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1919 - 1090.PDF
THE SPAD-HERBEMONT TWO-SEATER MONOCOQUE : A Military biplane, 300 h.p. Hispano-Suiza, on which the French pilot, Sadi Lecointe, made a record altitude (solo) flight of 89,200 ft. He also beat the speed record (with passenger) with a speed of 142.8 m.p.h. greatly increased if the scout who makes the report is capable of making, on the spot, deductions likely to assist the General Staff in divining the object with which the enemy troops have been sent to the locality wherein they have been observed. In a word, let us first make trained sailors and soldiers, and afterwards make of them airmen and other specialists. The R.A.F. cannot efficiently be the ' eyes ' of the naval and military command unless its observers are capable of under standing what they see." THAT proper military training should be beneficial to the efficiency of the force there can be no possible doubt, and it is hardly to be conceived that this will not be part of the system, but side by side, not of necessity primarily, with the bringing into line of the young mind, with matters more directly concerned with the art and science of aviation. It is the flying spirit that in the first instance matters. The rest follows naturally. " SEVERAL thousand German prisoners," so runs a report, " paraded at Dorchester internment camp yesterday for the presentation by the R.A.F. of money and a watch to Pte. Bruckmann, a prisoner, who rescued two officers from a burning plane. He was himself burned. The War Office has granted him immediate repatriation." We are just wondering whether this added reward of the W.O. may not just now be a doubtfid blessing. THAT " fish by aeroplane " has, after all, materialised. But it would nevertheless have to be at least a millionaire's, or even a war profiteer's luxury to have his fish for dinner brought that way, at present, in order to save an hour. For a year or two, anyway, we fancy most of the Manchester men of wealth will continue to take their chance of getting decently fresh fish by waiting the two hours which, according to Mr. Bracegirdle, the enterprising aerial-route fishmonger, it takes for a cargo of fish to travel from Fleetwood to Man chester. But then the formality of handing every cargo of fish, a quarter of an hour after its arrival in the City of Trams, to the Lady Mayoress at the Town Hall, as in Mr. Brace- girdle's case last week, is not insisted upon by the sanitary authorities. THIS sort of spasmodic enterprise moreover is apt to bring trouble upon and indictments of inefficiency of the aeronautic- movement generally, by reason of its setting up ideals in the Sir Sayed Ali El Mirg- ham, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., and some seven Sudanese Chiefs on a visit to Hendon on flying experiences bent. Although Sir Sayed was forbidden to fly by the Holy Men who accom panied the Mission, by reason of it being irre ligious, the eight chiefs took chances upon this point, and after a flight in a Grahame - White machine, one of the visi tors picturesquely de scribed his impressions as follows : " The earth looked like a carpet and the clouds like moun tains .'' Another interest ing point was that these ingenuous folk insisted upon being photographed, because unless they took back some proof their tribes would not believe they had been in the air. IO92
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