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1914
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NOVEMBER 27, 1914, Edited by „ T r, Aeromodcllists Serving with the Colours. MR. J. C. BALDEN (Hon. Sec..Scottish Aeronautical Society Model Aero Club) writes as follows:-" I notice in a recent issue of FLIGHT that you desire to publish the names of aeromodellists serving with the Colours. I enclose a list of members of this club (printed below) now doing so. Might I suggest that a complete list be published later on in the form of a Roll of Honour, say a* a supplement, so that one could have it framed. Your Christmas number would, I think, be a suitable time to bring it out." Members oj the Scottish Aero. Soc. (Model Section) Serving with the Colours. Private Charles F. Arthur, 3rd Batt. H.L.I.* Private William Craig Boyd, 5th Scottish Rifles.t Second Lieut. Andrew Forson, 3rd Batt. Royal Scots Fusiliers.^ Private Eric P. Fairbairn, 9th Batt. H.L.I.t Private George E. C. Hunter, 5th Scottish Rifles.+ * Kitchener's Army. t Territorials. J Army. Mr. O. Hamilton, jun. (Hon. Sec, Stony Stratford Model Aero plane Club), sends us the following communication : —" I see from the current issue of FLIGHT that you are anxious to compile a list of aeromodellists serving with the Colours, and I hasten to add our little roll to the list. List of Members of the Stony Stratford Model Aeroplane Club Serving with the Colours. Major L. C. Hawkins, Vice-President, Bucks Territorials. Major Hooker, Vice-President, Bucks Territorials. C. L. Matson, D Co., 2nd Public Schools Batt. Royal Fusiliers. W. Palmer (Branch Secretary), Bucks Territorials. Serjt.-Maj. Cherry, Royal Bucks Hussars. G. Waller, Royal Field Artillery. J. T. Curtis, Oxon and Bucks Infantry. F. Fancutt, ,, „ Mr. Henry Gilbert writes : " According to your desire, it may interest you to know that I have joined the R.F.C., and expect to be sent abroad shortly." Mr. Robert G. Leckie also writes: "Noticing your intimation in FLIGHT re ' Aeromodellists serving with the Colours ' and being a regular reader I beg to be included in the ' List of Honour.' I am serving with the 3rd Glasgow Highland Light Infantry at present billeted in Troon on the Ayrshire coast. " I get FLIGHT sent from home to me every week, and find it, as I have always done, most valuable and instructive, especially last week's edition on ' How to recognise German Aeroplanes.' This was all the more interesting as I am going in for a Scout's job, so may have occasion to use it, if I ever see the front. I have been a member of the 'Scottish Aeronautical Society' Model Section for some considerable time, but gave it up last year as my spare time became limited, but I have alway kept doing a little model work now and again, with the result that I have a tractor biplane at present in the Glasgow Museum for which I gained a prize ; FLIGHT to thank for this." [Now that the ball has been set rolling, will other clubs and readers kindly follow suit ?] V. E. JOHNSON, M.A. Mr. Gavin-Brown's Rubber Motor. " Referring to Mr. Gavin-Brown's description of his twin rubber motor published in a recent issue," writes Mr. S. A. Goldrine, " I have tried a very similar device myself on a single screw model, but found the simple duplex gear far more efficient, it being less than half the weight, and a far longer duration was obtainable. I am about to construct a 6-ft. span ' Bit-Boat,'in which the rubber will run parallel to the leading edge of the main plane between the ribs (doubled surfaced as per rough sketch), the propeller being driven by bevel gearing. " I shall lie pleased to give you an account of the results of my experiments with this device as soon as I have carried them out. I might add that I have been a constant reader of FLIGHT For five years, and owe a great deal of my success as a model maker to the valuable information obtained therefrom." Mr- J. Grant's Biplane—Fartnan Type. " Please find enclosed two photos, of a Farman type biplane, which I liave constructed. I have been a constant reader of FLIGHT, and have had volumes bound, and I have gained much useful knowledge from it. The machine is just a show model taken from scale drawings which have appeared in FLIGHT." [Judging from the photographs, the model is an excellent piece of workman ship, and does its builder great credit.] Replies to Queries. T. NAUGHTON.— Try the following : Messrs. A. W. Gamage, Holborn ; Messrs. T. W. K. Clarke and Co., High Street, Hampton Wick. The Value of Model Experiments. The Aeronautical fottrnal for October last contains, amongst others, an article by W. Ellis Williams, B.Sc, on "The Pressure Distribution on an Aeroplane Wing h Flight." "A very large amount of work has been done," says the writer, "in measuring the forces on models of aeroplane surfaces placed in a wind chan nel, and the results obtained are of the greatest value to the de signer. Doubt has, however, been thrown on the applicability of the results obtained to calculations referring to the full-sired aeroplane in flight, and it is of great importance to obtain definite information regarding the corrections, if any, which should be applied to wind channel results. " The experiments described were made with the object of com paring the pressure-distribution on an aeroplane wing in flight with the distribution measured on a model of the same wing in a wind channel." The writer draws the following conclusions : " On comparing the two curves it will be seen that the values for model and for wing are in very good agreement for all holes except No». 5 and 6, for which the pressures on the model are considerably greater than those on Mr. J. Grant's Farman type biplane, constructed from scale drawings which have appeared in FLIGHT. U67 /
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