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SEPTEMBER 15, 1927 " Moth." Mr. Downes-Shaw went up to London on Friday accompanied bythe instructor to bring down his own machine, and he thus becomes our first private owner.Our pilot members now number over 50, this figure being reached early last week. It certainly will not be long before some of them follow the exampleset by Mr. Downes-Shaw and purchase their own machines. Mr. R. A. Hall, accompanied by Mr. Bartlett, flew to Princetown to attendthe conference of the British Institute of coach and automobile manufacturers, who are meeting this year in Torquay and who had assembled at Princetownfor lunch. The official opening of the club will be held on Saturday afternoon, October8. A good programme has been arranged and we hope that all those who are interested in aviation will pay us a visit on this occasion. HAMPSHIRE AEROPLANE CLUB REPORT for weekending September 11.—Total flying time, 20 hrs. 25 mins.Instruction, 13 hrs. 20 mins. Solo flying, 6 brs. 25 mins. Joy rides, 20 mins. Test flights, 20 mins. Instruction with Flight-Lieut. Thomson : Mr. Duggan (a visitor from Canadawho is in England for a few weeks and intends to learn to fly in that time), ;t hrs. ; Cripps, 1 hr. 45 rains. ; Dr. Morrison, 1 hr. 30 mins. ; Lieut.-Comdr. Baynes, 15 mins.; Hancock, 35 mins. ; Boileau, 30 mins. ; Stanford, 5 mins.and Commander Hunt, 15 mins. The soloists were : E. I. C. VVyllie, 45 mins. ; Shepherd, IS mins. ; SandersClarke, 50 mins. ; Pargeter, 10 mins, ; Cooper, 20 mins. ; Fagan, 30 mins. A. N. Other, 20 mins.i; Nicholson, lOmins.; Wells, 20 mins. ; Parker, 35mins.Bowen, 25 mins. ; Don de la Cierva, 10 mins.; F./O. Overbury, 40 mins. F./O. Southey, 10 mins. ; and Lieut. Graham, R.N.. 45 mins. Miss G. Breton and Miss P. Breton had joy rides with E. I. C. Wyllie,Mr. Nichoutts with F./O. Overbury, Mrs. Crook and Mr. Lovat with K.'P. L. Bowen and Mrs. Crook with our instructor. Engine overhauls have put one of our machines out of action all this week,and no flying was possible on Tuesday and Thursday on account of rain. On Sunday, Capt. Kittle flew down from Stae Lane in his new " X " Moth,with a friend in the front cockpit. We wire all very envious of his mount, especially his very fine compass. However, honours were even, for CaptainKittle was covetous of our recording barograph and club house in general. Incidentally, Sunday was a record day for this club'e flying time with onemachine, a total of 7 hours being reached. LANCASHIRE AERO CMB REPORT for week ending September 10.—Flying Time, 34 hrs. 40 mins.Instruction. 13 hrs. 2o mins. Solo nights, 11 hrs. 15 mins. Passenger flights, H hrs. 45 ruins. Test, 1 hr. 20 mins.Instruction (with Mr. Brown) : Messrs! Sykes, Browning. Taylor, Fallon, Ailott, Brooking, Cohen, Ruddy, Pattrieoux, Kinsley, Schofield, Wyler,Tweedale. Meades, Riley, Wilson. (With Mr. Cantrill) : Messrs. Cohen, Brooking, Riley, Ailott, Browning, Wyler, Rowley. (With Mr. Scholes) :Messrs. F. Scholes and Fallon. Soloists (under instruction) : Messrs. Rowley, Anderson, Harbor, Fisher,Meades, Caldecott and Miss Baerlein. Pilots : Messrs. Williams, Costa, Leeming, Twemlow, Gattrell, Ward. Agar and Michelson.Passengers (with Messrs. Brown, Cantrill, Scholes, Goodfellow, Leeming, Twemlow, Costa, Lacayo and Nelson) : Mrs. Lnuisson. Mr^. Holden, and Mrs.Longworth, the Misses Anderson, Emery. Browning, Rodman, Lonpworth, and Nation, Messrs. Edge, Jackson, Thorpe, Papadopulos, Dyson, Scholes,Rose, Eastwood, Dearnley, Rowley, Longworth, Fallon, Lowe, Fisher, Mills, Caldecott and Emery.L i verpool Civic Week Air Pageant, Hooton Park Aerodrome, September 24. —To stimulate entries it has been decided that private owners shall be eligibleto fly on their own machines in the inter-club members' race, provided they enter on behalf of their club. The London and Midland clubs have, we under- Mr. A. B. Torres, who has recently