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picture at an instant when his plane is level and the lens facing directly down at the object. If the machine is tilted in a measure the wide sweep gives the eye of the camera a new vision wholly outside the desired spot. Here again "bumps" and a strained position of leaning over one side of the fuselage come into play, and that is why the excitement and bother of keeping things steady appeals here as in the case of bombing. I did my pictures in such a hurried, flurried, matter-of-fact way that I had no idea of passing, but the next day the R.F.C. photography corporal had a pretty good set of plates to show me. This finished my ordinary tests and I passed into the school of Aerial Gunnery to encounter