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Mercedes, high compression, over-sized, 180 h.p. motor. 

ACTUAL FLYING TIME ON WHICH THIS REPORT IS BASED. At the moment at which this report is compiled, according to the logbooks these machines have an actual flying time of 11,000 hours (10,868 hours and thirty minutes.)

During this time not a single fatal accident occurred, while only in one instance (caused by stunting at low altitude) injury of a more or less serious character (severe face wounds) resulted to the pilot. (Machine damaged beyond repair.)

Other accidents, though sometimes considerably damaging the machine, did not result in injuries of any seriousness to the occupants. It must be kept in mind that Holland is one of the worst possible countries for forced landings owing to the smallness of the fields and the great number of dykes intersecting them. Nearly all accidents resulting in material damage were caused through landings ending in a ditch.

Of the 11,000 actual flying hours, only 850 hours were flown in scouts (D-VII), these machines being kept in reserve so that only a few of them are used for practice, etc. 

The C-I reconnaissance machines, therefore, have had about 10,000 flying hours. Unless stated otherwise, the remarks

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