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I/UGHTI 8 — MOW WEIGHT IS ATTACHED qUDEI IN FLIGHT" to know which is the best wood for making small tractor-screws for models. Bath. W. W. LACEY. MODEL WOOD WANTED. 593] If there are any of Hobbies, Ltd., agencies in your town or neighbourhood, you cannot do better than apply to them for your wood for the 4 ft. model named. But why not cut and prepare the pieces yourself? It will greatly increase your pleasure to have learned to saw and plane, to size and fit up, your " own dressed up " materials, to do which, proceed as follows :— Obtain a piece of J-in. pine, 4 ft. 3 in. long (any width from II in. to 18 in.), see that it is fairly dry i.e., not water wet), if not, let it stand in a warm room (not near a fire), for a day and a night. Next, if there is a " very white " looking part on each outside edge of the board remove this with saw ; it is " sapwood," and no use for your model. Next, plane the two edges straight and square, that is, at " right angles " to the broad surfaces. Then get an ordinary carpenter's gauge, sharpen (with a saw file) the pin quite fiat, and parallel to the face of the gauge, then set the point of pin a little more than a $ in. from this face, lay the board flat on your table or bench, and carefully run this point along the board from each edge, pressing firmly downwards; now turn the board over and repeat, when, if the point has penetrated deep enough, you can break off each consecutive strip ; then plane edges of board square as before, and repeat with gauge, till you have pieces enough for the purpose. This will leave only one side of each piece to be dressed up to remove the raised part in the centre at the point of "partition." Try this, and the ease with which it can be accomplished with a little practice will much surprise and greatly please you. Should the board be very rough, it will be better to plane it over both sides with a carpenter's smoothing plane. „ Newport Pagnell. HY. BATH. Rheims Aviation Meeting. THE South-Eastern and Chatham Railway have arranged to run a special service from Calais to Rheims in connection with the 9 p.m. train from Charing Cross on July 2nd and 9th. A special train for the return journey will leave Rheims at 8.30 p.m. on the Sunday, reaching London at 5.45 a.m. Monday. Cheap return tickets will be issued, first class, £2 17s. ; second class, £2; and third class, £1 Js. For the convenience of those who wish to travel in advance of the above service, cheap first and second class tickets only, at above fares, will be issued on Fridays and Saturdays, July 1st, 2nd, 8th and 9th, by the 11 a.m. service from Victoria, vid Dover and Calais, reaching Rheims 7.46 p.m. NEW COMPANIES REGISTERED. L. D. Gibbs and Co., Ltd., 166, Piccadilly, W.— Capital ;£i,ooo, in is. shares (14,500 "A" and 5,500 "B"). Manufacturers of and dealers in airships, aeroplanes, &c. London Aviation Ground, Ltd., 13, Greek Street, W.— Capital ^500, in £l shares. First directors: E. R. Beney, R. Lascelles. Aeronautical Patents Published. Applied tor In 1909 Published June 30th, 1910. 13,418. J.W.DUNNE. Controlling devices for aeroplanes. 15,885. K. TUTZER. Airships. 23,967. H. O. EIANE. Flying machines. 37,89*. H. ROTTGES. Flying machines. Published June 30th, 1910. 940. H. L., A. E., AND H. O. SHORT. Connecting and adjusting tension of tie-rods, tension-wires, wire ropes, &c. JULY 2, 1910. DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS. British Events. 197 J une 27-July 2 Wolverhampton. July 2 Balloon Race, Hurlingham. July 9 Coventry Ae.S. Model Trials. July 11-16 Bournemouth.* July 16 Kite and Models Competi- tion. Kite and Model Aeroplane Assoc. July 20-24 Doncaster. July 23 Balloon Race, Hurlingham 1910. July 28-Aug. 3 Blackpool. Aug. 6-13 Lanark.* Aug. 15-20 Blackpool. Aug. 17-24 Southend. Aug. 24-27 Cardiff. Aug. 29-30 Dublin. Sept. 1-3 Folkestone. Sept. 8-10 Durham. Foreign Events. 19x0. July 3-10 Rheims.* July24-Aug. 4 Belgium* Aug. 6-21 Circuit de 1 Est (Matin). Aug. 25-Sept. 4 Havre-Trouville.* Sept. 34-Oct. 3 Milan.* Sept. 25-Oct. 3 Biarritz. 1910. Oct. 18-25 St. Louis. Gordon-Bennett Balloon Race. Oct. 25-Nov. a America. Gordon Bennett Aviation Cup. Dec. 4-18 Marseilles. BACK NUMBERS OF "FLIGHT." SEVERAL back numbers are now very scarce, and have been raised in price as follows :— 1909. s. d. No. 2, Jan. 9, containing Table of Propellers ... ... 1 6 6, Feb. 6, ,, "How Men Fly" I o Aeronautical Bibliography. Wright Bros.' Elevator Patents. 8, ,, 20, ,, Flying Ground at Fambridge 1 0 Illustrated Glossary. 10, Mar. 6, ,, Human Side of Flying ... 1 o Aero Club Ground at Shellbeach. Military Aeronautics. 12, ,, 20, Souvenir Supplement... ... 1 6 15, Apr. 10, ,, Engines at Olympia I o 16, ,, 17, ,, Prize List 3 6 Models at Olympia. 31, July 31 ,, Bleriot Flyer 2 o (Full page drawing.) Other back numbers (excepting Nos. 3 and 4, which are out of print), post free, i^d. each, including descriptions and scale drawings of the Voisin (Nos. 33 and 34), Curtiss (No. 27), Cody (No. 34), Farman (No. 42), and Wright (No. 63) biplanes, the Santos Dumont (Nos. 40 and 41), Antoinette (Nos. 43 and 44), and Grade (No. 50) monoplanes, and of a full- size Wright glider (Nos. 38 and 39). BINDING COVERS for Vol. I, price 2s. 4^., post free. TITLE PAGE and INDEX for Vol. I, 2d., post free. Readers' own copies bound, price 4s. per part (including cover, title page, and index, postage extra). VOLUME I, bound complete with all scarce numbers, 25*., post free; in two parts, 28.S. 6d., complete. Prices of special binding on application. FLIGHT. 44, ST. MARTIN'S LANE, LONDON, W.C. Telegraphic address : Truditur, London. Telephone : 1828 Gerrard. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. FLIGHT will be forwarded, post free, to any part of the world at the following rates:— UNITED KINGDOM. ABROAD. d. 3 Months, Post Free 6 .. 1 8 3 3 6 6 3 Months, Post Free 6 .. s. a. 2 6 Cheques and Post Office Orders should be made payable to the Proprietors of FLIGHT, 44, St. Martin's Lane, W.C., and crossed London and County Bank, otherwise no responsibility will be accepted. Should any difficulty be experienced in procuring FLIGHT from local newsvendots, intending readers can obtain each issue direct from the Publishing Office, by forwarding remittance as above. 512
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