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which came down with some considerable force, and was very badly smashed. The pilot, however, was unhurt. In the mean while Hamel had ascended on his 80 h.p. Morane-Saulnier to a height of about 5,000 ft., and his movements were anxiously followed. Suddenly, when over the Welsh Harp, he made a nose dive, and then turned the machine upwards as if to make a loop, but he could not bring the nose over and the machine remained motionless with its tail downwards for nearly a second, and then slid tail first for about 1,000 ft. How he got the machine back again into its normal position was difficult to see, but he did, and started to climb again to his former height. When this was attained he made another attempt to loop the loop, and this time he appeared to succeed. The machine only just managed to turn over at the top of the loop, and, as far as we could see, came out of the inverted position by a side dive. Before he descended, Hamel made a sharply-banked turn, the upper wing-tip apparently passing over the vertical. As soon as using this star as a guide to the movements of the aeroplane, it was seen that the latter was drifting absolutely backward*. Turn ing out of the wind be drifted sideways across the aerodrome, and then turned the machine over and flew in this position for 12 sees., then righting the machine by means of a nose dive. He then made a loop, followed shortly by two more, finishing up with a loop at about 500 ft. from the ground. As he descended it was noticed that the tail of the machine was distinctly twisted in relation to ihe fuselage, which was undoubtedly due to the force of the wind. On landing, it was found that the tubular tail-stays had buckled, so further demonstrations were out of the question. No one grumbled, however, fori Hucks had given a magnificent display, and apprecia tion of this fact was enthusiastically demonstrated by the crowd. The proceedings of the day were brought to a close by some pas senger flights by Hamel on the 80 h.p. Bleriot— one of his pas sengers being the Countess Dudley—and Carr on the 100 h.p. 'bus, whilst several of the other pilots made short flights before turning in. *' Flight" Cupyngltf. Mr. B. C. Hucks before looping the loop at Hendon having his shoulder-straps fixed safely by his Manager, Mr. J. C. Savage. On Sunday, several exhibition and passenger flights were made in good but dull weather before a fairly large attendance. Gustav Hamel put up some more fine flights on his 80 h.p. Morane-Saulnier, executing several steep dives and vertical banks. He was aloft for about 20 mins., over West Hendon. Henri Salmet made his first flight on a Bleriot since his recent mishap. G. L. Temple and W. L. Brock also made flights on their Bleriots, the.former having to make a hurried descent owing to engine failure. The same thing happened on the day before, and on an examination being made of the engine it was found that some rivets had got inside the cylinders, how, remains to be seen. Other pilots out were :—R. H. Carr on the 100 h.p. G.W. 'bus with full complement of passengers, Louis Noel—who took a little boy and a little girl on the Maurice Farman —Pierre Verrier on the Maurice Farman, Philippe Marty and R. Slack on Morane-Saulniers, Marcus D. Manton and W, Kirchenough on G.-W. 'buses, and Whitehouse on the Handley Page biplane. Hamel landed, Hucks came out on his 50 h.p. Bleriol and commenced to climb. The engine was running much better on this occasion, an air bag having been fitted which kept up a constant air pressure for supplying the engine with petrol. It took Hucks some consider able time to reach an altitude of 3,000 ft., owing 10 the strong wind, which caused him to drift right over West Hendon, where he dived and turned the monoplane over on its back. He travelled in this position for a few seconds, and then righted the machine by means of a corkscrew-twist. He then started towards the centre of the aero drome, climbing all the time, but progressed so slowly that he was obliged to make a dive in order to make headway. At last, when about over the railway, he made three loops in succession from about 2,500 ft., falling 1,000 ft. in doing so. Then ensued a stiff fight with the wind in striving to regain a suitable position over the centre of the aerodrome. Watching him through a strong pair of glasses, the writer noticed a star in line with the tail of the machine ; 1321 C 2
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