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fuoEi\ as they find it more expensive than anything else they have ever taken up. And now for some advice. No model-maker is successful at the outset, and those who take up the sport must prove their enthusiasm, if they would succeed, by a certain measure of perseverance. Quarter-mile and J-mile nights, although they seem to be performed with comparative facility, are really the products of years of strenuous toil and indifference to disappointment and ridicule. Although no advocate of " copying," in the generally understood sense of the word, I strongly advise beginners to attend competitions where they can see really successful machines, and thus may be enabled to gather data which may be of invaluable use to them in their own work. Practically all the big model- making firms supply parcels of materials for building standard machines, and the experience gained by constructing one of these models often paves the way for building a model on quite original lines. Or again, it is still more useful to buy some typical successful machine and try to make another exactly like it. Very few of the model-making firms object to this, unless the " copy " is offered for sale, in which case it is pretty obvious that friction, if not legal proceedings, will be the outcome. Nearly all the non-flying models that I have seen owed their failure to either (I) Bad construction ; (2) superfluous weight (e.g., my Birmingham correspondent's); or (3) poor ® ® Helen Wins Mlchelin Cup. IN contrast to previous years the closing of the competition for the International Michelin Cup on Tuesday last produced no excitement, as no attempt was made to beat Helen's flight on a Nieuport monoplane on September 8th, when he covered 1,252-8 kiloms. in I4hrs. 7mins. Helen thus wins the Cup for 1911. R.E.P. Doings. ON Saturday last Bobba, on one of the new R.E.P. monoplanes, was away from the Buc Aerodrome for a couple of hours, during which he flew over Paris and also paid a visit to Juvisy. Meanwhile Gibert was flying on one of the new school machines which has duplicate levers in order that the instructor may teach his pupil to instinctively control the machine more or less. He was flying for 40 mins. with a passenger. On Monday he was up for an hour on the same machine. Among a large number of visitors to the school on Monday were M. Naudin and M. Morane. Legagneux After Height Honours. LEGAGNEUX is determined to place the height record to his name again if it is at all possible, and has been assiduously practising, with that object in view, for some time at his aerodrome at Compiegne. On Sunday he got up to a height of 3,550 metres, beating his previous record by 350 metres, but not getting past the world's record. Meantime his partner Martinet had been giving some passenger flights and incidentally gave le bapUme de Vair to Sizaire, of the well-known Sizaire-Naudin firm. Another French Military Pilot. ON Sunday Lieut. Souleillan passed the third test for his military brevet at the Bleriot School at Etampes. Farmans for French Colonies. AT Mourmelon, on Sunday last, Captain Destouchee received seven Henry Farman biplanes of the military typr which are destined for service in the French Colonies. Fou, of the machines were tested in the morning by Bebaud and the remainder passed the stipulated tests during the afternoon. A New Nieuport for Weymann, ON Sunday afternoon, although there was a fairly strong wind blowing, Gobe mounted a 70-h.p. two-seater Nieuport, which had been prepared for Weymann, and took it over to Rheims. At the Deperdussin School at Etampes. PASCAL, the chief pilot at the Deperdussin School at Etampes, was practising high flying on Sunday afternoon, and during a test of over an hour was up for most of the NOVEMBER 4, 1911. materials. The first and second can in large measure be avoided by the methods I have just suggested, but it is well to ascertain exactly what the model you intend to copy has done in open competition. The term "prize winner" is rather misleading and it is always advisable to ask, " How many ? " Numerous disappointments are ascribable to poor materials, especially rubber. That imported from France and Germany is usually of wretched quality, albeit of tempting price. A very good test is to procure a sample, suspend a weight from it for an hour or so, and then see whether it comes back to anything appreciably like its original length. Wood should be thoroughly seasoned and fabric proofed to resist damp. And varnish must be used, especially on propellers, which, by the way, are the hardest things to make that the model maker has to deal with, These should always be bought, if possible, at the outset, unless indeed the would-be model maker is a " boy-scout " and consequently has his language well under control. The amateur must also learn to climb trees, and it is never safe to fly a racing machine unless one is wearing a pair of old " breeks " that will not suffer in the process. If any more of our members care to write to me in reference to other difficulties they have encountered, I shall be very pleased to deal with them in *' School Aero Club Notes." All communications relative to the Federation to be addressed to 15, Arlington Road, Surbiton. ® ® FOREIGN AVIATI time at an altitude of well over 1,000 metres, the town and also over Guinette Castle. He flew over Startled by a Train. WHILE practising at Etampes on the 24th inst,, Gilbert was flying along the railway at a somewhat low altitude, when a train suddenly passed and startled him. He com menced a vol plane, but was caught by a gust of wind which capsized the machine and sent it to the ground with a crash. The aviator was picked up unconscious and taken to the hospital. From Rheims to Douzy in 52 Minutes. KEEPING mostly at an altitude of about 800 metres, Bathiat, on a Sommer monoplane, on Monday last, flew from Rheims to Douzy, a distance of 105 kiloms., in 52 mins, Santoni Flying Across Country. DURING a visit to the Deperdussin School at Courcy- Betheny, Mr. Lawrence Santoni was testing one of the machines, and went for a lengthy cross-country excursion on it. Virant, back from Geneva, was practising high climbing, and got up 1,500 metres in 22 mins. The First Six-Seated 'Plane. SOME time ago we referred to the fact that M. Henr1 Deutsch (de la Meurthe) had ordered a special aeroplane to be built. This is now practically read ', and has been on private view at the Bleriot works. In general appearance it resembles a combination of a well-appointed taxicab and a large monoplane. The chassis had to be modified from the ordinary Bleriot type, as there is an elevator as well as a tail on this machine. The 100-h.p. Gnome motor and the propeller are arranged at the rear of the body work, while the driver has a seat like that of a chauffeur outside the bod ', with a spare seat to his left. The coachwork is very comfortable and fitted with springy cane seats for four persons. Mica windows are fitted, and some of them are so arranged at the bottom of the machine that they enable a full view to be taken of the country passed over. The Next Paris Salon. So great has been the demand for space that the Chambre- Syndicate des Industries Aeronautique have found some difficulty in finding room in the Grand Palais for all those who wish to- exhibit. The eight who have been fortunate enough to secure the stands along the Grand Nej are Clement-Bayard, Astra, Bleriot, Bristol, Albatross, Sommer, Nieuport, and Hanriot. Along the aisle to the right will be the stands of R.E.P., Brouin-Lauschi, Breguet, Morane-Saulnier, Pischoff, Voisin, Deperdussin and Gnome, while along the left-hand aisle will be Farman, Savory, Borel, Hutchinson, Zodiac, Primas, Ratmenoff and Kauffmann. 966
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