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gyggg DECEMBER 17, 1915, rough time of it for a few moments, dropping at one time some 500 ft. when running into a "pocket." However, eventually a safe landing was effected by keeping the 80 Gnome going all out while coming down. As a result, the air station at—somewhere on the South coast, can boast of one of their school machines having made one of the fastest cross-country trips on record, at any rate for a machine of this type. Speaking of Pickles reminds me that Mr. C. B. Prodger, who, it will be remembered, was Pickles's assistant, has now joined up in partnership with him, and that, should necessity arise, the work of testing machines may be divided so that Mr. Prodger will tackle the testing of land machines, while Mr. Pickles will attend to the seaplanes. By this division of the work manu facturers will never have to wait before they can have their machines of either type put through their trials. Just at the moment of writing these lines Pickles comes in to tell me that he has not been blown up by a bomb accidentally exploding! Once more, how do these rumours get about ? It is with the greatest regret that one learns of the accident which caused the death of Lieutenant Gaston Caudron. Reliable informxtion regarding details of the accident is not available, so that at present it is only possible to state that according to reports, Caudron was testing a new machine and had been flying for about a quarter of an hour when the machine turned over, and Caudron and his two passengers are said to have been killed instantly. It is always hazardous to venture a guess without knowing all the facts of the case, but it seems probable that the inclement weather conditions may have been responsible. In Gaston Caudron, who, with his brother Rene, was the designer of the highly successful machines bearing his name, France loses not only a clever designer and constructor, but a pilot of more than average ability. Indeed, the loss is not only France's but Britain's as well, seeirg that the British Caudron Co. are building machines under licence and that therefore the original drawings emanate from the French Caudron works. It is indeed a sad record for France, when looking back over the years gone to the several pioneer firms of aviation which have established fraternal partnerships. First there were the Voisin brothers, one of whom was, if my memory serves rightly, killed in a motor car acci dent ; then there was the Nieuport firm, of which two brothers gave their lives in the cause of the science. Now we have to bear the loss of one of the Caudron brothers. May the last remaining brother-partners—the Farmaris— escape the fate of the others. ^EOLUS, c -c-fi-5*. Af a tt ° #*-#•- 0 M *\ fc MS I —* ir 1 &. t X ft" 8 at t/i i &• m a* * i, wm t) S#c estf- &4*£ 5:' C £$•" <*nx » IB<- SiSS? »"-© mm &tm 6 L «"-t ffV*1 #*•* i © Sfrtt, •t c i «i Mi^ © "t m* mm < * ar * •te -c n i1 e. r<-v c AS 88.', MM 72* X m * irm L O* S fk" & Two more announcements reproduced from the Japanese Aeronautic World. 994
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