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LIGHT JULY 6, 1912. IKe Rowl Zlero Clu of the. United Kir&doi OFFICIAL MOTICES TO ME.MBER5 BE Committee Meeting. A MEETING of the Committee was held on Tuesday, the 2nd inst., when there were present:—Sir Charles D. Rose, Bart., M.P., in the Chair, Mr. Griffith Brewer, Mr. G. B. Cockburn, Capt. Bertram Dickson, R.F.A., Capt. J. D. B. Fulton, R.F.A., Prof. A. K. Huntington, Mr. J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon, Mr. Alec Ogilvie, Mr. C. F. Pollock, Mr. R. W. Wallace, K.C., and the Secretary. «New Members.—The following new Members were elected :— John P. Algie, Lieut. Desmond L. Arthur, Harry Richard Busteed, Capt. John Adrian Chamier, Lieut. Eric Lewis Conran, Hon. Mrs. Craven, Ernest Esdaile, J. E. Hutton, C. Lindsay-Campbell, Major Lionel Boyd Moss, and Capt. O'Brien. Total membership to date : 1.392. F.A.I. Aviators' Certificates.—The following F.A.I, aviators' certificates were granted :— 240. Capt. Herbert Charles Agnew, R.E. (Bristol Biplane, Bristol School, Brooklands). 241. Major Lionel Boyd Moss (Bristol Biplane, Bristol School, Salisbury Plain). 242. Capt. T. Ince Webb-Bowen (Farman Biplane, Sopwith School, Brooklands). Letter from the Aero Club of America requesting the Club to give its sanction to the granting of an aviator's certificate to Mr. M. M. Singh was considered and the necessary permission granted. F.A.I. Aeronauts' Certificates. — The following F.A.I. Aeronauts' Certificates were granted :— 23. Sergeant A. Lanman, R.E. 24. Lieut. J. N. Fletcher, R.E. 25. Lieut. T. G. Hetherington (18th Hussars). F.A.I. Airship Pilots' Certificates.—The following F.A.I. Airship Pilots' Certificates were granted :— 9. Sergeant A. Lanman, R.E. 10. Lieut. J. N. Fletcher, R.E. 11. Lieut. T. G. Hetherington (18th Hussars). Federation Aeronautique Internationale.—Vienna Con ference.—Mr. Roger W. Wallace, K.C., reported on the Conference of the F£d£ration A^ronautique Internationale held in Vienna on June 17th to 21 st, 1912. A full report of the Conference will appear in the notices of next week. The following delegates attended on behalf of Great Britain:—Mr. Griffith Brewer, Mr. Mervyn O'Gorman, Capt. Murray Sueter, R.N., and Mr. Roger W. Wallace, K.C. Balloon Contests at Hurlingham.—Hedges Butler Chal lenge Cup.—The committee examined the log sheets in connection with the long-distance balloon race from Hurhngham, on Saturday, June 22nd, 1912, and awarded the cup for the current year to Mrs. John Dunville. The following are the approximate distances :— 1. Mrs. John Dunville (pilot, Mr. C. F. Pollock), 205 miles. 2. Mr. A. Mortimer Singer 196 „ 3. Capt. E. M. Maitland 150 ,, 4. Mr. A. P. Hohler 126 ,, Balloon Contest at Hurlingham. The Long-Distance Balloon Contest for the cup presented by Mr. A. Mortimer Singer will take place at Hurlingham, on Saturday, the 13th inst., at 3.30 p.m. The entries will close on Wednesday, the loth inst., at 12 o'clock noon, and Members wishing to compete are requested to notify the Secretary on or before that date. The entrance fee is 101. The following entries have so far been received :— Competitor. Balloon. Pilot. A. Mortimer Singer ... Planet, 80,000 c.f. ... A. Mortimer Singer A. P. Hohler... ... Esperance, 50,000 c.f. A. P. Hohler Capt.E.M. Maitland... Pompadour, 50,000c.f. Capt.E.M.Maitland Dunlop, 50,000 c.f. ... John Dunville John Dunville Hon. Mrs. Assheton Harbord Mrs. John Dunville W. F. Clouth North Star, 80,000 c.f. Griffith Brewer Banshee II, 80,000 c.f. C. F. Pollock Clouth IV, 77,000 c.f. W. F. Clouth 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. Goloaial Aviation Societies. The following Colonial Aviation Societies are associated with the Royal Aero Club :— Aeronautical Society of South Africa. Headquarters: Pretoria. The Aerial League of Australia. Headquarters : Sydney. 166, Piccadilly. HAROLD E. PERRIN, Secretary. ROYAL AERO CLUB'S EASTCHURCH FLYING GROUNDS. THE weather throughout the past week having been of a very windy nature, very little flying before the evenings has been possible. Early on Tuesday morning Capt. Gordon went out on school biplane with Lieut. Briggs as passenger, but finding it particularly " dusty," returned until a more favourable opportunity occurred in Mr. Frank McClean making a vol plane on his 70-h.p. Short tractor at the Royal Aero Club's Eastchurch flying grounds. the evening. Valentine left for Dieppe at 7.10 p.m., on his Bristol monoplane (two-seater), but finding it unfavourable for cross-Channel flying, he stopped at the Dover Aerodrome until the following day. On Wednesday, Lieut. Gregory was on school machine 34, which now has a 70-h.p. engine in place of a 50-h.p., and its climbing powers are considerably increased. Capt. Gordon was busy on school machine 38, taking Lieut. Courtney, Sheppard and Trewin as passengers. Later on Lieut. Hewlett was out on 38, attaining a height of some 800 ft. Lieut. Hewlett has gone to Brooklands to fetch his Farman biplane, which he hopes to have at Eastchurch at sunset. Lieut. Gregory took out a school machine for a circuit of the island, and landed after dark by the aid of a bonfire. School machines Tl, T2, T3, were all busy doing short trips on Thursday, with Capt. Gordon, Lieuts. Grey, Malone and Hewlett piloting in turn. Capt. Gordon took up machine 34, with a passenger, to 1,100 ft. Mr. Alec Ogilvie was out on the N.E.C.-engined Wright with Mr. Fowler as passenger, flying at a height of 2,000 feet, and remaining aloft for 70 minutes. This is approximately the duration of flight that Mr. Ogilvie makes daily, and he has certainly consider ably less trouble with his English N.E.C. engine than other aviators are having with some foreign engines, especially the inlet valve springs of one well-known rotary type engine, which are snapping off short fairly consistently at present. Nothing was done Friday until late in the evening on account of adverse weather, however at 7.30 p.m. M. Fischer took out the new naval Farman hydro-biplane for a few trial circuits before going to Burntwick Island on Saturday for water tests, which it did, leaving the aerodrome shortly after 5 a.m. It alighted on the shore of Grain Island, at the mouth of the Medway, was successfully put through its tests and returned in the evening to Eastchurch piloted by Commander Samson. 6l2
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