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rL|CHT| APRIL 28, 1927 FINNISH AIRCRAFT : Above, two views of a fighter designed and built in Finland, and fitted with a Gnome-Rhone "Jupiter " engine. With the pilot in the photograph on the right is Mr. Berger, the designer of the machine. The lower photograph shows another Finnish machine of pronounced Branden- burg appearance, known as the I.V.L. A22. were shown in the cinemas, firework displays took place, machines flew over the city by night and day, flags were sold by the Society of Aerial Defence, lectures were given on the wireless, and, generally speaking, it was made im- possible for the good citizens of Helsingfors to be oblivious of the fact that something connected with aviation was taking place in their city that week. The pageant itself was favoured by a beautiful sunny day with a temperature well below freezing, and was watched by a very large crowd indeed. The Air Force organization was as near perfect as possible, and all the events took place to time and without a single hitch. The programme was as follows :— 1. Fly past of different types of machines. 2. Formation flying. 3. Aerobatics. 4. Parachute descents. 5. Raising a smoke screen. 6. Destruction of balloons. 7. Aerial fighting. 8. Destruction of a village. 9. Passenger flights. To an observer from England the three outstanding items were the two " live " parachute descents on to the ice, the destruction of the village (by Martinsyde machines), and the super-excellence of the formation flying of the Finnish pilots. A most realistic village was constructed on the ice, and the Martinsyde machines dived at it amidst the rattle of machine gun fire and to the accompaniment of bursting bombs in the approved Hendon fashion. The chief credit for the all-round excellence of the pageant (when not even a tail skid was damaged) and for the very high standard of efficiency in the Finnish Air Force, must go to the commanding officer, Col. V. Vuori. Col. Yuori has been in England and has visited many Air Force stations and aircraft works ; he is a first-class pilot himself and is possessed of a most attractive personality. Col. Solin is another high Finnish officer who has also visited England, and who has been largely concerned in the development of the Finnish Air Force. Nor must one omit to mention Sqdn.-Leader Field, who has been loaned to Finland by the Air Ministry to assist in the instruction of the Finnish pilots, and who has already spent two years in Finland, speaks Finnish, and is extremely popular in Helsingfors and with the officers of the Finnish Air Force. The Finnish National Aircraft Factory has recently pro- duced a fast single-seater fighter equipped with a " Jupiter" engine, and embodying all the latest ideas in aircraft design. The designer is Mr. Berger, who has spent some time studying in England. This machine had only been flown four times, but gives excellent promise of fulfilling all the requirements of a fast fighting scout well up to present-day standards. In conclusion, it can be said that the Finnish Air Force, under Col. Vuori, has reached a very high standard of dis- cipline, organization and efficiency, and, in addition, the amount of flying done by the pilots is very considerable. Except as regards size, the Finnish Air Force has no reason to fear comparison with any other Air Force in the world. Cranwell Cadet College Magazine THE R.A.F. Cadet College at Cranwell have just pub-lished their Spring volume of the College Magazine in half- yearly form. It contains some excellent photographs toillustrate the various articles and stories as well as several maps. All local matter is fully detailed, which must there-fore contain personal interest to all sections of this great training centre. There is much to be said for a half-yearlymagazine like this as against the usual monthly publication, as it allows for a better and more costly production and timefor a discrimination of the matter and choice of the best contents. This Spring number is a worthy journal for such aprominent unit of the R.A.F. Zeebrugge and Ostend Operations Re-union Dinner AT the re-union dinner of officers who took part in the operations at the Zeebrugge and Ostend harbours, on April 23 and May 10, 1918, which was held at the Cafe Royal on April 23, at which Captain A. F. B. Carpenter, V.C., R-N..presided, were the following R.A.F. officers :—Air Vice- Marshal C. L. Lambe, Air-Commodore F. C. Halahan,Squadron-Leader R. Graham, Captain H. A. Furniss, Flight- Lieut. F. H. Hudson, Lieut. A. L. Godfrey, and Lieut. L. H.Pearson. Privately-Owned Aircraft IN our issue of FLIGHT for April 14 we published a list of the aeroplanes privately owned and registered in Great Britain, as far as possible complete and up-to-date. No doubt some of our readers have noticed the absence from i-his list of the names of Mr. Alan Butler and Capt. G. de Havilland. As a matter of fact, both these gentlemen are private owners, but their names were missed in our list because their machines are registered under the name of the de Havilland Co., ^na we were thus unable to distinguish them from the other " commercial " aircraft. 256
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