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1919 - 0818.PDF
THE BOULTON AND PAUL " BOURGES."—Two views taken by the designer of the machine, Mr. J. D. North, during a recent flight from Norwich to Hendon. On the left: Looking aft. On the right: Snap of port " Dragonfly " engine routes for intercontinental aeronautics. In order that the ships might be made as stable as possible, the turrets and other heavy masses of the superstructure should be removed and the ship provided with enlarged sea-anchors." The suggestion has the further advantage that by this means the whole of civilisation, including ultimately the Huns themselves, would benefit by thus utilising these engines of IT certainly does seem as if at least equal facilities for service men and service women might be accorded in regard to the issue of half-fare vouchers for railway travelling. According to a young woman in the uniform of the W.R.A.F.'s, who was fined 40s. at Chatham last week for travelling without paying her fare, these half-fare vouchers were the privilege of the men only, although they earned more money than the women. Presumably, therefore, this was the method the W.R.A.F. adopted of airing the grievance, and at least it is a better excuse than is usually forthcoming for lapses of this nature. IN view of what was said in our editorial comments last week, we welcome the following official notification regarding the Atlantic flight of R. 34, made on Saturday last, June 14, at East Fortune Aerodrome by Capt. Coombes, Intelligence Officer :— " The R. 34 will probably go on a short flight this evening in order to test the wireless apparatus. Official intimation has been received that the actual flight will not take place before instructions are received from Maj. Muller, in America, that arrangements there are complete. This news is expected daily, and meanwhile any dates are merely guesswork." A SIGN of the times may be noted in the aerial tour which it is reported started on June 10 at Gothenburg. The Danish millionaire, M. Larsen, under the pilotage of Capt. Battam, the American aviator, thus commenced an aerial tour which when completed, will cover the following route :—Bergen— Christiania—The Skaw—Copenhagen—Stockholm—Hango— Helsingfors—Reval — Stockholm — Gothenburg — Copen hagen. THAT American marriage in the air, will it be followed by aerial divorces, we wonder ? There doesn't seem to be any limit to the gay flippancy of our cousins across the water, and some of those Arizona cases of incompatibility of tempera ment, where you get your divorce with about as much formality as there is in securing a dog licence, would be suited by this method. Aerial burials Kipling has already touched on in that story of his about the American inventor whose English home is invaded by a couple of German spy gentle men in the days before the War. You remember the con clusion : how the two dead men are put in their own machine, the power turned full on, and the aeroplane with its grim load sent out to the Channel ? AN English flying officer taken prisoner in Germany was annoyed, on receiving his washing, to find that only eleven socks were returned to him, instead of the dozen. He wrote a diplomatic letter to the camp commander. No reply. A fresh request, to the Colonel in charge of the town. Silence. Respectfully, but firmly, the Britisher wrote to the Minister of War, finally asking King Louis of Bavaria to restore him his sock. We do not know how the Boches took this humour of an isolated and half-starved man, but it is statedjthat the officer in question has now lost his reason. ^^ "'•'Msi , ' m • ^~ , V E^V^"'!* A pirTWrn^r- '•$. 11 .«*• •pP^^f ~ j*? W/EM*^"*".., *W "^ *•- . **v M HP* Us / -• j»?fc Cat) • ->•.•!, '• :'••-•'• A Mr '• $0m. fpfcj V 1 A SOPWITH PASSENGER MACHINE.—One of the Gnu biplanes, with enclosed cabin for the passenger. the photograph the cabin is shown open In 8l8
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