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I/ycHf] (M.W.) sends me along the following letter:—" May I put you right in respect to an article in ' Eddies' re Barrs and Lillywhite? I hope A.E.B. is by this time well on the road to recovery, and as for Jack Lillywhite he has nevar been in France, yet, as a matter of fact, if I am not giving away secrets, he is by this time flying a Henry Farman in Egypt, where he and Sergeant Foggin went some time ago, and as far as I know he is O.K. and still doing great work, if reports are true." I sincerely trust that my informant is correct in his statement of Lillywhite's whereabouts, and I hope that inadvertently I have not caused any unnecessary anxiety to his many friends. To set the matter definitely at rest, I shall greatly appreciate a communication from Lillywhite himself, proving unquestionably that he is well, if any readers are able to assist in this direction. XXX Aproposoithe death of Marc Pourpe,which was reported recently, his many friends will be glad to know that I hear from a friend in France that as a matter of fact this was not the result of an aerodrome accident. According to a source, which should be well informed, Pourpe was found dead with his passenger about 10 miles from his base after two hours' flying over the German lines. It is believed he was wounded in a fight with a hostile machine, as empty cartridge cases were found in the fuselage, and a rifle was in the passenger's hands. The report about the machine side-slipping while turning is not believed, as Pourpe was too well acquainted with the Morane-Parasol which he was flying. XXX News reaches us again of the doings of Mr. Delfosse Badgery, who has been giving numerous exhibition flights in various portions of the Southern Hemisphere. The latest accounts of his evolutions appear in the Tasmanian Mail, whose reporter has evidently still a good deal to learn about aeroplanes, to judge from his more JANUARY I, 1915. picturesque than technically correct descriptions of Mr. Delfosse Badgery's exploits. According to the above- mentioned paper, Mr. Badgery had arranged to give demonstrations, which incidentally were the first to be given in public in Tasmania, at the show ground at Elwick. After chronicling the notabilities present at the meeting in the approved style, this valuable journal pro ceeds to describe the first flight, in the following words :— " After a considerable wait, the machine, a biplane of the Cordarian type (!) driven by a 45 h.p. Anzani motor, was pulled out from under its canvas tent on to the oval, running along the ground easily on its rubber-tired chassis wheels, and the City Band played ' See the conquering hero comes.' The airman, clad in black rubber overalls and the regulation tight-fitting, bonnet-shape head-gear of the same material, took his seat on the biplane. The tractor screw (unlike the monoplane, the biplane screw acts as a tractor in front, instead of as a propeller) having been set spinning round, the four men holding the machine back released their grip, and the machine instantly shot forward, ran along the ground about 30 or 40 yards, then rose rapidly and gracefully, like a soaring bird over the land, in the direction of Glenorchy." XXX After a description of Mr. Delfosse Badgery's first flight the reporter then relates the aviator's experiences while aloft: " Meanwhile a slight scudding shower had come on, and he said it was raining hard and very cold up above, that the raindrops hit him in the face severely, and the wind he found to be very trying, wbilethe freezingwind- pockets quite baffled him during his few minutes aloft." Ah, well, there is no doubt that Delfosse Badgery gets a lot of fun out of his pioneer work, which (referring to the latter, of course), it is to be hoped, will go a long way towards opening the eyes of our antipodean cousins as to the possibilities of the aeroplane. " ;£OLUS." ® ® The latest Curtiss biplane, of which we gave details in our issue of December 11th, in full flight. "With a 90 h.p. Curtiss motor this machine is claimed to have a speed range of from 40 to 90 miles per hour. \2
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