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AUGUST 16, 192? Those wishing to get in touch with others interested in matters relating to gliding and the construction of gliders are invited to write to the Editor of FLIGHT, who will be pleased to publish such communications on this page, in order to bring together those who would like to co-operate, either in forming gliding "dubs or in private collaboration. CONSIDERABLE progress is now being made with the con-struction of light 'pianes for the Sutherland, Daily Mail, Abdulla and other competitions to be held at Lympne inOctober. At the Addlestone works of the Air Navigation Company the first of the small monoplanes designed by Mr.Shackleton is finished, and will probably be tested shortly. This machine, it will be remembered, was described in FLIGHTon March 29, 1923, and has a Blackburne 700 c.c. V-twin engine. * * * THE first of the Gnosspelius " Gulls," also with Blackburneengine, has already made a number of flights, as our readers are aware, and at least one more of these machines will bebuilt for the competitions. The " Gull," it should be remembered, is now being built and marketed by ShortBrothers of Rochester, to whom application should be made for machines for the competitions. . * * * WORK has already commenced on the de Havilland light'plane, although somewhat delayed by pressure in other directions. The D.H. light 'plane will, however, be out inabout a month's time. It will be a monoplane with the wing placed low, and will be fitted with a Douglas engine. ,'" * * • MR. REX PIERSON of Vickers has designed a light biplane for the competition, and this machine also is expected to be out within the next few weeks. Like the de Havilland, the Vickers will also be fitted with a Douglas engine. * * * AT the Hamble works of A. V. Roe and Co. two light 'planes are being built. One of these is a biplane and the other a monoplane. It is understood that the monoplane has been designed by " A. V." himself, while for the biplane Roy Chadwick, chief designer of Avros, is responsible. * * * AT least two of the " Wrens " designed by Mr. W. O.Manning, and built by the English Electric Company, Ltd., of Preston, Lancashire, will be entered for the October com-petitions. They will be almost identical with the original " Wren " except for minor alterations. One of them will bepiloted by Squadron-Leader Wright, who put the first " Wren " through its tests, and the other by Flight-Lieut.Longton, so that the machines should not be among the worst handled at Lympne, both men being pilots of more thanaverage skill. * * * AT the French light 'plane and glider meeting at Vauville itdoes not appear that much has been done so far. For one thing, the wind in that locality has been in the wrong quarterfor gliding, i.e., from the east, instead of, as is more usual at this iime of the year, from the south-west. A certain numberof trial flights have been made, both on gliders and on light 'planes, but up to the time of going to press no very notableresults have been attained . ON August 3 Descamps flew one of the Dewoitine light 'planes from Villacoublay to Vauville, his total flying time being 7 hours 20 mins. on account of the strong head wind blowing. The engine fitted to this machine is a Vaslin of 12-15 h.p. (No wonder it runs smoothly !) ALTHOUGH at the time of writing comparatively few machineshave actually put in an appearance at Vauvilfe, the number entered gives one hope that before the meeting closes (August26) a considerably larger percentage will turn up. Altogether 56 machines have been entered, and their main dimensions,etc., are shown in the accompanying table. > .-.;'•':.:..-. *• * *'...'.. x ••.:'-&-•--••':- >--iv'v - IT will be seen that out of the 56 machines 29 are gliderspure and simple ; 3 are " aviettes," or man-powered machines, while 24 are light 'planes. IT is unfortunate that Britain is represented by but a single machine, the biplane designed and built by the Royal Aircraft Establishment Aero Club of Farnborough. This machine, which will probably be entered for the British competitions also, is fitted with a Douglas flat twin engine. * * * No. 7, entered by M. Victor Simonet, is the Belgian Poncelet. light 'plane illustrated in FLIGHT recently, while No. 9 is the- Julien monoplane, also Belgian. Table of Characteristics of Machines entered for Vauville Experiments No . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Q 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 4 42 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 s 5 C Entrant. i.Nessler f. Galland Soc. LTcare Ch. Marais i. Grandinf. Pimoule V. Simonet^. Breguet - . . S.A.B.C.A.A. Thomas R, Ferber P. Garrouste Soc. Simplex Soc. SimplexE. Dewoitine . . E. Dewoitine E. Dewoitine E. DewoitineE. Dewoitine P. Bourieau P. HeesM. Rousset L. Lefort G. Desgrands- champsQuemin- VaucampsA. E. Pavin T. H. Rillet Leguay .. P. O. Detable .P. O. Detable . . Max Massy L. Peyret L. Peyret R. BardinA. Duchereux . H. & M. Farman H. & M. Farman Helen-Herreman G. Sablier H. Mignet R.A.E. Aero ClubCh. Tomasini Rossier & Vaillan Fornier & Vaillan L. Clement L. ClementP. Bonnet G. SablierP. Vial . . Landes-Derouin Sette Weeks D. Montagne L. de MongeDurand . . J. Rocard De Saint-Aubin Pilot. i. Nessler . GallandT . Vedrines Ch. Marais . Pimoule V. Simonet V. Simonet 3.. Ferber ?. Garrouste . . Goegel Cannier . .Barbot *) Bastide Descamps • BarbotDoret J P. Bourieau P. HeesM. Rousset L. Lefort Richard Quemin T. H. Rillet .. Fresne Max Massy A. Maneyrol . . A. Maneyrol . . A. DuchereuxBossoutrot \ Coupet / Helen-Herre- mans H. Mignet Bulman Hemmerdinger P. Vial R. Landes : „• - •> • '-•:' — • ••• --r ••'—* ' '• • . • :"-'." De Saint-Aubin Type . B M — M M M M M M B A M M M M M M M M M M T M B MM S MM AB M TM M M M M M M B B M M M B M M M M M g M M Engine . h.p. 6 0 0 7 0 0 -10 2-15 10 0 8-12 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 10 6 100 0 0 0 0 8-15 0 12 0 0 0 0 3.5 0 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 35 ( 0 0 0 Area . q. ft. 205 200 145 172 129 215 162 215 226 323 172 215 215 162 162 172 226 205 140226 162 215 270 215 162 157 226 194 388 118 107 250 226 107 86 105 204 167 194 130 259 194 129 194 empty . lbs. 154 275 330 100 92 340 242 375- 200 20O 8&i 400- 165- *110 143 220 440 400- 207350- 132 66 310 155 400' 200- 660- 77 46 310 240- 175 175- 88- 4O 170 110- 88 770. 130 130 220 A = Aviette. B = Biplane; M = Monoplane,-" T = Triplane. TM = Tandem Monoplane. S — Sesquiplan. < * Without engine. In the above table, the machines which have the engine? column marked 0 are pure gliders. ' .,» 496
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