badly-surfaced

Updated: June 29, 2025

Conneau's success, winning as he did several of the great contests one after another, and the absence of error in his flying from stage to stage, and his accurate landings upon strange and often badly-surfaced aerodromes, should provide for the novice in aviation when the secret of this success is understood an object-lesson that is of value.

Claude Grahame-White - Learning to Fly: A Practical Manual for Beginners