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1913 - 0640.PDF
I/OGHTJ JUNE 21, 1913- FLYING AT HENDON. ON Thursday of last week several exhibition and passenger flights were made in the afternoon and evening prior to the night flying demonstration. At 3 o'clock Louis Noel took up a passenger on the Grahame-White-Maurice Farman biplane, Pierre Verrier ascending soon after, also with a passenger, on the Aircraft-Maurice Farman. Later on Marcus D. Manton made a passenger flight on the Grahame-White biplane. M. Baumann was the next up on the 35 h.p. Anzani-Caudron biplane, flying high as usual; G. L. Temple also made a nice flight on his 35 h.p. Caudron. H. M. Brock and Jules Nardini were both out on Deperdussin monoplanes. Marcus D. Manton then ascended on the 50 h.p. Grahame-White 'bus after which E. Cheeseman took over the same machine. JNoel went up at about the same time, and both pilots circled the aero drome for some time ; Cheeseman landed with a fine volplane, which looked very effective in the dark. Preparations were then made for "blowing up" the battleship which had been erected at the far end of 'he aerodrome, looking very realistic with the search-lights playing on it. Manton, accompanied by Capt. Tyrer, and minus the C.A.V. accumulators used for illuminating the biplane, started off first. The machine not having any lights, it " Flight" Copyright. The Refreshment Pavilions at the London Aerodrome, Hendon, which have proved such a splendid boon to visitors to this popular resort. At the top left is the Shilling Enclosure Cafe, on the right the Sixpenny Enclosure Cafe, and below is the Half-Crown Enclosure Tea Pavilion. A fine 30 min. flight, at a height of about 1,000 ft., was made by J. L. Hall on his 50 h.p. BleViot monoplane. At about 6 o'clock E. Cheeseman made a flight on the 50 h.p. Grahame-White biplane, and later R. T. Gates gave an exhibition flight. In the evening J. L. Hall went up again on his Bleriot with Capt. Tyrer perched up behind him on the fuselage ; they remained up for about 10 mins., making very creditable banks. After this, Claude Grahame-White went up in the Maurice Farman, Louis Noel going up in the same machine later on ; G. L. Temple made two mote flights, including some well-judged switchbacks, before returning the machine to its hangar. By this time it was getting quite dark, and the enclosures were all illuminated. Noel made the first demonstration on the Maurice Farman, decked out with tiny electric lamps, which he kept switching on and off. Nardini followed immediately after on his 50 h.p. Gnome - Deperdussin monoplane, also illuminated. was very difficult to follow its movements, and it was only when over the battleship in the path of the search-lights that the biplane could be seen. Capt. Tyrer got in one bomb which burst just astern of the battleship, the second shot hit, but missfired. Manton then had great difficulty in keeping the machine up, so thought it wise to land, which he did in the bad part of the ground with the result that in taxying the machine along the ground they hit a bump and smashed the chassis. In the meanwhile Noel and Nardini ascended on the Maurice Farman biplane and the Deperdussin monoplane respectively, and finished off the battleship. A firework display brought the night's entertainment to a conclusion. NORTH LONDON DAY MEETING. On the Saturday following the first of a series of London meetings was held, this occasion being devoted to North London. The Lord Start for the Cross-Country Race 666 on on Saturday. 'Flig pyrin*.
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