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(/ycHT MAY 28, 191a "Flight" Copyright. A GROWING "STREET" AT BROOKLANDS AVIATION GROUNDS.—The machine in the shed is Mr. Claude Grahame'White's Henry Farman which he used on the Manchester flight. The next shed is the home of the first machine built by Sir George White's company—the British and Colonial Aeroplane Co., Ltd., of Bristol. Captain Lovelace, has been conducting experiments with a couple of Humber monoplanes. Mr. Neale has also been trying his new monoplane ; while Mr. Petre, having got the monoplane which was seen in skeleton form at Olympia completed, has obtained very good results with it in some initial tests. On Monday evening Sir Maxwell Monson had a smash while experimenting with the Gregoire-Gyp monoplane. At one time during the afternoon of the 18th inst. there were six flying machines in the air at one time. BRIT] Wolverhampton Flying Meeting. IT is announced that a considerable number of British flyers have definitely arranged to take part in the Wolverhampton meeting next mouth. Among the names mentioned are the Hon. C. S. Rolls, Capt. Dickson, the Hon. Maurice Egerton, Mr. Cecil Grace, Mr. Radley, Mr. Lionel Mander, Mr. S. F. Cody, Mr. Foley, Mr. J. Holder, and Mr. Bradshaw, the last-named using the locally- built Star monoplane. The work of organising the meeting is now being actively undertaken by a number of sub-committees, and the guarantee fund is steadily mounting up, although the full sum of ,£5,000 has not yet been quite completed. It has been decided to offer a prize for the greatest aggregate distance flown during the meeting. Doncaster Flying Meeting. AT a meeting 0/ the Doncanei Corporation last week, it was decided to grant the use of the Doncaster racecourse for a flying meeting from July 17th to 24th. The Corporation are to receive ,£1,000 in instalments for the use of the common, but take no financial responsibility. Attending Police Court by Aeroplane. ALTHOUGH in comparison with his attempts to fly to Manchester, Mr. Claude Grahame-White's exploit on Saturday last was but a minor,affair, yet it clearly demonstrated the utility of the aeroplane for trav. lling from point to point direct. Summoned to appear at Woking Petty Sessions for exceeding the speed limit, he flew from Brooklands to Woking on his Henry Farman biplane the same as he used in the London to Manchester attempts. He came down in a meadow adjoining WestfieW Common, about two miles beyond the town, having covered the six miles in eight minutes. After being fined £$ and costs for driving at a speed alleged by the police to be 40 miles an hour, Mr. White was invited by one of the magistrates to tea. About half-past seven in the evening Mr. Grahame-White flew back again to Brooklands, flying along the railway line between Woking and Weybridge. New Gratze Monoplane. FOLLOWING somewhat the lines of his old machine, Mr. Eugene V. Gratze has now completed his new monoplane, and is ready for trial at Cahewdon, near Southend-on-Sea, it being formerly christened " Daisy " last week by breaking a bottle of wine over the OF £^£/^A§ propeller. The steering is performed by means of the propeller, while the elevating is regulated by an overhead plane placed slightly forward of the main plane. Lateral stability is effected by means of two flaps at the ends of the main planes. Mr. Gratze has secured a good flying ground at Canewdon, which runs along the Crouch for two miles, and has a superficial area of about 200 acres, all perfectly flat. He will be pleased to arrange for anyone wishing to share the ground. The Blackburn Monoplane. WHILE testing his monoplane on the Marske sands on May 24th, Mr. R. Blackburn, of Leeds, met with a mishap. He was running the machine along the beach when, through skidding into a hole, the tyre of one of the wheels came off. Mr. Blackburn at once cut off the ignition, and as a result of the sudden stoppage, he was thrown from his seat. Fortunately he escaped injury, but the left wing of the monoplane was slightly damaged. A New Coventry Aeroplane. A SUCCESSFUL trial was made on the 17th inst. at Hampton with an aeroplane which has been designed and built by Mr. A. Weaver, of Coventry. It is purely an experimental machine, and is known as an ornithoplane. Four tests were made, and at the third the machine flew steadily for a quarter of a mile. The machine has been designed largely with the view of being light and portable, and so aluminium and bamboo enter largely into the con struction, while the propeller is also of aluminium. The main planes have a spread of about 45 ft., and the engine at present fitted is of 20-h.p., but this will be replaced by a more powerful one shortly. Capt. Dawes at Huntingdon. WHILE Capt. Dawes was practising with his monoplane at Huntingdon on the 18th inst., the engine miss-fired, and the machine landed suddenly in some swampy grass. The machine was damaged, a wing being broken and the propeller splintered, but the aviator escaped unhurt. Mr. de Havi Hand Nearly Ready. MR. G. DE HAVILLAND has now taken his new machine down to Litchfield, Hants, and hopes to be able to commence his trials with it in about a week's time. 406
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