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lorn, APRIL 19, 1923 R.A.F. MEMORIAL FUND. A. MEETING of the Executive Committee was held at the offices, No. 7, Iddesleigh House, Caxton Street, on March 28. There were present:— Lord Hugh Cecil (in the Chair), Lady Leighton, Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, Mrs. Barrington-Kennett, Mrs. L. M. K. Pratt-Barlow, Sir Charles McLeod, Air Vice-Marshal J. F. A. Higgins, Group-Captain E. R. Ludlow-Hewitt, Lieut.-Commander H. E. Perrin. The accounts for 1922, as laid before the meeting, were approved. In this connection the Committee were gratified to be able to acknowledge receipt from the Air Council of the sum of £2,098 16s. lid., being net proceeds of the R.A.F. Aerial Pageant held at Hendon in June, 1922, together with a sum of £1,000, which was returned to the Memorial Fund by the Air Council, and which represented the amount set aside out of the proceeds of the Air Pageant 1921 for the Pageant of 1922, the Air Council notifying, at the same time, that thej' are retaining for a similar purpose for 1923 the sum of £1,000. It was announced that Group-Captain H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, K.G., had kindly consented to perform the ceremony of unveiling the R.A.F. War Memorial on the Thames Embankment on Monday, July 16 next, and that Group- Captain H.R.H. the Duke of York, K.G., President of the Fund, had also signified his intention of being present. It was also stated that the second house at Ascot, very kindly presented to the Fund by Mrs. Salting, has been sold, and that the proceeds of the sale will shortly be handed over to the Committee, when a formal scheme for the purchase of scholarships or bursaries, or the grant of educational allowances for the children of R.A.F. officers, past and present (with special reference to orphans whose fathers died during the War), will be set on foot, although no actual grants under this head can be made until a year has elapsed and one year's interest on the invested funds is available. With regard to grants to the distressed, both officers, men and their dependents, ex-R.A.F., the number of cases dealt with in the interval between the last meeting, on February 28, and the meeting under report is 90, and the amount dis- bursed is £365, which includes the monthly reimbursement towards the grants and loans made to ex-officers, R.A.F., by the Officers' Benevolent Branch of the British Legion, better known as the Officers' Association. The next meeting of the Executive Committee was fixed for May 9, at the offices of the Fund- - REPORT OF THE SOCIETY OF MODEL AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERS GUSTY and unsettled, the weather prevented a large attend- ance at Wimbledon Common on April 14, when the S.M.A.E. had arranged a meeting to attempt to improve some of the British model aeroplane records, but four members, Messrs. Johnson, Green, Cooke and Pavely, turned up to try their luck. The two former, flying rubber-driven models, found the wind rather too much for them, and as Mr. Cooke had trouble with the valve of his compressed-air machine's container, Mr. Pavely had things more or less his own way. Accordingly, after a few preliminary trials, the latter set out to make a really serious effort, and put up a very fine performance of 39£ sees., thereby winning the " Major C. C. Turner Record Cup for Enclosed Fuselage Models " from the previous holder, Mr. L. A. Gray. Mr. Pavely, by the way, was flying the compressed-air driven monoplane with which he won the " Pilcher Cup " last month. On Sunday, the 15th, there was a practice meeting on Parliament Hill, and Messrs. Howes, Whelpton, Davis and others were doing some very good gliding. Mr. Gray, after showing that his enclosed rubber-driven model had a very good ceiling, tried a little gliding, and seemed to be taking it very seriously. Perhaps he has got his eye on the Glider Cup. Mr. Burchell turned up without a model, but appeared to satisfactorily while away the time by amusing himself with Mr. Gray's model. A gliding competition will be held on Parliament Hill at 11 a.m. on Sunday, April 22. On the 25th there will be a Council Meeting at Headquarters at 8 p.m. April 28 is fixed as the date for the next round of the " D. H. Pilcher " Challenge Cup Competition, the meeting to be at 3.30 p.m. at Wanstead Flats. On Friday next, the 20th, there will be the usual little social gathering at 7.30 p.m. at 20, Great Windmill Street, Piccadilly. Visitors, come right along, please. A. E. JONES, Hon. Sec. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. Circular of the Bureau of Standards. No. 121. Construction and Operation of a Two-Circuit Radio Receiving Equipment with Crystal Detector. July 17, 1922. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Price 5 cents. Technologic Papers of the Bureau of Standards. No. 216. Properties of Electrical Insulating Materials of the Laminated Phenolmethylene Type. By J. H. Dellinger and J. L. Preston. July 21, 1922. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Price 30 cents. Scientific Papers of the Bureau of Standards. No. 455. Tables "for the Calculation of the Inductance of Circular Coils of Rectangular Cross Section. By Frederick W. Grover. October 28, 1922. Government Printing Office, D.C., U.S.A. Price 10 cents. The Real Mesopotamia. By " Harun." The Modern Printing Company, 238-240, Stretford Road, Hulme, Man- chester. Atti dell' Associazione Italiana di Aerotecnica, 1923. Vol. Ill—No. 1 Atti dell' Associazione Italiana di Aerotecnica, Lungotevere Michelangelo, 10, Rome. Price, Lire 15. Eighth Annual Report of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1922. National Advisory Committee for Aero- nautics, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Report No. 136. Damping Coefficients Due to Tail Surface in Aircraft. Report No. 143. Analysis of Stresses in German Airplanes. By W. Hoff. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Washington, D.C., U.S.A. . No. 156, The Altitude Effect on Air Speed Indicators : II. By H. N. Eaton and W. A. MacNair. No. 151, General Biplane Theory. By Max M. Munk. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. AERONAUTICAL PATENT SPECIFICATIONS Abbreviations : cyl. —cylinder; I.C. "internal combustion; m. »• motorlhe numbers in brackets are those under wnicb the Specifications will _, - be printed and abridged, etc APPLIED FOR IN 1921 " .Published April 19, 1923 27,865. G. W. and H. E. JOHNS. Construction of airships. (195,110.) . APPLIED FOR IN 1922Published April 19, 1923 ',.... u""7-"-':. 4,690. H. O. SHORT. Wing construction. (195,235.) 9 633 H O and A E. SHORT and O. T. GNOSSPELIUS. Means for liftingliquidfuel. (195,277.) 15,982. SIEMKNS-SCHUCKBRTWSRKE GES. Clutches. (195,307.) 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