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l/yc"!] MAY 28, 191*. IKe Roc/al &ero Cla of the UixitecL Kii\gda OFFICIAL ttOTICE.5 TO MEMBERS Committee Meeting. A MEETING of the Committee was held on Tuesday, the 24th inst., when there were present:—Mr. John Dunville, in the chair, Mr. Griffith Brewer, Mr. Ernest C. Bucknall, Mr. V. Ker-Seymer, Mr. C. F. Pollock, Mr. Stanley Spooner, and Harold E. Perrin, secretary. New Members.—The following new members were elected :— T. B. Bainbridge. Vivian Hewitt. M. F. Broadwood. Mrs. Hilda B. Hewlett. Edgar Percival Chance. Kennedy Jones. Valentine W. Eyre. Princess Ludwig Lowenstein- Howard Joseph Harding. Wertheim. Aviator's Certificate. Mr. Alec Ogilvie, having accomplished the necessary flights laid down by the Rules, has been awarded an Aviator's Certificate. The flights were made at Camber, on the 15th May, in the presence of Mr. T. P. Searight and Mr. H. R. Pigeon. National Aviation Meetings. The Committee, at their meeting on Tuesday last, had under consideration the applications to hold National aviation meetings during the present year, and the following dates were provisionally approved:— Boldon Race Course, Durham (Northum berland and Durham Aero Club) ... June i8th-22nd Cardiff ... ... August 24th-27th Southend . August I7th-24th These fixtures are subject to satisfactory details being supplied to the Royal Aero Club. Ruinart Prize. M. Jacques de Lesseps made a successful flight across the Channel on Saturday last, the 21st inst., thereby winning the prize of ^500 offered by Messrs. Ruinart Pere et Fils. M. Fournier, representing the Aero Club de France, and Mr. H. E. Perrin, the Royal Aero Club, were the officials on the French coast, and the Hon. C. S. Rolls and Mr. N. Chereau acted in a similar capacity at Dover. Baron de Forest Prize. Mr. Claude Grahame-White has sent in his entry to the Royal Aero Club for the prize of ^4,000 offered by Baron de Forest. Bournemouth Aviation Meeting. Hotel Accommodation.—Owing to the large number of applica tions for accommodation at the Hotel Burlington, only a few rooms are now available, and members desirous of securing same should make early application to the Secretary of the Club. Competitors.- -Intending competitors are reminded that it is a condition that all entrants shall hold an aviator's certificate issued by the Royal Aero Club or other club forming part of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale. 166, Piccadilly. HAROLD E. PERRIN, Secretary. Claude Grabame-Wbite Testimonial Fund. Donations received up to Tuesday, May l/tfh, 1910. Amount previously acknowledged Scottish Aeronautical Society Prof. Arch. Barr, D.Sc. Prof. Wm. Stroud, D.Sc. Prof. J. H. Biles, LL.D. Sir Win. Bilsland, Bart. Col. John Sillars Hugh Reid, D.L. .. R. R. Speir* .. Alexander Grade, M.V.O. Carried forward • ^1,720 5 S Brought forward J. R. K. Law W. G. Burn-Murdoch William Macnab Frank S. Barnwell Laurence Bell G. Gladwin-Erri Mre. Horace Pyi Jack Dare .. IgtO Brought forward.. Manchester Ae.C, per Mrs. Fied Hertz Walter F. Pease Coventry Ae. Soc., per Eric W. Walford AU at Ivy Lane E. Bennett Howard Mason Lieut. R. G. Fane, R.N V. H. Odom Carried forward 1,747 16 5 ,747 16 5 1 1 o o 10 6 050 030 030 026 020 £i,75i 6 5 PROGRESS OF FLIGHT ABOUT THE COUNTRY. (NOTE.—Addresses, temporary or permanent, follow in each case the names of the clubs, where communications of our readers can be addressed direct to the Secretary. We would ask Club Secretaries in future to see that the notes regarding their Clubs reach the Editor of FLIGHT, 44, St. Martin's Lane, London, W.C., by first post Tuesday at latest.) Arundel House School Ae.C. (15, ARLINGTON ROAD, SURBITON). fine flights have been achieved in Sandown Park, where the machine THE first of the man-carrying gliders designed and constructed is housed in a large shed. The whole of the work has been carried by members of the club has recently been completed, and several out by Cyril Ridley, of Thames Ditton, who has embodied in the ... WT'v -» Photos by C. F. W. Cudworth. SHEFFIELD AERO CLUB'S MODEL COMPETITION.—On the left, start of the model machines at Bramall Lane on Whit Monday during the Sheffield Charity Tournament. On the right, one of Mr. A. W. Whitworth's (Sheffield Aero Club) motor-driven machines. 410
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