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MAY 19, 1921 \^Li was bound to come. From New York a report is to hand that Laura Bromwell, a 23-year-old " air woman," has looped the loop 199 consecutive times at a flying exhibition at Mineola, Long Island. In the words of one correspondent, she began looping at a height of 8,000 ft. and descended to 4,000 ft. Climbing again to 6,000 ft., she continued to loop until only 400 ft. from the ground, which looks like asking for it. The claim that it is a looping record for a woman may well be, although Fronval, about this time last year, put up the senseless record for a male pilot of 962 loops in 3 hours 52 minutes 10 seconds. It is to be hoped other UNDER the title " L'Indicateur Aerien" our French competitors have just issued an aerial " Bradshaw " for May, No. 1. This sign of the times is due to the enterprise of M. G. Roche d'Estrez, a director of our brilliant French contemporary L'Air. This time-table booklet gives particu- lars of current international services, and is to be published monthly, is clearly arranged for reference, gives all necessary information in regard- to times, fares, luggage allowed, etc., and contains a key-map to the routes. Moreover, it is put up in a coloured cover, and costs the modest sum of 50 c, Congratulations to our friends across the Channel. 1 ^ / •MtoM^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^miRHHMMfchfe... - • .;.....-. f IIIIIIMIK A NEW ZEPPELIN - DORNIER TWIN- ENGINED AEROPLANE : The keen com- petition between the Friedrichshafen and Staaken Zeppelin works appears to continue. In our issue of March 17 we published a photo- graph of the wind-tunnel model of a Staaken twin-engined monoplane. Above is seen the model of Herr Claude'Dornier's reply. This machine, it will be seen, has a fuselage practi- cally identical to that of the single-engined land machine shown in our issue of March 31, 1921, and single-engined flying boat pub- lished on April 21, 1921. The new machine is characterised by a very low position of the engines, in fact one would imagine that they are placed too low. They are mounted on the ends of the usual Dornier wing roots growing out of the sides of the fuselage. From the outer lower corners of the engine nacelles bracing tubes run to the monoplane wing. Each of the landing wheels is enclosed in a streamline casing. THE NEW ZEPPELIN-DORNIER TWIN-ENGINED MONOPLANE : This front view of the wind-tunnel model gives a good idea of the clean appearance of the machine. women emulaters of Miss Bromwell's feat will rest contentwith being able to say a woman can loop a couple of hundred times if she sets about it. So, there ! . . .- LEST you forget, today, Thursday, May 19, the RoyalTournament opens at Olympia, King George attending the inaugural ceremony in person. From the programme, theshow promises to be even more thrilling and interesting than before. The Tournament as a whole may be said to be theEnvy of the World, and reflects the esprit de corps of our Navy, Army and Air Force. ^ , .-...;, WHEN the King opens the Tournament today, he willarrive at the Hammersmith Road entrance about 2.50 p.m., and there will be a guard of honour of the Royal Navy andBrigade of Guards, with band and King's Colour. On May 20 the Duke of Connaught will be present, and probablyalso the Crown Prince of Japan. On this day a large number of the seats will be allotted to sailors and soldiers woundedin the War who are still receiving treatment in the hospitals. At different times throughout the Touril&fl&eat it will bevisited by the Ambassadors or Ministers from foreign countries and members of the Government. LIEUT. PARSRIS reported to be keeping things aviaticto thefore in Australia. He proposes to start on a flight round Australia this month, accompanied by an observer, amechanic, and a cinematograph operator. His object is to raise money to buy a machine for an attempt to fly acrossthe Pacific. IF reiteration has any real merit, having regard to thecontinuous warnings which are being sounded by our French allies, Germany should not be allowed to obtain the upperhand in the air. M. Andr6 Michelin, the Ae.C. of France President, last week added his views upon the same subjectwhen addressing the members of the club in Paris. He expressed the conviction that Germany was making everyeffort to build up a powerful aerial fleet. The occasion was the presentation to M. Flandin, a former Under-Secretary ofState for Aeronautics, of a gold medal in recognition of his services in the development of French aviation.The experts were agreed, said M. Michelin, that if Germany could succeed in constructing aeroplanes for commercialpurposes without supervision by the Powers, her factories would be capable of manufacturing 42,000 machines yearly.It was known that their so-called commercial aeroplanes 346
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