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AUGUST 28, 1919 minutes. If they have not carried out their tests by the end of that period they must alight and fill up again. 28. The type of propeller used on any machine must be the same for all the tests. 29. Full load will include :— Instruments as under :— Revolution counter. Aneroid. Air speed indicator. Compass. Watch. Turn indicator. Bearing plate. Sextant. Oil pressure gauge (when necessary). Air pressure gauge (when necessary). Radiator thermometer (when necessary). Petrol and oil sufficient to fly 450 nautical miles at 1,000 ft. In addition a load of 1,000 lbs., to include passengers if carried and lifebelts and parachutes, but not including crew or any gear specified in Rules 8 a) and 13. 30. Petrol and oil for the tests and as far as possible accommodation (at owner's risk) for the machines will be supplied free by the Government. 31. The judges shall have the right to disqualify any machine which is very seriously defective in any respect. 32. The judges shall have the right to put up a service pilot to fly any of the machines, should they consider it desirable to do so, at Government risk. All tests will, however, be carried out by the entrant's pilot. CIVILIAN BLACKPOOL FLYING has been as busy as ever, for the Lancashire Wakes are in full swing. The climax takes place this week when the Oldham holidays are on. The five-seater Avros as usual did the bulk of the work. One of the five-seaters, flown by Capt. Tully, A.F.C., has been temporarily equipped as a repair plane. An engine was urgently wanted at Southport. It would have taken the best part of a day to send it by road, and probably by goods train it would have taken, a week. So the engine and stand were fixed up in the five-seater and flown across the Ribble in ten minutes. The cost of transport was in the neighbourhood of £2, as against £5 for the hire of a lorn-. SOUTHPORT AT Southport itself, where the Sopwith Aviation and En gineering Co., have the sole concession for making flights, their team of one "Dove" and three "Gnu" machines have been kept busy. With these machines Mr. King and Mr. Clapham have taken about 1,000 passengers during the past seven weeks. The Avro machines at Birkdale have also been well em ployed. One little job of work last week was to run across to Blackpool and bring up a passenger who wished to catch a certain train from Southport. A taxi would have taken four hours, but the Avro went there and back in 15 minutes, and that in spite of pouring rain and thick mist. In the Air Ministry list of aerodromes Southport is shown as unsuitable for landing at high tide. We understand, however, that the expanse of sand is so wide that there is plenty of room to land even when the tide is up. MORECAMBE AND FLEETWOOD Lieut, Macrae, M.C., flies an Avro twice a week at Fleet wood, spending the rest of his time at Morecambe, where he has been kept busy. Every day he flies backwards and forwards from Scale Hall, Lancaster, where he reigns in solitary glory over the Government Bessoneaux and landing grounds. MANCHESTER—SOUTHPORT AND BLACKPOOL DAILY SERVICE THE Avro service between these towns has run daily since the middle of May. The service is each way, and it is claimed Q O Utilising Aircraft in Canada THE latest use suggested for seaplanes in Canada is in connection with the whaling industry, although precise details of the proposal are not to hand. In the meantime, it is understood to be the view of officers of the Forestry Service in the Province of Quebec, that aeroplanes are most effective in guarding forests against fire. (%aM£y 33. During or on completion of any riving test, if it is necessary to effect any repairs to the machine after alighting, it will be considered to have failed in that particular test. This does not apply to cases where the machine is by the judges' instructions being flown by a pilot other than the entrant's pilot. 34. An entrant may enter more than one type of machine. 35. If a machine is wrecked during the competition it may, at the discretion of the judges, be replaced by another, but the replacement machine must carry out the whole programme of tests. 36. The decision oi the judges shall be final in all matters affecting the competition. 37. The Government do not accept any liability in respect of accidents during the competition, whether resulting in injury to personnel or damage to the machine (except as specified in Rule 32). 38. The Government reserve the right to adjourn the competition. 39. The Government reserve the right to withold any or all of the prizes if, in the opinion of the judges, no real advance on existing designs is shown. 40. The Government will, if the entrant agrees, buy the machine winning the first prize, the design to remain the property of the manufacturer. The maximum price payable under this head will be £8,000. 41. The following prizes are offered :— 1st prize, £10,000. 2nd prize, £4,000. 3rd prize, £2,000 42. Entries to close December 31. FLYING (notwithstanding certain recent statements to the contrary), to be the first regular flying service run on civilian lines in the country. The time-table, which is published in the Manchester railway guides, is as follows :— Leave Blackpool ..12 noon Leave Manchester.. 2 p.m. Arrive Southport .. 12.15 p.m. Arrive Southport .. 2.30,, Arrive Manchester .. 12.45 >» Arrive Blackpool .. 2.45,, NOTTINGHAM THE Air Ministry, having refused, probably wisely, to license the ground in the centre of the town for the proposed flying week, arrangements are being made by the Avro people for an alternative scheme in the middle of September. It is possible that a combined Nottingham and Derby pas senger service may be run as a missionary effort, as neither of these great industrial centres have seen much flying, and neither of them have started suitable civilian aerodromes. ISLE OF MAN LIEUT. MOXON, flying on probably the most difficult aero drome in the North, continues to do good business. His machines are stationed on the grassy portion of the pro menade, opposite Little Switzerland. He has started another Avro aerodrome at Ramsay where the flying conditions are very much better. This has been licensed and should pro duce good results. BRIGHTON DURING the week, in spite of very indifferent weather— no flying was possible on the 19th and 20th inst.—38 flights were made aggregating n hours 20 mins. In all 88 passengers were taken up. On the 17th Mr. T. W. Best, of Boston, U.S.A., with his niece, flew across to Swanage, and returned after tea. CAMBRIDGE SEVERAL exhibition flights have been made recently by the Cambridge School of Flying at their aerodrome at Hard- wick, and they have proved very popular. Capt. R. Birk- beck, D.F.C., is the pilot, and he has put up some very good shows on his Avro. Dunkirk's Ordeal AT the ceremonial conferring of the Legion of Honour on Dunkirk on the afternoon of Sunday last, President Poincare mentioned that Germans had bombed Dunkirk 172 times from the air, not to mention four shellings from the sea and 34 attacks by the long-range gun concealed in the dunes. 1153
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