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weekly fees are extremely moderate. For fuller particulars please apply to F. Smith, i, Avondale Mansions, Bromells Road, Claphain, S.W. F. SMITH, H. SHARPE, J. DOLLITTLE, Founders. PAPER MODELS. [1013] AV Mr. C. A. K. Cox's paper model biplane, letter No. 842, I am greatly interested in this model, and have built one according to drawings published by you, but there is one question I should like to ask Mr. Cox, and that is, can he get his model to glide without a dihedral angle on the front plane ? I have tried with the cambered plane, but as soon as the model is thrown from the hand the front of the machine rises and the machine slides back ward on to its tail end, but I can get a steady glide of 15 ft. from my model when the front plane is at a dihedral angle. London, S.W. P. W. PEEL. ® ® ® ® AIRSHIP NEWS. The Willows Airship Reaches Issy. AT last Mr. Willows has accomplished the purpose for which he set out from London on November 4th. On the 28th ult. he brought his little dirigible, the " City of Cardiff," out from his shed at Lamotte-Breuil and sailed over to Issy, where he anchored after a trip of two and a half hours, On landing, he was given a very enthusiastic reception by the spectators, and both he and his mechanic were carried shoulder high. Mr. Willows took the airship out for two short |spins, one of half an hour's duration, on the following day. On the 31st ult. the little airship ventured aloft twice. In the morning it was taken out and cruised over Paris for some time, encircling the Eiffel Tower, while in the afternoon it was sailing for some time above the fortification at Issy. Another Protest against the Ae.GA. WHEN the Federation Aeronautique Internationale meets in Paris on Tuesday to consider the protest of the Royal Aero Club of the United Kingdom against the award of the Statue of Liberty prize, it will also have to consider a protest from the Lower Rhine Aero Association against the American Aero Club's award of the Gordon-Bennett Balloon Cup. The grounds on which the protest is made are : I. That the American aeronauts did not enter for the Tace before the official date of the close of entries; 2. That the notes in the log book of Mr. Hawley were so blurred so as to be practically illegible ; 3. That the record of landing was signed by a person who did not assist at that operation ; 4. That the cup was awarded before the balloon was recovered. Greetings by Dirigible. ON the last day of the Old Year the dirigible " Parseval VI " cruised over Berlin for some time bearing a great inscription in German, " Best wishes for the New Year." Large crowds of people assembled in the streets to watch the evolutions of the airship and cheered the aeronauts. On the previous day also the dirigible was seen over the German capital, having sailed over from Bitterfeld to Johannisthal. Some difficulty was experienced in keeping the balloon at its proper altitude, and it was feared at one time it would find an enforced resting-place on the roofs of some of the houses. Happily, how ever, the hangar was regained in safety. A Season's Greeting in a material form reaches us as usual from Mr. Robert W. Coan, ol the well-known aluminium foundry In Goswell Road. The reproduction above gives an idea of the pretty little card or fruit dish which Mr. Coan sends out to his friends and customers. Any of the latter who have not yet received theirs should send a gentle reminder, when their intimation will be honoured by Mr. Coan by return of post. RECORDS. Duration.—Henry Farman (France), at Etampes, on a Henry Farman biplane fitted with a Gnome motor : 8 hrs. 12 mins.r covering 463 kiloms. (288| miles). Distance.-—Maurice Tabuteau (France), at Buc, on a Maurice Farman biplane, 584*935 kiloms. (365 miles) in 7h. 48m. 3ifs. Altitude.—G. Legagneux, at Pau, on a Bleriot monoplane with Gnome motor : 3,200 metres (10,746 ft.). Speed.—A. Leblanc (France), on a Bleriot monoplane, fitted with Gnome motor, 5 kiloms. in 2 mins. 45f sees. = 108 k.p.h. (67-5 m.p.h.). ® ® ® ® Aeronautical Patents Published. Applied for in 1900. Published January zt/it ign. 28,995. C. LORENZEN. Aerial propellers. 29,067. T. O. SMITH. Aerial machines. 29,338. E. MOSSE. Aeroplanes. 30.194. L. RENATAU AND A. A. HUMPHREY. Aeroplanes. Applied for in 1910. Published January 5th, 1911 L. BLERIOT. Securing propellers and flywheels of aeroplanes. G. Di FENILE. Screw-propellers for aerial vessels. C. B. B. LAURES. Instrument for measuring angular movements of submarine and aerial vessels relatively to horizon and magnetic meridian. E. DE MARCAY ANP E. MOOKEN, Aeroplanes. 4>°95- 7,678. 12,746. BACK NUMBERS OF FLIGHT. ALL back numbers, except those specified below, can still be obtained from the publishers, 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) monoplanes, and of a full-size Wright glider (Nos. 38 and 39). Numbers raised in price, &c. (Nos. 3 and 4 are entirely out of print) :— No. s. d- 15. (Engines at Olympia) 1 0 16. (Prize List and Models at Olympia) 31. (Bleriot Flyer, full- page drawing) ... 43. \ (Antoinette Mono- f 44. J plane) \ No. 2. (Table of Propellers) 6. (Wright "Bros.' Ele vator Patents) ... 8. (IllustratedGlossary) 10. (Military Aeronau tics) 12. 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