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i/ycHT] NOVEMBER 12, 191a securely with a thin strip of medical plaster. For the other ribs split bamboo is used. The wood is split and made mto strips about i in. broad, and thick enough to be rigid. The strips are then steamed and bent to the shape of the cardboard pattern, the spar being above the ribs and the front spar below them. The tail of the rib protrudes beyond the spar, and a thread is stretched between the tails, thus form ing a sharp trailing edge to the plane. The ribs should not be more than 3 ins. apart — closer if possible. My reason for making the outermost and innermost ribs of solid wood is that these ribs thus keep the wing rigid with out the use of other stays, and also pre vent pressure being put on the bamboo ribs, which might cause the camber to change. In building a bi plane the uprights may be of bamboo, and easily fixed ends are shaped, as shown in sketch, and fitted into holes bored in the spars. They are then bound with the medical plaster to the spars. This method is not so flimsy as it sounds, and models 4 ft. span can be made this way. An alternative and very successful way is to make the spars of T^B in. whitewood, about J in. broad. The end ribs are made as before, and threaded on to the spars, which are laid flat. The other ribs, made as before, are bound with the indispensable medical plaster to the spars, the back by boring the upper and lower spar, and through it putting a pin or gramophone needle, on to which the upright is threaded, and bound with plaster. When the planes are stayed with cotton or thread, the whole job will be found very satisfactory and very rigid. Very thin paper put on with Stickphast's paste will surface the plane. If it is desired to drive a nail through a narrow piece of wood this may be accomplished without splitting the wood by binding it with the medical plaster. Sydenham. LANCELOT L. VIGERS. SMART MODEL "WORK. [892] I enclose a photo of a model ot Mr. Moisant's monoplane I have made. I copied it while he was staying at Rainham. It is .4 ft. 2 ins. across the planes, 3 ft. overall length, and weighs 13 ozs. Rainham. H. P. RICHARDSON. ® ® ® ® NEW COMPANY REGISTERED. Moonbeams, Ltd.—Capital ,£2,000, in £1 shares. Aero nautical, marine, and general engineers, manufacturers of and dealers in motors, airships, aeroplanes, motor rars, &c. ® &> ® ® RECORDS. _ Distance and Duration.—Maurice Tabuteau (France), at Etampes, on a Maurice Farman biplane fitted with Renault motor: 465 kiloms. (290 miles) in 6h. im. 35s. Speed.—J. Radley (Great Britain), at Lanark, on a Bleriot monoplane with Gnome engine : I mile in 47$ sees. = 75*95 rn.p.h. Altitude.—Johnstone (America), at Belmont Park, N.Y., on a "Wright biplane fitted with Wright motor: 9,714 feet. ti,335 18,055, Aeronautical Patents Published. Applied tor In 1000 Published November 10M, 191a E. LISTER. Aerial machines. J. K. F W. URE. Aerial vessels. I. W. SBDDON. Wings or planes for aeroplanes. Applied lor In 141a. Published November xoth, 1910. J. WILCKENS. Air-hip. P. SCHMITT. Aeroplanes. G. DE HAVILLAND. Propellers for aerial craft. C. L. TWBEDALE. Kites, aeroplanes, &c H. GAARA. Steering vehicles for aeroplanes. BACK NUMBERS OF "FLIGHT." SEVERAL back numbers are now very scarce, and have been raised in price as follows :— 1909. *« d- No. 2, Jan. 9, containing Table of Propellers 6, Feb. 6, 8, „ 20, 10, Mar. 6, 12, „ 20, 15, Apr. 10, 16, » 17. 31, July 31, Antoinette Monoplane 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 .... ... (Full page drawing.) 43, Oct. 23 \ 44. ., 30/ Other back numbers (excepting Nos. 3 and 4, which are out of print), post free, \\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), and Grade (No. 50) mono planes, 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, 28s. 6d., complete. Prices of special binding on application. PRINCIPAL CONTENTS. War Office and Aeroplanes .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 922 Cody Biplane with Scale Drawings .. .. .. .. .. .. 923 Engines for Model Aeroplanes .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 926 British Notes of the Week 928 Royal Aero Club Official Notices 929 Progress of Flight About the Country 92 From the British Flying Grounds 930 Foreign Aviation News 932 French War Office Competition for Aeroplanes 934 Airship and Balloon News 5 Willows'Airship Voyage to France .. .. 93 Correspondence 936 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 pllowing rates:— UNITED KINGDOM. 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