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IKe Rocral &ero Club—^Th^ <^ >-^gf the United KtixgdomJ OFFICIAL M0TICE.5 TO MEMBERS Rcyal Aero Club General Committee. A MEETING of the General Committee of the Royal Aero Club was held at 166, Piccadilly, London, W., on Tuesday, the nth inst., at 5 o'clock. There were present:—Mr. Roger W. Wallace, K.C., in the chair. Royal Aero Club—Ut. Griffith Brewer, Prof. A. K. Huntington, and Mr. C. F. Pollock. Aero Club of Ireland—-Mr. John D. Dunville. Bristol andWest of England Aero Club—Mr. A. E. Catfard and Mr. P. Evans. In/nautical Society of South Africa—Major A. M. Rogers. Harold E. Per/in, Secretary. The Minutes of the meeting of the General Committee, held on September 26th, 1911, were read and confirmed. Apologies for absence were received from the Fast Riding Aero Club, Manchester Aero Club, North-Eastern Aero Club, Scottish Aeronautical Society, and Yorkshire Aero Club. Finance.—The Financial Statement for the year 1911, showing a balance in hand of /,"88 icu. $d., was submitted and adopted. The Capitation Fees received to date for the current year, amounting to ,£217 Or. M,, were reported. The Finance Committee for the current year was appointed as follows:—Mr. A. E. Catford, Mr. P. Evans, Mr. John D. Dunville, Prof. A. K. Huntington, and Mr. Roger \V. Wallace, K.C. F.A.I. Conferences.—The chairman reported on the conference of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, held in Paris; in April, dealing with the new rules of the F.A.I. He further reported on the meeting of the special commission of the Federation Aeronau- tique Internationale, on the law of the air, held at Brussels in May. Vienna Conference.—The various questions to be discussed at the Vienna Conference to be held this month, were considered, and the following delegates were appointed to attend on behalf of Great Britain:-Mr. Griffith Brewer (cartographic committee, June 17th and iSth). Mr. Roger W. Wallace, K.C., Mr. M. U'Gorman and Capt. Murray Sueter, K.N. (General conference, June 20th, 2lst and 22nd). Military Aeroplane Competition, 1912. At the request of several British Aeroplane Manufacturers the Club approached the War Office with a view to obtaining a post ponement of the date of the competition. Mr. Howard T. Wright, Mr. R. L. Charteris and the Secretary attended at the War Office on the 5th inst. and explained the position of the manufacturers. As a result of this interview the War Office has now announced that the trials will be postponed till July 31st, 1912, and that entries will be received up to June 21st, 1912. Balloon Contest at Hurlingham. The second balloon contest will take place at Hurlingham on Saturday, June 22nd, 1912, when the challenge cup presented by- Mr. F. Hedges Butler will be competed for. The entries will close at 12 o'clock noon on Wednesday, the 19th inst., and members wishing to compete should notify the secretary on or before that date. The entrance fee is 10s. Members of the Royal Aero Club will be admitted to the Hurlingham Club free, on presentation of their Royal Aero Club membership cards. Members of the Royal Aero Club can obtain special vouchers for the admission of their friends, who are not members of the Royal Aero Club, to Hurlingham, from the secretary of the Royal Aero Club. These vouchers will admit on payment at the entrance gates. Presentation of Lantern Slides. Mr. A. V. Roe has very kindly presented to the Club an interesting collection of lantern slides dealing with his early machines. Golf Match. A match by singles and foursomes between the Royal Auto mobile Golfing Society and the Royal Aero Club was played on the Huntercombe Club's Course on Friday the 7th inst. The result was a win for the Royal Aero Club, who secured the singles by 5 games to 3, and the foursomes by 3 to 1. On the day's play, therefore, they proved successful by 8 points to 4. t66. Piccadilly. HAROLD E. PERRTN, Secretary. THE Ae.CF. GRAND PRIX. SOME of the most famous pilots have been nominated to take part in the two-days' race over the triangular crosscountry circuit for the 1 iratul Prix of the Aero Club of France. The start takes place at 9 o'clock on Sunday morning from the Angers Aerodrome, the competitors following one another at two minute intervals. They will have to cover three circuits on the first day, making a stop each time of not more than half an hour's duration at Angers, while one stop of not more than a quarter of an hour may be made on each day at Cholet and Saumur. A further four rounds of the circuit will be made on Monday. The details of,the competition were given in our issue of April 6th, 1912. The full distance of the seven rounds of the course is 1,100 kiloms. The prize will be awarded on speed, but machines carrying passengers will have their time reduced one- sixth for each passenger weighing not less than 75 kilogs. Prizes will alto be awarded on speed alone. Among the pilots nominated to take part are many well-known names, including Garros and Hamel on Bleriols, Renauar.d Fournyon Maurice Farman biplanes, Fischer on a Henry Farman biplane. Helen and Gobe (NieuporU), Gaubert (Astra-Wright), Allard (Caudron biplane), Bielovucie fllanriot monoplane), Vedrines, Vidart, Prevost (Deperdussin) and Tabuteau, Bedel, Morane (Morane-Saulnier monoplanes). Altogether there are 35 entrants and it should prove a vastly interesting com petition. The unsettled weather has prevented many of the com petitors trying the machines over the course, but on Monday Gobe had one of the Nieuports out for an hour and forty minutes, while Helen on another one flew 157 kiloms. in 1 hour 7 mins. During this week several of the competitors have flown their machines over to the A vrille aerodrome, near Angers,which will be the headquarters for the event, and from which the official start will be given and the finish take place. On Tuesday, Gaubert and Bedel arrived from Villacoublay and Garros from Issy. On Wednesday, a petition signed by a large number of the entrants was sent to the Com' </'„,, M. Pierre Gasnier asking that the start should be given at 5 a.m. each day instead of at 9 a.m., on account of the dangerous rcmous whic^ *»* so prevalent at the latter hour. 538
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