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letters from France. I also enclose a snap of myself in the snow & a sort of moving picture affair that is sure to amuse you!

I am working very hard still and am getting on quite well. The C.O. told me the other day that my recommendation for promotion has gone through & so I suppose I will get it some time or other. He has been awfully decent to me about it. I know he appreciates the work I've done here and he said to me the other day that I seem to do all the work in B & C flights. Of course that is rather exaggerating. I am the only instructor here on a certain new machine that is supposed to be rather hard to fly. When I came here there had been one or two nasty accidents in it and consequently the pupils became very frightened of it and no one wanted to fly it. I flew the machine when I first came here and found it very nice indeed and saw that it was in many ways an excellent machine for work at the front. After I had tried it & gained some experience with it I made up my mind that it was perfectly all right and that the only reason for the accidents that had happened in it was sheer bad flying. I have had a terribly up hill fight to get over the prejudice against the machine. It is amazing how easy it is to make everyone believe that a machine is dangerous and how hard it is to change that idea once they have got it. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I was convinced that unless the pilot made a bad mistake in flying the machine

 

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