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(/UGHT well-balanced manner. It is obvious that an extraordinarily forceful thrust could be obtained by this apparatus. Probably some of your readers would like to take it up for a trial. The model could be so made that as soon as the force was spent and it was about to drop, to automatically start its own petrol or rubber motor which would thus prolong the flight at whatever height the model had reached. STOP FOR SLIDING CARRIAGE A JULY 23, 1910. DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS. British Events. 1910. July 23 Balloon Race, Hurlingha July 28-Aug. 3 Blackpool. Aug. 6-13 Lanark.* Aug. 15-20 Blackpool. Aug. 17-24 Southend. 1910. Aug. 29-30 Sept. 1-3 Sept. 8-10 Dublin. Folkestone. Northumberland and Dur ham. Foreign Events. 1910. July 24-Aug. 4 Belgium.« Aug. 6-21 Circuit de l'Est (Matin). Aug. 25-Sept. 4 Havre-Trouville.* Sept. 24-Oct. 3 Milan.* Sept. 25-Oct. 3 Biarritz. 1910. Oct. 15-23 New York. _ Gordoc- Bennett Aviation Cup. Oct. 18-25 St. Louis. Gordon-BenneM Balloon Race. Dec. 4-18 Marseilles. STR6TCHE0 ELASTIC * International. One great advantage of this idea, if workable, would be the extra ordinarily great heights the model could be sent to, which would give inventors a good idea of the gliding power of their models. Trusting the idea may be of some use. Folkestone. RICHARD T. SAUNDERS. [The utility of a launching apparatus depends entirely on whether the natural speed of the model is too high to enable it to be success fully launched by hand. Small models made of paper and mica are preferably launched by hand, because they are so delicate, but larger models can be made for higher speeds that really need some sort of catapult to give them a proper send-off. Lanchester's high speed models were all launched in this way, and he gives a description in his work on aerial flight of the apparatus that he used. We imagine from the nature of the majority of the letters received that most of our correspondents are more interested in copying actual flyers on a small scale than in making models solely with a view of scientifically investigating the principles of flight.—ED.] Bleriot Machines in London. IN view of the success of the Bleriot monoplanes at Rheims and Bournemouth our readers would do well to note that the London offices of Mr. L. Bleriot are at Belfast Chambers, 156, Regent Street, where Mr, Norbert Chcreau has the general management of the business for the British Empire. MR. A. V. ROE, who is flying his latest triplane at the Brooklands Aerodrome, is now we learn, prepared to accept engagements for exhibition flights, carrying passengers, &c. Mr. Roe states that the triplane is very suitable for small grounds. Records. Distance and Duration.—Olieslaegers (Belgium), at Rheims, on a B16riot monoplane with Gnome engine : 244^309 miles in 5h. 3m. 5£s. Speed.—Morane (France), at Rheims, on a Bleriot monoplane with Gnome engine : 10 kiloms. (6'2l miles) in 5 mins. 42f sees. = 65*02 m.p.h. Altitude.—Brookins (America), at Atlantic City, on a Wright biplane : 6,175 ft- m 5° rains. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. The Mechanics of the Earth's Atmosphere. A Collection oj Translations by Cleveland Abbe, Washington (U.S.A.): The Smithsonian Institution. Catalogues. Aeroplanes Voisin. Voisin Freres, 34, Quai du Point-du-Jour, Billancourt, France. "A via" Aeroplane Accessories and Metals. H. Rolletand Co., Coldbath Square, Rosebery Avenue, E.C. Aeronautical Patents Published. Applied tor in 1909. Published July 21st, 1910. 14,990. H. D. BOULTBEE. Aeroplanes, &c. 15,271. T. JOHNSON. Aeroplanes. 15.675- W. TATTERSALL. Airships. 15i°77- W. TATTERSALL. Balancing aeroplanes, &c. 17,597. R. C. SAVER. Aerostatics 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 I 6 6, Feb. 6, ,, 20, Mar. 6, 15, Apr. 10, 16, ,, 17, 31. J% 31 3 6 " How Men Fly Aeronautical Bibliography. Wright Bros.' Elevator Patents. Flying Ground at Fambridge Illustrated Glossary. Human Side of Flying Aero Club Ground at Shellbeach Military Aeronautics. Souvenir Supplement... Engines at Olympia ... Prize List ... Models at Olympia. 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, 255., post free; in two parts, 2&\r. 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. 3 Months, Post Free ... 6 „ ABROAD. 3 Months, Post Free 6 „ 6 12 j. d. 2 6 5 o 10 o 28,831. C. M. LEB. Propeller mechanism. 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, other-wise no responsibility will be accepted. Should any difficulty be experienced in procuring FLIGHT from local newsvendors, intending readers can obtain each issue direct from the Publishing Office, by forwarding remittance as above. 588
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