 On 18 November 1908, he flew with Mr C C Turner and Prof A E Gaudron in a balloon named the "Mammoth" from Crystal Palace in England to Meeki Derevi, near Novo Aleksandrovsk in Russia (now Zarasai in Lithuania).The distance of was covered in thirty-six and a half hours.From 1909 Maitland was attached to the Balloon School at Farnborough Airfield.