Jane's All the World's Aircraft. 1913 by Fred T. Jane

OXLEY. Instructor to the Blackburn School, at Filey, 1911. PAINE (Capt. G. M.) M.V.O., R.N. Commandant of the British Central Flying School at Upavon, Salisbury Plain. Appointed early in 1912. PARKE (Lieut. Wilfred, R. N.) Started flying in 1910, and made a large number of meritorious performances. Killed in a monoplane at Wembley, December 15th, 1912. PARSEVAL (Major Von), _late_ German Army. Inventor of the _Parseval_ type dirigibles and the _Parseval_ monoplane. Leading figure in all aerial matters in Germany. (See Part A.) PATERSON (Compton). British aviator. Liverpool Motor House, Ltd., Liverpool. Designed a successful machine in 1909. Also flies _Farmans_. Designed new machine 1911. PATIALA (Maharajah of). In December, 1910, purchased a _Bleriot_ and a _Voisin_. Member of the R. Ae. C. PAGNY. French. Designer of _Hanriots_, 1913. PAULHAN (Louis). Frenchman. Born 1883. Served afloat as a boy. Later served with the _late_ Col. Renard; also with the _late_ Captain Ferber. In 1907 was with Surcouf. In his spare time he made models. In 1909 he won a _Voisin_ biplane, given as prize for the best model in France, and rapidly came to the front. In 1910 he won the _Daily Mail_ L10,000 prize for the London to Manchester flight. Numerous other prizes have been won by him. Took up construction in 1911 without much success till in 1912 he took over French, etc., agency for _Curtiss_ hydros. PEQUET (H.) Frenchman. Certificated June, 1910. Flew a _Humber-Sommer_ in India, where he conveyed the first officially recognised aerial post at Allahabad. PERRIN (H.) British. Secretary of the R. Aero Club. PERRY (Ida), Metropol Theater, Berlin. German actress, who has gone in for aviation. PFITZNER (_late_ Lieut. Alexander L.) Hungarian. Born 1875. Served in the Austro-Hungarian Artillery. Leaving the Army he went to the U.S.A. and became connected with the Herring-Curtiss work, designing the novel Pfitzner monoplane. He met many mishaps with this, which depressed him. He returned to Hungary early in 1910, but meeting no success there came back to America. Drowned in Marblehead Harbour, 12th July, 1910. PHILLIPS (Horatio F.), Wealdstone, Harrow. Pioneer experimenter. Discoverer of the "dipping front edge," patented by him 1884 and