As Greg enters his last week at Yatesbury, the first flight of the day saw some consolidation work on zone calls, and the second flight didn’t end well:
Date: 30.4.18 Hour: 8.15 Machine type and No.: BE2E 8660 Passenger: – Time: 35 m Height: 600 Course: Zone calls Remarks: –
Date: 30.4.18 Hour: 11.30 Machine type and No.: BE2E 1358 Passenger: – Time: 40 m Height: 2000 Course: Aerodrome Remarks: Practice Crashed on landing
This was the second day running of zone call work, as explained in yesterday’s post:
https://gregswar.com/2018/04/29/monday-29-april-1918-zone-calls/
The question arises whether the crash on landing at the end of the second flight was deliberate, so as to practice what happens in the event of a crash. The absence of a full stop or other punctuation mark after ‘Practice’ leans in the direction of that interpretation. Leaning the opposite way, though, are (a) the capital C of ‘Crashed’, and the fact that the past participle (‘Crashed’) rather than the noun (‘Crash’) was used. For my money, the crash wasn’t deliberate – though no doubt useful practice!
No flying the following day. Greg’s next log book entry is for Thursday 2 May 1918.