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Friday, Mr. Hill out on No. i machine making a. number of good straights and Lieut. Blythe 6 good straights. Messrs. Cook (6 mins.), Snook (6), Furlong (4), Hamer (9), Snowdon (7), Bayley (6), Hatchman(io), Booker (8) and Snook (7). Saturday, Lieut. Blythe 6 straight flights and 2 half circuits, and Mr. Hill 4 straight flights and 3 half circuits. Furlong 6 straight flights, and Messrs. Mitchell (5 mins.) and Hamer (8) rolling. Sunday, Lieut. Blythe 6 straight flights and 2 half circuits, Hill 3 straight flights and 3 half circuits, and Minot4 straight flights. Lieut. Jowett rolling (16 mins.). London and Provincial Aviation Co.—Tuesday last week Monsieur Deschamps circuits and eights ; then took good ticket. Messrs. Irwing, Redgrave Gumner and Bell rolling. Messrs. Hubbard, McCauley, and Turner straights. Mr. Allen half circuits. Wednesday, Messrs. Irwing, Redgrave Gumner and Bell rolling. Messrs. Turner and Tranchomme straights. Mr. Allen half circuits. Friday, Mr. Allen circuits, Messrs. Turner and Tran chomme straights. Messrs. Bell, Irwing and Redgrave Gumner rolling. Saturday, Messrs. Turner and Tranchomme straights. Messrs. Bell, Irwing and Redgrave Gumner rolling. Ruffy-Baumann School.—An excellent amount of work was accomplished last week at this school, all the machines from the 60 h.p. down to the 45 h.p. being in fine flying trim. Tuesday Mr. Roobaert passed for a fine ticket, and being a Belgian subject has returned to Belgium for war service. He was a splendid flyer, and should make good. Sykes, Jackson, England, Blandy, and Cole were out on this day, and were all showing up well. Later, Jackson passed for brevet in very good style, landing well on the mark and doing good vol plane. Wednesday, pupils were all satisfied with amount ot ® ® ® ® EDDIES. practice received, and besides Mr. Hudson another gentleman enrolled for extra practice. Friday, also saw much work on the 60 h.p. Gnome Caudron, and the 45 h.p. Anzani Caudron was well used, Sykes, Cole and Blandy being in good form. Saturday and Sunday, many passengers were carried during the day, and a great deal of school work was got through. Messrs. May progressing well. One of the new 60 hp. Caudrons is Hearing com pletion, and should be out very shortly. Three pupils ready for tickets at time of writing (May 17th). School instructors : Baumann, Ruffy, James, Virgilio, and Winchester. Northern Aircraft Co„ Ltd. The Seaplane School, Windermere.—Flying on Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday last week. Instructors: Messrs. W. R. Ding, C. L. Pashley, and J. Lankester Parker. Practice with instructors ! Flight Lieut. L. L. Atherton (20 mins), Probationary Flight Sub-Lieuts. R. M. Clifford (23), W. L. Graham (28), L. W. Hodges (31), J. D. Hume (18), C. Perrett (.16), F. R. Laver (18), Messrs. C. A. Barber (16), W. Laidler (15), N. K. Lawton (59), 1). S. C. Macaskie (54), F. H. M. Macintyre (9), G. M. Part (9), H. P. Reid (9), H. Robinson (38), G. L. Railton (77), J. F. Ridgway fra). S.J. Sibley (27), H. Slingsby (15), E. R.Yates (57), Flight Lieut. L. L. Atherton, Messrs, H. Slingsby, G. L. Railton and H. P. Reid doing straights. Iugures of eight: R. Buck out for ticket, but rising wind prevented continuance. N.A.C. Avro dual control, 50 Gnome, and N.A.C. Propeller, 80 Gnome, were the machines in use. Messrs. Ding, Pashley and Parker out testing or giving demonstration flights. Mr. C. Fleming Williams delivered an illustrated technical lecture on " Internal Combustion Engines," after which students were conducted round the works and shown the various applications of theoretical findings. AMONG the many well-known aviators who have signified their intention of taking part in the proposed American National Aeroplane Competition that is down to start on July 4th, I find one name that is familiar to all readers of FLIGHT, to wit, W. L. Brock. At the time of writing nothing definitely is decided as to what machine he will pilot, but I should not be in the least surprised to hear that he will be at the wheel of one of his own design. I well remember one day last summer discussing the possi bilities and future of aviation in America with Brock. He had already then designed a promising little biplane, the drawings of which I got a look at. At the time he had not been able to make satisfactory arrangements with any American firm, but as across the pond things aviatic are seemingly looking up at last, it may well be that any lack of news concerning Brock's doings since he left this "cute little toy country," as he himself once called it, may be accounted for by the fact that he has been working away quietly, as was always his habit, on the construction of a 'bus of his own. At any rate, given a decent machine to fly. we may safely expect to hear a good account of him in the race, for it is doubtful whether there exists in America a finer pilot, for cross-country flying anyway, than he. One need only call to mind the Aerial Derby, London-Manchester-London, and London- Paris-London, all three of which races Brock managed to gather in. So may he, in his own country, as on this this side, "chew" his way to victory as usual, is the hearty good wish of us all. " Have the Germans at last succeeded in producing a non-inflammable gas for their Zeppelins ? " This was the question asked the other day by a friend as he threw open the door of my sanctum sanctorum, somewhat out of breath after a record climb that would have compared favourably with that of a machine going for its official tests at Farnborough. " Otherwise," he continued as soon as he had reduced the " periodicity " of pulsation of his heart to somewhere near normal, " how do you explain this ? " " This " proved on examination to be an official account of how a Zeppelin had been seen, after supposedly having been hit by a bomb, to rise to 11,000 ft. with her tail down, while smoke issued from one of her compartments, and how she then succeeded in eluding her pursuers. I will pass the query on to my readers, as the only explanation that suggested itself to my feeble understanding, namely, that the smoke might possibly have come from the exhaust pipes of four Maybach engines " going all out," and the cadre position be the natural one for a Zeppelin in a hurry to get away from a lot of seaplanes that were, from her point of view, becoming a bit of a nuisance, did not seem to have any very convincing effect on my knowledge-seeking friend. That the gas with which this particular specimen of German " Rightfulness " was filled could hardly have been hydrogen seems obvious, since, once a compartment had caught fire the whole airship would, so it appears to me, stand as much chance as the proverbial cat in Hades. So now who will venture on a solution of the problem ? 359
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