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1914 - 0520.PDF
[/yCHT the helm, and has proved very fast. A few minor alterations have suggested themselves during these trial flights, and as soon as they have been carried out the machine will make its public appearance. The little Avro scouting biplane would have been finished and tried by now, had it not been for the fact that the firm has been so busy in other directions that they have not had time to give it a few finishing touches. I am informed, however, that it will be put through its tests at Brooklands very shortly. The Hamble River seaplane, which was shown incomplete at Olympia, is having its chassis redesigned, and a few other alterations made. It will in all probability be tried by Mr. Gordon England. XXX As noted in FLIGHT recently, the aerodrome of M. Bleriot at Buc, since the commencement of "looping," has become a most popular Sunday afternoon rendezvous for Parisians, and it has led to the organisation of races, after the style of the meetings at Hendon. Among the most popular items in the programmes are the races with taxying pingouins around the pylons. In view of the eccentric gyrations of pupils when they first begin their rolling practice, a race of this sort might provide quite a lot of amusement if introduced at our own aeroJromes. Another "gymkhana" event which has been successfully tried in France is to send up miniature balloons from the ® ® The Aerial Derby. ALTHOUGH the entry list does not close until Monday next, fourteen machines have already been entered to take part in the Aerial Derby round London, which is to take place on Saturday, May 23rd. They include Gustav Hamel and F. Goodden on Moranes, R. H. Barnwell on a Vickers biplane, S. V. Sippe and H. Busteed on Bristols, 1'. Verrier on a H. Farman, R. H. Cair and Louis Noel on Grahame-Whites, C. H. Pixton and another pilot on Sopwiths, L. Strange on a Bleriot, V. Waterfall on a Martinsyde, H. Blackburn on an Avro, and Jack Alcock on a M. Farman. It is expected that several other well-known British and foreign pilots will take part, and that there will be at least twenty machines flying in the contest. As we have before mentioned, the course will be the same 95-mile circuit, starling from and finishing at Hendon, as was used last year, the turning points being at Kempton Park, Epsom, West Thurrock, Epping and Hertford. The machines will be despatched from Hendon at one minute intervals, the first leaving about 4.15 p.m. Extra accommodation is being provided in the enclosures at Hendon Aerodrome, from which, if the day is clear, the leading pilot will first be discerned when he MAY 15, 1914. windward side of the aerodrome and then despatch several pilots on their various types of machines in pur suit of them. This I am told provides quite a lot of sport, and some of the pilots succeed in destroying several of the balloons. Hendon please note ! XXX They are telling a rather amusing story down at Brooklands. A pupil was going out orf one of the biplanes and was heading for the river. He just managed to get the machine off the ground about three inches before reaching the bank, and in doing a left-hand turn in order to bring the machine back over the solid ground he forgot to use his ailerons, with the result that the machine side-slipped outwards. Suddenly he seemed to remember that there was something he had to do, and looking about him he caught sight of the aileron cables. Letting go of his control lever with both hands he leaned out to the right and caught hold of the aileron cable and proceeded to haul it in as though it were one of the sheets of the stay-sail of a boat. The machine promptly banked and continued on a left-hand turn. Within a few seconds he flattened out, but, finding himself now over the sewage farm, the performance was repeated, after which he managed to land safely. "^OLUS." ® ® is about five miles away. The prizes for the race are the Daily Mail Gold Cup, the "Shell" £250 for the fastest time, the "Shell" trophy and prize of £100 for the winner of the sealed handicap, ^75 to the second, and ,£25 to the third. Daily Mail Circuit of Britain. THE actual date of the Circuit of Britain for the Daily Mail prize of ,£5,000 has now been settled. The competition will open at 6 a.m. on Saturday, August 1st, and the start may be made at any subsequent time and date provided the circuit is completed by 6 a.m. on Saturday, August 15th, within the maximum time allowed of 72 hours. The start and finish will be on Southampton Water. The full rules will be found on p. S1^. An Anzanl for Shanghai. As a further sign of the world-wide activities of the General Aviation Contractors, Ltd., of 30, Regent Street, S.W., it may be mentioned that they are this week sending to Shanghai a 35 h.p. Y Anzani engine, together with a Rapid propeller with metal sheaths, propeller shafting, transmission gear, and special starting device, an installation which will be used on a propeller-driven hydroplane with which it is proposed to navigate some of the Chinese rivers. Two views of the 150 h.p. D.F.W. fast reconnaissance type biplane. Inset, the same machine in flight. 520
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