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JANUARY 4, 1913. [ftJGHT CERTIFICATE, 'f MrLRIT cz,u>cLrded to 4crT bus sC<yrJnci/yuJtl*w/^c^^ /hich, as we announced some time age, -we intend to award to those who s character. Each certificate is accompanied by a small money prize of 5s. :ist on the staff cf FLIGHT, and the certificates are printed in sepia ire awarded solely for contributions that are published in FLIGHT; they ies. The first certificate has been awarded to Mr. G. H. Kilshaw, of on page 23). We purposely publish the contribution unedited, with its mdard that we desire to encourage. Ordinarily all sketches that are sent for publication purposes. machine later at Lark Hill, for it had been designed to comply with the conditions of the Military Aeroplane Competition there, but it was not able to take part in the tests for the reason that the engine for which the biplane had been designed was not ready for use. Terrible bad luck that, for the machine was universally acknowledged to be one of the most promising of all the various types of aeroplanes gathered there. Since then I have seen that same machine lying forlorn, and still engineless, in the Flanders shed at Brooklands. • • • After he had got over the brunt of work in connection with the delivery to the War Office of the four monoplanes they ordered from his company, Mr. Flanders has had some time of late to attend to his biplane. A fortnight ago to-day he obtained delivery of an engine for it, a 40-h.p. A.B.C., and by the next day, Sunday, the machine was ready to go out on its tests. Mr. Raynham flew it successfully at the first time of asking, and later on he actually carried two passengers besides himself. The flying speed of the machine was about 50 miles an hour, and considering that the machine itself was by no means a light one, and that it had been originally designed to fly at 85 miles an hour with an engine of 120-h.p., its performance can be considered as most noteworthy. Unfortunately last Sunday the machine got somewhat disintegrated through Raynham trying conclusions with an iron fence. Encountering a rather bad eddy, his engine at the same time suddenly took it into its head to switch itself off, and he had to make a hurried landing, which, had it not been for the iron railings, would have been successful. » • • But as Raynham himself was not hurt a bit, and as the damage to the machine was for the most part confined to the planes, no great amount of harm was done, for Mr. Flanders had intended to fit new planes of a much greater camber, to suit the lower horse-power of the engine in use at the present time. • * • While drawing attention to this excellent performance, we must not forget that the British-built engine—a 40-h p. A.B.C.—that enabled it to be accomplished has to be given its share of the credit. • * • The next week or two should see the arrival of a new Blackburn monoplane at Hendon. It will be an all-steel machine and fitted with a roo-h.p. Anzani motor. Lieut. Spencer Grey, I have heard, will fly this machine through its preliminary tests. • • • From Frank Champion, an early Hendon pupil of the Bleriot school, who returned to America to fly there, I have had another of his unusually interesting letters. He is, he explains, " laying off " for a while previous to going on the road again with his monoplane early in February, when he will start a tour in Texas. He has just finished a season with the Moisant Co., and, taking it all through, he finds he hasn't a great deal to grumble at, for he has made about 127 flights without even so much as breaking a wire, although he had to fly from some grounds which varied in size, as he puts it, from a postage stamp upwards. He has a story to tell. Wandering around outside a ground at Helena, Arkansas, where he was due to make 13
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