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K«; APRIL 15, 1920 XI ** fa •? 2 § a, gf •' S 8« I o » o 1? « e W 2 u © SSI i s 2 o -o s § •a Hi 18 la frg. s . S o u « 8" A o p ffl So, S X! them, when right over the crater, to drop suddenly 500 ft.or more, and it was a case of touch and go that they were able to get going again beyond the influence of the heat. A dis-tinctly disconcerting experience. IN the Bill providing for the creation of a permanent bodyin which shall be vested the valuable objects which have been collected during the past three years or more for the ImperialWar Museum, there is to be a Board of Trustees of 17 appointed members and seven ex-officio members ; one of these will beappointed by the Secretary for Air. The Prince of Wales is to be the first President of the Board. As might have been expected, " pussy-foot " dodgers inAmerica were not likely to miss the obvious opening for getting in the wet goods with the aid of the aeroplane. But equallyas might have been expected, the prohibition agents were not likely to overlooli this promising means of getting round thelaw. So far it is about evens. A goodly freight or two have been landed safely, but a catch has been scored by the legalside in a case reported of smuggling across the Canadian border,to Montana, as the "goods" were being landed bymeans of parachutes. SUBJECT to any slip-up in the negotiations, the EastleighAerodrome on the Southampton line, one time in the control of the United States Naval Authorities, may possibly be asite for the establishment of the big Ford motor car works in contemplation for this country. THIS week Willis's Rooms, which were so badly mauledduring the last air raid on London on Whit Sunday, KJI8,resumed their normal occupation of, amongst other useful objects, an auction room, after a two-years' interval for" decoration and repair." As of yore, the rooms are in the hands of Messrs. Robinson, Fisher and Harding. ONE recognises that pretty bad and reckless habits wereengendered during the War, but with about 18 months in hand from active operations, it's about time the ubiquitous•motor transport vehicle began to settle down again to some- where near normal habits, even in the hands of adventurousR.A.F. men. As a lively example of war tactics still in opera- tion for bringing an R.A.F. lorry to rest, the following reportis hard to beat :— "An R.A.F. motor-lorry skidded in Northgate Street,Canterbury, yesterday, and after colliding with two trucks and a motor van, ran into a house, and the front part of the lorryentered the sitting-room. Much furniture was smashed, and a man named Thomas Hogan was knocked into the fire-place.The lorry was so tightly wedged in the wall that nearly all the front of the house had to be pulled down to release it." » K m m . Cross-Country Race at Bournemouth. CONSIDERABLE interest was aroused in Bournemouthby the race on Easter Monday from the aerodrome, over a double circuit to Christchurch Priory. There were sixentries and the winner was Sergt.-Pilot R. E. Tollerfield, M.M. (Avro-Le-Rhone), who took the prize of n guineas andthe trophy presented by the Bournemouth Aviation Company, his time for the course of about 20 miles being 20 min. 31 sees.Capt. Matthews (Avro-Le-Rhone) secured -second place in 20 min. 51J sees., Lieut. Carter Smith (F.E.-Beardmore)third and Lieut. F. W. Knox (Avro-Le-Rhone) fourth. Every one of the entrants completed the course, but the other twowere disqualified for not complying with the rules. Captain Matthews in Java. CAPTAIN MATTHEWS, on his Sopwith Wallaby, landed at Singapore on April 8, and on Monday last, April 12, he was at Batavia (Java). The Rome-Tokyo Flight. LIEUT. MASIERO reached Bangkok from Rangoon on.March 29. Captain Gordesco and Lieut. Grassi flew from Aleppo to Baghdad on April 7 and reported that anothermachine, piloted by Captain Ranza and Lieut. Marzari, was shot down with machine-guns by rebel Kurds, about 30 milesoutside Aleppo. The machine was afterwards re-captured by Arab troops, and the occupants—one of whom was anItalian ace, who went unscathed through the war—were liberated. "" . A Bristol for NicaraguaTHE Bristol touring biplane, fitted with 250 h.p. Rolls- Royce engines, which was recently exhibited in New Yorkhas been sold to Mr. Joseph F. Thome, who intends to use it for conveying bullion from his silver mine in Nicaraguato the seaboard. Lieut. Leslie Simmons xhas been engaged to pilot the machine. 429
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