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an exhibition, a man who was evidently turning over in his mind whether or not he would pay to go inside, went up to him and said, " Waal, if yer airship don't go no higher than the fence, it won't be worth four bits, an' if it does, I can 'see it fer nothin." * * " • Following on four years of sheer hard work in aviation, Mr. Claude Grahame-White is taking, with Mrs. Grahame- White, a month's respite from his labours, at St. Moritz. He certainly deserves it too, for from the date he deter mined to negotiate with Bleriot for the purchase of his first machine—the two-seater side-by-side under-slung " White Eagle," with a 6o-h.p. E.N.V. engine—he seems never to have rested a moment from putting the whole of his remarkable energy in the work he had decided to take up. For some little while past he has not been enjoying his usual good health. Let me express the hope that he will come back from his holiday thoroughly fit and well, and ready, if need be, to start another four years of strenuous exertion. Henri Salmet, as well, is having a good long rest after the hard work he did during the past season in flying 5,000 miles in all sorts of weather on behalf of the Daily Mail. He tells me that he hopes to start flying again in the early spring. It is not generally known that, last year, flying from town to town on his tour, he made repeated appeals to the crowds that watched him, on behalf of the local hospitals. By his thoughtfulness in this respect he was able to hand over to the various charities no less a sum than ^180. In his flights this year it is his intention to double, and possibly treble, that amount. Paulhan has been flying again. Last Sunday afternoon, on the Seine, at Bezons, he was carrying out tests on a new Curtiss flying boat of which he had just received delivery from Hammondsport, U.S.A. The machine was just unpacked, erected, run down the slipway into the river, the engine started and away he flew without ® ® AERONAUTICS AT BY way of whetting the appetite for the Aero Show at Olympia, which is due to open on February 14th, the temporary collection of Aeronautic Exhibits which is on view during the present month, at the Science Museum, South Kensington, should serve a useful purpose. Although, to the casual visitor, the exhibition may not seem a very extensive one, the authorities have, by careful discrimi nation, and with the assistance of the Royal Aero Club, the Aero nautical Society of Great Britain, the Royal Aircraft Factory, the National Physical Laboratory and the Meteorological Office, got together a most interesting collection, illustrating the history of aeronautics as well as the research side of the science, while the visitor who is not content unless he "can see the wheels go round," will also not go away disappointed. Just before entering the gallery, one notices one of the large Cody kites and also the basket of a balloon. Suspended along the roof of the gallery are the Pilcher and Lilienthal gliders, a Chanute type of glider, a model of Sir Hiram Maxim's first machine, and the model made by Henson and Stringfellow in 1844. Perhaps the exhibit which will interest most visitors is Mr. Ogilvie's Baby Wright machine, mounted so that the various controls can be studied, while a full-sized Birdling monoplane has been lent ® ® The Navy's First Air Station Established. WITH the official announcement of its personnel, which appears elsewhere in this issue, the Isle of Grain Air Station, situated at the mouth of the River Thames, has come into official existence as the first of the chain of aviation centres which the Admiralty propose to establish along the East Coast. JANUARY 4, 1913. any delay for adjustment of any kind. Fitted with an 80-h.p. water-cooled Curtiss motor, the machine showed its ability to maintain a speed of over 60 miles an hour, with a pilot and passenger on board. The machine by itself, with petrol and oil aboard, weighs less than 1,150 lbs. *•••*•• As an expression of their appreciation towards Mr. Corbett-Wilson, the Irish aviator, the people of the City and County of Kilkenny have presented him with a valuable memento of his flights in that district in the form of a neatly made silver model of the Bleriot machine on which his flights have been carried out. • • • It will be readily understood that it is almost an im possibility to compile a retrospect of any year's progress without, unintentionally, missing or overlooking one or two events of importance. In the retrospect that we published in our last issue, a friend of mine has pointed out, we omitted to mention, in connection with the flights from England to Ireland, the excellent flight Mr. Vivian Hewitt made in crossing from Holyhead to Dublin. We hope Mr. Hewitt will excuse the omission. By the way, in a letter we had from him a week or so since, we learned that the machine on which he has done most of his flying up to the present has been thoroughly overhauled ; new wings are being fitted, and it is generally being got ready for another season's hard work. On behalf of the Editor and Editorial staff of FLIGHT, it is my pleasant duty to heartily thank all those many kind friends who sent to us the Season's Greetings and their best wishes for the continued success of the paper. Before me as I write there is a whole stack of them— from all parts of Great Britain, four others are dated from Australia, ten from the States, seven from Belgium— they come from all parts of the world. It would be impossible for us to reply to them individually. It is indeed very gratifying when it comes home to us in this way that so much interest is taken in our work. " OISEAU BLEU." ® ® SOUTH KENSINGTON. by Mr. F. K. McClean. There are also models of the Santos Dumont, Bleriot, H. Farman, Wright, and Short machines. Aeroplane engines are well represented in the 50-h.p. N.E.C. two-stroke engine from the Baby Wright machine, the 30-40-h.p. Green engine, shown in the Spencer airship frame in the lower gallery, the 60-h.p. Green engine, which won the Alexander prize in IQII, a 50-h.p. Gnome complete, and a similar motor taken to pieces, and the Antoinette motor which did duty in " Nulli Secundus." Dirigibles are represented by large models of the British Army and other airships, and one of the Short gas- valves from the ill-fated Naval airship. There is a working model of the wind-tunnel at the National Physical Laboratory, and photographs and diagrams of results of experiments made with it and other appliances at the N.P.L. Samples of the fabrics and mater als tested there are also on view. There is a good collection of instruments of various kinds, and one end of the room has been fitted up as a Meteorological station, where anemometers, wind recorders, &c, are seen in working order. Apart from the actual models, &c, there is a large assortment of photographs and diagrams illustrating various subjects, all of which will well repay study. ® ® British Airship Officer Takes His Ticket in France. ON December 20th, at the Maurice Farman School at Etampes, Commander E. A. Masterman, R.N., officer commanding the Naval Airship Section of the Royal Flying Corps, successfully passed the necessary tests for obtaining his pilot aviator's certificate. His practice was about the shortest on record. 14
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