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[/JJGHT or one varying according to some fixed law, must be assumed, actual wind being unsteady, and the assumption must be opposed to actual facts, except in the case of a dead calm. Progress must come chiefly from experiment, which he would like to see taken seriously in hand. With reference to the note in our last issue, that Mr. Patrick Y. Alexander had been nominated as a vice-president, this gentleman writes to say that he has declined the office. Midland Aero Club (GRAND HOTEL, BIRMINGHAM). UNDER the auspices of this club, a meeting was held in the Birmingham Town Hail on Friday of last week, when Major Baden- Powell delivered a lecture on the national importance of aviation. In the absence of Sir Alfred Hickman, through illness, Mr. Ebenezer Parkes, M.P., took the chair. In the course of his lecture Major Baden-Powell pointed out that there was a great deal to discover with regard to aeroplanes, and at present we were but on the threshold of the development of really practical flying machines. What was wanted were larger machines. They must rise from the ground easier ; they must be more stable, more portable, and generally very much more reliable. He advised inventors to go on experimenting and making small models. All military authorities, he said, were agreed that the aeroplane would be of very great importance, from the military point of view, if we could get a machine which would really do all he had outlined, and be able to skim through the air without any tendency to tumble over, capable of carrying two or three people, and perhaps a gun. If such a machine were fairly vulnerable then it would have to be turned out, not by ones or two, but by hundreds and even thousands. When we got to that stage, from the military point of view alone we should at once get a very large industry, and MARCH 5, 1910 he looked forward to the day when he could come down to Birming ham and go over one of the factories for the manufacture of aerial machines for military purposes. This was not the only object of such machines. As long as they were fairly safe, and fairly cheap, they would be very greatly used by a great number of people for sport and pleasure. Therefore another industry would develop which would be of very great importance. There was the more serious matter of instituting regular services between one place and another, in which these machines were likely to develop to a greater extent than any balloon, since they were bound to be less dependent upon the weather and cheaper to construct. They would become a very cheap and rapid method of travel. Northumberland Ae.C. (ROYAL TURK'S HEAD, NEW.-ON-TYNE). ON Monday last a large number of members paid a visit to Messrs. George and Jobling's garage, to view a new biplane of the Curtiss type which has been built in Newcastle for Mr. A. E. George. It is fitted with an 80-h.p. engine. On the 16th inst. a paper will be read on "Aviation," by Mr. David Balfour, jun., in trie Club Room at the Royal Turk's Head Hotel. S.W. Aeronautical Soc. (51, ST. LEONARD'S ROAD, EAST SHEEN). As many gentlemen have asked to see the monoplane now almost complete at the Aeroworks, Down Place, Ting Street, Hammersmith, arrangements have been made for if to be on view to-day, Saturday, March 5th, from 3.30 p.m.-to 8 p.m. The Hon. Sec. will explain the machine to all who care to accept the invitation. At intervals, a successful model petrol engine, 4-h.p., with 18-in. Cochrane propeller attached, will be shown running. WRIGHT BROTHERS AND THEIR PATENTS. THE strong action taken by the Wright Brothers in connection with their patents, apparently seems to be working to the detriment of flying in America, and an injunction has been secured against Paulhan, which will prevent him flying either on his Henry Farman or Bleriot machines unless an indemnity, fixed by the judqe at ;£5,000, is paid into Court. In order to allow him to fulfil certain engagements this injunction will not become operative until the 12th inst. At present the Courts seem to favourably incline towards the Wright patent, therefore it is possible that the United States may be at the beginning of another long legal wrangle similar to that which has dragged on for years over the Selden patent. With regard to the Gordon Bennett Cup, the Wright Brothers announce that they will not take any action against machines imported purely for the purpose of taking part in the International competition, only in sisting upon the payment of a nominal fee to uphold their rights. MODEL COMPETITION AT GODALMING. LAST month a model aeroplane competition was held at Hill Side School, Godalming, prizes having been offered by Mr. R. W. Buttemer and Mr. F. S. Poole for the best model constructed during the Christmas holidays. Eight models, two of which were biplanes, were entered, and Mr. J. Lyons Sampson acted as judge, the results being decided on constructional merit and actual per formance, the latter, it may be said, being somewhat marked by lack of horse-power to contend with the wind. The monoplanes scored in the event, G. Cursham being the winner, and E. Elles second. Our photographs, sent by Mr. Buttemer, are a pleasant record of the meeting. Launching a model. G. Cursham, 1st prize. E. Elles, 2nd prize. Judging the flights. A MODEL AEROPLANE COMPETITION AT HILLSIDE, GODALMING. 164
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