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APRIL 14, 1927 London in a " Moth " in 1 hr. 15 mins., and the machine was publicly exhibited outside the Victoria Rooms, where the general meeting was held, after being wheeled through the streets of Bristol. Capt. Broad also spoke at the meeting and pointed out that the cost of running and maintaining the " Moth " was Id. per mile. He suggested that the financial problem might be overcome by holding an annual pageant of light-aeroplane flying. In Manchester, ^400 was raised V- this means. He said that it was not so difficult to learn \ fly as was popularly imagined, and it was an inexpensiv hobby. On his return flight to London, Capt. Broad covered tl. distance, 117 miles, in 1 hr. 10 mins., flying low most of th way to " give " our photographer some pictures. LIGHT 'PLANE CLUBS London Aeroplane ClubUNFAVOURABLE weather conditions interfered with the flying during the past week, and the total time was 10 hrs. 45 mins.Dual InstruMon.^mss O'Brien, W. Beckett, I. H. McClure, Capt. H. Spooner, A. C. Pearson.Solo Flying.—O. J. Tapper, W. Beckett, A. C. Pearson, M. L. Brarason, A. F. Wallace, R. Sanders Clark, Capt. H. Spooner, Miss O'Brien, E. D.Moss. Passenger Flights.— J. L. Goddard, Miss Mackintosh.Pilot Instructor.—Mr. S. L. F. St. Barbe has now resumed his duties as Pilot Instructor.During his four months' absence the De Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd., kindly allowed their pilot instructors to assist. The club records its gratefulthanks to the De Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd., and to their pilots, Capt. A. a. White, Capt. C. D. Barnard, and Flying Officer R. \V. Reeve, for their help. The Hampshire Aeroplane Club REPORT for week ending April 8 :—In spite of the fact that it rainedcontinuously on three days of the week and also that the club is now operating witll only one " Moth," the flying time managed to reach the total of9 hrs. 55 mins., made up as follows :—Instruction flying, 6 hrs. '20 mills. ; solo flying, 3 hrs. 15 mins. ; test nights, 20 mins. The following members had instruction :—Lieut. Oliver, R.N., the Hon.H. R. Grosvenor, Messrs^ Shepherd, Kerry, Everett, Stokes, Dobson, Clifton, Nicholson, Ash, Keeping, Dickson, Bowen, Courtney, Rumble, Farmer,and Jayne. The soloists were :—Don Juan del a Cierva, 2 hrs. 10 mins.; Lieut. Oliver,25 mins.; Nicholson, 15 mins.; Ash, 10 mins.; Bowen, 10 mins. ; and Keeping, 5 mins. Last week-end we received a visit from four members of the London FlyingClub. They were Capt. Kittell with Miss Davison in Moth G-EBMU and Mr. Richardson with Mr. Brown in a Renault-Avro, and they dropped in ontheir Way to the Isle of Wight. These visitors lunched in Hamble, explored the village, and then continued their journey across the Solent. Our first chairman, Mr. O. E. Simmonds, who at the general meeting lastweek strenuously sought to be allowed to retire from the committee after a year's most successful and arduous work, but Who was at length persuadedto remain on the committee, has now handed over the reins to his successor, Mr. R. J. Parrott, who was unanimously elected to the chairmanship. Mr.Parrott has devoted his interests to aviation ever since he joined Mr. A. V, Roe in the pioneer days, and he is, of course, now general manager o£ theHamble factory of A. V. Roe and Co., so we feel sure that the welfare of the club is in capable hands. The pageant is developing into something even bigger than we had hoped,and it Will be a very valuable asset that Mr. Simmonds, who is chairman of the Pageant Committee, can now devote the whole of his organising abilityto pageant affairs. The Newcastle-upon-Tyne Aero Club REPORT for week ending April 10 :—Flying was possible only on Saturday,LX having been under repair until that date, and a strong gale blew all day on Sunday. Total time, 6 hrs. 5 mins. Dual, 3 hrs. 15 mins. ; solo,45 mins.; " A " pilots, 1 hr. 45 mins. ; joy-ride, 5 mins. ; test, 15 mins. The following members flew