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landing. Then you pass to field #3.

The 3rd stage is, of course, the 23 [[strikethrough]] singles [[/strikethrough]] ^[[meter singles.]] And those light Nieuports are so sensitive on control that it requires an appreciable time to get used to the manipulation.

The Curtiss ^[[SN4D]] of our Texas training was "heavy" on controls, could be landed on the wheels first (tail-up), [[underline]] was [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] ^[[driven]] with the [[/underline]] [[double underline]] left hand [[/double underline]], had a stationary engine controlled by a [[underline]] right hand single throttle [[/underline]], had enormous wing-surface, and several (two, plus an extension, to be exact) "bays" (sections between struts).

The Nieuport is on the other hand extremely "light" on the stick, [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] ^[[is best]] landed on three points (tail down); is driven by a [[underline]] double [[/underline]] throttle ^[[(essence & air (larger) plus gas supply (smaller))]] worked by the [[underline]] left  [[/underline]] hand, controlling a rotary engine which more or less ^[[-for the novice-]] all the time needs attention; is [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] ^[[manipulated]] with the right hand, has a small wing area which is supported by a single bay with the extension.
[[image: line drawing of structure of Curtiss and Nieuport, as if approaching viewer: on left the Curtis, wings with 4 bays, propeller in middle, captioned Curtiss;  on right wings with 2 bays,one on each side of propeller, captioned Nieuport]] .