Item 01: Ralph Ingram Moore letters, 10 February 1907-15 March 1918 - Page 325
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[Page 325]
[Following on from Page 327]
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Yesterday I spent at Brooklands €“ one of the big air stations, and where Sidney is quartered. The Camp is inside the famous Brooklands Motor racing track. I was very lucky because I was allowed to take a flight, and not only that looped the loop twice. I have to keep this quiet, because passengers are not allowed up, and it is strictly against the rules for even pilots to loop the loop.
It was a very windy day and the plane I was on was I think the only one that went up. The pilot reckoned that a fifty mile gale was blowing. We went up a great height, because big two storied houses looked no higher than an inch. The river looked like a silver thread lying in the ground. Part of the time we were well above the clouds. It looked