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1911
1911 - 0891.PDF
OCTOBER 14, 1911. THE AGGREGATE PRIZES AT BROOKLANDS. WEDNESDAY, the last race day of the season, was from the aviator's point of view a brute of a day. Luckily things quietened down about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and a great deal of excellent flying was witnessed. Quite a number of cars were lined up beside the palings, and for so late in the year a lot of people assembled. The first man out was Pixton flying on his E.N.V.-Bristol for the Manville piize, carrying as his passenger Lieut. Harford. The wind was blowing at about 22m.p.h., and very gusty at that, so that one can imagine that Pixton had all his work cut out to control the machine. He flew for 17 mins. 7 sees, and then came down for a rest. Shortly after the rain came down hard, but getting a bit tired in about hall an hour passed away, taking u ith it a good part of the wind. Louis Noel then come out on the Avro, being closely followed by Spencer and Pixton. Kemp, Raynham and Blondeau also flew. The following are the official times : — April May June i» July Aug. Oct. June July Aug. Oct. Oct. >> »» Aug. June Oct. Aug. June April May I? 10 5 17 20 7 4 5 20 7 4 4 4 4 7 5 4 7 5 17 10 H. Pixton Results. Avro B. „B. Bristol B. F. P. Raynham Farman B. i) i» ,, Avro B. . h. m. s. 1 27 32 O 40 17 £ 30 36 0 58 22|27 O 39 1564 O l6 17 I 43 20 I 48 40 7 33 43 1 1 47 22 56 3' 62 ,0 43 37i37 1 30 25 21 s. 0 17 0 13 5 19 12 0 5 19 d. 0 6 10 1 t. 0 0 10 6 0 £ 3 44 30 Noel ... H. Spencer G. Blondeau Chevalier Watkins Kemp ... Montalent G. England G. Hamel D. G. Gilmour .Avro B. . ISpencer B. BlondeauB. . Nieuport M. . Howard- Wright B . Flanders M. . Breguet M. .[Bristol B. ... . iBleriot M... Farman B. 34 26 1 45 38 35 35 20 19 10 16 12 25 6 12 37 1 12 on 19 6 17 o 122 17 4 6>l o 6 012 315 O l6 49 21 17 in 5 2 S°3 10 5 B. = biplane. M. = monoplane. Aggregate for season : Pixton, £150; Raynham, ^100 ; Noel, £50. Pixton, it will be seen, won the ^30 for day's total and the Manville ^500. (/QGHT) Later in the evening Gordon Bell took up as passenger Mrs. Cochrane on the two-seater Deperdussin. Percival carried a passenger on the " Ouseley Bird." Unfor tunately the engine gave out over the sewage farm and "Ouseley Bird " settled down over heavily. No one was hurt, but there were broken skids, planes, &c. ® ® ® ® THE NEW VALKYRIE RACER. THIS latest emanation from the workshops of the Aeronautical Syndicate, while it presents little or no difference in its broad outline to its Gnome-engined predecessor, is chiefly remark able for the care that has been bestowed upon the detail design in general and the excellence of the workmanship throughout. Indeed it would be impossible to cite a machine in which these features, especially that of finish, have been the subject of such careful consideration. The use of aluminium, except for those small lugs which serve as bases for the nuts that tighten the bracing wires, has been altogether discarded and_mild steel has been sub stituted in its place. Each welded steel socket is"doubly'plated, first with a deposit of copper and then with a coating of nickel. This absolutely eliminates rusting and is claimed to be far more effective than if only one deposit were applied. The pressed steel engine bearers, the eye-bolts and even the cylindrical coils of steel wire that are used in place of copper ferrules for attaching wires, are all nickel-plated in a similar fasliion. Mr. Barber has introduced a refinement in the design of the attachment of the heavy gauge wires that brace the wings from the underneath. Each of these wires is threaded and screwed into a conical steel adapter, machined from the solid. To its upper end is bolted a length of stout strip steel which is bent at an obtuse angle, according to the angularity of the particular wire to which it is attached. This angle-piece is applied to the wing spar by a single bolt, from which also depend the wires that cross-brace the wings, that take their weight when stationary, and that take their drift in flight. At the point where the bolt is passed through, the spar is armoured by a shoe of mild steel embracing its near side. Unfortunately the sketches that we have in preparation of this and other fittings are not ready for insertion. They will appear in next week's issue. The unit comprising the engine bed and pilot's and passenger's seats is so arranged as to be readily detachable for transportation purposes. Varnish has been applied to the supporting surface im mediately in the wake of the propeller draught in order to protect the fabric from the rotting effect of the oil thrown out by the engine—a 50-h.p. Gnome. FLYING AT BROOKLANDS ON WEDNESDAY OF LAS I WEEK.—The Flanders monoplane, and, over the track, the Avro biplane making circuits. 893
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