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ilCHT JUNE 8, 1922 A side and front view of_the Longren two-seater biplane with the wings folded back. The principal characteristics of the Longren two-seater biplane are :— Span (upper) .. ,, (lower) .. Chord Gap O.A. length . . O.A. height .. Width folded Incidence (upper) „ (lower) Dihedral 27 ft. 11 ins. 21 ft. 11 ins. . 4 ft. 3 ins. 4 ft. 3 ins. . 19 ft. . 7 ft. 8 ins. 9 ft. 8 ins. • 3°. . 2°. • 3°. H H Wing section Stabiliser incidence Area, main planes (inc. ails.) ,, ailerons (2) .. ,, stabiliser „ elevators „ fin rudder Weight (empty) ,, (loaded) .. /h.p „ /sq. ft. H m R.A.F. Club THE Royal Air Force Club has decided to hold an annual Cricket Week during September of this year. It is a new departure in Club convention, but that it meets with approval is shown by the fact that the Week is to be held under the distinguished patronage of H.R.H. The Duke of York, K.G., with Viscount Cowdray (President of the R.A.F. Club) as President and the Secretary of State for Air, Captain F. E. Guest, D.S.O., M.P., and the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard, Bart., K.C.B., D.S.O., as Vice-Presidents. The affair will be a combined social and sporting event. Two three-day matches will be played, and these will in all probability be (1) a revival of the old North v. South match, and (2) the Royal Air Force (Past and Present) v. the M.C.C. Touring Side leaving for South Africa. The R.A.F. Club propose including the services of two or three ex-R.A.F. professionals, and it is understood that Hobbs, Woolley and Strudwick will play. The amateurs who are members of the Royal Air Force Club include, amongst many others, such players as P. G. H. Fender, Hon. F. Calthorpe, A. H. H. Gilligan, Sqdn.-Ldr. Blount, S. L. Amor, B. S. Foster and E. Martin. The Hon. L. H. Tennyson has consented to lead the opposition. The Club Committee responsible for the event consists of Messrs. Air-Commodore Halahan (Chairman), Hon. F. Calthorpe, P. G. H. Fender, H. D. G. Leveson-Gower, Major Young, and Captain M. G. Kiddy (Hon. Secretary) to whom all communications should be addressed at 24, Denison House, 296, Vauxhall Bridge Road, S.W. 1. ('Phone : Victoria 2112). Play will be by invitation only, but at the same time the Hon. Secretary would be glad to hear of the names of all first-class amateurs or professionals who served in or were attached or seconded to the Royal Flying Corps, Royal Naval Air Service, or Royal Air Force, who will be free during the month of September. The Lamblin Cup CAPT. PINSARD, on a Nieuport monoplane with 300 h.p. Hispano-Suiza engine, has put up a fine performance for the Coupe Lamblin. Leaving le Bourget at 9.45 a.m..on May 31, he landed at Brussels at 11.32, and at Waddon at 1.49 p.m. Paris was reached at 3.30 p.m., his total flying time being 4 hrs. 30 mins. 30^ sees. As a single-engined, single-seater machine, with an engine of between 200 h.p. and 400 h.p., the Nieuport would, under the rules of the competition, get a start of 15 minutes over the scratch machines, which are single-engined single-seaters with engines of 400 h.p. or more. Thus for the time being Capt. Pinsard is the holder of the Lamblin Cup. U.S.A. 2 (mod.) 189 sq. ft. 191-1 sq. ft. 13-5 sq. ft. 11-4 sq. ft. 2 • 6 sq. ft. 5 • 6 sq. ft. 550 lbs. 1,050 lbs. 17-5 lbs. 5-55 lbs. R.A.F, Groves Prize Awards THE Air Ministry announce that the awards in the 1921 competition for the R. M. Groves Memorial Essay on " A Forecast of Aerial Development," open to all members of the Royal Air Force, are as follows : First Prize (£30 and books), Wing-Commander C. H. K. Edmonds, Staff College, Andover ; Second Prize (/20 and books), Wing-Commander R. H. Verney, Cadet College, Cranwell ; Third Prize (/io and books), Flight-Lieut. W. P. Groves, British Delegation, Air Section, Paris. A special prize of £10 for the best imaginative resume" on " Aviation in the Next World War," has been awarded to Flight-Lieut. W. P. Groves, winner of the third prize. The Memorial Essay, it will be remembered, was established by the family of the late Air-Commodore R. M. Groves, who died in Egypt in 1920, as the result of an "aeroplane accident. The essays are required to be divided each year into three parts, the first relating to Imperial defence, the second in relation to Civil Aviation, Exploration, etc., and the last to an imaginative risume on Aviation and the next World War. French Airworthiness Certificates THE Air Ministry on June 6 issued the following announce ment :— " In view of the statements appearing in certain portions- of the Press this morning regarding the cross-Channel air services, the Air Ministry feels it necessary to state that it regards the allegation that existing French machines would not be permitted to fly if they were British owned as quite unwarranted. As a signatory of the Air Convention, Great Britain has agreed to recognise French certificates of air worthiness for French passenger aircraft, and although the French system of certification and inspection differs from that established in this country, there is at present no reason to suggest that it is any less efficient than our own. " The safety of passengers travelling by air is, of course, always one of the first considerations of the Air Ministry, and every endeavour has been and will be made to co-operate with the French and other Governments to that end." Siam Tries an '' Air '' Lottery FAILING to obtain the necessary grant for the develop ment of her Air Service, Siam is holding a million tical lottery as an alternative method of getting things aerial going. Fifty thousand pounds will be distributed in prize-money, and the Air Service will benefit by the same amount. The first prize will be £10,000. Siam's Air Force consists of 115 aeroplanes and a staff of 650. There are five aerodromes and 25 prepared landing- places in the country. 332
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