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1922
1922 - 0664.PDF
PHEW ! What a shock ! From the alert staff of our Press Cutting Agency, which sends us snippings upon matters aviatic, comes an article boldly headed " A Million in Flight," which, needless to say, intrigued us muchly until we realised that it was that number of wretched refugees from Asia Minor trying to find a safe foothold somewhere. But really, now that " flight'' is an accomplished everyday fact, it is about time some THUS Mr. Edmund Jordan in a letter to the Press :— " ' Gliders ' or '• Aeroscaphes.' " Victor Hugo, in his wonderful description of Gilliatt upon the rocks of the Douvres in ' The Toilers of the Sea,' commenting on continuous air currents and winds moving in zones, says :—' Aerial navigation by means of wind boats, to which the passion for Greek terminology has given the Vickers "Viking," Napier Lion " engine, in Spain : Our photograph shows the machine at San Sebastian after alighting in the bay on its way to Madrid. substitute word should be evolved for shock headlines of this character. For the moment our mind wobbled between the sudden arrival of a million transatlantic flyers and visions of our receiving a bankers' draft for a round half-million on account as a small recompense for FLIGHT'S missionary work in the past. And then we awoke. But in these nervy days it won't do to strike a dud mine like that too often. Phew ! name of " aeroscaphes," may one day succeed in utilising the chief of these streams of wind. The regular course of air streams is an incontestable fact. There are both rivers of wind and rivulets of wind, although their branches are exactly the reverse of water currents. . May I suggest that it is an anachronism to consider as novelties ' gliders,' or even aeroplanes, and that the aeroplane is a mechanically propelled aeroscaph ? " HHHHHHEIH The Day ton-Wright " Chummy " Train ing Biplane : A two- seater side-by-side machine, fitted with a Le Rhone 80 h.p. engine. In Septem ber last a student of the Dayton-Wright Co., K. M. Lane, who had never previously touched the controls of a 'plane, started to take instruction on one of these machines early in the morning, and that evening made his first solo flight. His total instruction time was 4 hrs. 26 mins. His in structor was W. E. Lees.
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