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1911 - 0876.PDF
Ifijcgr A souvenir from Henri Bregi, dated from Rabat, Morocco, where be arrived with his Breguet triplane recently, and remained for about five days owing to the violent sand-storms. Chartres course, aced by a violent head wind, made the outward journey in the hour, and for the return took 18 mins. with the following wind. Buc to Rheims. BARRA, last week, on a Renault-engined Maurice Farman, in spite of an adverse wind, flew from Buc to Rheims in 2 hrs. 15 mins. Legagneux Flying over Lake Lugano. ON Thursday last week a splendid trip was made by Legagneux over Lake Lugano and the adjacent mountains. He climbed to about 1,700 metres, and circled over the snow-covered mountains in the distance. Maurice Farman Carries His Brother Dick. ON Thursday last week Maurice Farman, at Buc, after giving M. Edmond Lefebvre his first air trip, took up his brother Dick, flying with him to Rambouillet. During the day Lieut. Varsin, on a Farman, was added to the list of holders of the superior military brevet. Cinematographs for Air Scouts. BY way of experiment, the German War Office have decided to obtain panoramic pictures of terra firma from an aeroplane by means of cinematograph cameras. Such excellent results have already been obtained in this direction that there is little doubt that ® ® OCTOBER 7, 1911. such an apparatus should prove of vital importance to the generals in command of opposing armies by way of corroborating what their officers may have observed with the naked eye. A Cross-Country Flight in Holland. WYNMAELEN, last week, on a Gnome-engined Deperdussin monoplane, made a flight from Leyden to Amsterdam at: an average speed of 150 k.p.h., being received with a mighty ovation at the end of his voyage. Aeroplanes for the Dutch Government. THREE aeroplanes are to be acquired by the Dutch authorities for use in the home army, and six others are to be shipped out to the East Indies for the same purpose. At the recent Durch manoauvres, Van Meel, accompanied by Van Heyst, was daily reconnoitring on one of the Henry Farman machines, and thereby was able to obtain the most minute information as to the movements of the enemy's troops. On one day last week he made a scouting flight, which enabled him to report upon the dis- tribu ion of the troops within 50 kiloms. of the camps. Labourchere has also put in further work with one of the latest lypes of Zodiac biplane. In one reconnaisance he passed by way of Bois le Due, Rhenan, and Amerongen, about 100 kiloms., covering the distance in I hr. 7 mins. An Aero Club President takes his Brevet. MR. ALBERT B. LAMBERT, the President of the Aero Club of Saint Louis, U.S.A., can now claim to be the first man in that position to have secured his pilot aviator's certificate. After careful tuition from Walter Brookins, of the Pioneer Aviation Co., he has se:ured his license from the Aero Club of America on a Wright biplane at the Kinloch Aerodrome. Two-Passenger Record in America. AT the Long Island Aerodrome, Lieut. Willing on a Burgess- Wright biplane, carrying two passengers, is credited with the American record of ih. 54m. 42s. A Proposed Minneapolis to New Orleans Flight. IN the United States it is proposed to hold a hydro-aeroplane competition between the two cities named above, a purse of about $30,000 being put up as an inducement. Hugh Robinson, it is stated, has already undertaken to attempt the flight in a Curtiss machine. A Gnome on a Burgess-Wright. AT the Burgess Co. and Curtiss works a Wright type biplane is being fitted with a Gnome motor, this being the first of this type of machine to be so equipped. Considerable changes have been made by tne firm in the structure of the hiplane to enable this to be done, and it should be interesting to watch the result under the changed conditions. Mr. T. O. M. Sopwith will, it is stated, fly the machine. ® ® CORRESPONDENCE:. %* The name and address of the writer (not necessarily for publication) MUST in all cases accompany letters intended for insertion, or containing queries. Correspondents communicating with regard to letters which they have read in FLIGHT, would much facilitate ready reference by quoting the number of each such letter. Suggested Improvement in the Operation of Balancing Flaps. [*378] I should welcome a discussion in your correspondence columns on the following suggestion :— I propose that ailerons should be operated in exactly the opposite way to that at present adopted—that is, they should be pulled up instead of down. Of course, by this arrangement, the opposite aileron would be employed to that at present used for any particular manoeuvre. The advantages obtained by this alteration are probably:— (1) In banking during a turn, the drag necessarily following the use of a balancer will decrease the speed of the wing on the inner side of the curve, which natually moves slower than the other wing, as the balancer will be used to depress the inside wing. This will probably minimise the effect ot slackening speed at present felt, and should, I think, make up for any loss of height consequent on forcibly lowering the wing. (2) In correcting this banking, the aileron used will be the one on the outside of the curve, which is moving faster than usual, and which will therefore have the advantage of being used while at its maximum efficiency. As the action of depressing will be applied behind the centre of pressure, it is possible that some connection with the elevator will be nece-sary for the satisfactory working of this device. Nottingham. SIDNEY A. NEWTON. Aeroplanes in Warfare. t1379l I must apologise for a slip in letter 1355. Ranging from aeroplane to air-ship, or to another aeroplane, if it is possible or necessary, would no doubt be doae by one of the one-man range- finders in common use, such as the Barr-Stroud. Probably the vibration would make it very difficult. The problem of the use of aeroplanes in war is a very big one, and could only be worthily handled by a conference of naval and military officers and competent constructors. France is much ahead of us, and probably Germany too, though she is very quiet on the subject, because in a "nation in arms" practical soldiery is under stood and proper supplies are voted for the necessary services. 878
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