under instruction : Mrs. Heslop, Mr. Twine,Mr. Hayton, Mr. Turnbull, Mr. H. Ellis ; Mr. Turnbull was the only soloist. " A " pilots : Mr. R. N. Thompson, Mr. W. Baxter Ellis. With Mr. Lawsou :Mr. H. Ellis. Miss Parkin had a joy-ride with Mr. Parkinson. Mr. R. H. Mclntosh, flying an Imperial Airways D.H.50, called at theaerodrome on Thursday for petrol. His passenger was Mr. Bagnall. Midland Aero Club REPORT up to April 8 :—Owing to continuous rain and high winds, it hasonly been possible to do about 5 hrs. flying. The following members took dual instruction with Capt. McDonough,E. P. Lane, S. H. Smith, C. H. James, R. L. Jackson ; and Messrs. R. L. Jackson and E. J. Brighton flew solo. The club will be open throughout Easter, and it is hoped that the weatherwill be better, to enable good flying to be done. The Lancashire Aero ClubREPORT for week ending April 9:—Total flying time, 33 lirs. 45 luin-., made up as follows :—Dual with Mr. Brown : Messrs. Caldecott, 1 hr. 55 min?.;Ward, 1 hr. 45 mills. ; Cohen, 1 hr. 10 mins. ; Mulder, 1 hr. 5 mins. ; Gerrard and Torres, 50 rains, each ; Hartley, Serck and Miss Emery, 4 mins. ; Nelson,30 mins. ; Anderson, Stonex, Haynes and Miss Baerlein, 20 mills, eacfc ; Michelson, Collinson, Ruddy and Fallon, 15 mins. each ; Heya, 5 inin*. Solo : Miss Brown, 4 hrs. ; Messrs. Costa, 2 hrs. 25 mins. ; Twemluw,2 hrs. 15 mins. ; Abdala,2 hrs. 15 mins. ; Gattrell, 45 mins. ; Birley, 30 mins.; Wade, 30 mins. ; Forshaw, 25 mins. ; Dickinson, 20 mins. ; Goodfellow,10 mins. ; Lacayo, 10 mins. ; Nelson, 10 mins. Joy-rides.—With Mr. Lacayo : F. Scholes, 1 hr. 35 mins. ; Mrs. Lacayo.25 mins. ; Miss Gramchain, 10 mins. With Mr. Twemlow : Mr. Anderson, 2 hrs. With Mr. Costa: Mr. Anderson, 20 mins. ; Messrs. Dickinson,Abdalla and Gerrard, 15 mins. With Mr. Brown : Mr. Scholey, 10 mils. • Mr. Castes, 10 mins. With Mr. Cantrill : Mr. and Mrs. Westcott, 10 mins.each. With Mr. Michelson : Miss Michelson, 20 mins. Test flights : 1 hr. 35 mins.Weather has been very unsettled, With no flying at all on two days, one oi which was Saturday.During the week Mr. Gattrell and Miss Brown completed their tests ior the " A " licence. Miss Brown is our first lady pilot to get her licence, andhas been putting up some very nice aerobatic displays lately, looping, rolling, and generally throwing the aerofoils around with excellent judgment. Shewas entered by telegram for the Bournemouth Oaks as soon as she had passed her tests, but the entry has been refused by the Royal Aero Club as it wasa day late. This is a pity from every point of view, as Miss Brown goes *•> Australia with the All-England ladies' hockey team at the end of the month,and will therefore not be able to represent the club at all this year. Mr. Scholes will represent us in the instructors' races, and Mr. Twemlow, the well-knownracing motor-cyclist, in the ab initio pupils' races. With reference to Newcastle's recent congratulations to London on theirrecord flying week, we believe London are now entitled to congratulations on another score, that of having done 1,000 hrs. flying already during thesecond year of the Air Ministry agreement. According to the weekly figur.-j published in FLIGHT, the hours flown by the clubs since July 31 last up to th»beginning of this month are as follows: London, 1,051 hrs. 30 mins.; Lancashire, 724 hrs. ; Newcastle, 597 hrs. ; Hampshire, 333 hrs. Yorkshireand the Midlands cannot be given exactly as both have missed reporting on several weeks, but both appear to be close together in pursuit of Hampshire.We will join in friendly rivalry with Newcastle, who were runners-up to London for the first year, in trying to beat that 82-hr, record—always assumingthat London don't go and push it up to 100 hrs. before we can get there' The Yorkshire Aeroplane ClubREPORT for the week ending April 10.