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1921
1921 - 0279.PDF
" GYROPLANE " is a name proposed by M. Louis Breguetto be substituted for " Helicopter." FROM this week Waddon Aerodrome will be the arrival and departure air-port of London for all the Continental air-services. THE Daily Mail is ever astute in obtaining bold advertise-ment and encouraging enterprise through the same weapon. With the inauguration of the London-Amsterdam Air-Service last week, the proprietors commenced sending the paper by this route, with, we can well believe, very gratifying OOOOOOO Two Departures from Croydon : On the right the French Goliath, "F-FHMU,"gets away for Paris, and, on the left, one of the D.H. 9 's of the Belgian Service is seen leaving for Brus- sels. OOOOOOO O O O O o o o o o o o o o o o o o No less a sum than £6,053,585 is the total of the savings of soldiers to December 31, 1920, as shown by a return of Army and Royal Air Force Savings Associations just published by the National Savings Committee. British Forces con- tributed £4,004,265 and Overseas units £2,049,320. In the first item the R.A.F. command figures directly for £10,682, in addition to the amounts in the Associations dissolved, owing to disbandment. results. For the opening flight the papers were sent to the Croydon aerodrome by motor-car. Although the aero- plane, was a quarter of an hour late in leaving London, i t arrived at Amsterdam 5 minutes before scheduled time (2 p.m.), the journey having taken 4 hours. The only stop on the journey was one of 15 minutes at Rotterdam. Upon arrival every copy had been disposed of within a few minutes of landing. From "The Ace " (U.S.A.) THE" KITE "35 H.P. BIPLANE : This little American machine, designed by A. H. Fetters, Mechanical Engineer of the Union Pacific Ry. at Omaha, recently made a non-stop flight of 142 miles between Grand Island, Neb., and Omaha, in 1 hr 25 mins. During the flight the pilot, W. G. Kite, replenished the petrol tank from two spare cans —leaving the controls to do so—and filled up with oil by sitting on a rubber hot-water-bottle containing same which was connected up to the oil tank J The span of the " Kite " is 24 ft. ; chord and gap, 3 ft. and 3 ft. 6 ins. ; stagger 9 ins • wing section U.S.A., 4 ; weight with full load for above trip, 545 lbs. ; engine, 35 h.p. Anzani ; . . ' speed range, 24-90 m.p.h. " ' J--:,.->-r^-'- •• - . 279 .. .•;.. ••• - • , •
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