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MAY 31, 1913 •stiffish wicd blowing, Lieut. Carmichael was out on H. Karo.an 274, testing the weather. Afterwards Lieut. Carmichael led the way to Perham Downs for the review, getting to a height of 1,800 ft. very •quickly. He was followed by Lieut. Roupell, on H. Farman 286, Major Higgins, D.S.O., on H. Farman 277, Sergt. Ridd, on M. Farman 216, Capt. Connor, on M. Farman 270. Major Sykes -and Major Brooke-Popham watched the departure of the machines, which arrived back safely during the afternoon. In the evening Lieuts. Cholmondeley and Carmichael, on H. Far man 274, made several useful flights, generally with passengers. Lieut. Small made •two flights on M. Farman 270, Lieut. Roupell on II. Farman 286, Major Higgins, D.S.O., made one flight on 286 and two others on H. Farman 277- On Friday Lieut. Cholmondeley on H. Farman 274 made half a •dozen high flights with passengers, and later Lieut. Carmichael was piloting the machine. Major Higgins, D.S.O., on H. Karman 377, made three flights, including one to Upavon and back. Lieut. Small was on M. Farman 270 for three-quarters of an hour, and then tcok up Mechanic Hunter on M. Farman 269, while Lieut. •Conren was piloting M. Farman 216. Lieut. Roupell was about to start on H. Farman 286 with a passenger, when a spanner, which had been left on the plane, was drawn into the propeller, and broke it. Lieut. Porter arrived from Lichfield Common on M. Farman 4269, and Major Brooke - Popham arrived from Farnborough on BE 204, on which Major Higgins, D.S.O., later made a flight. On Saturday morning, Major Higgins, D.S.O., and Major Brooke- Popham were out several times on BE biplane 204. Lieut. Roupell put up three flights on H. Farman 277, and Lieut. Carmlchael on Henry Farman 274 also made three trips. Major Higgins, D.S.O., then took over 274, taking up for 20 mins. Master Thomas Bannister to a height of 2,000 ft. On Monday, Lieut. Small out on ® ® HENDON Two events are down on the programme for the Wilbur Wright Memorial Day Meeting, which opens to-day (Saturday) at 3 p.m. The first of these is a cross-country handicap, open to all types of aeroplanes, and the other event is a grand speed handicap. The Grahame-VVhite Aviation Co. Ltd., are presenting a trophy and money prizes for both these events. One of the features of the past Hendon meetings has been the large number of cars present. On several occasions they have been lined up four deep in the enclosure. The last Aeiial Derby Day •created a record in this respect, the enclosures beirg filled with cars to overflowing, so to speak. In order to cope with this matter satisfactorily, especially on Saturday next—the day fixed for the Second Aerial Derby — the paddock has been considerably •extended, providing for a much larger number of cars. Although the London Aerodrome is already a world-famous institution, and I believe I am light in saying that there is nothing like it in any other ccuntiy, every week sees some fresh improve ments added to this popular London lendezvous. The whole of the telephone system at the aercdrome has been re-installed, so that one can now telephone from various paits of the ground. Another addition that is being made is the equipment cf a small hospital where minor injuiies, &C, can be dealt with on the spot. When I first saw the Caudron biplane it struck me as not being all that could be defired for observation purposes, for both pilot .and passenger appeared to be boxed up somewhat sitting midway between the planes as they are. However, I had the pleasure of a trip with Lewis Turner on the " 60" last Saturday, and I was surprised at the exceptionally fine view all round one get*-, and considering the smallness of this splendid little biplane, there is •comparatively plenty of room. » ® Br ght n and Aviation. BRIGHTON is promised plepty of flying this season, for Mr. Magnus Volk has many schemes in his head. Unfortunately the Radley-England waierplane came to grief on Monday, when Mr. •Gordon England attempted a right-hand turn too near the water. The pilot's boat struck, and a piece was knocked right out of the bottom. The machine Legan to sink rather rapidly, .and Mr. Harry Preston's motor yacht, as well as motor boats, put « ff to the rescue immediately. When they reached the •machine, only the top plane was visible, Mr. England and the passenger sitting on the edge. However, everything was rescued, and Mr. England explained to FLIGHT correspondei.t that he was quite unaware that he was so close to the sea, otherwise he would not have banked. The water was as clear as glass. The Avro 'bus should be over by to-day (Saturday), but she appears to tie somewhat under-powered. Mr. Pashley flew over on Sunday, M. Farman ai6 with Air-Mechanic Hobby for flying tuition to Upavon and back. Capt. Mellor on ai6, with CorpL Amy as pa.