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1914
1914 - 0151.PDF
FEBRUARY 7, 1914. Pourpe Back at Cairo. MARC POURPE arrived back at Cairo on his 80 h.p. Gnome- Morane-Saulmer on Tuesday, when he completed the 500 kilom. stage from Menshad, where he had arrived on Friday of last week from Luxor. The distance represented by the double journey from Cairo to Khartoum and back is about 4,500 kiloms. Guillaux Leaves for Australia. ON Friday of last week, Guillaux left Marseilles for Australia, where he intends to give demonstrations of looping the loop in the principal cities and towns. He also contemplates making a flight from Sydney to Melbourne before he returns to France in July. Two French Officers Killed. AN accident which occurred at the flying ground near Bourges, on Monday afternoon, cost the lives of two French officers—Lieut. Delvert and Capt. Niquet. The former was piloting the biplane at a considerable height, when it seemed to collapse, and fell to the ground. German Machine Across the Frontier. NOT quite so much excitement was aroused by the landing on Tuesday of a German aeroplane near Croismare, about four miles from Luneville and about six miles from the frontier, as was aroused by the landing of the Zeppelin quite close to the same place exactly ten months previously. The two officers, Lieuts. Priesten and Gomer, set out on a biplane to fly from Strassburg to Metz, but after passing Saarburg they lost their way in the fog and on landing to make inquiries found themselves in France. They immediately reported themselves to the French civil and military authorities. Later in the day they returned to Metz by train, their machine having been dismantled. A German-Danish Waterplane Contest. THE Danish Aeronautic Society, with the co-operation of the German Society, is proposing to organise a competition for hydro aeroplanes, to be held during the month of August. The suggested programme is : August 15th, Warnemunde to Copenhagen, too kiloms. ; August 16th, Copenhagen to Aarhns, 175 kiloms. ; August 18th, Aarhns to Skagen, 160 kiloms. ; August 29th, Skagen ® ® A ROUND-THE IN connection with the San Francisco Panama Exhibition, which opens next year, the authorities propose to organise a race for aeroplanes round the world, and sanction has been given to the scheme by the Aero Club of America. It is proposed that the start should be during May, 1915, while a time-limit of 90 days will be set for the competitors to complete the flight of about 22,000 miles. The first prize will be ^20,000, the second ^6,000, the third j£4,000, while it is expected that there will be a balance of about ,£60,000 to be divided among the other competitors. The course proposed is indicated upon our sketch map of the top of the world, ® ® ROYAL FLYING CORPS (MILITARY WING). WAX OFFICE summary of work for week ending January 31st :— Flying Depot. S. Farnborough.—The officer pilots were out daily during the week, and experimental work and repairs were con tinued as usual. No. 2 Squadron. Montrose.—Reconnaissance training was recommenced in the squadron since the move to the new aerodrome is now completed. No. 3 Squadron. Netheravon.—Machines were out nearly •every day of the week. No. 4 Squadron. Netheravon.—The Officer and N.C.O. pilots of the squadron made numerous flights during the week, and some experimental work was carried out. No. 5 Squadron. S, Farnborough.—Several machines were out during the week, with a total of 27 hrs. 14 mins., and a total mileage of 1,709 miles was flown. No. 6 Squadron. S. Farnborough.—This squadron is now •being formed and organised by Capt. Becke. Royal Patronage for Olympia Again. His MAJESTY THE KING has once again shown his practical interest in the aviation industry by graciously extending his patronage to the forthcoming International Aero, Marine and Stationary Engine Exhibition, which is to be held at Olympia in March from the 16th to the 21st inclusive. A 21-Mile Glide by an Avro. FOLLOWING up his fine flight at Brooklands on Sunday of I hr. *; mins., during which he went up to 11,500 ft., F. P. Raynham on Tuesday on the 80 h.p. Gnome-Avro, with Mr. Harold Blackburn as passenger, climbed to 15,000 ft., and, with the engine and pro peller stationary, glided the 21 miles to Hendon, arriving at Hendon at an altitude of 5,000 ft. There was a strong following wind. The British height record stands to the credit of Hawker and the to Laurvig (Norway), 160 kiloms. ; August 