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APKIL 12, 1913. BRITISH NOTES ROYAL FLYING CORPS (MILITARY WING). WAR OFFICE Summary for week ending April 3rd :— No. 1 Squadron. Farnboreugh.— On the 29th the " Beta ' was up in a strong wind, behaving very well. The remainder of the week was devoted to kiting, free ballooning, and practice in erecting mooring mast. No. 2 Squadron. Montrose.—On Thursday, 27th, there was a considerable amount of flying, many of the air mechanics being taken up as passengers. On the 28th and 29th no flying was possible owing to incessant wind and rain. On the 31st and April 1st and 2nd a great deal of work was put in, including several long recon naissance flights. During the week the total number of miles flown by this Squadron exceeded 1,000. The machines used were B.E's. and Maurice Farmans. No. 3 Squadron. Larkhill. -On the 31st various officers were out on B.E's. and Henry Farmans. On April 1st, the Squadron moved into camp at Durrington, close to the hangars. On the 2nd and 3rd, numerous flights on B.EY and Maurice and Henry Far- mans were made. Satisfactory experiments with firing coloured lights out of Henry Farmans were carried out. No. 4 Squadron. Farnborough.—Monday, 31st, was a very busy day, all the officer, warrant officer and N.C. officer pilots being out. Altogether 52 flights were made, in which staff officers participated as observers. Several air mechanics were also taken up. On the 1st and 3rd there was also a great deal of flying. The machines used were Breguets, B.E's. and Maurice Farmans. Armv and Private Aircraft. AN important innovation in this year's Army Annual Bill is that under the section which gives power in case of emergency to impress locomotives, motor cars, carriages, barges, &c, aircraft of all descriptions are now included. Another Naval Air Station. NEGOTIATIONS are now being conducted by the Admiralty with a view to establishing a station for hydro-aeroplanes at Leven. The piece of land which is being leased by the Government is situated between the high-water mark and the golf links. An Inspection at Montrose. SOME splendid work was done by the flying officers at Montrose last week, and on the 3rd inst. the squadron was inspected by Major Sykes, commandant of the military wing R.F.C. On the previous day Major Burke and Capt. Longcroft were up on B.E's., the latter going to Arbroath, Chapelton and Dundee. Capt. Becke and Lieuts. Martyn, Pepper and McLean were also out on Maurice Farmans. Permission is being sought by the War Office for the aeroplanes to land in Victoria Park when visiting Arbroath. A Naval Flyer at Harwich. LAST week Capt. Gordon, of the Naval Wing of the Royal Flying Corps, indulged in some flying at Shotley, Harwich, at which place he arrived on his Farman biplane from Kastchurch, on the 1st inst., the trip taking 50 mins. During his stay at Shotley, Capt. Gordon took a large number of the officers at the Shotley establishment for short trips. Military Aviation in India. IN reply to a question in the House of Commons on Tuesday, the Hon. E. S. Montagu, Under-Secretary for India, stated that a scheme for providing an air fleet for the Indian Army was now being considered. Details could not yet be announced. The Daily Mail Prizes. DURING the past week a great deal of enthusiasm has been aroused up and down the country, and also abroad, Iry the latest prizes offered by the Daily Mail, and according to that journal several more tentative entries have been received up to date ; the list of intending entrants is announced as follows :— M. Perreyon, holder of the world's height record, in a Bleriot. Messrs. James Radley and Gordon England, in the 150-h.p. waterplane completed at Huntingdon. If. Wynmalen, the Belgian airman, in a machine of his own design. Col. Cody, in a Cody machine. Mr. Arthur Wigram, in a machine built at Cowes. Herr Rumpler, inventor of the German Taube (Dove) monoplanes. The Eastbourne Aviation Co. Mr. Hall at Chesterfield. .,,..„,.. HAVING repaired the damage sustained by his Blenot machine on Easter Monday, Mr. J. L. Hall, on Wednesday last week, made three very fine flights at Chesterfield. 