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1926
1926 - 0710.PDF
SEPTEMBER 30, 1926 ['• FLIGHT " Photograph THE LANCASHIRE AIR PAGEANT : Line-up of six " Moths " for the start of the Inter-Club Members' Race. This was won by Mr. Lacayo, on the Lancashire Aero Club's G-EBLV. delay was, of course, in no way to be blamed upon the organisers. Longton also had trouble with the " Genet " of his Blackburn " Bluebird," but when he ultimately did get going—last of all—he made up for the delay by giving a demonstration of crazy flying just in front of the enclosures and about 6 ft. off the ground. It is to be hoped that nobody in the crowd was induced to think that this is the normal mode of progression of the " Bluebird." The second event on the programme was an aerial combat between a Bristol Fighter and a Sopwith " Snipe," both machines belonging to the R.A.F. and being manned by Service pilots. In addition to the demonstration of air fighting, these two machines also gave exhibitions of stunt flying, the upside down flying of the " Snipe " being parti- cularly good. A slight gap between this event and the follow- ing one, an inter-club team race, was filled in by Hinkler on the Avro " Avian " with Armstrong Siddeley " Genet " engine. The " Avian " gave an impression of being extremely manoeuv- rable and Hinkler, among other demonstrations, made a series of approximately twelve loops right across the aero- drome, each loop being of very small diameter and the machine losing no height whatever. It was very noticeable that Hinkler appeared to be flying on half thrott'e throughout, never troubling to open out the throttle for climbing nor to close it upon reaching the top of the loops, so that the machine seems capable of looping and other evolutions with the engine running at very much less than full power. In many ways the most amusing event of the day was No. 3, an Inter-Club Team Race for l)e Havilland " Moths." This event was open to one team of four pilot members of ;; f FLIGHT " Photographs "** VENI, VIDI, VICI " : On its first appearance in public the new Avro " Alpha "engine in the Avro " Gosport " won the Open Handicap, piloted by Flying Officer Waghorn. The lower photograph gives a good idea of the clean lines of the nose with this engine, while the inset shows the machine in flight. r 634
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