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SEPTEMBER 14, 1916. dently as he himself has lied. If Herr Bratiano thought to find a dead Hungary, he will soon be compelled to believe that he and his corrupt State have had their graves dug in Hungary. Roumania will find that she will be struck to the earth by an enemy who regards her as Hungary's most hated and most despised foe. Of Hungarian earth which now is in convulsion under the feet of the lowest liars and robbers in Europe not one yard will be left to the Roumanian perjurer." Gott strafe Rumanien truly ! ALTHOUGH the Zeppelins got in first blow by bombing Bucharest, the strength of Roumania in the air will be no contemptible factor in the Balkan operations before long. VERY great stress is laid on the copyright of the admirable series of articles on the Navy'by Alfred Noyes. We are wondering whether the copyright" extends—and if it does, what the original inventor of it will have to say—to that delightful old chestnut which he has dished up in new garb as follows : " Followed a yarn of an English aviator, captured by the Germans, who was asked by his captors to take a German observe/ over one of our seas in his machine. At first he refused, but afterwards, strapping himself in position, consented. The German was armed, but bulky, and his straps were not to be depended on. Somewhere over the 'North Sea, in the dusk of that sunset, a trawler saw a remark able sight. An English aviator was looping the loop, for sheer joy apparently, somersault after somersault, like a tumbler pigeon. He kept it up for half an hour. Then a dark bulk dropped from the machine and splashed into the North Sea. Perhaps it was a German, with a revolver in each hand. At anyrate.an English aviator arrived on the East Coast an hour or two later, and he complained of feeling lonely." A ROME report states that a regular service of aeroplanes between Paris and Milan has now been established. Perhaps the wish is father to the statement, although wc quite look forward to such Vitesse methods of travelling when the wreck age of the present war has been sorted out a bit. We hope in the meantime the Germans have managed' to get that Berlin-Constantinople air service into good working order for us. It should come handy presently. THERE are still several portions of the wrecked German airship which were taken away by civilians from Cuffley which the War Office would like to get back. Those who have relics should send them to the Horse Guards, and if they are of no value from a military point of view they will be returned. THE Lord Mayor, Sir Charles Cheers Wakefield, suggests that a Zeppelin award fund might be inaugurated to which everybody, and especially those within the metropolitan area, might contribute, and out of which a specific award might stand during the period of the war ready for every airman who should bring an enemy airship down. In the event of more than one person participating in the actual bringing down of a Zeppelin on British soil, the award might be divided on a per capita basis, as in the case of the /500 to the 353 men who destroyed the L. 15. On Monday, September nth, a lady pupil at a well-known Hendon school took her pilot's certificate in a masterly manner to the delight and admiration of numerous friends and onlookers. Shortly after, as the rumour goes, she gave vent to the following:— THE LAY OF THE "LADYBIRD." I am a little " ladybird," I've learnt to fly to-day, And why I've done this stunt of stunts I really cannot say. But still I am a " ladybird," And now I've got my ticket I'll walk around old London Tojvn And on my back I'll stick it. And then to strafe the Hun I'll fly. And while I feed his hate, I'll whisper, as I pass him by, *' Say, is my ticket straight ? " t> THE enclosures at Hendon Aerodrome look quite smart with the new green-painted iron garden chairs scattered around in all their glory. They are certainly a great improve ment on the old wooden " collapsable " ones. THE U.S. Navy has ordered irom France a Paul Schmitt hydro-biplane, trials with which are being carried out »t Juvisy under the supervision of a U.S. Naval Attache It has two Tellier catamaran floats, and is equipped with a 150 h.p. Salmson engine. MR. ASQUITH was much interested in a R.F.C. centre during his few days at the Front last week. AMONG recent contributions to the Lord Mayor for the Ix*d Kitchener Memorial Fund is /ioo from the Horlick's Malted Milk Co. THE Curtiss Aeroplane Co., of BulUlo, are, so far as we are aware, the first private aircraft firm to instal a modem wind tunnel for experimental research work. The new tunnel is similar to those of the National Physical Laboratory at Tcddington. DR. A. F. ZAHM, of the Curtiss Co., is, wc understand, in charge of the tunnel and entire aerodynamic laboratory. THERE can be no doubt that the establishment of a private laboratory of this kind is a step in the right direction, and the time does not appear very distant when every large firm of aircraft constructors will probably have their own tunnel. Much valuable time will be saved in this manner through doing away with the necessity of sending scale models of wing sections or of complete machines away to a laboratory already pretty full up with Government work. '-WHITEHEAD AIRCRAFT WORKS By way of a souvenir of the very happy opening by Sir Charles Wakefield, the Lord Mayor 01 London, of the Whitehead Aircraft Co.'s new premises, Mr. J. A. Whitehead has got together an extremely interesting little booklet, of which the above clever drawing * (reduced) by F. H. Townsend, forms the front cover. The idea of Lord Mayor Wakefield receiving the output of the factory one by one and launching the machines Into the air Is a happy inspiration. The rest of the pages are made up of photographs of the new premises, the ceremony at the opening, and facsimiles of press notices, &c, with an excellent photographic frontispiece of the Lord Mayor of London, Sheriff Shead, and Mr. J. A. Whitehead.
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