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continues at its present rate there will soon be no room in the machine for anything except Customs forms, and the passengers and freight will have to go by boat and train. As a result of the new orders issued by the Air Ministry, that pilots must make six landings on a machine before having it put on their licence, the service machines have been delayed on several occasions by these landing tests obstructing the aerodrome, and it has been necessary for the C.A.T.O. to issue a notice forbidding such tests between the hours of 10 and 4. $ • • m SOCIETY OF MODEL AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERS (London Aero-Models Association.) THE next important outdoor meeting will be held on Wanstead Flats, Sunday, August 20, at n a.m., when members will make an attempt to improve the British records. Members wishing to have a copy of present records can obtain same from Mr. C. A. Rippon Competition Secretary), 52, Fairbridge Road, Holloway, N. ig. On Saturday, September 2, the competition for Mr. Felix Kelly's Challenge Cup for Compressed Air Driven Models will be held, full particulars of which have already been published. Members are requested to attend Headquarters, 20, Great Windmill Street, Piccadilly Circus, W. I, as often as possible, every Thursday, at 7.30 p.m. Hon. Secretary, A. E. Jones, 48, Narcissus Road, West Hampstead, N.W. 6. m m m m A Transatlantic Savoia FROM Rome it is reported that the Savoia firm have commenced the construction of a new three-engined flying boat for the Portuguese aviators Cabral and Coutinho, in which it is intended to cross the Atlantic from west to east. The new boat is stated to have a range of about 3,000 miles. A similar boat has been ordered by the Danish polar expedition. Chanteloup's Stunt ON July 27 the well-known French pilot Chanteloup succeeded in landing his caudron on the lip of the crater of the Bromo volcano in Eastern Java. The volcano is stated to have been in full eruption at the time. After a stay of a few minutes he took off again and returned to his starting point, Malang. De Havilland Service to Ostend THE De Havilland Co., using three D.H. 9's and a D.H. 16, made some 20 flights each way between Lympne and Ostend during last week. Three trips, out and home, were made each day, except on the 26th and 27th ult., when four were accomplished. Goods and newspapers were carried on the outward trips, and 12 passengers on the return trips. FOR THE SCHNEIDER, CUP : Swinging the Napier Lion-engined Supermarine Flying Boat on to the S.S. "Philomel" at Southampton for transhipment to Naples. In the group are Capt. H. J. Field, Mr. Scott- Paine and Mr. Braid. The date for the Schneider Cup was advanced by two weeks, and it was only by the sportsmanlike action of the General Steam Navigation Company in diverting the " Philomel '' to Southampton from her normal course to Naples that the Supermarine boat will be enabled to make a bid at Naples to bring back the Cup to England, AUGUST 3, 1922 PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED Aeronautical Research Committee, Reports and Memoranda :—- No. 756 (Ae. 19). Tail Loads in Recovering from a Vertical Dive at Terminal Velocity. By John Case, M.A., and S. B. Gates. April, 1921. Price is. bd. net. By post is. i\d. No. 762 (Ae. 23). Lift and Drag of B.E.2E. with R.A.F. 14 Wings. By the Aerodynamic Staff of the R. A.E. October, 1921. Price 4^. net. By post 4,\d. London : H.M. Station ery Office, Kingsway, W.C. 2. No. 767. (Ae. 27.) The Calculation of the Characteristics of Tapered Wines. By H. Glauert. May, 1921. Price 3d. net. By post 3 jd No. 770. The Drag Curve of R.A.F. 14. B.E.ze Wings Obtained by Full-Scale Experiments. By the Aerodynamic Staff of the Royal Aircraft Establishment. October, 1921. Price 4d. net; by post <\\d. London : H.M. Stationery Office, Kingsway, W.C. 2. No. 776. Load Factors for Commercial Heavier-than-Air Craft. Report of the Load Factor Sub-Committee. January, 1922. Price $d. net. By post 3^i. London : H.M. Stationery Office, Kingsway, W.C. 2. No. 777.—A Directional Hot.Wire Anemometer. By A. Bailey, M.Sc. Jan., 1922. Price 6d. net; by post, 6$d. London : H.M. Stationery Office, Kingsway, W.C. 2. Report of the Aeronautical Research Committee for the Year 1921-22. London : H.M. Stationery Office, Kingsway, W.C. 2. Price 2s. 6d. net; by post 2s. 7$d. Report No. 127. Aeronautic Instruments, Section III,' Aircraft Speed Instruments. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Navy Building, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Technical Note No. 99. Notes on the Standard Atmosphere. By W. S. Diehl. National Advisory Committee for Aero nautics, Navy Building, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. m x * x AERONAUTICAL PATENT SPECIFICATIONS A bbreviations : cyl. — cylinder; I.C. — interna) combustion ; m. — motors The numbers in brackets are those under which the Specifications will be printed and abridged, etc APPLIED FOR IN 1921 Published August , 1922 9,261. ZEPPELINWERKE GES. and A. ROHKBACH. Carriages for aircraft. (i65,773-) 11,440. M. L. TONELLI. Course recording apparatus. (182,594.) 26,755. Soc. ANON, DES AEROPLANES Q. VOISIN. I.C. engines. (170,284.) 9,620. HANSA METALL-WERKE Ges. Clinometer with cardanically sus pended stable pendulum. (182,540.) If you require anything pertaining to aviation, study "FLIGHT'S" Buyers' Guide and Trade Directory, which appears in our advertisement pages each week (see pages ill and xvi). 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