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Al'RIL 2, I9IO. I/G^EL TKe Royal &ero Clu J/l^ ^ —*^of the UixitecL Kii\gdoi OFFICIAL M0T1CE5 TO MEMBERS Committee Meeting. A meeting of the Committee was held on Tuesday, the 22nd March, 1910, when there were present :—Mr. Roger W. Wallace, K.C., in the chair, Mr. Griffith Brewer, Mr. Ernest C. Bucknall, Col. J. E. Capper, C.B., R.E., Professor A. K. Huntington, Mr. V. Ker-Seyjner, Mr. J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon, Mr. C. F. Pollock, Mr. J. Lyons Sampson, Mr. Stanley Spooner, and joint secretaries, Capt. E. Claremont, R.N., and Harold E. Perrin. New Members.—The following new members were elected :— Prof. A. Barr. Toseph Harold Mandleberg. R. O. Cary. Norman Clark Neill. Hugh Bernard Fitch, J. Scott Russell. Chester Fox. Herbert Leslie Searle. P. J. E. Gregory. Capt. Victor Hart Seeker. Charles Lane. Gordon Arthur Wellings. Percy K. Le May. H. R. Wilding. Sub-Committees. The following Sub-Committees have been appointed for the year 1910:— Finance Committee:— Griffith Brewer. Ernest C. Bucknall. Prof. A. K. Huntington. Ground Committee:— Ernest C. Bucknall. Hon. Maurice Egerton. Percy Grace. Prof. A. K. Huntington. V. KerSeymer. Balloon Committee:— Maj. Sir A. Bannerman, Bart., R.E. Griffith Brewer. John Duoville. Philip Gardner. Technical Committee :— Maj. Baden-Powell. A. E. Berriman. Griffith Brewer. Col. I. E.Capper, C.B., R.E. W. J. Crampton. S. F. Edge. Col. Henry C. L. Holden, R.A., F.R.S. Sir Charles D. Rose, Bart. Hon. Arthur Stanley, M.P. F. K. McClean. J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon. Vice - Admiral Sir George Neville, C.V.O., K.C.B. Hon. C. S. Rolls. B. H. Barrington Kennett. Dr. W. J. S. Lockyer. C. F. Pollock. A. Mortimer Singer. , Prof. A. K. Huntington. Charles Jarrott. Maj. F. Lindsay Lloyd. Sir Hiram Maxim. J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon. Mervyn O'Gorman. Hon. C. S. Rolls. F. R. Simms. Competition Rules Committee: Prof. A. K. Huntington. V. Ker-Seymer. Major F. Lindsay Lloyd. Publication Committee Ernest.C. Bucknall. John Dunville. House Committee:— Ernest C. Bucknall. John Dunville. The Chairman (Mr. R. W of all committees. J. W. Orde. Hon. C. S. Rolls. Marquis de Mouzilly St. Mars. C. F. Pollock. Stanley Spooner. V. Ker-Seymer. Wallace, K.C.) is cx-officio member Library, Prof. A. Lawrence Rotch has presented to the library a copy of his book, entitled, "The Conquest of the Air, or the Advent of Aerial Navigation." Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny, Bart., has presented the Club with a picture of a rhinoceros shot by him in British East Africa in 1905. Bournemouth Aviation Meeting. Special hotel arrangements are being made for the members, and full details will be published shortly. Flights at Eastchurch. Many members visited Eastchurch and Shellbeach during the Easter holidays, and witnessed flights by Mr. Cecil Grace, Hon. C. S. Rolls, Mr. J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon and Mr. A Rawlinson, particulars of which appear in another column. Nice Aviation Meeting. The Royal Aero Club will be represented at the Nice Meeting by the Hon. C. S. Rolls and Mr. A. Rawlinson, who have both entered for all the competitions. Bleriot Memorial. The memorial erected at Dover to commemorate the historical cross-Channel flight of M. Louis Bleriot on July 25th of last year will be unveiled on Friday, 8th April, 1910. The ceremony will, it is hoped, be performed by Lord Brassey, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, and M. Bleriot has promised to travel specially from Pau to be present. The Chairman of the Club (Mr. R. W. Wallace, K.C.) will attend, and invitations have been sent to the President of the Aero Club de France and the Mayor of Calais. The memorial was erected by the Royal Aero Club through the generosity of one of its members, Mr. Alexander Duckham. E. CLAREMONT, CAPT. R.N., HAROLD E. PERRIN, 166, Piccadilly. Joint Secretaries. THE CANNES MEETING. IN spite of many difficulties in the way of finding a suitable ground, &c, the Cannes Meeting opened on Sunday last very successfully, and seven of the flyers made flights of varying lengths. The best were those of two of Henry Farman's pupils, Crochon flying for Th. 9m. 29s., while Christiaens' best was th. 9m. 2fs. The other flights during the day were : Rdmond (Henry Farman), 33 mins. 451 sees. ; Barataux (Wright) 21 mins. 57^ sees.; Molon (Bleriot), 13 mins. 52 sees.; Sands (Antoinette), 4 mins. 59! sees.; Reimsdyck (Curtiss), 2 mins. 17! sees. An exciting incident was witnessed during the racing. Molon was flying round when Christiaens passed under him, and the current from the Farman pro peller caught the Bleriot and drove it out of its course. Molon managed to right the machine, but could not get back on the track, and came down somewhat sharply in a field, with the result that his machine was damaged. On Monday there was a chapter of accidents, Herr Weisen- bach, who was flying on a German Wright machine, landed in a ploughed field and broke up the chassis of his machine and the propeller, while Rigal, on a Voisin, for some reason got out of his course, and after flying over the grand stand landed in some fir trees. Frey, on a Farman, also broke a wheel through landing too suddenly, while Sands came down on one wing and consequently damaged it. The longest flights of this day were those of Crochon, 53 mins. 17! sees., and Frey, 38 mins. 4-f sees. 255
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