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Thanks to this step and to the work done at our Concentration Camp at Netheravon in June, 1914, the greater part of the Royal Flying Corps was enabled to concentrate without hitch at our aerodrome at Dover, and the machines flew via Calais to Amiens on August 13th. Reconnaissance.
Directly he released the ropes the machine began to move across the ground, gathering speed very quickly; but he managed somehow, before the machine was running too fast, to scramble into the seat beside me. Off we started across the aerodrome, the monoplane gaining a speed of 40 or 50 miles an hour.
It may mean that he is obtaining his tuition from day to day, when other pupils, learning to fly at grounds less favourably situated, have to remain compulsorily idle, waiting either for the wind to drop, or to veer to some quarter from which their aerodrome is sheltered.
I don't know what happened to me: I felt an emotion so profound that it was almost religious. You must believe me when I ask your permission to be an aviator." "You don't know what an airplane is. You never saw one except from below." "You are mistaken; I went up in one at Corbeaulieu." Corbeaulieu was an aërodrome near Compiègne; and these words were spoken a very few months before the war.
They heard the whirring of his wings; he was gone. It may be said that, once up in the air, Stanley lost no time in heading into the west-southwest. He knew the way, and though it was yet hardly midnight, he divined the safest way for him to make the familiar aerodrome was to get there as soon as possible, regardless of consequences.
It sounded exactly like a great aerodrome far in the distance, with a score or more of planes tuning up. I chanced to see a large bee-like insect rising through the branches, and following back along its path, I suddenly perceived the rarest of sights an Atta nest entrance boiling with the excitement of a flight of winged kings and queens.
Owing to the angle at which the rockets were mounted on the struts, it was very important that the dive should be vertical. One morning, the attack could have been made with every chance of success. Drew and I left the aerodrome a few minutes before sunrise for a trial flight, that we might give our motors a thorough testing.
When the London Aerodrome at Hendon was established, there were shrewd men in the city, men who are ordinarily very sound in their conclusions, who declared the public would never go there in appreciable numbers.
Concerning them, Langley remarks that, 'Everything here has been done with a view to putting a trial aerodrome successfully in flight within a few years, and thus giving an early demonstration of the only kind which is conclusive in the eyes of the scientific man, as well as of the general public a demonstration that mechanical flight is possible by actually flying.
His engine held out and he safely regained his aerodrome, after having been reported missing by his comrades. For this escapade he received the Military Cross a well-earned reward. When all the bombs have been dropped and the formation resumed the machines head for home.
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