—The total time flown for the week was 3 hrs. 55 mins., consisting of solo, 30 mins. ; dual instruction,2 hrs. 10 mins.; tests, 1 hr. ; and joyrides, 15 mins. Messrs. Mann and Norway flew solo, while Messrs. Carter, Mann, Swiit,Norway, Wilson and Ling flew under instruction with Mr. Beck. Two more prospective members, Messrs. Lang and Parker, were given joyrider. On Tuesday (the 5th inst.) Mr. G. R. Beck took up his duties as clubinstructor in the place of Capt. West, who has now resigned and has gonf to Brough for his course of Reserve training. Mr. Beck has been engagedin joyriding for the past four or five years, the last two of which have been spent with the Berkshire Aviation Tours. On Thursday afternoon a D.H. 50J Imperial Airways machine, pilotedby Capt. R. H. Mclntosh, landed at the aerodrome to fill up with " B.P " before proceeding on its way to the Croydon air port. In addition to hJsmechanic he had only one passenger on board. Flying will take place daily during the holidays, including Easter Monday,April 18. The weekly day off when the club will be closed will be on Tuesday, 19th inst. The club staff Easter holidays will be taken on Monday andTuesday of the following week, so that there will be no flying on the 25th and 26th inst., the normal routine being resumed on the 27th inst. <•> <$> Australian Aero Club (N.S.W. Section)To Mrs. Bryant, a member of the N.S.W. Section, Australian Aero Club, comes the distinction of being the first woman to fly solo in an aeroplanein Australia. Mrs. Bryant's first solo flight was made early in February last, when during two Weeks' practice she put in a total of 1 hr. 50 mins.solo flying. There were at the end of February six members—including Mrs. Bryant—of the club flying solo, while three other members, Messrs. C. W. Perry, W. J. C. Pennell, and J. R. Palmer have succeeded in obtaining their " A "licences. During the same period five new pupil members and 34 ordinary members have joined the club. Mr. S. L. Tyler, a member of the club who recently made a flight with hisbrother from Sydney to Melbourne and Adelaide and back, wrote to the club president telling of his experiences on this trip, as follows :—" I found the inland atmosphere always rough. I found a fault in my landing was that I came in too fast, the reason of this being the long durationin the air at high speeds and flattening out to slow speed gave me an uneasy feeling; however, I soon overcame this. At Avenel I did rather a sillything. Being too lazy to Walk any distance, I chose the race-course in whichto land ; this was quite large enough, but there were a number of trees scattered about it. I came down between them with a cross wind. Theground was very hard, like concrete, and if the machine had swerved on the ground I would certainly have hit a tree ; as it was, I had to use the rudderto avoid getting too close to a tree prior to stopping. There are a sufficient number of official marked landing grounds between here and Melbourne,and it is really not necessary for one to resort to grounds of this nature for landing.I found in the hot weather—and it was hot—that I had overloaded the machine, so to speak. I had a tremendous amount of luggage aboard, anaI had to watch things very carefully when taking off at nearly all the laiic:;ng spots, as they were rather small and nearly all surrounded by big trees. 1think the biggest trouble, as stated in the beginning, was the tendency to land too fast after being in the air for a long time, and the tendency to loseheight very quickly instead of taking a more gentle glide ; the more easy glide gets one used to the slower speeds before getting too close to the ground. " Last but not least, landing away from home is a totally different t.iingto landing at Mascot 'drome, where one knows all the bumps and the cond Jon of the ground and can pick out and avoid all the bad spots ; it is a dine-'™-story when landing on a ground one does not know anything about." Mr. Tyler is a well-known business man in Australia, and has taken upflying as a hobby, having practically taught himself to fly. He bougV- an has owned.isly i . accompl. 228
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