, while special arrangements will be made for the model flying, cinematograph displays, &c The Naval Twin-Engine Monoplane. THE twin-engine system has recently been installed on a monoplane built by Messrs. Short Bros., and during tests made by Commander Samson at Eastchurch, the machine, which has two 70-h. p. Gnome engines, performed very satisfactorily. Flying at Carlingnose. THE first flights in connection with the new Naval Aviation Station at Carlingnose on the Firth of Forth were made on the 2nd inst. Both Commander Samson on a 100-h.p. Short tractor biplane and Capt. Gordon on a 70-h.p. Short biplane made flights over the Firth from Inchkeith Island to Leith, but both pilots were much troubled by the strong wind. Similar trials were made on the following day when Lieut. Hewlett was also out on the Farman hydro-aeroplane, and the three aviators made some experiments in locating a trio of submerged submarines in the Firth of Forth. Commander Samson was in the air during one trip for an hour and thirty-five minutes, while Capt. Gordon was up still longer. On the 4th inst., an exciting incident occurred when Capt. Gordon's machine capsized, and both he and his passenger got a ducking. They were picked up by a boat from a destroyer, which also towed the machine back to shore. 920
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