Curiously enough, Major Mayo did not know, until after he had patented his completed plans, that a Bristol Bullet fighter was flown off the back of a Porte flying-boat during the war. In this instance a lightly-loaded fighter machine was carried into the air by a heavily-loaded flying-boat, serving simply as a mobile aero drome for the fighter.
The Mayo Composite is a paradox, Diagram of the two planes. having received the young men through her bedroom window by the use of a farm ladder.
She alleges Work has paid about 50 such visits to her in nearly six years, and that she was always in bed when he visited her, and he nearly always got into bed beside her.
Work's case, Lord Mackay continued is that on no occasion in all that time was he alone in the room with Miss McAdie.
After referring to earlier calls on the girl in her bedroom, up ladders and later through an open back door of a farm and up a staircase; Lord Mackay declared that both the young man and the girl, their solicitors and the sheriff seemed unanimously to treat these visits—to our more sophisticated minds somewhat peculiar calls—as illustrations of a perfectly innocent social custom.
So far from attempting to deny them, he went on, Work from the first has stated that such visits took place. He refuses only to name those who were with him from a scruple which would have been better overruled.
Having regard to this social habit, the identification of a solitary man's visit will require to be better than that provided by Miss McAdie."
Judgment was given for Work and the girl's application was rejected.
"Bundling Custom"
Speaking of the custom as commented on in the court, the Rev. Gilbert Moore, of Old Walls Church, Longhope, Orkney, declared in an interview that in a number areas the old Orkney custom by which young mien visited the bedrooms of their sweethearts at night—known as "pundling"—was still fairly compton.
It is difficult to say how it originated," he said, but it is a practice which the church authorities here regard with extreme disfavour.
We are doing all we can to remove it entirely from the islands, and we are hopeful that soon it will be a thing of the past.
Bundlitg has been carried on for centuries in countries where fuel is scarce. The practice is inspired by the need to keep warm cheaply, the "News of the World" learned from Mr. H. Coote Lake, secretary of the Folk Lore Society.
The custom has survived in the sparsely inhabited country districts of Wales, the Isle of Man, and the West of Scotland," he went on.
It is a perfectly innocent custom In the two-roomed country worke dwelling the living-room, in winter, is the only warmed room. There the family assembles.
The cold bedroom is thus the only place where the courting couple may enjoy privacy.
They use the bedroom, and, to keep warm, they climb into bed. because the heavy machine has to lift itself away from the less loaded aircraft, thus more or less defying the laws of gravity. Moreover, the composite is not just two aeroplane: tied together, as was, the case with the rather heroic war-time expe' ment.
The lower flying-boat and the upper seaplane form, when locked together, a perfect' eight-engined biplane, neither of the components interfering with the flying qualities of the. other.
Major Mayo is one of the big brains in the British aircraft indus try. He was a brilliant student who has fulfilled the promise of his youth, Born in Cambridge in 1890, Robert Hobart Mayo went to his home university and graduated with a "double first" in mathematics and engineering. Flying was his interest) as a young man,
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