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OCTOBER 18, 1923 / 1,000 MILES AROUND LYMPNE : Mr. Bert Hinkler in his Avro monoplane, 700 c.c. Blackburne engine, at thecompletion of his 80 laps of the course. Inset, the machine crossing the finishing line at the end of the 80th lap. During the whole week Hinkler did not have a single forced landing. ascertain quite early in the life of a type whether or not thecalculated strength is really there-. This Capt. Broad effectively did, ,s.nd thco must have done a great deal, muchmore probably than can yet be realised, to prevent from taking root among the spectators present any idea that a light aero-plane is necessarily a flimsy affair. Thursday, October 11 However, to return to the doings of the Lympne meeting :Last week we were able to record the performances of the first three days, and thus it becomes necessary to take up ournarrative of the rest of the week's doings at the morning of Thursday, October 11. The morning was much better thanhad been the two preceding days, and the visibility was fairly good during the earlier part, although later on clouds and windand rain interfered with the flying. A number of machines made flights during the day, of which the two most notableperformances were the speed "record" of 76-1 m.p.h. established by Macmillan on the Parnall " Pixie II," which, asa matter of fact, is the " Pixie I " with smaller wings and a 750 c.c. Douglas in place of the larger wings and 500 c.c.Douglas. The machine appears to be extraordinarily fast, and might be describe*! as a miniature " Gloster." Its actualspeed must be considerably greater than the average attained around the course. The R.A.E. Aero Club monopioitfe v_,%. 14), the " Hurricane,"also came out for speed tests, but did not look anything like as fast as the " Pixie." When the speed was announced it wasfound to be only 58-5 m.p.h. The machine appears to be undersurfaced and flies with its tail down. The engine is aspecial 600 c.c. Douglas, with a terrific compression, and when it is started it sounds like a battery of machine guns.It appears likely that somewhat better results might have been obtained if the wing had been set at a larger angle to thefuselage. As it is, it appears that the fuselage is dragging through the air at a considerable angle, and as it is of triangularsection it would seem that it must disturb the air to quite a considerable extent. The undercarriage is similar to that ofthe very early Nieuports, and consists of a steel leaf spring carrying the wheels. -•• THE AIR MINISTER AT LYMPNE : Sir Samuel Hoare in conversation with the Director of Research,General Bagnall-Wild, and with Mr. W. S. Shackleton, the designer of the A.N.E.C. monoplanes. 76.1 m.p.h.: The Parnall "Pixie II," on which Capt. Macmillan won the Abdulla speed prize of £500 at Lympne. A photo- graph of "Pixie I," which has larger wings and a smaller engine, was published last week. 637 D
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