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JUNE 23, 1927 The New Craze Flying the Atlantic To be in the fashion in the aeronautical world today you must be preparing to fly the Atlantic. Everybody is doing it. From nearly all quarters of the globe come reports of somebody who is going to emulate Lindbergh, Chamberlin and Levine. If it goes on we shall soon suspect everybody seen loitering at an aerodrome of waiting for an Atlantic weather report. An American woman pilot, Mrs. Luba Phillips, who holds the world's altitude record for women, proposes to fly the worn trail and give it a touch of originality in the tail by going to Rome from New York, and then London. She is said to be starting in July, accompanied by a mere man, name unknown up to going to press. Captain F. T. Courtney, in conjunction with The Westminster Gazette, has been quietly preparing his plans for a return flight to New York for some time, and he is practically ready. In a few days he will take over his machine, a Dornier-wal monoplane flying boat, fitted with two Napier 450 h.p. engines in tandem. It is now being completed at Friedrichshafen, where his second pilot, Flight-Lieut. F. \Y. M. Downer, and mechanic, Mr. R. F. Little, are already arrived. Wireless transmitting and receiving sets, having a range of 600 miles, will be used. The start will be from Southampton and the course followed will be via Ireland and Newfoundland to New York. Here he will stay no longer than is necessary in order to make the return flight in the quickest possible time. The flight from New York of Commander Byrd, which has been delayed so long, is expected to start any time now. He, too, will make a return flight if possible. Herr Anton Kbnnecke, a famous German war pilot, and now with Lufthansa, is—according to The Times correspondent—preparing for a flight from Berlin to San Francisco via the Azores, without any intervening landing, however, merely circling at places like New York to drop mail bags. After a rest of two or three days he will return, landing this time at New York to pick up mails. His machine will probably be a three-engmed type, although the design is not yet decided upon. It may have one B.M.W. VI engine and two Wright " Whirlwind " engines. Lindbergh, ChamberHn and Levine COL. LINDBERGH arrived at St. Louis, on June 18, after his tremendous welcome in New York, and the city attained new heights of noisy enthusiasm. They had an orchestra equipped with acetyiene-gas tanks, played upon with sledge hammers and riveting tools, producing a rapturous cacophony. Mr. Clarence Chamberlin and Mr. Levine left Berlin on June 19 in their Bellanca monoplane for Munich and Vienna. Two other machines escorted them south, one being a three- engined Rohrbach " Roland " monoplane, and the other was a three-engined Junkers G 24 monoplane. These carried a number of passengers, including Mrs. Chamberlin and Mrs. Levine. Wreckage of Saint Roman's Machine Found ? IT seems probable now that wreckage found off the coast of Brazil is that of Capt. Saint Roman's machine. It will be remembered that he disappeared on his South Atlantic flight, after leaving Senegal, on May 5. Prince George's Flight PRINCE GEORGE flew from Paris to London on the evening of June 20, in an Imperial Airways Handley-Page liner, following his visit of several weeks' duration to the Continent. The pilot was Capt. Jones, who also new the Prince of Wales to London during the general strike last year. The machine left Paris at 4.6 p.m. and reached Croydon at 6.45 p.m. Some Current Flights MR. VAN LEAR BLACK, the American newspaper owner, who is flying from Holland to Batavia in a Fokker F7 mono- plane, arrived at Baghdad on June 19, from Aleppo. Capt. Kingsford Smith and Mr. Ulm, who left Sydney, Australia, for Brisbane in a Bristol biplane fitted with a 240 h.p. Siddeley " Puma," made a forced landing at Boolaroo, owing to slight engine trouble, and returned to Sydney. They were attempting to circle Australia in 11 days. Herr Ferdinand Schulz, who has made many gliding records in Germany, crashed at the Langfuhrer Aerodrome, Danzig, on June 17. He was flying a light aeroplane to Marienburg, and fell from 100 ft. while circling the aerodrome after his start. He is suffering from cuts and slight concussion, but his condition is not serious. Birmingham Air Pageant ON July 16 there will take place at Castle Bromwich, on the spacious grounds adjoining the buildings in which arc held annually the British Industries Fair, a huge Air Pageant, in which some of the best-known flying men will take part. The work of organising this event is well in hand, and to ensure its success whole-hearted co-operation of the Royal Air Force, the Warwickshire Auxiliary Air Squadron, the Midland Aero Club, and a number of aircraft manufacturers will be forthcoming. In a carefully arranged programme (the first of the kind to be presented in the Midlands) aviation will be demonstrated from many and varied aspects. From 10 a.m. until 12.30 p.m. there will be facilities for passenger flights, and similar provision will be made in the early evening—that is, at the conclusion of the programme. Eariy in the afternoon the start will be made of a 200-mile race for the Air League Cup, and later a variety of event>> will be gone through. Instructors from the Royal Air Force Flying School will give a display. There will be " crazy " or acrobatic flying by a squadron leader ; a low bombing attack will be followed by an aerial combat ; and another feature of fascinating interest will be air drill by machine* which will manu'uvre in close formation in accordance with orders given by wireless telephony. The Warwickshire Squadron will make itself responsible for a set piece, which will include the blowing up of a building, and in the " Grande Finale " all the machines will " take off " simultaneously and fly away. The programme will also include several air races, and for one of these the Birmingham Cinema Exhibitors have provided a silver cup. The charge for admission will vary from Is. to 5s., and there will be a special enclosure known as the " Lord Mayor's Enclosure," for which the charge will be £2 2s., including luncheon, tea and car parking. In all the huge enclosures, from which a full view of the whole proceedings can be obtained, provision will lx> made for refreshments. There are, too, ample facilities for the parking of motor-cars. For the convenience of visitors special arrangements have teen made for quick and regular services by trams, omnibuses or on the railway, and it may be added that special trains at excursion rates will be run from " Midland " stations as far as 60 miles distant. Everything points, indeed, to the fact that the Pageant will, by reason of its comprehensive char- acter, make a most popular appeal to all classes, including those whose interest in aviation is only superficial. Leonardo da Vinci's Flying Machine ONE of a series of more than fifty free lectures open to the public in connection with the Centenary celebrations at University College, London, is an address in the Depart- ment of Anatomy there by Dr. Ivor B. Hart, on June 28, on " Leonardo da Vinci's Flying Machine." The R.A.F. Dinner Club THE R.A.I Dinner Club—founded in 1923—hold their annual dinner for past and present officers of the R-A-jj (or R.N.A.S and R.F.C.) on July 2, the eve of the R.A.F Display, when so many memlwrs of the services are gathered near London. The Secretary asks that secretaries of unit dinners, particularly those who are experiencing trouble in getting their members together for annual dinners, should communicate with him at Bentley Priory, Stanmore, Middlesex. Sir Richard Glazebrook , THE Secretary of the Department of Scientific an'i Industrial Research announces that Sir Richard Tetley Glaze- brook, K.C.B., F.R.S., has been appointed, byOrderof Council dated May 26. 1927, to be a member of the Advisory Council to the Committee of the Privy Council for Scientific ana Industrial Research. 420
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