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Lieut. R. B. Ritson, who this month took his brevet at the Bristol School at Brooklands, and gives every promise of being a very excellent flyer. No less than fourteen brevets have been taken at this school from the 6th of last month up to November 9th. made one short flight on the Y machine. Next day Hardman had out the Y machine, flew over Ince Woods and Sefton, attaining a height of 1,700 ft. Melly then, on the same machine, flew round Hightown and Crosby, reaching 2,500 ft. Birch also steered in the same direction, and circling several times Sefton reached a height of 4,100ft., and planed down in the neighbourhood of Seaforth. Shortly afterwards he took the machine up again, doing a variety of figures close to the hangars. Melly took out the Y machine first on Saturday to test the weather conditions, doing a series of figure eights. Birch then followed with the intention of beating his previous height, and heading straight for Southport, circled round it and back to Waterloo, a distance of about 35 miles. He, however, only attained a height of 3,000 ft., being constantly enveloped in mists and clouds, which prevented him seeing the land below him. Monday, Melly and Birch both out doing short flights to cor ect the balance, which had got a bit one-sided. London Aerodrome, Collindale Avenue, Hendon- m—-^ Grahame-White School.—Friday, last week, school started work at 8.10 a.m., under the supervision of Chief Pilot Noel, Lieut. Birch doing iomins. solo straights in a slight wind. At 8.20, Lieut. R. G. D. Small got in a little rolling practice on No. 7 biplane, afterwards taking straight instructive flights with Mr. Noel; later in the morning, Major Madocks and Lieut. Birch taking it in turn to do straight flights on the No. 7 'bus. Mr. Davies rolling for over an hour on 4B machine under instruction of Mr. Manton, and showing g<»od improvement. In the afternoon, Lieut. Birch doing circuits with Mr. Noel, and Mr. Carr afterwards doing straights with the same instructor. There was some good exhibition flying to be seen at the London Aerodrome on Friday afternoon. Mr. Noel was out on the 80-h.p. Farman biplane with a lady passenger, while Mr. Manton made several exhibition flights on No. 7 biplane. At 4 p.m., M. Pierre Verrier started out on his Maurice Farman machine for a cross country flight, which lasted over an hour, with a passenger. Saturday, Lieut. Birch and Major Madocks doing solo straights under instruction of Chief Pilot Noel in a slight wind, and Mr. Power rolling with Instructor Manton. Mr. Noel out trying new Grahame- White- Farman type two-seater biplane, which flew very well. People who visited the London Aerodrome on Sunday to witness good flying were not disappointed. The flying started punctually at 3 o'clock, Mr. Louis Noel making some fine exhibition flights and taking up several passengers on the 80-h.p. Henry Farman biplane. Mr. Desoutter was also to be seen making his usual high flights, as also Mrs. Stocks on a BWriot monoplane and Mr. Manton on No. 5 biplane. M. Pierre Verrier was also making fine flights on his Maurice Farman biplane, taking up several passengers, amongst whom was Mr. G. H. Mansfield. Aircraft Co. School- —Friday, last week, Verrier was out testing new Maurice Farman, with Clement Greswell as passenger, flying over surrounding country for forty minutes. Next day he was flying all the afternoon, carrying numerous passengers. Maurice Farman arrived at the aerodrome on Sunday, and was flying all the morning, making some very pretty flights. He carried Mrs. Holt Thomas and another lady for a short cross-country flight. He then handed the machine over to Verrier, who gave Mr. Mansfield a short spin round the aerodrome. During the afternoon Verrier was flying in his usual brilliant style with several passengers. On Monday, Verrier left Hendon, at 11.45, for Farnborough, with Clement Greswell as passenger, against a very strong head wind • he arrived there at 1 o'clock. In the course of the afternoon he paned the machine through the military testi l>efore handing it over to the factory officials. Blackburn School.—Owing to the very bad weather last week, the first opportunity for school work came on Friday morning, when at 7 a.m. Mr. H. Blackburn made a test flight of 10 mins. on the brevet machine, following which Messrs. Spink and Buss had each half an hour's practice. In the evening, Mr. H. Blackburn tested the air before Messrs. Buss and Spink did half an hour's practice each; then Mr. H. Blackburn brought out the newly reassembled rolling machine for a short flight. Several short flights by Mr. H. Blackburn were put in Saturday and Sunday morning. Mr. H. Blackburn took the brevet and rolling machines for test flights, after which Dr. Christie got in a very useful hour and a half of practice in straight flights and landings ; the control of the machine in the moderate side breeze entailed a lot of warp manipulation, which the pupil executed quite capably. Bleriot School.— No school work was possible during the early days of last week, owing to almost incessant wind and rain. On Friday, however, a large amount of practice was done by Messrs. Gandillon, Reilly and Clappen, all of whom are doing straight flights with confidence on LB. 3. M. Gandillon was first in the air, and did quite a good flight. Clappen then took over the machine, and, although somewhat heavy on the controls, is rapidly improving. Mr. Reilly is also making quite good progress, having not long joined the school, and also is not able to be at the ground on all occasions. On Saturday Mr. Clappen was doing straights, and is handling the machine much better. Another Oeperdussin pilot, Mr. Denis Ware, who obtained his brevet at Hendon recently on his first attempt on the Deperdussin brevet monoplane.
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