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1915
1915 - 0811.PDF
OCTOBER 22, 1915. Royal Aero Club certificates have been taken this week by Lieut Lander, Lieut. Farrow, and Mons.eur G. Medaets. Kutfy-Baumann School.—Pupils with instructor last week : Brand (18 mins.), Cole (40), De Grauw (24), Vernon (16), Coppens (24), Cuthbertson (24), Coppens (24), Johnson <8), Sherwood (32), and Griffiths (24). Straights : Lieuts. Prothero, Ball, and Messrs. Bailey 33 mins.) May (34) Stewart (44), Sherwood (16), Cole (12), and De Grauw (12). Eights and circuits : Prothero (20 mins.) and Ball (29). Certificates: Capt. Fairbairn Crawford, Lieuts. Prothero and Ball. Instructors: Edouard Baumann, Felix Ruffy Ami Baumann, and Clarence Winchester. [/OGHT] Northern Aircraft Co., Ltd. The Seaplane School, Windermere. — With in structor : Coats (11 mins.), Jeffreys (14), Ivybom (15), and Lieut. Manning (12). With instructor as passenger : Ridgway (19 mins.), Inglis (19), Robertson (23), and Macintyre (6). Instructors last week : Messrs. W. Row land Ding, J. Lankester Parker, and W. Laidler. Machine: N.A.C. pusher biplane, 80 Gnome. On Thursday bad luck brought about a broken piston and two connecting rods in the Ho Gnome. The machine has since been out and flying well. Mr. Ding's 100 h.p. Anzani-Blackburn monoplane, fitted with dual control, has arrived, and is being rapidly assembled. <£ ® ® <£ FROM Adjudant Aviateur Louis Noel a short cheerful letter has come to hand just to let us, and, through us, his many friends on this side of the very useful strip of water, know that he is still alive. Beyond the bare fact that he is well, Noel as usual has little to say about him self, but from an accompanying photograph one gathers that he is still piloting his old faithful M. Farman, than which to Noel's way of thinking no better machine exists. Perhaps it would have been more correct to say that he is still flying an " M.F.," as it is hardly likely to be the same he was in charge of last time we heard from him ; 'buses do not as a rule last so long as that anywhere "out there." Regarding two of his friends, however, Noel has good news to convey. Capitaine Oswald Watt, who, it will be remembered, is serving with the French Aeronautique Mi/itaire, has, Noel says, been mentioned very favourably in the Citations, and Charles Hubert, who was so well known to both habituis and visitors out at Hendon in the old days, has been awarded the Croix de Guerre. xxx About the photo, on this page of the " strafed " Caudron, Noel explains that the machine was hit by a German shell almost in the motor when at a height of 2,200 metres. The 'bus caught fire, and things looked pretty serious for the pilot, who, thanks partly to his other motor and partly to sheer good piloting, managed to get back safely to the right side of the French lines. In another photo, is seen a batch of French cnions, which includes M. Farmans, ( audrons, Morane " parasols," and An excellent it- 111 oris) ration of the advantage of twi n -1' n R 1 11 e d machines. A Caudron biplane somewhat severe' ly "strafed" by German shell lire. 8ll
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