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MAY IO, 1917. The Curtiss • 'Auto- plane " ex- hibited a t the 1917 New York Aero Show. be the first attempt at the comfortable enclosed small machineof the future. At the moment we have not been able to ascertain whether or not the machine has been flow^n, butalthough alterations and improvements are still to be ex- pected, it does appear to us that this machine is a step in the right direction. For a three seater the power'does'not impress one as being quite sufficient, but it should not be a matter of great difficulty to install a more powerful engine, if that should be found advisable, which we fancy will be the case. (To be concluded.) The Rot/al &ero Clu of the Uixited Kiz\gdoi OFFICIAL /HOTICE.5 TO MEMBERS HE Club House. ^••'rT'V'V:." •."••'•'r.;.x:;"]..i The following prices have been fixed for the present by the Committee :— Bedroom (including Bath) ..»,'. Breakfast ... .. ,•;" House Luncheon House Dinner.. 5-s. each per night. . 2s. 6d. 2s. 6d. ,. 3$. 6d. Billiard Room. The Billiard Room is now open for the use of the Members. Flying Services Fund. - Boxes for collecting subscriptions for the Flying ServicesFund are now available, and anyone wishing to have a box can obtain the same on application to the Secretary. Official Organ of the Club. " ;-• Owing to the shortage of paper, after the current issue" FLIGHT " will only be sent to those Members intimatingin writing to the Secretary that they wish to continue to receive the paper. A reply post card has been sent to each Member. In thecase of Members serving abroad sufficient time will be allowed for their replies to be received before action is taken. ; 1 V THE FLYING SERVICES FUND" administered by - THE ROYAL AERO CLUB. THE Flying Services Fund has been instituted by the RoyalAero Club for the benefit of officers and men of the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Flying Corps who areincapacitated on active service, and for the widows and dependants of those who are killed. The fund is intended for the benefit of all ranks, butespecially for petty officers, non-commissioned officers and men. Forms of application for assistance can be obtained fromthe Royal Aero Club, 3, Clifford Street, New Bond Street, London, W. 1. ,.•./.;,..v..~ : Subscriptions. £ s. S. Total subscriptions received to May 2nd, 1917.. 11,729 9 9 E. BroWn Staff and Workers of Gwynnes, Ltd. (Thirty- seventh contribution) S 9 9 7 Total, May 8th, 1917 .. .. 11,739 4 4 -.•>"• B. STEVENSON, Assistant Secretary. 3, Clifford Street, New Bond Street, W. 1. Capt. Leefe Robinson, V.C. ACCORDING to the Frankfurter Zeitung, Capt. LeefeRobinson was forced to descend near Douai while engaged in a fight with Non-Commissioned Officer Festher, one ofthe crack pilots of Baron von Richthofen's squadron. Festner has since been reported to have been shot down and killed.It is stated that Capt. Robinson was forced to descend through motor trouble, but he put up a stubborn resistanceand continued to attack Festner with his machine gun from the ground until surrounded and captured by German soldiers.He is stated to be unwounded, and he has been sent to Karlsruhe. •'Aero Engines." AT the next lecture of the Aeronautical Society onWednesday next. May 16th, Mr. L. Coatalen, A.F.Ae.S., will lecture on "Aero Engines." The meeting will be held atthe Royal Society of Arts, John Street, Adelphi, and the chair will be taken at 8 p.m. by Dr. Dugald Clerk, F.R.S. Bombs on Dutch Town. ABOUT 2.30 on Monday morning an aeroplane, the nationality of which was not discovered, dropped six bombs on the Dutch seaport of Zierikzee in Zeeland. Three persons are reported to have been killed, while 100 houses were damaged. Raids on Zeebrugge. MESSAGES from Amsterdam state that both on Sunday and Monday night Zeebrugge district was heavily bombed by Allied aeroplanes, and many heavy explosions were heard on the Dutch frontier. The aeroplanes were violently fired upon by the coast anti-aircraft batteries. Zeppelin Captures Ship.A NEW use of Zeppelins is reported by Dutch fishermen from Ymuiden. They report that the week before last,while fishing near the Tarbot Bank, they saw a Zeppelin stop the Norwegian barque " Royal." A prize crew put offfrom the Zeppelin, boarded the ship, and took it to Germany. 448
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