«stnger, and later with Cot pi. Crocker. Lieut. Cholmondeley made two flights on 11. Farman 274. In the evening Lieut. Roupell was on H. Farman 286, and took Major Higgins over to Farnboroogh, from whence Major Higgins returned in biplane BE 20S. Lieut. Roupell look ofl in H. Karman 286 for Salisbury, but came down owing to leaky petrol tank at Overton. Lieut. Cholmondeley on H. Karman 274, with Lieut. Ctl michael as passenger, did i$ hrs. scouting practice. Lieut. Allen, on H. Farman 277, made two flights. Lieut. Glenvill and Capt. Mellor were on M. Farman 216. Major Higgins made 3 flight* on BE 203, with Lieut. Wadham and Lieut. Anderson. Capt. Daibi- shire arrived from Famborough on BE biplane 320, having had a good time. Lieut. James also made a flight on BE 220, with Mr. Hemming as passenger. Tuesday morning, Major Higgi&t made half a dozen flights, one on BE 203, and the others on BE 104. Lieut. Cholmondeley made several good flights on H. Farman 277, and some experiments in observing artillery firing were carried out on Knighton Downs. Lieut. Allen, on H. I-arman 277, with Lieut. Ander.-on made five flights. Lieut. James was out on BF Jio with officers as passengers using wireless telegraphy. Sussex County Aero Club (Shorcham). Saturday.—After Raynham had the Avro school machine out for circuits, Gaskell practised straights. Rolshoven did some circuits, and Eric I'ashley had a passenger up taking photographs. On Sunday morning, E. Pashley up with passenger and landed at Roedean, returning in the evening. On Monday, E. Pashley went with passenger to Bognor, landing on the sand. They returned following morning. The Avro waterplane has been assembled, and was to have been launched this week. ® « NOTES. If you want a pleasant sensation on a warm sunny day when you feel particularly lazy, have a vol patnaiv on the Maurice Farman biplane. Here you get the real sensation of floating on air. The engine is throttled down until it almost stops so that the roar practically ceases, and seated in the comfortable armchair seat forned by the petrol tank you feel as if you could enjoy a quiet snooze. At least, that was something like what I fell when I went up with Louis Noel in the G.-W. M. Farman the other day. I noticed a rather funny thing on this occasion. Peing busily engaged in watching how my pilot " worked the show " (which he does with all the skill one could wish for), I had not noticed to what height we had risen, so I just looked over the side. There were three cows standing alongside some bushes, and judging from the srze of these quadrupeds, I put our height at barely 100 ft. A doubt however was in my mind and upon closer investigation the " cows" turned out to be 20 ft. high advertisements for somebody's milk and the bushes were trees. So we wen something more than 100 ft. up ! Rene Desoutter, who recently qualified for a pilot certificate at the Bleiiot School, is the elder brother of Marcel Desoutter, the well-known Hendon pilot. Refine taking to flying he and his two brothers were connected with one of the leading English model aeroplane firms, and it was they who, with barely 24 hours' notice, made the two biplane models which adorned the table at the dinner given to Paulhan in lx>ndon after his famous flight to Manchester. Rene Desoutter was also interested for gome time in the construc tion of motor cycles. Like his brother, he proved a very apt pupil, and incidentally he was the twentieth pupil to go through the Bleriot school at Hendon without a single smash. VEE JAY. ® ® landing on the hills east of Brighton, On Monday he went to Bognor taking Mr. Geere (Avro pilot) as passenger. He returned to the aerodrome Tuesday morning. At Brooklands To-day, Saturday. BROOKI.AKI>S habitues are expected to roll up in great numbers to witness attempts on the British altitude record by Mr. Hamel (80-h.p. liorel monoplane), Mr. Gordon Bell (120-h.p. Martin- Handasyde monoplane), and Mr. Hawker (80-h.p. Gnome-Sopwith tractor biplane), and others, in the afternoon and evening. ,£50 is effered by the B.A.R.C. to anyone breaking the record, which is at pretent held by Mr. de Haviland (10,650 ft.). On this day, too, the Associates of the Royal Automobile Club have their Gala and Gymkhana, in addition to which four free pas senger flights are to be balloted for by the Royal Automobile Club memljers. S95
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