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with the handling of the older biplane of the same type which has now been in use at the school for some time. XXX The list of flying schools already established at Hendon has received a new addition in that opened recently by Mr. E. Prosser, who has done a great amount of flying in various parts of the country, and who has lately been acting as instructor at the Caudron school, where he has put several pupils through their paces with gratifying success. Mr. Prosser's 'bus is also of the Candron type, and is fitted with a 45 h.p. Anzani engine, which has run, Mr. Prosser informs me, without a hitch ever since he first installed it in his machine. One of the great advantages of this engine is that it can be throttled down to run very slowly. Later on it is intended to add another machine to the fleet. XXX A further batch of news is to hand from Mr. Delfosse Badgery, the Australian agent for the G.A.C., dealing with his latest activities on his Australian-built Anzani- engined biplane, which was described in these pages recently. On August 12th last he made a cross-country flight from Moss Vale to Goulburn, a dis ance of 49 miles. At the latter place he later gave some very suc cessful flights. The following is an extract from a letter sent by Mr. Badgery to the Delfosse Badgery Aviation Co., in which he describes his trip :— "At 10 minutes to 7 a,m., I had the aeroplane in the straight near the house, and at 7 I gave the signal, and all hands let go. It was interesting for me, because the 'bus had her tanks brim-full. It made no difference to her marvellous lifting power, however, and two circuits of Mewbury was sufficient to give a mean altitude of 1,500 ft., which grew from there to Carrick, where I had attained 12,000 ft. to descend, as I was beginning to lose the use of my hands, owing to the intense cold. " Not long after this the engine back-fired for some time, and the unftred gas discharging it into the exhaust pipe was fired by the other explosions entering, and this gave rise to a series of loud reports just like huge pistol shots. The Hanriot monoplane flying at Hendon Aerodrome on a recent Saturday. OCTOBER 16, 1914. The Governor-General and the State Governor of New South Wales reading the official message from the Governor of Victoria just handed to them by M. Guiliaux after his arrival at Sydney from Melbourne in July. Guillaux's actual flying time was 9 hrs. 15 mine, giving an average speed of about 64 m.p.h. " I have heard since a small boy ran into one house and said that there was a 'haroplane lettin'off' crackers coming this way. " My entrance to the town was at 8,000 ft.—rather sorry I was to lose that other 4,000—but I could not stand the cold. _ "After leaving home behind, the smoke of the limited express was visible about at Kareela, so I steered for that part of the globe direct, where I afterwards picked up the railway line, like a pencil track in amongst a dense forest. It was then that I saw the smoke of the second express, emerging from the hills on to the plain near Carrick. The country was beautiful; Marulan was approaching me slowly on the left, and with the altimetre creeping round over the thousands a feeling of more security came over me, as I knew then that all the dangerous country was passed over. " Goulburn itself was now very distinct ; could see it well, and would have been able to tell it was a big town in a strange land, and yet I was 20 miles away. " A huge vol plant concluded my flight." xxx A very welcome visitor to Hendon last week was Mr. Frank Goodden, who arrived by way of what is un doubtedly his natural element—the air—and mounted on what is apparently his particular type of machine—a B.E.—for judging from the way he handled it he was never more at home in any of the various 'buses he has flown than he is in the product of the R.A.F. I learn that Goodden is very enthusiastic about his new mount. I call to mind an occasion when Goodden treated me to a lecture, in his typical terse way, on the advantage of having a good set of instruments to guide the aviator, and I should imagine that in the B.E. he has found his ideal in this respect, for I notice that these machines are uncommonly well equipped with " gadgets " of various sorts. XXX To the already considerable number of private schools that have been taken over by the authorities since the commencement of the war has now been added that of the Eastbourne Aviation Co., which has, Mr. Fowler informs me, been acquired by the Admiralty for the training of Probationary Flight Sub-Lieutenants. In consequence the Eastbourne Aviation Co. cannot, for the time being, undertake the tuition of private pupils. 1 he location of this school renders it admirably suited tor instruction purposes, since the ground is close to the sea and pupils can therefore be taught both over-land and over-sea flying. Mr. Fowler's capabilities as an
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