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ffiicWf] taking off atT Hendon. When descending for terra firma «ome minutes later, he was made aware of the state of things by those in the aerodrome hurling frantic signs at b\ra, whilst waving the roving wheel aloft. Returning " up- sft»ir» " to think matters over, the pilot chose the lesser of two evils, and made a beautiful vol plani into the Brent Reservoir. Pilot and passenger escaped with nothing worse than an impromptu swim, and the machine was quickly towed to the side, practically undamaged. Although aero planes are prohibited using the Brent Reservoir for purposes connected with aviation, probably the authorities will also think matters over before taking action on the present occasion. THE spectre of " Professional Jealousy " hid itself behind the sheds and looked round the corner, when a neat little act of good fellowship was enacted by the British Caudron company at Hendon on Sunday. An A.I.D. officer had occasion to proceed to Farnborough to stamp an Aircraft company's machine leaving for overseas at once. Hendon to Farnborough on a Sunday afternoon by railway is not the most convenient form of recreation. With a promptness which heightened the good feeling existing, Director A. M. Ramsay placed one of his new Renault Caudrons, with Rene Desoutter as pilot, at his disposal. Judging by the faces of the two on returning, the trip must have been most enjoy able, and those of us sweltering on the ground longed for the opportunity of such a cooler, only more so. THE new Beatty monobloc four, 50/60 gives 63, on the l>ench, and turns over at 1,800. It has now run for 27 hours without trouble, and hardly any vibration. But more of this next week, possibly with photographs. MR. H. AUSTIN is one of the members of the Committee appointed by the Minister of Munitions to draw up a scheme for workers' holidays. PETROFIN is the name of a new white oil which is being offered by the Anglo-American Oil Co. for use in bi-fuel carburettors. AIRCRAFT and their work are responsible for the bringing to light many legal anomalies. In the House of Lords last week it was held that there is no obligation upon a company- —to wit, the Great Central Railway Co.—to illuminate in these nights of darkened streets the posts in the roadway approaches to their stations to a degree sufficient to enable a driver to avoid a collision. The judgment came about in the case of an appeal against a decision of Mr. Justice Darling and the Court of Appeal. A taxi-cab driver sued the company for negligence in view of the darkened streets for not painting the gateposts at Marylebone Station white and placing lanterns on them. THE Freshfield Building Estate, Millbrook, Southampton, was recently advertised for sale by auction in " FLIGHT." From the auctioneer, Mr. Wiliam B. Hill, we learn that the property changed hands at a satisfactory figure. It is a good district for aeronautical constructors. MR. CHARLES LE MAISTRE, A.M.Inst.C.E., M.Inst.E.E., who has been i.n charge of the work of the Electrical Section of the Engineering Standards Committee since 1903, has been appointed secretary to the Committee in succession to the late Mr. Leslie S. Robertson, M.Inst.C.E., who was lost with Lord Kitchener in the disaster to H.M.S. " Hampshire " whilst on an important Government mission. THE " Bad for the Coo " opposition to the locomotive saying of Stephenson's has again been, in a way, simulated in connection with aircraft. An aeroplane presented by the Indian Rajahs was compelled to descend at Chertsey owing to engine trouble whilst on a journey from the Midlands to France. _ The wing was slightly damaged, and the propeller broken in a remarkable manner. A dog dashed at the pro peller as the machine was running along the ground at high speed, and was instantly killed, whilst the propeller was smashed. THAT was a curious, not to say unpleasant, experience which is reported from Harborne last week, when an aeroplane in flight came in conact with a flock of pigeons. The pro peller was broken, and the machine forced to descend close to the main road. Luckily neither the airman nor the observer was hurt. Dogs and pigeons should, indeed, be a bit more circum spect. AUGUST 3, 1916. A SIGN of the times and a chance for relic hunters is to be found in the following advertisement which appeared in the Times on July 27th :— ** ZE PP.—RELICS and Parts of Framework of recently captured ZEPPELIN, to be SOLD separately. Existing offer £45 for framework. Highest offers.—Box T. 183, the Times." WHAT, we wonder, think now the wise critics of days agone who would have it that looping the loop was a mere acrobatic senseless, and useless circus performance. An illuminating sidelight upon its possibilities emerges in a paragraph in the R.N.A.S. report of the " incident " on July 15th, when one of our aeroplanes successfully downed a German seaplane. And this is how he did it: " The enemy manoeuvred for a position behind and below the Nieuport, both machines meanwhile executing a steep glide. The British pilot thereupon looped over the enemy, who passed underneath him. He thus gained the desired position behind and opened fire into the seaplane at a range of 100 yards. The German pilot, who was evidently hit, made a vertical nose-dive. The machine was last seen in flames, falling headlong downwards." CONGRATULATIONS to Second Lieutenant McCubbin on his D.S.O. for putting up the number of the German Fokker crack, Immelmann. THE latest stunt aviatic of the Germanic combination is the establishment of a " Balkan Aerial Express " from Berlin, via Vienna and Budapest to Constantinople. Good luck to the enterprise, as, if it is carefully carried out, it should presently come in very handy for the Allies as a ready-made organisa tion for the easy communication of our army of occupation in the Central Empires. " THE R.F.C. have carried out several bombing raids and dropped seven tons of bombs on the enemy's communications and billets."—General Headquarters [France) report, July 31st. Not so bad, and there was lots more air work in the same despatch, for what is described as " a quiet day " ! WELLS AVIATION Co. DEVELOPMENTS are looming large. Already their workers total over the half thousand, and more extensions still are on the way—Chelsea way. And not satis fied with this, the company are shortly blossoming forth in the country near to that delightful town. Chichester. They will probably need all the space they can get, as in addition to their Government work and the Benoist boat agency, they have taken over the representation of the well-proved Roberts aviation engine. Messrs. Wells, Doyle Jones, and their co-workers, have reason to be proud of the outcome of then- joint efforts out of such very small constructional begin nings. TIME is money is an old adage. Probably no truer word has ever been spoken. By accurately recording time in a factory, small or large, it is astounding what, at the end of a year, a difference is totted up in wages earned or lost by the neglect of that daily few minutes, which doesn't matter, so the slacker maintains. In times old-fashioned it was held that the recording of these unconsidered trifles off working hours cost more than the amount saved thereby, justified. And we are not sure the " ancients " were not right. Now that is all changed, and the wonderful automatic time recorders which every up-to-date establishment should have as one of its first requirements, does the whole business, as it were, on its own. No cost but the prime cost, and these machines save this in a fraction of time by their accuracy in action, whilst another " compensator" of no mean order is that, however convinced a man may be that he was " on time," when the clock recorder vouches for his tkne all dispute vanishes, all of which leads to harmony between employer and employee. Time was when British makers knew nothing of these. Now the Gledhill-Brook time re corders standing out as " all British " receive the respect from foreign makers which all high-class work must com mand. There may be firms in association with aviation still without one of these indispensables, in which case we would strongly recommend "a communication to the Gledhill- Brook firm at either 26. Victoria Street. Westminster. 43 < Market Street. Huddersfield, or at 44. Hill Street. Birmingham^ ANOTHER accession to those making Aircraft Fittings and Components is the Osborne and Creighton Aircraft Company of 33, Chatham Road, Norbiton, Surrey. Contractors and sub-contractors should note and communicate with the firm. 656
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