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1917 - 0135.PDF
FEBRUARY 8, 1917. TEN YEARS AGO. Excerpts from the " Auto." (" FLIGHT'S " precursor and siste1'Journal) of February, 1907. " FLIGHT " was foundedin 1908. DUMOULIN STABILISATEUR. The old notion of automatically controlling the move-ments of an aeroplane by means of a gyrostat, which has recently been frequently discussed, and was very much dis-cussed long ago, when Sir Hiram Maxim was making his celebrated experiments, if not actually proposed by him, issaid to be the principle on which M. Dumoulin constructs his aeroplane. Other intelligible details of the machineitself are not yet to hand, but it is understood to be of the single-deck type. THE DE LA VAULX AIRSHIP.The De La Vaulx airship went out again on the 4th of the present month, making its eighth excursion, at 2.45, whenit manoeuvred in the direction of St. Germain, turned at the Pecq Bridge, and, after passing over Vesinet, returned at9 minutes past 3, having been travelling through the air some 22 minutes, in which time it covered a distance ofbetween 12 and 13 kiloms. The airship continued to practise manosuvres for some 13 minutes more, and came down toanchor at 22 minutes past 3 ; 73 kilogs. of ballast were carried, 50 cubic metres of hydrogen having been added to the gas-vessel, which has now been inflated for 47 consecutive days. The average height at which the manoeuvres were carriedout was some 200 metres, and the maximum height reached was 300 metres. The Air Board. IT was officially announced on February 6th that thefollowing will form the personnel of the Air Board :— President—Viscount Cowdray.Parliamentary Secretary—Major J. L. Baird, M.P., C.M.G., D.S.O.Fifth Sea Lord of the Admiralty—Commodore G. Paine, C.B.Director-General of Military Aeronautics:—^Lieutenant- General Sir David Henderson, K.C.B.Controller of Aeronautical Supplies—William Weir. Controller of Petrol Engines—Percy Martin.Secretary—Sir Paul Harvey, K.C.M.G., C.B. Assistant Secretary—H. W. W. McAnally.Private Secretary to the Parliamentary Secretary—C. G. Evans.In the London Gazette of February 6th it was stated that the King had ordered the constitution of the new Air Boardto be as follows :— (1) The Air Board shall, until it is by Order in Councilotherwise directed, consist, in addition to the President, of the following :— (a) A Parliamentary Secretary of the Board ;(6) The Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty who is charged with the direction of the Naval Air Services ;(c) The member of the Army Council who is charged with the direction of Military Aeronautics ; (d) The Controller of Aeronautical Supplies and the Con-troller of the Petrol Engine Department, of the Ministry of Munitions ; (e) Additional members as may from time to time be founddesirable. (2) In the event of one or other of the officers named underthe letters (b), (c), (d) above being unable to attend a meeting of the Board, the Department to which he belongs maydesignate an officer to attend in his place. (3) Members of the Air Board other than those who areappointed in virtue of the holding of certain offices shall be appointed by the President of the Board.(4) Members of the Air Board appointed in virtue of the holding of certain offices shall continue to be members of theBoard so long as they hold those offices. Members appointed otherwise than as aforesaid shall hold their appointmentsat the pleasure of the President of the Board. (5) This Order may be cited as the Air Board Order, 1917. The New Board of Admiralty. IT was announced in the London Gazette of February 6ththat the King has been pleased, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal, bearing date January nth, 1917, to appoint:—The Right Honourable Sir Edward Henry Carson, K.C. ; Admiral Sir John Rushworth Jellicoe, G.C.B., O.M., G.C.V.O. ;Admiral Sir Cecil Burney, G.C.M.G., K.C.B. ; Rear-Admiral Frederick Charles Tudor Tudor, C.B. ;Captain (Commodore, 1st Class) Lionel Halsey, C.B., C.M.G. ;Captain (Commodore, 1st Class) Godfrey Marshall Paine, C.B., M.V.O. ;Captain Ernest George Pretyman; and The Right Honourable Sir Francis John Stephens Hop-wood, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., f3 r >' to be Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord HighAdmiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, &c. Copyright, F. N. Birkett, from the F.N.B. Series of Aviators.Some pilots who have secured their flying certificates at the Hall School of Flying, Hendon Aerodrome. 1. Mr. J. E. Pugh ; 2. Mr. J. H. W. Maude ; 3. Lieut. Raymond B. D. Maiden ; 4. Pte. A. C. Packman ; 5. Mr. E. E. Hill ; 6. Mr. J. C. Bateman ; 7. Mr. J. L. Mayer. 135
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