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Three-quarter view from the back, of the "Popular" biplane. The floor is fitted up quite easily by having ordinary thin floor boards running longitudinally and resting at their ends on transverse supports screwed to the three-ply formers. Openings would, of course, be cut where necessary to clear the various parts of the controls. Finally, the question of petrol and oil tanks has to be dealt with. . As it is a rather difficult job for an amateur to make a tank that will remain petrol tight, I suggest that it would be advisable to have the tanks made by a firm doing this kind of work, and who would carry out the construction of them in their own way if given the capacity and the space available for mounting the tanks. In our case the shape of the tanks would be determined by the shape of the fuselage between formers Nos. II and In- Sufficient room must be allowed for the pilots feet, but the tank can, if necessary, occupy the top halt of this compartment. The last of our sketches shows the strut sections, which, for the sake of cheapness, have been kept the same for all the struts of the machine. 1 he section is not absolutely to scale, but the dimensions, ® ® The Roll of Honour. , w THE following casualties are announced bv the w ar Office: — Undated: Wounded. Lieutenant C. D. Fuller, Royal Flying Corps. Missing- Second Lieutenant O. Lerwill, Royal Flying Corps. 309S 1st Air-Mechanic J. W. Newton, Royal Fly.ng Corps. Previously Officially reported Missing, now Unofficially reported Wounded and a Prisoner of War. Second Lieutenant C. W. Palmer, Royal Flying Corps. Previously reported Missing, now reported P'»*»"- Second Lieutenant L. A. Newbold, Essex Regt. and K.r.U Killed. 2182 1st Air-Mechanic T. F. Parkes, Royal Flying Corps. Died. 13638 and Air-Mechanic A. E. J. Palmer, Royal Flying Corps. Previously Officially reported Missing, now Unofficially reported Prisoner of War. 876 2nd Air-Mechanic J. Chilton, Royal Flying Corps. which are for a strut \ ins. by 4] ins., are shown on the diagram against the lines which divide the section into ten equal parts. In conclusion, I should like to thank "FLIGHT" readers for following these articles so patiently and, as I have good cause to know, closely. I am afraid that many have found them tedious on account of the inclusion of numerous alterations, but it seemed to me that an article of this description would be more instructive if it gave all the intermediate stages of the design rather than the finished work arrived at after many alterations and, let us hope, improvements. If this article should prove to have been of some little help to readers in initiating them into the ways and means of aeroplane design, in how ever elementary a way, I shall feel that its publication has been in some measure justified. If any of the readers who have expressed an intention of building a machine of this type will communicate their difficulties, I shall be pleased to render them any assistance I can, and such is the rapid progrt ss of aeroplane design that already I see various ways in which, without altering it fundamentally, the present design could be improved. ® ® Reported in official list received from German^Govern- ment:— Now reported Prisoner of War. 2259 1st Air-Mechanic W. Holden, Royal Flying Corps. ® ® ® ® PERSONALS. Casualties. Second Lieutenant GEOFFREY WYNNE BAVIN, Lincotn«hire Regt., attached R.F.C., who was killed on April 1st as the re*ult of a flying accident on Salisbury Plain, was the third' son of Captain and Grace Bavin, of Berkhamsted School. Items. Second Lieutenant R. W. HRATH, R.F.C., who has represented Australasia in the Davis Lawn Tennis Cup, has broken his collar bone while flying, and is now recovering in Ix>ndon. Married and to be Married. The engagement is announced of FRANCIS Sn.VKRTor, Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars, attached R.F.C., elde&t son of the late Henry Thomas Silvertop, of Minster Acres, N'orthumberland, and NEVIIX, younger daughter of G. L. FOSTER HARTER, of Salperton Park, Gloucestershire. 285
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