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lower one, but in advance of it. The tail is constructed on the same lines. The ends of the main planes are hinged like those of a Bleriot elevator tail, and these are used instead of warping the planes themselves. The Breguet is another biplane which is not very well known. It is built up like a monoplane, with no struts or wires between the upper and lower planes, and has a covered-in body. The engine, fitted in front of Ithe body, drives a single tractor screw, about 9 ft. 8 ins., through gearing. The tail has a universal joint fitting, so that it can be used as an elevator or rudder. All the tubes forming the chassis are covered with fabric, stretched round the tube in front and carried back several inches behind it to a thin edge, the idea presumably being reduction of head resistance. Last year the Breguet machine came down on its head, smashing up, and this year it repeated its performance, this time without any serious damage. There were practically no alterations to the Farman or Sommer machines, but the new Voisin machine is very different to the older type. It is nearly all steel tubing. The front spar is about IJ in. No. 16 gauge, and the back one about in. The struts, also steel tube, are bolted through the main spars. The planes have wooden ribs, and the fabric is stretched over the front edge from front to back ; there it is laced over to a wire stretched along the rear edge. The machine has the old type of elevator and chassis, but a mono plane tail like the Sommer. TKe Rowal &ero Clu. of the UixitecL Kii\gdoi OFFICIAL MOTICE.S TO MEMBERS Bournemouth International Aviation Meeting. THE news of the fatal accident to the Hon. C. S. Rolls while flying at Bournemouth, on Tuesday, the 12th inst., was received at the Royal Aero Club with the deepest sorrow. The Committee. Owing to the Bournemouth Aviation Meeting, the usual Committee meeting was not held this week. Point'to-Point Balloon Race for Cup presented.by Mr. A. Mortimer Singer. The Point-to-Point Balloon Race for the cup presented by Mr. A. Mortimer Singer took place from the Hurlingham Club, S.W., on Saturday, July 2nd, 1910. The spot selected for the descent was Langford Railway Station, Essex, and the cup was won by Mrs. John Dunville, who landed near Cold Norton Station, 5 miles from Langford. The official placings are as follows: 1. Mrs. John Dunville descended 5 miles from Langford Railway Station. 2. Hon. Mrs. Assheton Harbord descended sh miles from Langford Railway Station. 3. Major Baden-Powell descended 6J miles from Langford Railway Station. Balloon Race at Hurlingham. The Point-to-Point Balloon Race for the cup presented by Mr. Griffith Brewer will take place at Hurlingham Club, Fulham, S.W., on Saturday, the 23rd July, 1910, at 3 o'clock. Entries will close on Wednesday, the 20th July, at 5 p.m. Entrance fee 10s. The rules governing the race can be obtained from the secretary. Members of the Royal Aero Club will be admitted to the Hurlingham Club free on presentation of their Royal Aero Club membership cards. The Club Balloon, " Aero Club IV," will follow the race. Members wishing to make the ascent are requested to notify the Secretary at once. The fee will be £$ per person, and the three seats available will be allotted in order of application. • - ^ Eastchurch Flying Ground. Members visiting the flying ground at Eastchurch are requested to have with them their membership cards, as admission to the ground can only be obtained on production of same. Members wishing to erect sheds are requested to communicate with the Secretary of the Royal Aero Club. Railway Arrangements.—The following reduced fares have been arranged with the railway company for members visiting Eastchurch:— 1st Class return, 8s. ; 2nd Class, 6s. 6d. ; 3rd Class, 5-r. Tickets available for one month from date of issue. Members desiring to avail themselves of these reduced fares are required to produce vouchers at the booking offices. Vouchers can be obtained from the Secretary of the Royal Aero Club. Trains leave Victoria, Holborn, or St. Paul's. For the convenience of Members, the best train is the 9.45 a.m. from Victoria, arriving at Queenborough 10.55. At Queenborough change to the Sheppey Light Railway for Eastchurch, which is £-mile from the flying ground. Aviation Lantern Slides. The Royal Aero Club have now acquired a large collection of lantern slides dealing with aviation, and members can hire these at a fee of £,1 is. for a period not exceeding three days. They include all the latest machines and pictures taken at aviation meetings in England and abroad. Application for hire should be made to the secretary. HAROLD E. PERRIN, 166, Piccadilly. Secretary. 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.) Aeroplane Building and Flying Soc, (8, MANCHESTER ST., W.). THE first monthly meeting of this Society was held on Wednesday, July 6th, at 26A, Hereford Road, at 9 p.m. The committee reported that they had secured the refusal of a workshop in Hammersmith and asked for power to lease it for the use of members. This was agreed to, and it was stated that the place would probably be ready for business in a fortnight's time. The secretary reported the receipt of several more applications for membership which had been dealt with. One of the members suggested the formation of a library of standard works on aviation and asked for suggestions as to suitable books. One of the first mentioned was the " Flight Manual," and some members offered to make the Society a present of some of the books. It was suggested that a feature of future monthly meetings should be the reading of a paper by one of the members, and this suggestion was referred to committee. A difficulty was raised on the subject of work, one of the members asking how he could get on the Society's credit account supposing he was not able to actually work at the bench and yet desired to have some of his own ideas carried out. It was pointed out that there was room for all kinds of work in the Society, and it was hardly possible to imagine the case of a member who was unable to do anything at all. Kite and Model Aeroplane Assoc. (27, VICTORYRD.,WIMBLEDON) ON Wednesday, July 6th, Messrs. B. S. Varnals and W. Jones, of Carnage's, gave, by request, a demonstration of kite flying at the Aerial Garden Rendezvous, Crystal Palace, and created so much interest that they were asked to give another demonstration on Thursday, the 7th. There was a very strong wind blowing on Wednesday, estimated by Mr. Grahame-White's staff at 40 miles an hour. Mr. W. Jones took photographs from a height of 500 ft., and demonstrated the use of kites for aerial photography. The kites and banners were in the air for over five hours, the height attained being over 3,000 ft. The kite around which the chief interest centred was a 44 sq. ft. quadroplane, and it required six persons to haul it in. There will be exhibitions of kite flying, as well as model compe titions, on Wednesdays, July 20th and 27th, and model makers should enter for the splendid Silver Challenge Trophy on July 29th, given by Mr. A. W. Gamage. Already this promises to result in quite a big "field." 553
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