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1917
1917 - 0205.PDF
MARCH I, 1917. I/OGHT one of the items which emerge from the appropriation accounts of the Civil Service and Revenue Departments which fill a bulky volume of 451 pages ! T ANOTHER notable Frenchman has passed away under duty for his country. Edouard Lumiere, who as a Sergeant- aviator in the French Flying Service has just been killed in an aeroplane accident, was one of the brothers who it is claimed invented the cinematograph. AN echo of the death of Pegoud is to hand from Paris in the report of the sale at St. Cloud of two of this great pilot's aeroplanes. They each fetched ^1,200, one going to a Frenchman and the other to an English buyer. These are the two machines on which Pegoud had arranged to give looping exhibitions in America, and for this purpose they had actually been embarked—on a German ship—when war was declared. ' •.••_/•..- ~ , / FROM R. L. Desoutter, the well-known test pilot arid the brother of Marcel, we have received the following interesting communication :—" The letter from a young Flying Corps officer describing a ' Mirage ' collision in the air which you publish in this week's ' FLIGHT ' greatly interests me, as I had a similar experience occur to me while testing one of the twin-engined Caudrons at Hendon last year. I can well imagine the feelings of the officer in question, having ex- perienced them myself, but in my case they did not last long, as I knew that the machine I was flying was the only one of its kind in the neighbourhood at the time, and there- fore at once came to the conclusion that it could only be a reflection in the clouds, of ray own machine." - : TEN YEARS AGO. fc '"••' Excerpts from the " Auto." (" FLIGHT'S precursor and sister Journal) of March, icp7- " FLIGHT " was founded in 1908. A SQUADRON OF AIRSHIPS FOR FRANCE. The predecessor of " La Patrie," now generally known as the "Lebaudy," seems to have permanently taken up her residence at Chalais Meudon, where she forms a sort of instruction airship, in which the staff of aeronautical soldiers whom France is training receive instruction in the management, manipula- tion, and the ways of airships generally. So satisfied have the authorities been with the behaviour of " La Patrie " that orders have been placed with Messrs. Lebaudy for three new airships, which are to be practically sister ships to "La Patrie," the first two of which will bear the names of "La Republique " and " La Democratic " respectively. THE DELAGRANGE AEROPLANE. A new aeroplane, designed by M. Delagrange, will shortly be ready for experiment at Bagatelle. The machine, which is to be fitted, we understand, with a 50 h.p. Antoinette motor provided with a propeller 2J metres in diameter, consists of two superposed aeroplanes, the whole being of cellular con- struction, presumably something like M. Santos Dumonfs, and weighing all complete 290 kilogs. ... r - >••;•- • ./ v THE ELLEHAMMER FLYING MACHINE. Upwards of a year ago we described the first experiments- of Herr Ellehammer in Denmark, who was then credited with having attained a flight of 50 metres through the air, rising from the ground and alighting again without injury. There are two sets of aeroplanes or curves, the lower of these is curved at the centre upwards into a semi-cylindrical portion, at the front of which is situated the propeller, so* that the propeller may be said to work in a tunnel, and the air which it shifts backwards passes through a semi-cylin- drical tunnel behind it. The propeller-shaft is driven by belting from the motor which is suspended beneath. Over the aeroplanes on either side of the half-cylinder are two- arrangements which it is perhaps best to call wings, as it is- not until the machine is in motion and passing through the air at some speed that they come into operation. They are large sheets of canvas restrained by cording, which then rise up and stand above the permanently stretched aerocurves below, much like two half umbrellas. The machine runs on two bicycle wheels to get up speed, and the aeronaut sits on a bicycle saddle slung behind the motor, which latter develops, a power of 18 h.p. The machine altogether weighs about some 243 kilogs., with the water and fuel, but without the aeronaut. A CHEAP WAY OF RAISING THE WIND. The German Government, it is announced, has authorised the organisation of a lottery on behalf of Count Zeppelin, the proceeds of which, over and above, of course, what willbe given in prizes, are to be devoted to experiments in the- conquest of the air. . TWO VIEWS OF THE LATEST CURTISS TRIPLANE SCOUT—Several modifications on the modelillustrated in our issue for January 25th last will be noticed. It is of smaller span, and all three planes are equal. The body is of better streamline form, and the chassis struts are arched. 2OS
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