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(A!£!1L AUGUST 24, 1912. RUBERY, OWEN'S PATENT WIRE BENDER. As mentioned in a short note in a recent issue, Messrs. Rubery, Owen and Co., of Darlaston, South Staffs., have introduced a wire bender, designed to form the necessary loops at the end of aeroplane stays and the like, at one operation, and without any chance of cutting the wire, or of unnecessarily straining the fibres of the cable. We publish some sketches showing the form and RUBERY, OWEN Ik C° Finished Looy. "Flight" Copyright. A new tool for wire bending, marketed by Messrs. Rubery, Owen. How the loop is made is also shown. operation of this tool, the points to be specially noted being that no sharp edges approach the wire, that two standard sizes of loop can be made with the same tool, and in a variety of wire gauges, and that the instrument can also deal with steel ribbon, of a width not greater than half an inch, with ease. I So long as aeroplane manufacturers use wires and ribbons with loops in them, it appears that they may as well be properly made, and in view of the recent articles in FLIGHT dealing with the danger of scratching wires, &c, in bending, we foresee a great demand for this little tool. ® ® ® ® HydrO'Aeroplanes at Boulogne. IN preparation for a series of exhibition flights at Boulogne, Rene Caudron, accompanied by his mechanician, flew over on the 16th from Crotoy Marty started oft on another machine a few minutes later, but he was forced to come down on the sea between Fort Mahon and St. Quentin Point. In spite of the rough water the machine was dismantled and sent back to Crotoy by road. On Saturday Rene Caudron started up for a flight, but the propeller was splintered by being caught by a wave. Labouchere on the Zodiac hydro-aeroplane, however, made a good flight, and a little later Marty, who was only flying over the sea for the second time, arrived from Crotoy. Subsequently he made two splendid exhi bition flights, in one accompanied by Rene Caudron. Monday was a day of accidents. In a squall which suddenly sprang up, Rene Caudron's machine was overturned when starting off. Marty's was damaged by being blown on to the rocks while Labouchere's also suffered. Aerial Post at German Manoeuvres. IN connection with the forthcoming manoeuvres at Doeberitz Camp, the German Minister of War has decided that the mails for the troops shall be carried by aeroplanes. Practical Work by German Military Pilots. QUITE a number of aeroplanes have been delivered recently at Johannisthal to the German military authorities. From there each one has been taken by the aerial way by a military pilot accompanied by a passenger to the aviation centre at Doeberitz Camp. Aircraft at German Manoeuvres. IT is stated that some forty aeroplanes, as against eight last year, will be employed in this year's German Army manoeuvres, as well as a quartette of airships. The Minister of War has given special orders that the slower types of aeroplanes are to be used so that the observers may have the best conditions for their work. Aeroplanes in Tripoli War. IT has been very difficult to get reliable news as to the working of the aeroplanes and dirigibles with the Italian Army in Tripoli, and it is, therefore, interesting to read what Mr. H. Seppings Wright says, who spent nearly a year as war correspondent for the Central News with the Turkish Army. He says:— _ " This war has clearly shown the terrible possibilities of aviation, especially against a defenceless people. The dirigible is virtually an aerial battleship to which the aeroplane stands in the relation of scout, and employed together the two must necessarily revolutionise warfare. What I have seen in the desert of Tripoli has convinced me of the urgent need for a great English aerial fleet. The Turks have hitherto had neither dirigible nor aeroplane, and though they have fired upon the Italian airmen the latter have always been able to evade their fire pretty successfully. The atmospherical conditions in Tripoli are not abnormally favourable to aviation; indeed, high winds are frequently experienced, but the Italian dirigibles and aeroplanes, manned by clever and plucky men, have carried on their operations without meeting with a single serious mishap. The aeroplane scouts ran pretty high risks when they ventured inland over the Turkish camp, because if their engines had failed they would have been bound to come down in the desert. Tripoli was too far away to be reached by a vol plane. " The bombs dropped from the aeroplanes were small ones, about the size of a teacup, but those which came down from the dirigibles must have weighed about 30 lbs. At my suggestion the Turkish troops were drilled to adopt a special formation when the dirigibles were about, and by spreading themselves out fanwise and throwing themselves flat when the bombs came down escaped with little hurt. But the bigger bombs could do terrible execution when they fell among a crowd, as, for instance, in a market-place. Under such circumstances I have seen as many as eight or ten persons killed and thirty or forty injured at a time, women and children being among the number." Belgium Hydro-Aeroplane Competition. ENTRIES for this competition which is to be held at Tamise from Sept. 7th to 16th, which have been received include two Paulhan, one each Maurice Farman, Nieuport, Lanser, Jero, Astra, R.E.P., Donnet-Leveque and two Sanchez Besa. The competition will include duration, distance required for rising from water both with and against the current, non-stop flights, manoeuvring tests. ® ® ® ® Aeronautical Patent* Published. Appllftd for In lOIl. PublisliedAugust 22nd, 1912. 17,405. H. HILDEBRAND. Aerial craft. 17,894. J. S. RYAN. Aeroplanes. PRINCIPAL CONTENTS. •— Editorial Comment Flying Over the Thames. The Royal Flying School. Another Landmark of Progress. The Military Competitions : Incidental Reflections on the Military Trials Class Design in the Military Trials A Day by Day Diary From the British Flying Grounds The Vickers Monoplane British Notes of the Week Mrs. Lindsay Campbell Fund Foreign Aviation News Soaring Birds in England. By G. Howard Short Models. Conducted by V. E. Johnson, M.A Progress of Flight about the Country Correspondence FAGB ,. 764 705 766 769 77= 774 77° 777 77s 779 7^0 7S1 78a FLIGHT. 44, ST. MARTIN'S LANE, LONDON, W.C. Telegraphic address : Truditur, London. Telephone : 1828 Gerrard. S U BSCRIPTION RATES. FLIGHT will be forwarded, post free to any part of the world at the following rates:— UNITED KINGDOM. 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