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1915 - 0785.PDF
Capt. Grey, Evans, Ackroyd, Manley, Lieut. Bell, Camberbirch, Rattray, and Mann. A. Watson took his ticket in a most masterly manner during a gale of wind. The following pupils are almost ready to qualify : Messrs. Broad, Brandon, and B. Watson. Machines in use: Hall (Government type) tractor biplanes. London and Provincial Aviation Co.—Instructors : Messrs. M. G. Smiles, W. T. Warren, G. Irwing and C. Jacques. Pupils doing rolling last week : Messrs. Woods, Scott, Hordern, Littel, Law, Lees, Northrop and Roberts. Doing straights: Messrs. Knowles, Farrow, Lewis and Lander. Doing circuits and eights: Messrs. Rochford, Medaets, Dalrymple and Franklin. Certificates have been taken by Messrs. S. Dalrymple and L. H. Rochford, who both passed their tests well. Ruffy-Baumann School.—The following pupils suc cessfully passed their certificate tests last week : Lieut. R. Clive Gallop, Lieut. V. O. Rees, and Lieut. W. E. Gardner, R.N.A.S. The remaining pupils have been practising as follows : ® ® Capt. Fairbairn-Crawford, Messrs. de Grauw, Willy Coppens, Stuart. Cole, H. Griffith, Hugh Cuthbertson, Lieut. Tomson, Messrs. Harkness, Tagg, Bolton, Stewart, May, Bailey, Lieuts. Ball, Barnard, and Prothero. Instructors : Edouard Baumann, Felix Ruffy, Clarence Winchester, and Ami Baumann. Many passengers have been carried by the various school pilots, and much work has been achieved in the workshops by Messrs. Cole, Sherwood, and Liddell particularly. Northern Aircraft Co.. Ltd. The Seaplane School, Windermere.—The weather last week was very unsettled and bumpy. With instructor : Barber (20 mins.), Coats (34), Lindner (7), Robertson (26), Ridgway (9), and Yates (22). With instructor as passenger : Lawton (15 mins.), Part (11), Robertson (15), and Ridgway (14). Solo : Reid (9 mins.). Instructors : W. Rowland Ding, J. Lankester Parker, and W. Laidler. Machines in use : N.A.C. 80 Gnome. Several passengers carried. IT was a strange experience, walking boldly up to the bookstall " somewhere on the coast somewhere in England," buying a copy of last week's " FLIGHT "—yes, actually paying 3d. for it!—and reading, not without a feeling of curiosity and anxiety, " Flying at Hendon." Imagine a certain actor-manager—incognito—buying a seat in the stalls of his own theatre and witnessing some one else acting his special part which he had been playing for years, of the like said to be possessed by donkeys, and there you have it. I must admit that this experience—at least, the latter part of it—was pleasing, and my colleague, in so kindly acting as deputy for me, certainly acquitted himself very well indeed—for a first attempt! However, considering his threat about my losing my job, I think it was hardly the thing that he should, on my return to harness on Monday, greet me with " Oh, there you are, I will just tell you what hap pened at Hendon on Saturday and Sunday, and you can write it up." It was in vain I argued that it would not be " cricket" to describe what I had not seen ; he said there was no need to worry about such a quixotic reason as that. I hae ma doots whether he really attended the 'drome himself at all. Anyway, here are the events as he says they were. Saturday, I understand, was a cold bleak day, and he felt the cold very much indeed, poor fellow. He met Second Lieut. R. J. Lillywhite, who told him an awfully good story about what ? the flyers ? Quite right. Well, Marcus D. Manton, J. S. B. Winter, and M. ® ® Photographs, &c, of Landmarks, &c. AN instruction issued by the Press Bureau on Saturday night, at the request of the War Office, states that picture postcards or photographs representing docks and harbours, shipyards, defences, ammunition works, prominent buildings, monuments, or other Osipenko were (he thought) very busy with passengers on the 50 h.p. G.-W. school 'buses, and Osi (he has a rather familiar way of speaking sometimes) also flew the five-seater aero 'bus, and, by-the-bye, G. Virgilio came out on the 45 h.p. (at least, he thought it was the 45 h.p.) Beatty-Caudron, and W. Roche-Kelly stunted around on the Beatty-Wright. Sydney Pickles told him a rather funny yarn . Were there any other pilots out ? Oh yes, J. H. Moore brought out his 50-55 h.p. 'bus, and made a fine extended flight, climbing to 3,700 ft., descending with a beautiful spiral v.p. (whatever that may be) and making a splendid landing . . . . and then he had tea ; no, he did not think anybody else went up—oh, wait a bit, the Mann biplane came out, but he did not think it went up ; no, he was certain it did not. He saw a Curtiss come down, but could not say whether it went up or not. Sunday, he told me, was blowing like a place where I should think they would be very glad of a little wind, He did not know what he went to Hendon for, except that something would surely happen there if he did not. Oh yes, something did happen ; Mann brought out the Barrs machine (that is what he said, but then there are one or two bars up there, you know), and made a splendid ro-minute flight, climbing to about 1,000 ft. in the even ing (well into the evening, you see), and Osi—there it is again—tried one or two straights on the school 'bus (in the school 'bus across the aerodrome,l suppose he means), and that is all. (And about time.—En.) ® ® features in or near the approaches to towns and populous districts, which may afford landmarks for the guidance of enemy aircraft, must be regarded as likely to assist the enemy, and as such, coming under Regulation 18 of the Defence of the Realm Regulations, which forbids the collecting, recording, publishing, or communi cating of such information. 785
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