By the summer of 1912, he had been promoted and sent to England to oversee the design and development of the British Deperdussin Company aircraft.

The fabric was reinforced by bunches of strong threads run through the material at right angles to form squares.

[2] Lateral control was achieved with wing warping and a movable rudder attached to the trailing edge of the vertical fin.

A movable elevator attached to the trailing edge of the horizontal stabilizer was used for pitch control.

This, combined with the War Office's ban on monoplanes, spelled the end for the further development of the Seagull.