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lfDOHT| attending the Federation Conference in Paris on the 15th and 16th instant, will move the adoption of these regulations by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale. Aviatton Accidents. The Club has appointed a Special Committee, with Col. H. C. L. Holden, C.B. R.A., as Chairman, to enquire into the causes of aviation accidents. The Aeronautical Society has accepted the invitation of the Club to nominate three representatives to this Special Committee. Presentation of Medals. At the annual general meeting to be held at the Club on Thursday next, the medals; awarded by the Club during the last two years will be presented. It is hoped that Field-Marshal the Right Hon. Earl Roberts, K.G., K.P., V.C., &c, Vice-President of the Club, will attend and make the presentations. Austrian International Aviation Meeting. An International aviation meeting will be held at Vienna from June 23rd to 30th, 1912, under the auspices of the Aero Club of Austria. Among the various events there will be competitions for height, speed, vertical speed, cross-country race, variability of speed, bomb dropping, landing, pursuit of balloons, &c. The prizes will probably amount to about ^7,000. further particulars can be had on application to the Club. MARCH 16, 1912. Presentation of Lantern Slides. Mr. E. T. Willows has kindly presented to the club a collection of lantern slides dealing with the Willows airships. Army and Navy Aviation Prizes. Intending competitors are again reminded that this competition closes on March 31st, 1912. The best performances so far recorded are as follows :— Army.—Lieut. B. H. Barrington-Kennett, 249! miles. Navy.— Lieut. A. M. Longmore, R.N., 1804 miles. (This distance is subject to verification.) Presentation to the Library. Mr. Mervyn O'Gorman has kindly presented a bound copy of his paper on " Problems relating to Aircraft" to the library. New York Aeronautical Exhibition. The First International Aeronautical Exhibition will be held in New York on May 9th—18th, 1912, under the auspices of the Aero Club of America. Particulars can be obtained on application to the Secretary of the Royal Aero Club. Aviation Lantern Slides. The Royal Aero Club has acquired a large collection of lantern slides dealing with aviation, and members can hire these at a nominal fee. In order to make the Club collection more complete, the Com mittee will be glad to receive gifts of slides, and negatives or photo graphs from which slides can be made. 166, Piccadilly. HAROLD E. PERRIN, Secretary. ® ® ® ® ROYAL AERO CLUB FLYING GROUND, EASTCHURCH. FOR the greater part of last week the weather was not good, and only the usual practice was done by the pupils taking advantage of the early morning calms. On Friday morning, Lieut. L'Strange Malone, R.N., took his brevet with an excellently-controlled flight, which justified the expectations formed by those who have watched his tuition flights. Possibly the hardest part of the Royal Aero Club's test, for a beginner, is that of landing in a neat manner within 50 yards of the landing mark, a test which Lieut. Malone accomplished quite easily. A decidedly strong wind was blowing on Saturday, and most of the aviators were out in it. Ogilvie was first up on the N.E.C.- engine Wright machine, and was followed by Commander Samson, K.N., on the Short monoplane. Other aviators were Capt. Gerrard, R.M.L.I., who was altitude climbing on the No. 38 biplane, and Lieut. Longmore, R.N., and Capt. Gordon, R.M.L.I., the former with Capt. Payne, of H.M.S. " Actaeon," making a long cross country tour. Capt. Carden was also practising on the Dunne biplane in the afternoon. Some excellent aerial manoeuvres were carried out by Commander Samson and Capt. Gerrard, whose spiral vol planes are well worth witnessing. The latter climbed twice to a height of 2,200 feet, from ® ® Flying School for Manchester. UNDER the auspices of the Manchester Aero Club an attempt is being made to start a flying school at the Aerodrome, TrarTord Park. The fee has been fixed at ^50, and should a sufficient number come forward, the necessary aeroplane, hangars, StC, will 1* provided, and fully qualified pilot instructors, engineer and assistants employed to give pupils thorough and completely efficient instructions. The club will also guarantee a Prize Fund to be awarded to those who first take out their certificates. The Cody Biplane Carries Four. WITH three officers of the Air Battalion in the passenger seats of his biplane, Mr. Cody, on Tuesday, made a very successful flight of about twenty minutes duration. At one time the biplane was at a height of 700 feet. A Cross-Couatry Handicap from Brooklands. APART from the motor car and cycle events which form the programme of the first meeting of the season at Brooklands to be held on Easter Monday, April 8th, there is to be an aeroplane handicap over an out-arid-home cross-country course of about to miles. The entrant of the winning machine will receive fifty sovereigns or a cup. There will be a second prize of ^20 or a cup, and a third prize of £10 or a cup. Entries close on March 27th, the fee being ,£ 1. which altitude he descended in a spiral, with his engine completely stopped, landing at a point almost immediately beneath him. On Sunday McClean was flying his favourite machine, the 70-h.p. Short tractor biplane, which he took for a flight over Sheerness with Commander Samson as a passenger. Later in the day Jezzi was very busy on his Jezzi biplane, and made a good many laps of the aerodrome. His machine, although of such small dimensions, has proved its passenger-carrying capacity already, and several passengers were taken up singly by Jezzi, including Mr. and Mrs. Fowler, J. L. Travers, and Mr. Kershaw. Professor Huntington was out at the same time on his recon structed machine, which is now in running order again. Monday saw some flying for the Mortimer Singer prize, Lieut. Longmore, R.N., with E. R. A. O'Connor as a passenger, kept going for exactly four hours on the 70-h.p. Short tractor biplane, during which time he travelled, relative to the ground, some 196 miles. He had still sufficient fuel for a further z\ hours flight and was quite comfortable, but after four hours running the engine began to pull badly and he returned to the aerodrome. Capt. Gerrard, R.M.L.I., also put up a good performance by flying for nearly four hours on the triple twin, but owing to the increasing strength of the wind decided, after that time, to land and await more favourable weather conditions. ® © U.S. Postmastir-Gineral is Far'Sighted. THAT Postmaster-General Hitchcock, of the United States, looks well ahead is shown by the following extract from his Annual Report to President Taft :— " The first aerial dispatch of United States Mail occurred in September last, when 43,000 pieces were carried from Aeroplane Postal Station No. I, on Nassau Boulevard, to Mineola, Long Island. The progress being made in the science of aviation encourages the hope that ultimately the regular conveyance of mail by this means may be practicable. Such a service, if found feasible, might be established in many districts where the natural conditions preclude other means of rapid transportation." A "Mystery" Aeroplane. MANY of tne residents of Warmley were considerably excited, says a local paper, at the imposing spectacle of a splendidly illuminated aeroplane passing over the village at a tremendous rate. Certain other people at Bristol and neighbouring places apparently saw the same spectacle, but their version of the story is that a brilliant meteor passed over the district. Aeroplanes are getting to be very speedy birds nowadays, but speeds enough to render machines incandescent have not yet been realised. Will some kind pilot go down to Warmley and show the inhabitants what an aeroplane is really like ? 242
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