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had flown the machine for some hours and in the meantime I have been doing all the work. Now Elliot has just started instructing & though I dont trust him to teach very well I suppose he will be all right. It is very galling to be under this rotter who, though a decent enough chap in some ways, is a hopeless loafer and untrustworthy. It makes me mad to have him listen to him talking about the machine for which he has suddenly developed great enthusiasm, when for months he left me single handed to stick up for it and break its bad reputation. Now that I have succeeded all on my own in making the machine popular and have alone turned out about twenty pilots on it, it is sickening to hear him blowing about it & saying what a splendid machine it is. I tell him rather bluntly that I discovered all that four months ago. However it is the fortune of war to have this sort of thing happening but it is very very trying. I would'nt mind much if he were not such a hopeless liar. Yesterday night the C.O. asked me how much flying

 

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