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AUGUST 17, 1916. IftlGHT FLYING GROUNDS mmz - • B Grahame-White School, Hendon. EIGHTS with instructor last week : Messrs. Ballard, Donald, Drew, Goodheart, Jamie, Keymer, Mulville and Stevens. Circuits with instructor : Messrs. Cockell, Rodocanachi and Ward. Straights with instructor: Messrs. Alty, Duncan, Fisher, Hodgkinson, Lyles, Mills, Saunders, Shadwell, Soden, Zambourais and Ormerod. Mr. Cooper doing figures of eight alone. Certificates were taken by Messrs. Welinkar and Forster. Brevet tests A and B by Mr. Phillips. Instructors : Mr. C. Grahame-White, Messrs. Manton, Winter, Pashley, Biard and Hale. Beatty School, Hendon. THE following pupils were out during last week : Messrs. Skeet, Gliksten, Mitchell, Rudd, Curry, Gadsden, Earl, Garlick, McPherson, Towson, Elliott, Austen, Turner, J. Squires, Bruce, White, de Wilde, -Wood, and Owen. - The instructors were : Messrs. G. W. Beatty, G. Virgilio, L. L. King, A. E. Mitchell and H. Fawcett, the machines in use being Beatty-Wright dual-control and single-seater pro peller biplanes and Caudron dual-control and single-seater tractor biplanes. Certificates were taken during the week by Messrs. C. W. Skeet (on Caudron machine), G. McPherson and H. J. H. Garlick (on Beatty-Wright machine). Hall School, Hendon. PUPILS out last week :—With J. Laurence Hall: Messrs. J. Russell, Graham Davies, and Probationary Flight Sub- Lieut. Maiden. With Cecil M. Hill: Messrs. Cordner, Orton, Cownie, Gudger, Rayne, Le Grice, and Lieut. Packman. With Fred J. Glegg: Messrs. Henley, Stampes, Mayer, Barton, Illingworth, Smith, and Lieut. Packman. With Stanley G. Cownie : Pupils rolling—Messrs. Course, Mayer, Yuill, Maude, Stampes, and Lieut. Packman. • . An R.N.A.S. Officer £ Bravery. THE London Gazette of August 1 ith contained an announce ment by the Admiralty that the King has been pleased to confer the decoration of the Albert Medal of the First Class on Lieut. Frederick Joseph Rutland, R.N. (Flight-Lieutenant, R.N.A.S.) :— " The following is the account given by the Admiralty of the services in respect of which the decoration has been conferred : During the transhipment of the crew of His Majesty's ship " Warrior" to His Majesty's ship " Engadine" on the morn ing of June 1st, 1916, succeeding the naval battle off the coast of Jutland, one of the severely wounded, owing to the violent motion of the two ships, was accidentally dropped overboard from a stretcher and fell between the ships. As the ships were working most dangerously, the Commanding Officer of the " Warrior " had to forbid two of his officers from jumping overboard to the rescue of the wounded man, as he considered that it would mean their almost certain death. Before he could be observed, however, Lieut. Rut land, of His Majesty's ship " Engadine," went overboard from the forepart of that ship with a bowline and worked himself aft. He succeeded in putting the bowline around the wounded man and in getting him hauled on board, but it was then found that the man was dead, having been crushed between the two ships. Lieut. Rutland's escape from a similar fate was miraculous. His bravery is reported to have been magnificent." Medals for the R.F.C. IN the long list, published on August 12th, of names of non-commissioned officers and men, to whom His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to award the Military 0 Club Certificates taken by J. Russell, Graham Cownie, Le Grice Test A. •rnment tvDe\ tractors in 'use. Royal Aero Davies, S. G. Hall (Government type) s i use. London and Provincial School, Hendon. PUPIL rolling last week : Mr. Davy. Doing straight*: Messrs. Quayle, Mander, Lewis, Rogers, Randell, Dunhet*. Birkin, Fox and Sellars. Circuits and eights: Monsieur J. Leman. Instructors : Messrs. W. T. Warren, M. G. Smiles and W. T. Warren, Jun. Three tractor biplanes in use. Ruffy-Baumann School, Hendon. SCHOOL out nearly every day last week. Pupils with in structors on 60 and 50: West (48 mins.), Hayes '(36), Bab- ington Smith (18), Trubridge (20), Carr (32), Holmes (44), and Fanshawe (1 hour 10 mins.). Pupils flying alone : West and Holmes. Instructors: E. Baumann, F. Ruffy, A. Baumann, and A. Thomsen. 60 and 50 h.p. Ruffy-Baumann dual-control biplanes in use. Bournemouth School. PUPILS rolling alone last week : Lloyd Owen, Holland, Wilmott, Wingfield. Doing straights alone: Messrs. Brandon, Hammersley. Pritt, J.. B. Smith, Fenn, Hinchliff, and Adamson. Doing half-circuits alone: Messrs. O. Wilson, J. Wilson, Daniel, and H. Smith. Mr. W. G. Little figures of eights and circuits alone. Two 35's, 45, 60 h.p. Caudrons in use. Instructors : Messrs. S. Summerfield and E. Brynildsen. Messrs. Davies, Constant, Montgomery, Ross, and .^ntr~ Medal for bravery in the field, appear the following :— 7959 Corpl. F. J. Jenkins, R.F.C. 6326 1st Class Air-Mechanic J. I. T. Jones, R.F.C. 8483 2nd Class Air-Mechanic F. A. V. Pattenden, R.F.C. Wireless Telegraphists for the R.F.C. THERE are still vacancies in the Royal Flying Corps for wireless operators. Applicants, who should be of good educa tion, age from 19 to 22, can get full particulars as to training, &c, any morning at the Polytechnic, Regent Street, W. Fatal Accidents. x Two lives were lost in an accident on August 10th. A machine piloted by Lieut. G. S. Rogers was flying at a height of 1,500 ft., when another machine hit and damaged the tail. Lieut. Rogers endeavoured to control his machine, but nose-dived to the ground. The pilot was instantly killed, and the passenger, Second Lieut. De Frece, died shortly after being picked up. The second machine made a safe descent. A machine piloted by Sec. Lieut. Ivan Carryer, E. York Regt. and R.F.C., caught fire while flying on August 13th. In coming down the machine crashed into a building, and the pilot died three hours after admission to hospital. New Recruits for the S.B.A.C. THE following firms have recently been elected to member ship of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors, Ltd; The previous lists of members were given in our issues of April 20th and June 8th last :— Ordinary Members—Aster Engineering Co., Ltd., Gnome and Le Rhone Engine Co., Green Engine Co., Ltd., East bourne Aviation Co., Ltd., Gordon, Watney and Co., Ltd. Associate Members—Aircraft Supplies Co., Ltd., Bowden Wire, Ltd., British Aeroplane and Varnish Co., Ltd., Venesta, Ltd. 695
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