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The quickness of response to any movement of the "joy stick" is what fooled most of the Canadian trained students ([[strikethrough]] [[such as?]] [[/strikethrough]] as for example Yours-sitting-in-the-bunk-writing-this-before-going out-to-the-still-more-sensitive-machines:- the 18 meter Nieuport). On our take-offs the tail would go up in a rapid arc, and since there was no tail fin the rudder would swerve the whole bus to one side or the other at the slightest twitch with the feet. To get off the ground took several seconds, indeed in taking to the air and in landing these 23's were as slow as the Curtiss - only they [[strikethrough]] g[[/strikethrough]] landed on far rougher ground and with less injury to the undercarriage than our Texas machines.

Once in the upper regions with the throttle at 1300 we had to give very little aileron to make the wings tip and then had to put on a decided opposite aileron to keep it from tipping too far! And we climed on the turns! If we had attempted such action ^[[while learning]] in the Curt we would have gone into a spin [[strikethrough]] if 
 [[we?]] didn't fix it with the 23 Nieuport we 
 [[would?]] go into [[? ?]] [[/strikethrough]] So there you are. After attaining