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1921
1921 - 0593.PDF
SEPTEMBER I, 192I MAY, next year, is the month fixed for holding the bigBourget International Air Carnival Meeting. And it is to be a four-days'show from May 25 to 28 inclusive. To inducea big gate one of the features will be a trio of lotteries for the spectators. AN excellent suggestion comes from Sir Charles Brightthat, to perpetuate the memory of that most lovable of men, the late Air-Commodore Maitland, the Royal AeronauticalSociety should suitably establish an annual ' Maitland Lecture " on some subject concerned with airship navigation. SWITZERLAND and France have a happy knack of markingapproval, in a. graceful form, of deeds of note and daring carried through within their boundaries. So it comes thatDurafour, the Swiss pilot, who last month landed on Mont Blanc, has had presented to him by the Geneva State Councila silver sugar basin engraved with the arms of the canton, in commemoration of his unique air-stunt. CLEETHORPES Town Council is credited with a quaint method of endeavouring to hurry up belated ratepayers of the district. Last week they distributed numbered leaflets from an aero-plane flying over the town, which bore an announcement that a prize of £10 would be given to the ratepayer who paid hisrates before August 31 and handed in the leaflet bearing the winning number, which number is known only to the chair-man of the Council. Where the shoe pinches is with the townsfolk who paid their dues promptly before this offer wasforthcoming. It may in the future have somewhat of a boomerangy effect on the chance of such a sporting ofter-again materialising. BY reason of the very prompt reply of the Prime Minister to the De Valera epistle last week it was necessary that the text of the reply should reach the King, who for the moment holds court at Balmoral, *in double-quick time. The only way was by air, and by air it went, through the very prompt co-operation of the Air Ministry, King George thus having the document at a phenomenally early time. There being no suitable landing place for 'planes at. Balmoral, the arrange- ment was for the despatch bag to be dropped in the grounds of the Castle, where watchers were ready to " carry on." SUPERMARINES IN FIJI : Last week we recorded the use of Supermarine flying boats in Fiji for surveyingthe coast line of the main island, Viti Levu. This is merely another instance of the way in which the Supermarine Works are hustling their products overseas, where they are now doing good work in many and varied portionsof the globe For their size and power these boats are extraordinarily seaworthy and airworthy, and one can see almost limitless nossibilities for their use all round our scattered, sea-girt Empire. Our photographs show oneof the Sunermarine "Channel" type machines (160 h.p. Beardmore engines) flying and, in the lower view, taxying on the water. Note the clean wake. -::•:.•::;-m,:-:-•: .•••-.-"• - : : 593 ..••.•,;•::.**.. .•:••/• '•,:-•--• - .
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