Greg’s time at Yatesbury was coming to an end, and on this windy and probably frustrating day he practised landings and tried to practice aerial firing – but he had trouble with the gun.
Date: 2.5.18 Hour: 8.5 Machine type and No.: RE 5146 Passenger: – Time: 30 m Height: 2000 Course: [Aerodrome] Remarks: Very windy. Practice 1 landing
Date: 2.5.18 Hour: 10.30 Machine type and No.: RE 5146 Passenger: – Time: 25 m Height: 2000 Course: [Aerodrome] Remarks: Practice 1 landing
Date: 2.5.18 Hour: 1.25, 2.10 & 2.25 Machine type and No.: RE 6647 Passenger: – Time: 35 m, 15 m & 10m Height: 1500 Course: Aerial firing Remarks: Gun jambed [sic].
Gun Jambed
Interesting spelling of “jambed”, which is regarded as incorrect today. It clearly wasn’t some idiosyncrasy of Greg’s, as the Aerial Combat reports of the time used the same spelling, as in this blog entry for 27 March 1918:
Whether or not the spelling was common, the problem certainly was evidently more common than it should have been – both for guns and camera jambing, or, as we would say, jamming.