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OCTOBER 26, 1922 manner. Then the struggle commenced, and he made a plucky fight to master the gusty currents. It was not long before he began to drift backwards and sideways, and eventually came down—still moving backwards !—on the edge of a slope some quarter of a mile from.the starting- point. He remained at the controls, to prevent the wind taking charge of the machine, until help arrived, when the glider was carried to a more sheltered spot on the other side of the ridge. It was, he said, the first time he had ever landed backwards ! His air-speed indicator showed 45 m.p.h. while he was up, and 40 m.p.h. when he was landing. His flight lasted about 1 min. 30 sees. Shortly after this J eyes brought his Aachen glider out, and proceeded to a point on the ridge between Beddingham and Firle Beacon. He took off at about 10.46 a.m., and got several nasty up-and-down bumps immediately he left the ground. Then, rising the meanwhile, he got blown gradually back, and so he put the nose down and slowly proceeded alongside the hill towards Firle, loosing height until he reached a spur on the side of the hill, and here he attempted to land. On turning, however, the right wing tip struck the ground, and the whole wing broke completely off and started a glide on its own—1 anding several hundred feet away. The rest of the glider, of course, came down with a bit of a bump, upside down. As J eyes did not make an immediate appearance some anxiety as to his safety was felt, and a rush was made to his assistance. Owing to the steep nature of the hill-side some minutes elapsed before an R.A.F. mechanic reached the machine and speedily raised the fuselage—when Jeyes stepped out, apparently untouched. The mechanic, however, fell fiat on his back, and stayed there several minutes, whether from exhaustion after his record glide down the hill THE START OF A FAMOUS FLIGHT : M. Maneyrol's Peyret monoplane gets away on October 21 for its record flight. or from sheer relief, we know not. Shortly after, the remains-, of the glider were brought up and then carried back, with the help of Boy Scouts, to Itford. Jeyes' glide was, also,, of about 1J minutes' duration. During the remainder of the day the wind, if anything, increased in force, and there was nothing further doing except a gliding contest,, down the slope in the lower valley, on the two six- wheeler trolleys (used for conveying sundries up the hill by means of the kite- balloon winch). The R.Ae.C. team, piloted by Secretary Perrin, won the first race easily, but the second race ended in a dead heat—and disaster ! One of the 'buses at the end of the run made a sharp left-hand turn, and, continuing down tli£ opposite slope of the hill, eventually crashed into a gate at the bottom. Some of the " crew " managed to drop off before the crash, but some — including our old friend Howard Wright— " dropped " off after and received sundry damages to< noses, legs, «*c. Well, well !' we had to do something to pass the time, and the spirit of the early days of flying had returned to one and all. In the meantime work on the various gliders in the hangars proceeded. Thursday, October 19.— The wind on this, the fourth, day of the Compe tition was even stronger than ever, and during the night one of the hangars was blown down, with unfortu nate results for Mr. Prosser's biplane glider. There was plenty to be done on the various machines, however, and we were glad to be able to make ourselves useful lending a hand at doping, filing, riveting, etc., when required. The rudder on Raynham's 'bus looked smart with a new extension, and by the end of the day the movement of the ailerons had successfully been increased and a new air-speed indicator fitted, and all was ready for the next flight. The S.C.W. glider was also practically completed, and the Peyret tandem K ^ Si K Si % SS The Winner : M. Maney- rol, in the cockpit of his machine, photographed at Selfridges, where the Peyret monoplane is on view this week. Behind the machine may be seen Lieut.-Commander Lar- rouy, manager and inter preter to M. Maneyrol. Inset, M. Louis Pcyret, who designed and built the winning machine. S s ss 625
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