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I/DOHT] XJ<K FfcOM Adj.-Aviateur Louis Noel, who is with the Escadrille M.F., 88, Arm<Se d'Orient, at Salonica, a letter is to hand. Also some snaps which will be seen from those we reproduce have an interest of their own. The one of the Caudron biplane starting off is of particular interest inasmuch as it shows the start for the first flight from Salonica, carried out by Sergt. P on the 19th of October of last year. In its way quite historical. XXX Out there air work is not exactly a holiday judging from Noel's experience which he describes as follows : " With regard to the flying, it is very, very hard, but we have got used to it by now. The air is very bumpy, sometimes without warning you get dropped from 2,600 to 1,900 metres, to be lifted up again to 2,900 metres. Nice, isn't it ? The first time I said Brrr! but now we do not bother about it at all. It is not a joke, I assure you, MAECH 2, 1916. would be a little surprised were he to visit Hendon on a windy day now. XXX « But ," continues Louis, " you forget everything in seeing the wonderful panorama. I can't describe it at all—it is splendid. And if you like Nature you must come out to enjoy a fine sunset. I got some photos, of Adi. AvUteurflLoufs Noel, with hJs wild dog at Salonica. up but the real fact is that the atmosphere is awfully rotten. The wind coming from the Vardar is as good as any bad day at Hendon when .'you do not see flying at all." It should be remembered that Noel's experience of the aerodrome dates back to pre-war days. Possibly he "Flight" Copyright. Memorial tablet in hammered bronze to be erected in Oxhey Church to the memory of Flight Sub-Lieutenant Warneford, V.C. The tablet has been subscribed for by the people of Oxhey, and is the work of Messrs. Swanser and Son, of Great Queen Street, W.C. it, but they are too big to send. You shall have them after the war. Please remember me to my friends at Hendon. I can't get time to write to everybody. Good bye, and cheer up." Why not reciprocate with Noel ? He would be ever so bucked up to get a line from some of his numerous friends here, and we shall be only too glad to forward any letters to him. A cheerful letter from home means a lot when out in a strange country and under such circumstances. Louis Noel and his brother officers on the look-out for submarines on the way to Salonica, and (on the right) Sergt, P—«—• makes the first flight at Salonica, October 19th, 1915. 182
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