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1912
1912 - 1018.PDF
AVIATION IN INDIA. Ey ERNEST ESDAILE. " MARKET " is undoubt edly the word that looms most emphatically in the vision of the manufac turer, and India is the best solution. Yet the happy marriage of pro duct and market in this connection is not quite so simple as might appear at first blush. Having motored throughout a great part of this interesting jewel in the Imperial Crown for the purpose of pre paring a report for presentation to the India Office, and having ar ranged the two chief aviation meetings out there, in Calcutta and FLYING IN INDIA.—Jules Tyck starting for the first flight in India at the Tollygunj Golf Club. Bangalore, I may, per haps, be permitted with out undue egotism to speak with some show of authority upon the matter. It is not quite fair to say, as I have seen it stated, that " a certain amount of flying has been done in India under the most unfavourable conditions possible, and generally on the most absurdly inadequate machines," because the Farman biplane of Baron de Caters, and the Bleriot monoplane with Gnome engine of Mons. Tyck were both excellent specimens of their kind, A group of officials, &o, who were associated with the first public flight in India at Tollyguni on Dicember 28 [h, 1910.—From left to right, bottom row: Mr. Jameson, Baron de Caters, Sir Moore O'Creagh (Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army in 1910), and Mr. Ernest Esdaile. Top row: Mr. Sen, Capt. Barge, Mrs. Sen (sister of the late Maharaia of Cooch Behar. and the first woman to fly in India), Jules Tyck, Jean Tyck, and Lieut. W. Lawrence, who is now attached to the Royal Flying Corps. I0l8
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