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fycHfJ DECEMBER 17, 1915. /^s^ SATURDAY last was one of the few days of the year when even those of us who have come to regard flying at Hendon as a certainty, or practically so, should not have felt disappointed at finding every machine in its shed. It was in this mood that I approached the aerodrome about mid-day prepared for a tour of the hangars and a chat with such habitues as had not left the ground in quest of warmer climes. As I neared the gates a BE2C was circ ling around having a pretty rough time of it at the low height at which it was flying. The BE was not long to be the only wind-fighter up, for no sooner had I passed Mr. Plant—the St. Peter of the aerodrome, as one of my colleagues is pleased to call him—than I saw a little Caudron-type biplane hopping off the ground over by the railway, and struggling along towards the sheds in the teeth of the wind. The wings were warping like fury, and the machine rose and fell as she met the gusts. Tearing along over the sheds and making towards the '•' Welsh Harp " at a speed j,which must have been at least a couple of miles per hour, there was just time to catch a glimpse of the name painted on the rudders. It read " Moore." Now I have always been of the opinion that friend Moore was going to blossom into a jolly fine pilot one of these days, but I will admit that I had not fully realised that he had already "arrived." His wind-fighting on Satur day leaves no doubt about it, however. For the first few hundred feet his control lever would, I should think, had it been fitted with a pencil on top, bearing against a sheet of paper, have traced some curves that none of the swinging pendulums of our childhood need have been ashamed of. After a while Moore seemed to get into a steadier wind, and was then soon lost in the clouds. Later on when he had had enough of it he made a perfect landing in spite of the gusts that tried to play at tossing the blanket with him. XXX Reference was made in these columns recently to some school machines built by the London and Pro vincial Aviation Co., of Hendon, for the Bournemouth i*S! SJSi * S * a? n * s ti v m HI a •) : * : ! * at m & » ^ ft'SfTS !J- I# i*f * m : ttS : fi Y '• « ® ft : ir SK S>. : ( « : : * K £ : 9 o + : ft «f s> : T *• 3- : : t n •• H Sf : + l>\- -M St <ft * ft SS * i * fi- : n «S ! : ff g : x •s m * + Si tr- js- I £ : tt * : - % *f : « m i » fi i c n f« m t, fi n • * w. a si: n * : I * m O Hi s <* 28- : ti : « 55 9 * 3r : : 0 if I It r 1 fi t m & m m % » « •P fi S 54 « »• : : » : * * * : 36 S3 ^> s £ BUI]' *™ si ->• #1 j» m . * # ft §i ai i I « *r- f?f' * §[ Mi 1 fi k. 1 fll fi] CO 'j i 01 O <7) & 3 jre fff a1, ft ?E * ^ g * a * -c a * ?s a m I It * S s o ft fit r" 5$ 5^ Si- IU n f a iE £ 4 « W RK 5. H 3 A ft A S - M 85 S "; «f -^- ^ ¥ * ^ ¥ # % flSr * 1 it ; i * m ft i ft S § = E A ') t « >• ^ ff s •f * « Kf 4 fir fit * tt ^ I -") » ^ ffi fig ff I? : ^ (ft M 41 tt •?! » l f I i A - E A - * ft + 0 HH fi^5 ADVERTISING ^ /l^ JAPAN.—In our issue for December 10th ve reproduced an article on military aviation in Japan from the Japanese Aeronautic World, a monthly magazine published in Tokyo. The original method oi handling the advertisement matter in this Japanese publication is very striking, and above we reproduce, by way of a specimen, a reduced copy of one of the announcements from our contemporary. If any of our readers are sufficiently conversant with the Japanese language we should be pleased to convey an idea to our readers of the announcements—no doubt extremely interesting—in Japanese characters. 992
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