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[/ycm] when it is ready for the market, he will enter into negotiations for carrying on their manufacture on a considerable scale. * • • Buzzwaggon—suggested as a new word for an aero plane, by an American friend, who is tired of calling a machine a 'bus. • • • There may shortly be another French pilot flying at Hendon, for I hear that the Aircraft Manufacturing Co. intend in a week or so's time to have Chevillard flying for them at Hendon, testing and demonstrating Henry Farman biplanes. Chevillard has been flying in France for Farman for quite a considerable time, and most of his work has been done at Buc. • • * An interesting exhibit at the forthcoming Olympia Aero Show will be the 160-h.p. Gnome-engined Deperdussin monocoque, on which Vedrines flew to victory in the Gordon-Bennett Cup Race of 1912. It will be shown on the stand of the British Deperdussin Aeroplane Co., Ltd. • • • No doubt by the time Mr. Grahame-White returns to England he will find that his health has benefited considerably, for at St. Moritz, where he is taking a holiday, he has been entering whole-heartedly into the sports that are generally indulged in at such winter resorts. Quite at home on an aeroplane, it seems that he is equally at home on a bobsleigh, for early in this month, on the day that the St. Moritz Bobsleighing Club opened its season, he completed the run in a minute and a quarter, which was the fastest time for the day. Since then he has been doing the run daily, and has a record of 1 min. 6TV sees, to his credit. Mrs. Grahame-White was almost invariably a member of his "crew." • « • It is rather interesting that both Drexel and M. Santos Dumont were staying at the same hotel as Mr. and Mrs. Grahame-White. • • • Readers, I know, will regret to hear of the death of Mr. Harold Barlow, who passed away a few days ago at Bournemouth. He will be remembered as the sports man, hailing from New Zealand, who developed such a keenness for aviation that he awarded cash prizes to the value of ^400 to be competed for in connection with the Aerial Derby last year. -At the same time be bought from the Grahame-White Aviation Co., their 70-h.p. Nieuport two-seater and their old 50-h.p. baby biplane. Incidentally, so taken did he become with B. C. Hucks' manner of piloting that he paid that same firm no less than ^1,000 to release Hucks from his contract with them. Shortly afterwards Mr. Barlow bought a new Bleriot two-seater, on which Hucks flew him back as a passenger from Paris to Hendon. It is that same machine that Hucks has used ever since in his flights in connection with the Daily Mail. But it is now his own property, he having purchased it from Mr. Barlow some few weeks back. • • • I often wonder why the Shoreham aerodrome is not more popular than it is. They have, perhaps, had a fair amount of flying there during the past year, but not JANUARY 25, 1913. nearly so much as they might have had, considering the facilities the ground offers. It is not quite so near London as most people would like, but it is not a thousand miles from Brighton, where you can get quite as much fun as you can up in town here, if you know the right way to go about it. That at any rate is a point that is to be considered where young and frisky pupils are concerned. The ground itself is about as smooth and flat as any you could wish for, and there's the great blessing that there is a station—Bungalow Town halt— not two minutes' walk from the sheds. * • • At the present time the Avro school with four biplanes is at work there, and getting on for a dozen pupils are busy, when the weather suits, going through their tuition under the direction of Mr. Sims, who flew for his ticket at Brooklands. Other shed-holders are Lieut. Burga, of the Peruvian Navy, whose monoplane has gone back to the Avro works to undergo alterations, and Mr. England, who is experimenting with a biplane. • • • Last Sunday, braving a gale of wind and a sky that threatened much rain, I went out to the Shoreham ground with a friend. The walk from the station was not a long one, but we were heartily glad to settle down in low cane chairs in the extremely comfortable new club pavilion that has lately been erected, and, before a blazing fire, to partake of hot toast and steaming tea at the invitation of Mr. Henry Gonne, the Secretary. It must have come as a very gratifying send-off to the private limited company, into which the Avro organisation has just been turned, to receive a further order from the War Office for five 50-h.p. Gnome-engined single-seater biplanes. This order comes in addition to the four that were ordered not many weeks since. By the way, they are still on the look out for larger premises, so if anyone, reading this paragraph, knows of a fair-sized works suitable for aeroplane construction, situated conveniently near any of our best-known aerodromes, no doubt Mr. H. V. Roe will be thankful for any suggestions they could offer. • • * Mr. Harry Preston, managing director of the Royal York and the Albion hotels at Brighton, both of them well known to the aviation fraternity, is really one of the most charming men one could hope to meet in a day's march. Being stranded there after the Brighton-Shoreham Aero Club dinner, on Saturday last, with dress clothes that I did not particularly want to wear on the Sunday, he fixed me up with a lounge suit that, although it was skin tight, and threatened to burst at every step, was, none the less, much to be thankful for. He is particularly keen on aviation, and has most exciting recollections of a passenger flight he had with Mr. Grahame-White when the latter was giving hydro-biplane exhibitions there at Brighton last summer. • • • He told me that he intends to invest in a hydro-biplane of his own shortly, so that the guests at his hotels, and others for that matter, may have exceptional facilities of experiencing the joys of water-flying. The machine he has his eyes on is one that Messrs. Saunders, the cele brated yacht builders of Cowes, are turning out at the
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