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1911
1911 - 0722.PDF
AUGUST 19, 1911. IT1SM Aeronautic Research Scholarships. ANNOUNCEMENT is made by the Governors of the Imperial College of Science and Technology that they are prepared to award scholarships to advanced students desirous of undertaking research work in scientific problems connected with aeronautics. The scholarships will consist of exemptions from fees, together with maintenance allowances at rates fixed with regard to the circum stances of the case. In suitable cases provision will be made for part of the work to be undertaken at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington. Advanced courses of lectures in aero nautics are to be arranged for shortly by the College. Charles Hubert Flies a Monoplane Agaio. CHARLES HUBERT, one of Grahame-White's pilots, who has done much good flying on a Farman biplane, chiefly at Hendon, is now practising on a Bleriot monoplane. It will be recalled that Hubert's first experiments were made at Grahame-White's old school at Pau, South of France, on a machine of this type, but he abandoned it in favour of the biplane, on which machine he qualified for his pilot's certificate in February last. Flying for a Wager. IN order to win a wager made by his friends, who asserted " he wouldn't dare go up in an aeroplane," M. Francis de Moreau took a long flight with Hubert at the London Aerodrome last Wednesday. Evidently the former's friends were, like many other people, under the impression that flying is an abnormally nerve- racking pursuit. At any rate, he won the money, and we have it on Hubert's authority that he found the process an unusually exhilarating one. Commercial Activities at Hendon. A NEW Company, under the style of " The Grahame-White Aviation Co., Ltd.," has been formed to take over the London Aerodrome, and all Mr. Grahame-White's interests and stock of machines. It is understood that this new Company is practically the originally proposed " Grahame-White, Maxim, and Bleriot, Ltd.," on a different basis, although the nominal capital of the Company— ,£200,000—is precisely the same. With Mr. Grahame-White him self as managing director, we naturally look forward to still further practical developments as soon as the new Company commences operations. Fisher to Pilot the Vtckers Monoplane. E. U. B. FISHER, who has been engaged by Messrs. Vickers, Ltd., to pilot their new product, is one of the cleverest monoplane pilots that England possesses. He has been an habitue of Brooklands since the very early days, and while he and his friend Raynham, now of Avro frame, were with Neale, they used to provide considerable amusement to the rest of the community by doing "stunts" on bicycles outside the "Blue Bird" restaurant. Fisher graduated on the Hanriot monoplane during the spring, and he soon developed into a flyer of something approaching the Hubert Latham order. He has since experimented with the Martin- Handasyde and the Flanders monoplanes. Mr. Piffard's Hydroplane Capsizes. AFTER making one or two alterations to it, Mr. Piffard had his hydroplane taken down to the sea at Shoreham on the 8th inst. Almost as soon as it was launched, however, it capsized ; but this was an emergency for which Mr. Piffard and his assistants were well prepared, as they are all expert swimmers, and they soon had the machine ashore. Mr. Grahame-White at Southport. THE second series of aviation displays arranged at Southport, arranged through the good offices of Mr. Leonard Williamson, came to an end on Saturday last, but the result was no more sitisfactorv than before, for out of thirteen days for which flying had been arranged, it was only possible on four or five, and on nearly all those occasions flying could only be carried out in the evening. On Tuesday afternoon of last week Mr. Grahame-White was at the aerodrome, and although a stiff breeze was blowing he made several circuits of the ground in the " Biby" biplane. A further series of flights were given during the evening, when a large crowd assembled to witness them. Mr. Radlev Flies the Channel. HAVING secured a new Bleriot machine, Mr. James Radley decided that the most fitting way to bring it over was to fly it across the Channel. He started from Les Baraques, near Calais, on LONDON FROM ABOVE.—Vauxhall Bridge, as viewed from Consul Stollwerck's Continental balloon, " Hannover."- 724
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