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height was found to have been 13,000 ft., but Piercey, wholanded shortly afterwards, had reached 13,600 ft. Bert Hinkler, during the day, successfully completed thesix laps necessary to bring his total up to 80 laps, or a distance of 1,000 miles. During the afternoon Capt. Broad again took OCTOBER IS, 1923 When Maneyrol heard that his altitude had been beaten hemade ready to go up again, and soon was away on his second attempt, at the termination of which he was, unfortunately, tomeet with a fatal accident. A little later both Hamersley and Piercey went up again to try if possible to improve upon LIGHT 'PLANES AT LYMPNE : Some interesting constructional features : 1, the rear sloping edge of theengine mounting fairing on the "Wrens " is very ingeniously utilised as an instrument-board. The various dials are immediately in front of the pilot, and as they are out in the open they are well illuminated and conse-quently easily read. 2, The cockpit of the Gloucestershire " Gannet." 3, Petrol and oil tanks of the Avro biplane (No. 5). 4, View into the cockpit of the Parnall "Pixie." Note the petrol level indicator. 5, Theundercarriage of the Avro monoplane is of very clean design, the rubber shock absorbers being enclosed in the strut fairings. 6, The pilot's cockpit in the Sayers-Handley Page monoplane (No. 25) is totally enclosed, thepilot looking through two small openings in the roof. Late arrival at Lympne and a refractory engine prevented. this machine from being thoroughly tested. the D.H.53 (No. 8) up and did a series of loops and two rolls.When he had alighted the machine was taken up for a flight by Air-Commodore Longcroft, who made a very prettyflight around the aerodrome and finished with a perfect landing. , Later the same ntachine was taken up by Wing-CommanderPretyman, who also made a fine flight and landed without difficulty. Both were greatly impressed by the generalhandiness of the de Havilland machine. their previous height. Both had been stopped by frozencarburettors, but a different mixture of fuel was hoped to have overcome this difficulty. Maneyrol was then seen flying at a great height, but evi-dently coming down slowly. After a time he crossed the aerodrome at a few hundred feet, and, circling to come in toland, began to lose height, but certainly not diving at all steeply. Then suddenly the wings were seen to collapsewhen at a height of about 100 ft., and the machine dived to. 646
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