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1911
1911 - 0046.PDF
British Army Paulhan Biplane. AT BUC, on Wednesday of last week, Caille successfully put the Paulhan biplane intended for use in the British Army through a series of tests. The conditions imposed were that the machine should fly for two hours with a passenger as well as 200 kilogs. of ballast, in a wind blowing at the rate of 25 miles an hour, and make a gliding flight, with the engine stopped, from a height of 200 metres. Capt. Fulton, who represented the British Army at these tests, has, we understand, accepted delivery of the machine on behalf of the Government. Aeronautical Classics. THE fifth of this series will be published immediately by the Aeronautical Society. This volume is entitled "Gliding, by Percy S. Pilcher, to which is added the Aeronautical Work c f John Stringfellow." The volume, published at one shilling, is illustrated with photo graphs, diagrams and portraits, and matter never before published. There is memoir, with details of all his gliders, of Pilcher, whose lecture before the Military Society of Ireland is here reprinted for the first lime. The section devoted to Stringfellow contains, inter alia, an account of the famous Henson-Stringfellow monoplane, with the text of several unpublished letters from Henson, and the original agreement and prospectus. Mr. Maurice Ducrocq's Henry Farman. IN our last issue we inadvertently referred to Mr. Ducrocq's Farman machine as being one of the Hewlett-Blondeau School machines. As a fact, although Mr. Ducrocq gained his initiation into the art with such marked success at this Brooklands school, the Henry Farman he now flies so well is his own property, and more over he is himself now teaching flying at the Brooklands Aerodrome, and in addition to taking pupils is carrying passengers for flights. Revolution Indicators on Aeroplanes. ELOQUENT testimony as to the advantage of having an Elliott revolution indicator to motors on aeroplanes is given by the following extract from a letter written by Mr. T.J Sopwilh, who won the J^jjjlj 1 7 / 1 ™ - BP 'him Capt. Fulton, R.A., in the pilot's seat of the Gnome'engined Paulhan biplane, of which he has just taken delivery in France on behalf of the British Army. This machine was fully described in FLIGHT on October 22nd last. Capt. Fulton, R.A., and M. Paulhan at St. Cyr after the necessary tests cf the Paulhan biplane, before delivery to the British Army, were concluded. ,£4,000 De Forest Prize, to Messrs. Elliott Brothers :— " I should like you to know how absolutely essential your revolution indicator has been to me flying. I would not be without it for anything, as I practically'drive on it' the whole time as well as do all engine tests by it. " During my flight into Belgium it worked magnificently, never giving a moment's trouble, and' showing a perfect steady reading." R.F. Propellers in Great Britain. THE R.F. propeller made by Regy Freres and' used by M. Leblanc at New York, Maurice Ducrocq' at Brooklands, and Laurens, Pierre Marie and Louis- Breguet in France, when making their recent record performances, is now represented in this country by Mr. D. Lawrence Santoni, who has secured the exclusive British rights for his firm, the General Aviation Contract Co. After the Gordon-Bennett Race Mr. Grahame-White stated, we are informed, that if his machine at New York had been fitted with an R.F. propeller, as was M. Leblanc's, his speed would have been at least equal if not faster than Leblanc's. " Beta " in Commission Again. THE Army airship "Beta" made her reappear ance on Tuesday last and carried out the first of a series of instructional trips in the neighbourhood of Farnborough. Captain Broke-Smith was in command, and he was accompanied by Major Sir Alexander Bannerman, Commandant of the Army Balloon Factory. A trip of some 22 miles was made, during which the little airship behaved splendidly. These trips will be continued at every available opportunity during the coming spring and* summer for the purpose of instructing various officers- in the science of aerial navigation.
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