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APRIL IO, 1919 (2) Should a vessel sigtit an aircraft and no wireless signals be received from it, the vessel should transmit her position by wireless three or four times, without waiting to be requested to do so, as the aircraft wireless transmitter may have broken down. The position is to be transmitted in words and not in figures, thus—latitude fifty thirty, longitude thirty twenty. (3) British commercial aircraft on Transatlantic flights will, for the present, use call signs of three letters (D K A to D M Z). The usual international procedure should be employed for inter-communications. (4) Should an " S.O.S." call from aircraft be received, or aircraft be seen in difficulties, every endeavour possible should be made to rescue the occupants. (5) Great assistance will be given to aircraft in sighting ships at night if ships on hearing aircraft overhead will fire any form of pyrotechnic lights to attract attention. This will, if possible, be replied to by the aircraft firing one coloured Verey light or on her wireless. (6) An aircraft in distress will fire a series of white Verey lights at short intervals. Any ship in the vicinity should then indicate her presence and endeavour to rescue the occupants. NOTE.—Aircraft attempting Transatlantic flight will be equipped with wireless telegraph apparatus capable of trans mitting and receiving on a 600 metre wave (spark). <5> <$> Married Major GORDON VERO, R.A.F. (late Rifle Brigade), younger son of the late FRANCIS CAREY, of Burgess Hill, Sussex, and Mrs. Carey, of 85, St. Mark's Road, W, 10, was married on April 1, at Christ Church, Crouch End, to EILA. only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. REYNOLDS, of Upcote, Shepherd's Hill, Highgate. Major MAURICE WRIGHT, R.A.F., elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wright, of 3, Addison Road, Kensington, was married on April 5. at Christ Church, Woburn Square, to WINIFRED MAY, younger daughter of the late CHARLES HOLFORD COWLES, of Southport, and of Mrs. W. R. Waller, of " Lugano," Buckhurst Hill. To be Married The engagement is announced between WALTER MORSE CLAPPERTON (late Lieut. R.A.F.), of Toronto, Canada, and ELLEN MURIEL MILLS, third daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Mills, of Torfrey, Par, Cornwall. The engagement is announced between Lieut. ROLAND VIVIAN CTJLLINAN, R.A.F., second son of Sir T. M. Cullinan, D.S.O., and of Lady Cullinan, of Johannesburg, and SYLVIA KATHLEEN, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. FRANK LEAVER, of Lisnamoe, Cheltenham. The engagement is announced between Capt. H. R. EYCOTT-MARTIN, R.E., R.A.F., elder son of Mr. Eycott- Martin, late C.S. of British Bechuanaland, and Mrs. Eycott- Martin, of Lindfield, Sussex, and MURIEL, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. H. HOJRNER, of Putney. The engagement is announced between Major W. H. S. GARNETT, R.A.F., only son of the late Mr. Frank Garnett and Mrs. Garnett, of Wood End, Wickham, and ENID, widow of Lieut. C. R. DAW-KINS, B.A., LL.B., 9th Welsh Regiment, of The Bungalow, Haverfordwest. <s> <S> King Albert Flies to Brussels RETURNING on April 5 from Paris, where he has been in consultation with various authorities, King Albert of Belgium flew to Brussels on a German LVG biplane piloted by Crombez. The royal aeroplane was escorted by two other military machines. French Passenger Height Records ON April 1 the Henri Farman Goliath piloted by Lieut. Bossoutrot set up a new record passenger height by taking up four passengers to a height of 6,200 metres. The passengers were pilot Muller and mechanics Mathe, Ferron and Mulot. The previous record for pilot and four passengers—made by Poiree in 1916, was thus beaten by more than 2,000 metres. Two days later at Toussus-le-Noble this record was com pletely put in the shade by Lieut. Bossoutrot taking up 13 passengers to a height of over 6,000 metres, at which point the barograph ceased to act. The passengers were MM. Mathe, Scheuter, Blanloeil, Pani, Thierry, Thenasse, Verdilon, Bourgne, Foure, Male, Genolin, Redon and Mallet. During its flight the machine flew over Toussus, Versailles, le Bourget The engagement is announced between Capt. ROBKRT GRAHAM KITSON, R.A.F., son of the late Rev. John Francis Kitson, vicar of Antony, and Mrs. Kitson, Elbridge, Brixton, near Plymouth, and MABEL ELIZABETH SACKVILLE, second daughter of the Rev. G. E. F. Molineux, vicar of Colyton, Devon. The marriage arranged between Mr. HAROLD LOFTUS TOTTENHAM (late Rifle Brigade and R.A.F.) and Miss VERONICA BOWEN PERKINS will take place on Wednesday, April 30, at St. Mary's Church, Cowbridge, Glamorganshire, at 2 p.m. Items Maj.-Geii. Sir HUGH TRENCHARD, Chief of the Air Staff, has now recovered sufficiently to enable him to go to tin- country, where he is recuperating. Major-Gen. SEELY, Under-Secretary of State for Air, will be the guest at a luncheon arranged by the Overseas Club and Patriotic League on May 7. Any information regarding Lieut. HAROLD BARTLETT BRADLEY, NO. I Squadron, R.A.F., who has been missing since June 25, will be gratefully received by his mother, Mrs. Carrington Heming, 57, Union Street, Mountcalm . New Jersey, U.S.A. Pilot-Lieut. C. H. WOODS and Observer-Lieut. MCLEAN were reported missing on September 21, 1917. They were flying a Bristol fighter, No. 7,234, and were last seen to land near Menin. Anybody who can give further particulars is requested to write to Lieut. Lloyd M. Archibald, R.A.F, 87, Woodlawn Avenue, W., Toronto, Ont., Canada. The will of Capt. BENTFIELD CHARLES HUCKS, R.A.F., of Piccadilly, W., the first British airman to loop the loop and to fly upside-down, who died from pneumonia, aged 34 years, has been proved at £9,236. <s> • and Paris, and was in the air for one hour forty-five and a halt minutes. British Entry for French Competition AT least one British entry has been made for the long distance utility competition which is being organised in France, the British Aerial Transport Co. having entered through M. Pierre Mar6chal, one of the B.A.T. commercial machines. It may be recalled that the competition will consist of a flight round France in stages, aggregating 2,500 miles, and the prizes will be awarded according to the showing of the machine under the headings of safety, comfort, lifting power, speed, ratio of weight to speed and cost per ton milt' Flight over the Andes A MESSAGE from Santiago de Chile, dated April 5, states that Lieut. Cortinez, on one of the Bristol aeroplanes pre sented to the Chilean Air Service by the British Government, had flown over the Andes at a height of 6,000 metres (19,600 ft.). Last December Lieut. Godoy, also on a Bristol, flew across the Andes from the Chilean capital to Mendoza, in Argentina, in one and a-half hours.
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