41 [/jJGHT] OF THE WEEK. The Mansion House Meeting. IT is to be hoped that the patriotic meeting which the Lord Mayor has consented to hold at the Mansion House, at the request of the Aerial Defence Committee of the Navy League, on Monday, May 5th, at 3,30 p.m., will bring our present Government to the realisation of this country's needs in aircraft. It it becoming daily a more desperate cause, and even if a half-million, nay a million 01 more, be lost in experimental work, what of it ? The «•.»/*»•/*•«. < gained thereby will be worth it presently fortyfold. Let the meeting Eta one that will start a campaign which will refuse to l>e silenced until it has attained its object. The Dunne Monoplane In France. Ai 1 'HOUGH the weather has been very unpleasant Mr. Percival has beeu putting in some excellent work at Villucou'.ilay on the French-built Dunne monoplane. A day or two ago the machine, winch climbs very rapidly, went up to 600 feet, and the pilot suddenly found himself in a thick fog. After flying for 12 mins., Mr. Percival was able to distinguish the sheds, and made a good landing. The French military authorities are taking (jreat interest in the machine, and Mr. Percival is anxiously awaiting better weather so as to be able to show what it can do. Several times during his flights the pilot has takm his hands from the controls and waved them above his head, A Lecture by Mr. A. Low. BEFORE the junior Institution of Engineers at their meeting on April 23rd, Mr. Archibald Low, chief designer of the aviation department of Messrs. Vickers Ltd., will lecture on " Modem Developments of Aeroplane Theory." The meeting will be held at the Institution of Electrieal Engineers, Victoria Embankment, and will commence at 8 p.m. The National Aspect of Aviation. IN accordance with the league's policy of arousing public interest in aeronautics, Col. II. S. Massy, C.B., will give a lecture ior the Women's Aerial League on Wednesday, April 30th, at 8.30, at the Kensington Town Hall. The lecture will deal wiib aviation from the National point ol view, and will be pmfusely illustrated with the most up-to-date slides. Mr. Alan BtUgUfM, M.P., will take the chair. Tickets may be had from the lb n Secretary, Denison House, Vauxhall Bridge Road. Blackburn Work. ON Monday last week, Mr. 11. Blackburn made a flight from Loft house Park, near Leeds, round Wakefield, encircling the town at an altitude of 1,500 ft. From any part of the town one had a clear view of the machine. Lofthouse Park i« the site of ihe nrw Vorkshirc Aerodrome, which is to lie officially opened at Whitsun- t ide. Flying exhibitions will be given Wednesdays and Saturdays throughout the year. II. Blackburn, who is doing extensive flying all round this district, is raising the public interest in flying to such an extent that there is no doubt bill that the aerodrome will Ire welt visited on exhibition days. On Wednesday and Thursday of last week Blackburn gave an exhibition at Stamford. On his initial flight he made a fine flight in a strong wind. Rising to an altitude of about 1,200 ft., he made a large detour of Stamford, distributing 2,500 handbills over the whole range of the town. Although the wind was very strong during the « hole two days of the exhibition, he put up some very good flights, making some graceful banked turns with his usual skill. Mr. Hamel's Tenth Channel Crossing. ON Wednesday last week, Mr. Hsmel made hit tenth trip across the English Channel on his Bleriot. Starting from Dover at 10 mins. past eight, he made his way to Calais with the intention of flying across France to Cologne, but engine trouble necessitated a stop at Malines. Mr, Hamel was accompanied by a passenger. Propellers and World's Records. REFERRING to a paragraph in our last Usue, on the ul>j> H ol the Garuda propeller, the Integral Propeller Co., Ltd., write us as follows :— " We notice in this week's issue a paragraph referring to the records held by the Garuda propeller. May we in fairness to ourselves ask you to kindly rectify this statement at same it inaccurate. The Integral propeller holds the following world's records: height records, with 3, 4, 5 passengers ; duration records, with 2, 6, 7, 8 passengers. We also hold the duration record with o passengers on board, and the altitude record with 6 passengers." 9
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