1904. Now aviator and writer on subject.

RADLEY (James). Well-known British aviator, flying a _Bleriot_. Patented a special wing. Represented Great Britain in the 1910 Gordon Bennett. At Lanark, 1910, broke the world's then speed record, and did 75 miles per hour. Pilot R. Ae. C. 12, June 14th, 1910. August, 1911, flew the Channel in 22 minutes; Calais to Folkestone. Subsequently embarked on construction. RAYNHAM (F. R.) British subject. Flew 7 hours, 30 mins. competing for the Michelin Cup. Used an _Avro_ fitted with a 60 horse Green. REISSNER (Dr. Ing. Hans), Lutticherstrasse 166, Aachen. Born 1874. Professor on matters aerial. RELTICH. French. Cyclist who succeeded in getting an avietter to fly one metre, October, 1912. Won the Dubos prize. RENARD (_late_ Colonel). In association with Krebs built a dirigible in 1884, with electric motor. Killed. RENARD (Commandant Paul), 41 Rue Madame, Paris. Born 1854. Officer Leg. d'Hon. Brother of late Col. Renard, with whom he worked. Vice-President, _Ligue Nat. Aerienne_. Professor _Ecole Sup. d'Aeronautique_. Has written a good deal on aerial subjects. RENAUX. Did 12 hours 12 minutes on a _M. Farman_, 7th August, 1911. (690 k.m.) Won the Quentin Bauchart Prize, 1911. RENAUX. French aviator. Winner of the Grand Prix Michelin, March, 1911, Paris, to top of the Puy de Dome. Machine, _Maurice Farman_. RICHET. French patron of early aviation experiments, 1896. Tatin built a large model machine for him in those days, which after a 150 yard flight fell into the sea and was lost. RIDGE (Theodore). Assistant Superintendent of the Army Aircraft Factory. Killed on August 21st, 1911. ROBINSON (Hugh). Well-known U.S.A. aviator. ROBL (_late_ Thaddeus). German aviator. Killed on a _Farman_, 1910, through attempting to fly in unpropitious weather in order to allay the complaints of sightseers. Has been designated the "first martyr of aviation"--not without some cause. RODGERS (C. P.) U.S.A. aviator. _Wright._ In September-October, 1911, he flew across America, distance 4,321 miles. He started to win the Hirst prize of L10,000, but having taken longer than 30 days was disqualified. ROE (A. V.) Clifton St., Miles Platting, Manchester. Was the first man to fly in England, and also the first to fly an all-British machine. Is a persistent experimenter on original lines. Has flown with as little as 9 h.p. in one of his triplanes. Now builds mono. and biplanes (_Avro_). ROEHRIG (B. F.) U.S.A. aviator. Obtained wide reputation with _Curtiss_ types on Pacific Coast. ROGER, 8 Rue Grange-Bateliere, Paris. Founder and editor of _Revue de l'Aviation_. ROGUES (General). French Army. Inspector General Military Aeronautics, 1911. ROLLS (_late_ Hon. C.) Well-known British sportsman, motorist, and aviator. First Englishman to order an aeroplane--a _Wright_. Flew the Channel both ways early in 1910 (first record). Killed at Bournemouth, July, 1910, in a _Wright_. RUCK (Major-General), C.B., R.E. Chairman of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain. RUSSIJAN. Austrian aviator. Killed January 9th, 1911. SALMET (Henri). French. Born 1878. Made British height record, 8,070 feet, November, 1911. Made record London-Paris flight, March, 1912. Time: 3 hours, 14 minutes. SAMPSON (Lieut.) British Navy. On August 17th, 1911, made British flight duration record to date, 4 hours 58-1/2 minutes, at Eastchurch on a _Short_ 38. Now Acting-Commander. Employed by Naval Wing, R.F.C. SAMUELSON (Arnold), Hamburg Waterworks, Germany. Born 1837. Writer on aerial matters. SANTOS-DUMONT (Alberto), 150 Avenue des Champs-Elysees, Paris. Brazilian, of French descent. Born 1873. Officer Leg. d'Hon. Took up ballooning at an early age. He was the first to use a petrol motor in a balloon. In 1900 the fifth dirigible constructed by him crossed the Seine. On Oct. 19th, 1901, in No. 6, he circled the Eiffel Tower and won the 100,000 franc Deutsch prize. In 1906 he became interested in heavier than air machines, and began on a helicopter. Abandoning this he built a box kite type of aeroplane, and on October 23rd, 1906, won the Archdeacon prize for a heavier than air flight of not less than 25 metres. Thereafter, comparatively little was heard of him, except that he was experimenting with the _Demoiselle_, till in 1909 he made a record on this type--the designs of which he presented to the world. Has not been prominent since. SCHABSKY (Athanasius Ivanovitch). Russian. Builder of the _Outchebny_ type dirigible. SCHIERE, J. Aeronautical