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1909
1909 - 0526.PDF
AUGUST 28, 1909. New Recruit's Short Flights. ALTHOUGH a strong wind was blowing on Wednesday •week, Busson had the " WitzigH" machine out at Issy, and made a long " jump" of 500 metres. In making a turn the aeroplane came down on one of the wheels very heavily, and was damaged slightly. Hanriot Monoplane. ANOTHER driver of racing motor cars who is taking up aviation is Hanriot, who has designed and constructed a monoplane which he hopes to be flying at Chalons •shortly. His machine has a span of 10 metres, and the main planes being 3 metres across at the widest part lhave a lifting surface of 24 sq. metres. Balancing is effected by a tail giving 8 sq. metres lifting surface, while the motor is of 40-h.p. Hanriot has entered for the Boulogne-Folkestone prize and other events open in September. Brescia Meeting;. IT was a strange coincidence that both at Rheims and Brescia, a cyclone should have swept the flying grounds as a sort of preliminary to the meeting. The •storm at Brescia took place early on the morning of the 19th inst. and although a good deal of damage was done in the way of tents and such temporary buildings being blown down, the result was not very serious. The Committee immediately met and arranged for everything to be set right, so that when the aviators go to Brescia next week they will find everything ready. Lieut. Calderara's Wright flyer suffered a good deal, several of the stays, &c, being broken, but these will be quickly repaired. Fortunately the motor and propellers were uninjured. The entries have come invfairly well, and at present itotal to exactly twelve, including two from M. Bleriot, Wright machines by Lieut. Calderara and M. Lefebvre, Voisins by Itala and M. Anzani, Glenn Curtiss' flyers, an R.E.P. monoplane from M. Guffroy, a Cobianchi-Miller biplane, a Faccioli triplane, a " helicoplane" and a monoplane from Sig. Moncher. Entries close on Monday next. There are four International events ; the Grand Prix of Brescia (,£2,000) for the besttimeover 100 kiloms.; a height competition (^400); a passenger-carrying contest (,£200); and a starting test (^200). In the last the winner will be the aviator who gets his machine in the air soonest after being given the word to go. Italian aviators will, in addition, have an opportunity of competing for the Oldofredi prize of ^120 lor the first to make a flight of one kilom. on the Brescia ground, as well as for the Corriere del la Sera prize for the longest distance flown. The course measures 10 kiloms. round. A speed contest between dirigibles for a prize of ^2,000 has also been arranged. Although the meeting is scheduled to last from September 5th to 20th, the official programme does not include flying on every day, and the arrangements are that attempts for the above-mentioned prizes can only be made on the 5th, 8th, 12th, 19th, and 20th Sept. It is practically certain that the King of Italy will attend one day to witness the flying. Up-to-date Sciences Combine. A STRIKING conjunction of two of the most modern scientific developments was seen in the Daily Mirror on Tuesday, when one of the photographs transmitted by the Korn Telautograph apparatus depicted the accident to the " Clement-Bayard" of the day before. The actual transmission of the photograph from Paris to London occupied six minutes. SOME AEROPLANE FITTINGS. WE have received from Messrs. Handley Page, Ltd., the accompanying photographs of useful accessories which they are Supplying to those engaged in the con struction of aeroplanes. make a propeller in wood, a photograph of which is also shown. The three-sided fixing seen in the middle is similar to that used on the Bleriot monoplane, and in the centre Of These include, as will be observed, a full range (on the right) of aluminium sockets for fastening struts to main spars, and an equally complete range (on the left) of wire stretchers and eyebolts. Messrs. Handley Page also this is the Portway wire strainer to which attention was re- cently drawn in our correspondence columns. In connec- tion with each propeller, Messrs. Handley Page guarantee the thrust that will be obtained with a given horse-power. 528
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