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1911
1911 - 0847.PDF
SEPTKMBEIC 30, 1911 IfiiGHT Major Sir Alexander Bannerman, the Chief of the Aero nautical School at Farnborough, who was at Hendon in connection with the inquest on Lieut. Cammell. Talking with Sir Alexander is Capt. Loraine, who witnessed Cammell's fall. Tke Work of the Bristol Company. ELSEWHERE we give particulars of the new Bristol single-seater monoplane. As we go to press we understand this machine is being put through speed tests over a 5-kilom. heptagon-shaped course at Salisbury Plain, and the figures will probably be available for pub lication next week. A tandem double-seater on similar lines, also fitted with a 50-h.p. Gnome motor, is almost completed, and this machine will be similarly tested without delay. Vet a third machine of similar design is being constructed for pupils, and this is so modified as to be suitable for one of the new 28-35-h.p. 3-cyl. Anzani motors, to have a reduced flying speed of about 45-5° m.p.h., a wise precaution for beginners, who cannot be expected to master a monoplane at 65 m.p.h. until well trained on machines of a more moderate speed. It is hoped that the tandem double-seater will attain a speed very nearly equal to that of the single-seater, and if such a result be achieved with a motor of 50 instead of 7° or 100-h.p., the Company will have produced the ideal machine according to present ideas for military or naval reconnaissance work, both ori account of the wide range of view obtained and also because of the high speed to be attained with a motor which has always been considered as more reliable for long trips than those of the higher horse-powers. Mr. B. C. Hucks' Flights on the Blackburn. SOME splendid flights were accomplished last week by Mr. B. C. Hucks on his Blackburn monoplane at Cardiff, not the least interesting being those on Saturday, when, in conjunction with Mr. H. Grindell Matthews, some wireless telephone experiments were carried out with the aeroplane. Although he was flying at a speed of 85 m.p.h. at a height of 700 ft., Mr. Hucks said he could hear Mr. Matthews' voice distinctly. On the two previous days Mr. OF Hucks gave exhibition flights over the Ely racecourse. During his several flights on Thursday he covered about 50 miles, on one occasion passing over the Penarth Docks. On Friday three flights were made, the monoplane being seen over the Docks, Canton and Llandaff, while the greatest height attained was 2,000 ft. over Penarth Head. Mr, Valentine at Dover and Burnham. AFTER being stormbound at Shoreham by a gale on the previous day, Mr. James Valentine, on Thursday of last week, was able to make the journey from Shoreham to Dover on his Deper- dussin monoplane. He flew in the direction of Deal before turning for the Dover Aero Club's Aerodrome on Whitfield Hill, where he safely landed, and aided by a westerly wind he was able to cover the distance of about 80 miles in 70 minutes. Incidentally, Mr. Valentine carried a letter from the Chief Constable of Brighton to the Chief Constable of Dover, and this was safely delivered within a few minutes of his arrival. During the day the gale returned and prevented any further flying until after five, when a very clever demonstration was given by Mr. Valentine at a height of 1,000 ft. On the following day Mr. Valentine mounted his machine, and flew the fifty miles to Burnham-on-Crouch, where the British Motor Boat Club were holding their Regatta. On the way he called at Eastchurch. Soon alter arriving at Burnham, by way of a change, he took his seat in " Babs II," one of Mr. Mawdsley Brooke's racing boats, and steered her during the last race of the day. Folkestone-Boulrsne Race Off. IT has no« been decided to proceed no further with the proposed Folkestone-Boulogne race, and the subscribers to the guarantee fund, which reached ^564, have been released from their liabilities. Mr. Tom Sopwith has had a huge success in America with his very capable flying. The above is an incident which followed immediately after his carrying two passengers for 65 mins. From left to right: H. W. Doughton, F. Russell (General Manager of the Wright Co.), Tom Sopwith, Coffyn (Wright flyer), and Welch (Wright Co.). 849
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