IN THE AIR.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 3012, 5 August 1916, Page 1

IN THE AIR.

AVIATORS ARRIVE IN SYDNEY

SCHOOL OF INSTRUCTION

AUSTRALIANS' EXPERIENCES

Sydney, July 27. The Aviation School at Richmond, Noav South Wales, under the direction of the State, will be an accomplished fact within a feAV days. The tAvo aviation instructors sent out by the British War Office have arrived in Sydney. They are Mr AY. J. Stutt and Mr A. Lang, both Australians, who learned Hying with the Royal Flying Corps at Farnborough, England.

Mr Stutt; who is a native of Hawthorn. Victoria, Avas associated Avith the flying corps for three years, and never had a day off from the time he joined tbe ranks. At tho time be was appointed to Richmond he was chief test pilot at Farnborough. In three years he made 6000 flights on almost every knoAvn typo of machine, including nearly every kind of German machine, the captured aeroplanes having been all tested. They include the Albatross, L.V.G., D.F.W., and others. Mr Stutt has been to the front, and Avhat it is like to make a flight under Avar conditions. "It is much easier and less dangerous to fly over a battle-front than to teach some people hoAV to fly." he remarked in passing. " The English aeroplanes are much better than those of tho Germans. We haA-e got the ascendancy."