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1921
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FEBRUARY IO, 1921 FRSWT5E FOUR SEPTEMBER has been fixed for the 1921 International Gordon-Bennett Balloon Race, and Brussels is the centre for starting. The British competitors will be selected by the Royal Aero Club, and anyone wishing to compete should communicate at once with the secretary of the Club, 3, Clifford Street, London. FROM the success which has attended the mast-mooring experiments at Pulham Aerodrome with " R.33 " at the beginning of last week, it is evident that had a mast been installed at Howden the destruction of " R.34 " the other day would not have fallen to be recorded. The lesson has been a costly one. and may lead to proper provision being speedily made against future contingencies, irrespective of the exact methods which will be employed to carry on British airship traffic, commercial or otherwise. WHAT may appear as A B C to the scientist of many degrees, is not always quite so distinctly clear to the layman of ordinary everyday perception. Therefore to have an understandable exposition upon the Einstein theory is some- thing to be thankful for. This is due to the offer of a 5,000-dollar prize offered by the Scientific American for the best non-mathematical account of the theory, and we are pleased to record that the winner of this reward, Mr. L. Bolton, M.A., is one whose work during the War was mainly in connection with anti-aircraft gunnery in the Inventions Department of the Ministry of Munitions. Mr. Bolton, who was formerly a scholar of Clare College, Cambridge, has been in the Patent Office for thirty-six years, and is now a seniorexaminer. HENRY FARMAN is ever for progress, and for some time he has been occupied with air-screw experiments on hydro- planes, otherwise " gliding boats." On Saturday he was testing his new creation at Frette-Herblay with considerable success, attaining an average speed of 60 k.p.h., at one time, near Conflans, go k.p.h. being reached. The craft, which is fitteG with a 140 h.p. Renault engine, is 10 metres long, uses a four-bladed tractor screw, and has a capacity of 1,400 kilogs. Upon the trial run she carried twelve passengers, Henry Farman being at the wheel. AT BUC the four-engined monster Bleriot aeroplane is still putting up stunts in the hands of M. Jean Casale On February 5 he did a climb of 3,000 metres. THAT business is really meant for utilising aircraft in connection with the fishing industry is evident from the fact announced that four small non-rigid airships of the " Blimp " type, and a British aeroplane of the latest type, have just been purchased by a private company for work in Newfoundland in this connection. " Is cavalry obsolete ? " is the query set out in an evening contemporary, the following non-committal answer being supplied as an excuse for putting the question :— " There is talk in military circles of a possible reduction in An all-year daily service is being flown, and has been in operation some time, by the Aeromarine West IndiesAirways Co. between Key West and Havana, a distance of about 100 miles, which takes a little over an hour by air. The above views show one of the six 11-passenger flying-boats employed on this service, taking onpassengers and in flight. This is a similar service to the new one mentioned in " Flight " the other week by the Transair Co. 100
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