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AUGUST 28, 1909. AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. OFFICIAL NOTICES TO MEMBERS. Fixtures for 1909. August 22-29 Rheims Aviation Week. August 28 ... Gordon-Bennett Aviation Cup, Rheims. . October 3 ... Gordon-Bennett Balloon Race. Zurich. : • Committee Meeting. A meeting of the Committee was held on Friday, the 20th inst., when there were present: Mr. Roger W. Wallace, K.C., in the chair, Mr. Martin Dale, Mr. J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon, the Hon. C. S. Rolls, Mr. J. Lyons Sampson, Harold E. Perrin, Secretary. New Members.—The following new Members were elected :— Henry Jacob Delaval Astley. Henry Knox. John A. Banister. Lieut. George Frederick Montagu, Guy Vernon Baxendale. R.N. S. F. Cody. Captain Hugh Iltid Nicholl. •Le Baron de Beville. Sydney Norris. Le Baron Henri de Beville. Auguste Oddenino. Baron de Forest. George F. Underwood. Lady Dunne. G. W. Warne. Miss Dunne. Mrs. Wrohan. E. Marshall Fox. Flying Visit to Rheims. The Aero Club have arranged with the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway Company to run a special excur- sion to Rheims on Saturday evening, enabling passengers to spend fourteen hours there, and witness the final com- petitions, which take place on Sunday. The train leaves Charing Cross at 9 p.m., arriving Rheims early Sunday morning. The return train leaves Rheims 7.40 Sunday evening, arriving London 5.45 Monday morning. The special reduced fares available only by these trains will be:— First class, 57^. ; second class, 40s. ; third class, 2Js. Tickets to be taken at Charing Cross Station. Frankfort Exhibition. Members visiting the Frankfort Exhibition will find the Grand Hotel, Frank furter-Hof, a very comfortable hotel. Members are advised to book their rooms in advance. Single rooms from 7 marks, double rooms from 14 marks. Club House at Shellbeach Flying Ground. The Committee of the Aero Club are proposing to- take over Muscle Manor for a Club House on the flying ground. In order that this may be effected, and in view of the very large expenditure which has already been made at Shellbeach, the Committee appeal to the Members for special subscriptions for this purpose. The Golf Course will be taken over for the use of Members, togetherwith the shooting rights extending over r,000acres. The following sums have already been promised :— Frederic Coleman, ^10; Frank McClean, ,£10;. H. Massac Buist, £2 2s. Erection of Sheds.—Members wishing to erect sheds at Shellbeach are requested to apply to the Secretary,, who will supply all information. Members visiting the flying ground are requested to have with them their membership cards, as strict instructions have been given to admit only Members to the flying ground. Railway Arrangements.—The following reduced fares have been arranged with the railway company for members visiting Shellbeach :— 1st Class return, 8s. ; 2nd Class return, 6s. 6d, ; 3rd Class- return, $s. Tickets are available for one month from date ot issue.Members desiring to avail themselves of these reduced fares are required to produce vouchers at the booking offices. Vouchers can be obtained from the Secretary of the Aero Club. Trains leave Victoria, Holborn, or St. Paul's. For the convenience of members, the best train is the 9.45 a.m. from Victoria, arriving at Queenborough 10.55. At Queenborough change to the Sheppey Light Railway for Leysdown (Shellbeach), which is |-mile from the flying ground. HAROLD E. PERRIN, Secretary. 166, Piccadilly, W. THE HUTCHINSON AEROPLANE FABRIC. WE have now received samples from Messrs. Hutchinson of their range of six rubber-proofed cloths for aeroplanes. They are all of single texture, and are made in two grades in the light weight, three grades in the extra light weight, and one grade in the special weight. The light and special weight cloths are 42 ins. wide, while the extra light cloth is 48 ins. in width. The light weight cloths are rubbered on one side only, and weigh 3! ozs. per sq. yd. Another with rubber on both sides weighs 5J- ozs. per sq. yd. The special cloth is woven of very strong fabric, and has one layer of rubber; it weighs 4j ozs. per sq. yd. The extra light weight cloth with one layer of rubber weighs only 2| ozs. per sq. yd., while with two layers of rubber it weighs 3^ ozs. The balloon cloths are, of course, altogether heavier, and consist of a double diagonal layer of cotton, dyed yellow with chromate of lead to prevent the rays of the sun affecting the rubber. The standard width is 42 ins., and the weight 9! ozs. per sq. yd., but a somewhat similar doth is made without an inside layer or rubber weighing 9J ozs. per sq. yd. There are also straight- thread cloths weighing 9 ozs. per sq. yd. In the French Government tests of the fabric used by them a tensile strain of 840 kilogs. per metre both in the warp and weft is imposed, test pieces measuring 5 centimetres wide by 20 centimetres long being taken. As a test of imper- meability a disc of 25 mm. in diameter is crumpled in the hands and then placed in the frame of a hydrogen gas cylinder, so as to be submitted to a pressure of 30 mm. of water for 24 hours. The loss is measured in degrees, each degree representing a loss of 1 cubic decimetre per sq. metre of area. In order to pass the test the leakage must not exceed 10 degs. In the first trial of the Hutchinson cloth the leakage was 3 degs., in the second 5 degs., in the third 4 degs., and in the fourth 3 degs. #5 ® ® <2> "Chains and Wheels Complete." LAST week in the advertisement on the front cover, of the Coventry Chain Co., by a printer's error the words- " Chassis and wheels complete" should have read " Chains and wheels complete." No doubt, the Coventry Chain Company's goods being so well known, our readers would at once detect the slip, but we mention it specially to make doubly sure. 525
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