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JANUARY 8, 1925 1 LIGHT 'PLANE CLUB DOINGS WE shall be pleased to have reports regularly from Club Secretaries, or those directly connected with new Light 'Plane Clubs, so that by keeping our readers informed on this matter the whole movement may be helped forward to the benefit of the clubs and the popularising of " that Air feeling." Light 'Plane Clubs are being, or have been, formed at:—- London.—Lieut.-Com. H. E. Perrin, Secretary, Royal Aero Club, 3, Clifford Street, W.I. Birmingham.—Major Gilbert Dennison, Secretary, Mid- land Aero Club, Handsworth. Glasgow.—J Allison, Esq., Jnr., 219, St. Vincent Street. occurred. The glider was slightly damaged in a crash at the beginning of September last, but was rebuilt by the end of that month. It is now stored until the club's headquarters at Woodford Aerodrome are ready. It will not be used for actual flying again, as several other gliders are to be built before the spring, but is to be fitted with a motor-cycle engine and used for " taxying." Members who have never flown before will be sent out on this machine, and so become accustomed to the feel of the " stick," the noise and wind from the engine, etc. It may be remembered that the same idea was used at the school at Hendon during the War, when the " Louse " was a special machine for this purpose. The " L.P.W. " monoplan e glider, built last year by members of the Lancashire Aero Club, and which, fitted with a motor-cycle engine, will be used this year as a " taxi-instruc- tion " 'bus. Lancashire.—C. J. Wood, Esq., Secretary, Lancashire Aero Club, c/o A. V. Roe and Co., Newton Heath, Manchester. Newcastle-on-Tyne.—Alex. H. Bell, Esq., Hon. Sec, Newcastle-on-Tyne Light 'Plane Club, County Hotel. Yorkshire.—Prof. G. Brodetsky, Yorkshire Aeroplane Club, Leeds University. We have received the following reports on the progress being made :— Lancashire Aero Club.—We show in the accompanying illustration a monoplane glider built by members of the Lancashire Aero Club and flown by them all last summer. This machine was in constant use from last May until September, and beyond minor repairs, such as one new axle, rubber cords holding same, a few new wires, no breakage Newcastle-on-Tyne Light 'Plane Club.—As previously reported, on Thursday, December 18 last, Major Scott addressed a meeting of the members and gave them a full explanation of the Light 'Plane Club Scheme. After this, the remainder of the meeting was devoted to routine business, chiefly dealing with reports from the various sub-committees appointed to (a) formulate rules, (b) arrange lectures, and (c) negotiate for use of flying ground. Dates for the first two lectures have been fixed as follows : January 8, " Timber Alts Uses and Properties in Aircraft Construction." by Mr. Alex. Peacock, Jun. ; January 22, " Practical Flying Experiences," by Mr. W. Baxter Ellis. One of the members has kindly offered to commence a complete Probationary Flight Officer's Course as soon as a class can be formed. . • • . BRITISH AIR MAILS IN 1924 THE Postmaster-General communicates the following par- ticulars of air mail traffic during 1924 :—There was a slight increase in the letter air mail to Paris (about 1,620 lbs. in 1924 as against 1,550 lbs. in 1923), but with the resumption of more normal conditions in the ordinary mail service to and from occupied Germany the letter air mail to and from Cologne showed a decline from about 9,700 lbs. in 1923 to about 5,700 lbs. in 1924. The London-Hanover-Berlin air mail during its period of operation from June 10 onwards carried about 1,350 lbs. of letters for Germany and places beyond. An afternoon air mail to Holland offered con- siderable advantage for midday postings from London, not only to Holland, but to Germany and beyond ; the weight of mail carried during three months of operation was, however, only 84 lbs. Declines were shown in the air letter traffic to Holland (975 lbs. as against 1,470 lbs. in 1923) and to Belgium (190 lbs. as against 237 lbs.). In consequence of the compe- tition of the weekly motor mail via Damascus, there was also a falling off in the letter air mail to and from Iraq (under 10,000 lbs. in 1924, as against about 18,900 lbs. in 1923). The air mail to Morocco and Algeria showed a 53 per cent, increase, from 1,137 lbs. to about 1,740 lbs. From May 26 facilities were offered for the substantial acceleration of letters posted throughout the day for Denmark, and of night- nrail postings from London to Hamburg and district and to Sweden and East Norway, by the use of a Rotterdam- Hamburg-Copenhagen air service, combined with a supple- mentary morning air service from Hamburg to Copenhagen. The number of letters posted by this route was, however, small, and the total weight carried (for all the countries served) was only about 270 lbs. This route was closed for the winter early in October. An inland air mail from Belfast to Liverpool was in opera- tion during May and June, and in the course of about seven weeks attracted over 1,000 lbs. of mail. The air parcel traffic to Paris increased by over 14 per cent., to about 27,200 lbs., and that to Holland by nearly 20 per cent., to about 14,250 lbs. There appeared, however, to be little demand for the facilities offered during the summer for air transmission of parcels to Denmark, Norway, and Sweden ; the total quantity sent to these countries was only 850 lbs. To Germany, on the other hand, a total weight of about 4,100 lbs. was sent by air via Hamburg during the four months June to September, while in the succeeding three months the quantity sent at the same rate of postage via Cologne was about 5,800 lbs. During the same three months the German Post Office forwarded to this country by the Cologne-Croydon British Air service about 2,400 lbs. of air parcels posted by civilians. In addition, parcels to the total weight of 1,600 lbs. were posted for conveyance by this air route to and from the British Army of the Rhine during the year under review. »'•!•
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