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w iBaiii mathematical theory in connection with aeroplanes. The results obtained had agreed with the theory far better than was anticipated. His proposal was that over each radiator in a public or private building there should be placed a deflector arranged at an angle to be determined by experiment. In the ordinary way, said Prof. Bryan, hot air from a radiator was drawn up towards the window— for some reason he did not know radiators always seemed to be placed beneath windows—and so passed away from the interior of the room. With the deflector in use, however, the hot air passed from its under side into the room, while the mass of cold air between the outer side of the deflector and the window formed a non-conductor and prevented the hot air from escaping through the window. It was essential that the deflector should have a sharp edge so that a free stream of hot air could be secured. With a rounded edge eddies of hot air were produced, which did not carry so far into the room. How the Italian police surprised the frequenters of a gambling house at the fashionable resort of Capri (an island 20 miles south of Naples) by seaplaning over from the main land is described in a telegram from Rome. The police realised that if they crossed by the regular steamer their arrival would be known. As it was, going over by air after dark, they raided the house, to find the forbidden amuse ment in full swing—under, be it noted, the ownership of a British subject. WHY, after this, looks as if no " profession " will be safe from sudden catastrophe. Bill Sykes suggests it's playing it a bit low down, and that 'planes will be employed next in circumventing the honest burglar during his eight hours working stretch, and there'll be nothing for it but to call for a national strike. Our Airplane London-Paris Service has been main tained despite adverse weather conditions. Lighthouse-keeper looking seaward, dramatically: "No craft can weather such a storm! "—looking up—"Well, I'm blowed!" I SEPTEMBER 18, IQIQ "Flight " Copyright Not a Dervishes' dance or a Jazz competition, but just a" change over " in the men's relay race at the R.A.F. Athletic Association's meeting at Stamford Bridge. LADY SYBIL GRANT'S Airship Exhibition opened last Monday at Prince's Galleries, Piccadilly. " Airships in Peace and War," as Lady Sybil has named her show, has the support of the Air Ministry, and all proceeds from this collec tion of very interesting exhibits will be devoted towards an airship bed at St. Dunstan's. Prince's Galleries should be crowded during the few weeks this very varied exhibition will be open. Music, interpreted by the " Masked Airship Band," is a feature of the entertainment. NOT a few sensitive young men have been oppressed with a desire to render into verse their early sensations when flying. Flight-Commander Jeffery Day was one of them— after his first flight he proposed " with very great ease to write some most superior verses on the thrill and grandeur of it all." But this lad, who won the D.C.S. at 22, and whom six Germans, acting in concert, managed to kill at last, had plenty of sense. " His mind," he says, " was as full of half-grasped impressions as a small bag packed tight with young eels," yet he realised that " one doesn't sit down to write a rhapsody on strawberries and cream with a belly full of 'em, but with an empty belly and a great desire for them." " Oh, wise young judge ! " FOR all that, he was able to receive, retain, and transmit many of his impressions in verse, which, even if it is not of the highest calibre, is at least smooth to the ear, and pleasantly stimulating to the mind :— " The engine stops : a pleasant silence reigns— Silence, not broken, but intensified By the soft, sleepy wire's insistent strains, That rise and fall, as with a sweeping glide I slither down the well-oiled slides of space Towards a lower, less enchanted place." In the clouds :— " The wing-tips, faint and dripping, dimly show Blurred by the wreaths of mist that intervene ; Weird, half-seen shadows flicker to and fro Across the pallid fog-bank's blinding screen." Nor does he fail in his gallant attempt to convey in metre the illusion of actual flight:— " My turning wing inclines towards the ground ; The ground itself glides up with graceful swing. And at the plane's far tip twirls slowly round. Then drops from sight again beneath the wing To slip away serenely as before, A cubist-patterned carpet on the floor. " Hills gently sink and valleys gently fill; The flattened fields grow infinitely small; Slowly they pass beneath, and slower still, Until they hardly seem to move at all." There is movement in this, and colour and imagination. The little book, which is sold by Messrs. Sidgwick and Jackson at 3s. net, reveals much of the writer's spirit, and the extent of our loss.
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