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1911
1911 - 0334.PDF
I/LIGHTI BRITISH NOTES Aviation at Southport. ALTHOUGH the Southport Town Council has decided to have nothing to do with the exhibition of flying which it is proposed to give during Coronation week, several members of the Town Council have formed a committee and are determined to carry the matter through. A guarantee fund has been started, and already nearly half of the ,£3,000 required has been promised. Arrangements have been made with Mr. Grahame-White to give a four days' display—on June 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 26th—at a fee of £2,000. " Flight " Copyright. Sketch showing how the wings on the Mulliner "Kny" aeroplane are mounted on a central bearing so that the angle of incidence can be altered during flight. Simul taneous with this movement an alteration in the camber is brought about by means of pivoted rods, as shown above, acting on a special flexible leading edge. He will take two machines to Southport, as well as a competent aviator. It is proposed also to arrange for balloon ascents and parachute descents by Capt. Spencer, while a military band will also be engaged. M. Ducrocq Flies by Moonlight. RISING from Brooklands Aerodrome at a quarter to ten on Friday of last week on his Farman biplane, M. Maurice Ducrocq, after circling round the grounds twice, flew off to Chertsey and ® ® FROM THE BRITISH Laffan's Plain. THERE has been no flying here during the past week. The weather has been unsuitable for anything except kite-flying, a good •deal of which was done in exceptionally high winds by the Army Balloon Section. New ailerons are being fitted to the Cody biplane—much lighter and more efficient than those that have been removed. It is antici pated that great additional speed will be obtained by this improvement. London Aerodrome, Collindale Avenue, Hendon. Ble'riot School.—Although five new pupils joined the Bleriot School during the past week, owing to the very bad weather work had to be confined to the technical part only, as no flying was possible for novices. The new two-seater military type 70-h.p. Gnome-BIeViot which has arrived from the Olympia Show, where it was much admired, is ready to go out as soon as the wind abates. Several officers, and also a delegation of Japanese gentlemen, came to see it on Saturday and seemed delighted with its appearance. APRIL 15, 1911. OF THE WEEK. continued to Addlestone and Woking, returning to Brooklands at halt-past ten, where he concluded his flight with a fine vol plant!. The only indication of M. Ducrocq's landing place was a small bicycle lamp on the ground. On his descent he reported that in the moonlight he had had little difficulty in keeping his direction, and maintained an average altitude of 800 ft. This flight is claimed as a record one. Vickers, Ltd., and the R.E.P. IN connection with the announcement that is being given so much publicity of late regarding the concession of the exclusive rights of M. R. Esnault-Pelterie's inventions to Messrs. Vickers, Ltd., for exploitation in Great Britain and the Colonies, these rights were granted as far back as the first day of this year. A Serious Loss to Aviation. WE understand that the fire which occurred in a studio on the New Forest estate of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu will mean a serious loss to aviation, as there was being prepared in the studio a most elaborate and perfect system of maps and charts for aeronautical purposes. As soon as the outbreak was discovered the fire brigade was summoned and got to work, but unfortunately the inflammable nature of the materials used in the map-making rendered the task of dealing with the outbieak very difficult. And the Pity of It! THE First Lord of the Admiralty, last week in Parliament, in reply to Mr. Lionel de Rothschild, M.P., not only definitely stated that the Navy did not own any aeroplanes at the present moment, and had none on order ; but, questioned by Mr. Arthur Lee, M. P., as to whether the settled policy of the Admiralty was to have nothing to do with aeroplanes, Mr. McKenna said that he could not say anything about their permanent policy, but that so far as experimental work was concerned the War Office had under taken the aeroplane branch and the Admiralty were undertaking dirigibles. A Useful Addition to the Hangar. WHILE experimenting with flying machines there is always at good deal of repair work of one sort or another to be done, and the practical aviator will be anxious to carry out as much of this as possible himself. With this end in view he will find it most economical in the end to instal in a corner of his shed a small lathe. Messrs. Drummond Bros., of Ryde's Hill, Guildford, make several lathes eminently suited for this purpose, and they will be pleased to send full particulars to anyone on application. " Flight " Copyright. Sketch of Rubery, Owen and Co.'s safety spring wire- tightener. ® ® FLYING GROUNDS, Everyone at Hendon is, of course, anxious to witness its first flight, as it is the first monoplane of this type that has come to England, and the reputation it has already made in the hands of the French officers is more than sufficient to create the keenest interest. Lieut. Cammell, who will fly this machine, was on the ground, but wisely decided not to take it out for the first trial in such a gale as was blowing all Saturday afternoon, even to demonstrate the scouting qualities of the model. Salisbury Plain. OWING to the recent stormy weather there has been practically no flying to record with the exception that on Saturday M. Tabuteau was out for a little while. The variable currents, however, rendered flying very tricky work, but M. Tabuteau is a master of his Bristol biplane. During this spell of enforced idleness, the work of tuning up the various Bristol machines has been actively carried on in the sheds while the pupils have also been given extended instruction indoors. 3&
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