23rd, Laurvig to Christiania, 120 kilogs. Farmans for Austria and Sweden. AT Etampes, on the 29th ult. Bille, in testing a Henry Farman built for an Austrian pilot, with a load of 507 kilogs. climbed 300 metres in 4J mins. Later, on a similar machine purchased by the Swedish Army, he rose 500 metres in 6 mins., the load in this case being 300 kilogs. Subsequently, Capt. Sunstedt took over this machine, and made a long flight over the surrounding country. Cold Suspends Flying in Italy. AT the end of last week an order was issued by the Italian military authorities suspending all flying at the military aerodromes for one month. The reason officially given for this action was the cold weather, but not unnaturally the order has called forth many protests from the pilots. Swiss Army to Buy Machines. FOLLOWING on the decision of the Swiss Government to organise a flying corps, a commission of four Army officers, wth Oscar Kider, the Swiss pilot, as expert adviser, set out from Berne last week-end to visit theairciaft works and aerodromes at Mulhouse and Berlin. Parmelin to Cross the Alps. PARMELIN has arrived at Geneva with a Rhone-engined Deperdussin monocoque, with the object of making an early attempt to fly from Geneva across the Alps to Turin. Flying Meetings in Egypt. A SERIES of flying displays are to be given at Heliopolis from the 19th to the 22nd inst. It is stated that arrangements have been made with Chevilliard with his Farman, and l'egoud with his Bleriot, to give demonstrations of looping the loop, etc., several times daily. It is also hoped that other aviators will take part in the meetings. Rigid Airships for Italy. ALTHOUGH no details are available, it is reported that the Italian military authorities have decided upon the construction of four rigid dirigibles, each of 30,000 cubic metres capacity. ® ® WORLD RACE. and will be across the United States to New York, and thence to Belle Isle. From this point the Atlantic will be crossed by Cape Farewell, Greenland, and Iceland to Stornoway in the Hebrides. From there Europe will be traversed by way of Edinburgh, London, Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, St. Petersburg, Moscow, and (he Trans- Siberian Railway will then be followed through Manchuria to Vladivostok. Korea will be the next point, from whence crossing to Kobe and passing over the Sea of Japan, the course will be north to Kamchatka, in Siberia, and on to East Cape. The competitors will then cross the short stretch of water to Alaska, and finally reach San Francisco by way of Vancouver and Seattle. ® ® Sopwith machine at 11,450 ft. Raynham's climb was not officially observed, but he hopes to repeat it next week, under official observa tion. The return journey to Brooklands was made late during the afternoon. Bolstering up Advertisement Pages. OUR contemporary the Aeroplane in last week's issue draws attention in a paragraph, of which the following is an extract, to what would appear to be a most reprehensible practice :— " A WORD TO ADVERTISERS. " One regrets to find that those responsible for a certain paper concerned with aircraft are reduced to padding out their advertise ment pages with advertisements which appear contrary to the instructions of the advertisers, or of a size greater than that stipulated by the advertisers. Documentary evidence to this effect is in our possession. One would remind manufacturers and potential adver tisers in general of a commercial axiom which says that advertise ments which cost nothing are worth precisely what is paid for them. Also, there can be but little satisfaction in ordering and paying for that which one knows other people get for nothing. One would not draw attention to this point but for the fact that the practice to which reference is made above gives a spurious air of affluence to a paper and is calculated to deceive new advertisers as to the respec tive values from an advertiser's point of view of the various papers dealing with aircraft." Personally we have no evidence or data upon which to say whether our contemporary is correct in its statement or not, but we need hardly say that if such systematic and deliberate bolstering up of advertisement pages, as is suggested, has been resorted to, as to warrant this otherwise very libellous statement, the sooner the facts receive the light of day the better, so that it may be generally known with whom such a practice rests. I
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