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\fi]5m Farman 3 mins. 22 sees.); G. L. Temple, 50h.p. Bleriot monoplane 3 mins. 10 sees.); W. L. Brock, 80 h. p. Bleriot (1 min. 30 sees.); R Marty, 50 h.p. Morane-Saulnier (38 sees.) ; and R. Slack with passenger on the 80 h.p. Morane-Saulnier (scratch). With all these machines the air was full of aeroplanes. Three of the competitors, however, Manton, Temple and Birchenough, were unable to complete the course, but the remaining machines came in very close together. The first man in was Louis Noel, followed about a minute after by Brock and Marty. When crossing the line Marty made a strenuous attempt to obtain second place, and darted underneath Brock, who was no higher than No. I pylon, in an astonishing manner, only losing second place by two-fifths of a second. Verrier was the next man in, some twenty seconds behind Marty and three seconds ahead of Slack. The last two to arrive home were Baumann and Carr. In addition to the races the usual exhibitions took place, including a demonstra tion by Grahame-White on the aerial char-a-bancs. ® @ FROM THE BRITISH Royal Aero Club Eastchurch Flylnjr Grounds. Lieut. Spenser Grey, R.N., commanding the Calshot Naval Air Base, near Portsmouth, visited the aerodrome on Tuesday, last week, on a Gnome-Sopwith biplane, accompanied by an E.R.A. as mechanic. He arrived about 12 a.m. via Dover, and, after a leak in the petrol tank had been put right, and oil and petrol replenished, he left again at 3 p.m. in rather gusty weather, his intention being to return home via London. Commander Samson has been very busily engaged in instructional work on Short No. 2, several E.R.A.'s being under tuition for their brevets. Leading-Seaman Bateman, who has made several flights during the past week on the reconstructed Maurice Farman, flies with excellent judgment and landings. Com. Samson, Lieuts. Osmond, Finch Noyes, Miley, Rainey, &c, Sub-Lieuts. Fierce, Young, Littleton and Capt. Barnby have been putting in plenty of practice this week on Shorts, Deperdussins, Avro, &c. Mr. Gordon Bell is at Eastchurch again, and on Wednesday successfully put a new Short biplane through the Admiralty acceptance tests in very fine style, Lieut. Clarke Hall being the observer during the test. OCTOBER 4, 1913. The next day, Sunday, saw an even greater crowd than on the Saturday, and a very large number of flights were made during the afternoon. The most notable feature about these flights was the number of passengers taken up, which was considerably over fifty There was, in fact, a regular queue of people outside 'the office under the Stand." Most of these passengers, too, were ladies, and included Miss Marie Dainton, who was one of a large party from «'I Should Worry." The proceedings were opened at 2.30 sharp by Manton, Noel, Carr and Birchenough on the Grahame- White machines, Marty, Brock and Temple following shortly after on the Morane-Saulnier and Bleriot monoplanes respectively. Gustav Hamel put up some fine stunt flying on his Derby Morane- Saulnier, and B. C. Hucks also put up some very fine flying on the "Tornado." The little white Caudron was also aloft at several thousand feet piloted by F. Goodden. Late in the evening Claude Grahame- White made a passenger flight in the Maurice Farman, and Temple ascended to 5,000 ft. in his Bleriot, descending with a fine volplane,. ® ® FLYING GROUNDS. Mr. W. H. S. Garnett, who has just successfully taken his ticket on a 50 h.p. tandem Bristol monoplane at Salisbury Plain. Both Mr. McCIean and Prof. Huntingdon had their respective machines out on Sunday last, McCIean flying well at a good height, while Prof. Huntingdon completed several circuits, but at no great distance from the ground. Mr. Maurice Wright has had his glider out a number of times during the week, and together with Mr. Nichol and Mr. Wanklyn several quite good glides from the hill have been made. Wheels have been fitted to the skids. The glider behaves splendidly, and up to the present there have been no serious smashes. Eng.-Lieut. Briggs on a Gnome-Bleriot and Lieut. Davis on the Sopwith arrived from the Army Manoeuvres on Friday night. The weather conditions during the past week for the most part being very favourable for flying, due advantage has been taken of it, starting at 6 a.m. Brooklands Aerodrome. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday thousands of people flocked to Brooklands to witness the upside down flying demonstrations on the Bleriot by Monsieur Pegoud. On the Thursday, Mr. Hamel (on his racing Morane-Saulnier monoplane) and Mr. Hucks (on his two-seater Bleriot monoplane) flew over from Hendon; whilst on Friday (on the Hendon aero 'bus) came Messrs. Grahame-White, Carr, Chapman and Lorthy, and Mr. and Mrs. Gates; and M. Marty on the Maurice Farman biplane; Louis Noel (carrying Marcel Desoutter as a passenger); Brock on his Bleriot ; Baumann on the Caudron—all of whom returned to Hendon the same day accompanied by Mr. Hamel. On Saturday, Mr. Hamel came over with Miss Trehawke Davies in that lady's two-seater Bleriot. Every airman of note was present on either or all of the three days. At intervals on the Thursday, Friday and Saturday, exhibition flights were given by Messrs. Hamel, Raynham, Hawker, Merriam, Verrier and Hucks. A large number of passengers booked flights with the various pilots each day until dusk. On Sunday there was again a good attendance, the ballot for the free passenger flight being won by Mr. W. Horsey, of the Post Office, New Hall, Addlestone, who was taken up by Mr. Merriam on the Bristol biplane, Mr. Raynham was the first out on his new Avro tractor biplane, and gave a very fine exhibition flight, his machine climbing easily to an altitude of 9,900 ft. in 30 mins., the descent with engine shut off being made in 10 mins. Only the extreme cold prevented Mr. Raynham going higher. Fine exhibition flights were also given by Mr. Hawker on the Sopwith biplane, and by Mr. Merriam on the Bristol biplane, both of them carrying a number of passengers at different times. Mr. Orr Pater*on was out on both the No. 5 Vickers and the Bleriot monoplane, which he flew extremely well. A number of Vickers pupils were also flying the No. 5 machine. The Vickers cross-country aeroplane handicap was postponed until next Sunday owing to the absence of Mr. Barnwell, and the illness of one of the other pilots, but an interesting alighting competition was held in which the competitors had to Climb to 1,000 ft., shut off their engine, and land on a given mark. This was won by Mr. Raynham on the Avro biplane, who reached 1,500 ft., Mr. Mernam being second on the Bristol biplane. A record entry has been received for the Aeroplane Handicap on October 4th, amongst the machines entered being 2 Sopwith tractor biplanes, 2 Avro biplanes, 6 Vickers machines (3 mono planes and 3 biplanes), 2 Bristol biplanes, and the Parsons biplane. Mr. Pemberton Billing has added to his aerial stud by the purchase of the 70-h.p. Gnome Parsons biplane. Mr. Jack Alcock has been engaged by Mr. Coatalen to test the 150-h.p. Sunbeam engine on the Maurice Farman biplane recently delivered at Brooklands, and this machine is expected out about the middle of next week. 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