engineer. Stephonsonstraat 41, The Hague, Holland. Librarian Dutch Ae. C. SCHUeTTE (Prof. Johann), Jaeschkenthal 47b, Danzig-Langfukr, Danzig, Germany. Born 1873. Designer of the _Schuette_ dirigible. SCHWANN (Commander Oliver). British Navy. Navy Air Dept., 1912-13. In 1911, conducted a number of hydro-aeroplane experiments. SCRAGG (Geo. H.), American citizen, 19-21, Great Queen Street, Kingsway, London, W.C. European correspondent of American _Aeronautics_. SELLERS (M.B.) (See U.S. aeroplanes) SELLS (Chas. de Grave), La Colombara, Cornigliano-Ligure, Italy. British. A leading authority on all matters having to do with engineering. Also a writer on these subjects. Authority on matters having to do with aviation in Italy. SHAFFER (Cleve T.) American citizen. West Coast correspondent to _Aeronautics_ (U.S.A.) Writer on aerial subjects generally. SIMON (Rene). August 18th, 1911, tied with Sopwith for the world's Climbing speed at Chicago; 500 metres in 3' 35". SMITH (H. White). British. Secretary to the Bristol Co. SOMMER (Roger) Mouzon, Ardennes, France. Born 1877. Early interested in aviation. In 1908 built a machine of his own design. This was a failure. He then bought one of the first _Farman's_, on which he rapidly achieved success. Towards the end of 1909 he produced the _Sommer_ biplane. SOPWITH (T.) British. Won the Baron de Forest prize on a _Howard Wright_, 1910. Also won many other prizes in England and America. 19th August, 1911, tied with Simon, world's climbing speed--500 metres in 3' 35"--at Chicago. Now a constructor. SPENCER (Stanley). Early British dirigible builder (1902). Died 1913. SPOONER (Stanley), 41 St. Martin's Lane, W.C. Editor of _Flight_. Prominent supporter of aviation. Member of R. Ae. C. Committee. STEIN (Lieut.) German aviator. Killed at Doerlitz, February 6th, 1911. STRINGFELLOW. British. A very early experimenter. In 1868 he evolved a triplane model. SUETER (Capt. R. N.) British. In command of British Navy dirigible section, 1911. Admiralty Air Dept., 1912-13. SURCOUF (Edward Louis), 33 Boulevard Lannes, Paris. Born 1862. Chev. Leg. d'Hon. Secretary Com. Sport Ae. C. F. Sec. Com. Aerienne Mixte. Director of the _Astra_ Societe. Constructor of the majority of French dirigibles. SWANN (Rev. Sydney), The Vicarage, Crosby Ravensworth, Westmoreland, England. First clerical aviator. Ceased. SYKES (Major F. H.) Officer Commandant in Charge of Records, Royal Flying Corps, Military Wing. TABUTEAU. French aviator. Winner of the Michelin Trophy. TADDEOLI. Swiss. First Swiss to obtain an aviator's certificate, which he did on a _Dufaux_, October, 1910. Badly injured at Lausanne, June, 1911, during exhibition flights. 1912, built a hydro-aeroplane. TATIN (Victor), 14 Rue de la Folie-Reynault, Paris. Chev Leg. d'Hon. Born 1843. Commenced heavier than air experiments so long ago as 1879, when he made an aeroplane driven by compressed air. Designed the _Ville de Paris_. Had a good deal to do with the _Bleriot_ in its early days. In 1909 designed the _Clement-Bayard_ monoplane. Associated with Paulhan in 1911. Writes on all aerial subjects. TAYLOR (Vincent P.) Australian subject. Well-known aeronaut, using the _nom de plume_ of Capt. Penfold. In 1912 went in for aeroplaning, using a _Bristol_. TISSANDIER (Gaston). French Pioneer aeronaut. Made an electrically-propelled dirigible in 1881. Born 1843. Died 1899. TISSANDIER (Paul), 17 Avenue Victor Hugo, Paris. Son of Gaston Tissandier. Born 1881. Instructor of aviation. Taught many of the best known aviators. TURNBULL (W. R.) American Engineer. In the year 1906 commenced to experiment with hydro-aeroplanes; and may be regarded as the originator of all experiments in this direction. The French _Gabardine_ of much later date did not differ materially from his early models, while the more recent _Fabre_ and the successful _Curtiss Triad_ embodied similar ideas. TURNER (Charles E.) Authority on aviation matters, special aerial correspondent of the _Observer_, etc. TURNER (Lewis W. F.) British. Chief pilot of the Ewen School, 1912. TWINING (S. Frisco). Cal. U.S.A. Experimenter with flappers, man propelled, from 1910 onward. USBORNE (Lieut. Neville F.), R.N. First British naval officer detailed for aerial work. Was appointed to _Clement-Bayard II_ in 1909, and subsequently to the first Naval Dirigible. 1912, Naval Wing, R.F.C. VANNIMAN (Melvin). Built the gondola of the first _Wellman_ airship, and intimately concerned with _Wellman II_. Also designed a triplane