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1915 - 0979.PDF
DECEMBER 3, 1915. [/yGHT] . „ . Copyright, F. N. Birkett, from the F.N.B. Stria of Aviators A Sextet of Pupils at the Grahams-White Schrol who have recently secured their Flying Certificates j I. Prob. Flight Sub-Lieut. W. Man, R.N. 2. Flight Sub Lieut P. Webby Tame*, R.N.AS. 3. Flight Sub-Lieut. T. A. Sadler, R.N.A.S. 4. Prob. Flight Sub-Lieut. B. C H. Cross, R.N. 5. Mr. H. F. Macleod Fras.'r. 6. Prob. Flight Sub-Lleut. R. Graham, R.N. flights : Cumberbirch, Arnsby, Wooley, Ormerod, Smith, Millburn, Cosgrave, Chapman, Thorn, Bennett, Neil, Robert, Lieut. Cooke, Ridley, Ackroyd, and Moir. The Royal Aero Club certificate was obtained by Drew, who has now joined the school as instiuctor pending his appointment. Three new Hall tractors are now in course of con struction, which, with the machines already in use, should, the Hall School claim, make them the best- equipped tractor school in England. London and Provincial Aviation Co.—Pupils doing rolling last week: Messrs. Dawson, Loomes, Scott, Roberts, and Egelstaff. Doing straights: Messrs. Atkinson, Heyn, Thorpe, Martin, Jowett, Woods and Knowles. Doing circuits : Messrs. Burgess, Braim and Lewis. Instructors: Messrs. W. T. Warren, M. G. Smiles, C. M. Jacques, H. Sykes and W. T. Warren, Jun. Royal Aero Club certificates were taken this week by Lieut. Lewis and Mr. Rupert N. Braim. Ruffy-Baumann School.—The following students have last week been flying the 50 and 60 h p. Gnome- Caudron biplanes : Messrs. Cuthbertson, Vernon, Bolton, » ® Rewards for Air Paid Heroes. IN recognition of the bravery of the London fireman, J. S. Green, who died from injuries received in rescuing eighteen persons from a fire which followed on the air raid on September 8th, the Carnegie Fund Trustees have awuded an annuity of ^35 and a bronze medallion to his widow. They have also arranged to pay Mrs. Green's rent. An honorary certificate and J£IO were awarded to William Arthur Goodman, a special constable, who rescued a child from the ruins of a house after an air raid on August 17th. Poison Gas Bombs- LECTURING on Monday before the Medical Society of London, Dr. Leonard Hill said that owing to the enormous ventilating power of the atmosphere there was no reason to fear that Zeppelins would drop poison bombs on London. The scare about " poison bombs prevalent some months ago was umeasonable. There seemed to be no reason why recovery of the lungs should be les* peifect after chlorine poisoning than after bronchial pneumonia. Emetic i had Pauli, Hamliaux, Coppens, Griffith, Felix Ruffy, Ami Launoit, Tomson, Laidlaw, Cox, Dohson, Winter, Cole, De Grauw, Sherwood, and Liddell. Instructors: Edouard Baumann, Baumann, and Clarence Winchester. Mi. H. J. Liddell, of Stockton on-Tees, completed his certificate tests by making a very fine vol plant from a height of a thousand feet and landing very smoothly. Another machine is at the moment being erected, and pupils have had exceptional advantages for constructional experience. Northern Aircraft Co„ Ltd. The Seaplane School, Windermere.—There has been no real flying weather throughout last week, mist and wind alternating. With Instructor : Hallet(i6 mins.), H. Ingham (13), Pont (5), Ruthven (12), Robertson (17), Salton (18) and Stubbs (39). With Instructor as passenger: Coats (12 mins.) and Pont (16). Instructors: Messrs. W. Rowland Ding and J. Linkester Parker. Machines in use : N.A.C. propeller biplane 80 Gnome and Blackburn monoplane 100 Anzani. ® ® proved useful; half a pint of salt ar.d water ox 8 grains of copper sulphate, followed by large drafts of luke-warm water, were rec immended. German Aircraft and British Ship. THE following details of an attack by three German aeroplanes on a BiiuMi ship wete sent by the Daily Tc'cgraph correspondent at Rotterdam on November 28th :— "The Engli-h steamer Balgownie, of the General Steam Navi- gatinn Company, was attacked by three German flying machines in 1 he North Sea yesterday afternom. The vessel was on a vryage from London to Rotterdam, and the attack took place near ihe North Hinder. Although it only lasted twenty minutes, it was of a most ferocious character. Circling around the ship the three machines opened fire with machine-guns and liftes simultaneously, dropping bombs when crossing the steamer. " Several of the bombs fell close alongside, but no damage was done. A rain of bullets from machine-guns and rifles struck the sides of the steamer, but none of the crew was hit, nor was any real damage done." 943
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