obtained his " A licence at the Lancashire Aero Club. stand definitely entered, but no reply has yet been received from Newcastle,Hampshire and Yorkshire. We have supported the meetings of the two latter and hope that they will be able to reciprocate, even if only to the extentof sending a machine over to "show the flag," as the Bristol and Wessex Club is very sportingly doing.We are still without any definite promise of Air Ministry support in the shape of modern types of service aircraft. With Liverpool and the Mersey-sidetrembling on the brink of becoming really air-minded, even to the extent of spending large sums of money on equipping a flying club and a first-classaerodrome suitable for an air-port, it will be in the nature of a tragedy ii none of our modern service types are there to impress the good Mersey-siders.Entries from the trade are promising and as it is said that £8,000 has already been subscribed or promised towards the formation of the proposed Mersey-side Flying Club, while half the profits of the Air Pageant go towards the same purpose, there is every reason to hope that the Light Aeroplane manu-facturers will reap the benefit of their enterprise in this respect. MIDLAND AERO CtUB LIMITED FLYING hours week ending September 10.—Flying time, 13 hrs. 21 mins.Dual instruction with Mr. W. J. McDonough : ~E. P. Lane, O. L. Richards, R. L. Brinton, C. Dawson, R. D. Bednell, H. Lattey, Capt. J. E. Brewin,R. Cazalet, H. Beamish. Solo : S. H. Smith, R. L. Jackson, R. L. Brinton, G. V. Perrv, R. Cazalet,H. J. Willis. Passenger flights (with Mr. McDonough) : E. D. Wynn, J. H. Moore,W. Baldwin, H. C. Mander, G. Mander, W. H. Bush. (With Mr. Brighton) : R. Darlington, L. F. Gundle. (With Mr. Willis) : O. L. Richards. NEttCASTLE-UTON-TYNE AERO CLUB REPORT for week ending September 11. Total, 24 hrs. 45mins.—Dual: 11hrs.30mins. Solo : 6 hrs. 5 mins. " A " Pilots : 6hrs. 5mins. Tests : 35 mins. Passengers : 30 mins. Instruction : Messrs. Rasmussen, L. Middleton, J. Middleton, Sadler,McDougal, Maxwell, Ferguson, Horn, Dr. Alderson, De Pledge, Griffiths, Turnbull, Hayton, Fairless, Lawson.Solo : Messrs. Rasmussen, L. Middleton, J. Middleton, Wardill, Shaw, McDougal, Wilson." A " Pilots : Messrs. R. N. Thompson, W. B. Ellis, Jewett, Mrs. Heslop, Miss Leathart, Heppell, Turnbull, A. H. Bell.Passengers : (With Mr. R. X. Thompson), The Masters Robson ; (With Mr. W. B. Ellis), Mr. Irwin ; (with Mr. J. D. Parkinson), Mrs. Fairless, Mr.Bulmer ; (with Mr. A. H. Bell), Mr. Hayton, Mr. Nash ; (with Mr. Simp- son), Mr. Maxwell.One whole day each of wind, fog and heavy rain, have seriously interfered With flying, iu addition to bad weather on other days.On Saturday, three privately-owned Moths were on the aerodrome at one time, those of the Marquis of Clydesdale, Lord Ossulston and Flight-Lieut.D'Arcy Greig. This is remarkable in an aerodrome so far removed from even the fringes of the flying areas of the country. NORFOLK & NORWICH AERO CLUB REPORT for week ending September 5. Total hours flown : 12. Dualwith Capt. Lines : Mrs. H. Cator, Messrs. Birchall, Batterel, Neave. Solo : Messrs. Gough, Cubitt. Birchall, Moore, Pank and Ramsey. Passengernights (members) : Mr. H. Cator, senr. and Miss B. Cator. We have this week been flying G-EBMP, loaned us pending the return of ourown Moth, and although she is not up to ours she is a most excellent machine to handle, and has afforded a good experience to the flying members.We have had a busy week ; on Wednesday the meeting at the Royal Hotel was well attended and the results gave much satisfaction to active members.On Thursday we held the first Civic Air Meeting ever held in this country and perhapsin the World, the whole thingwas a perfect success and all arrangementsworked well. The Lord Mayor and 19 City Councillors actually went up with Capt. Lines, and we had to cease flying practically in the dark, but with manyCouncillors still wishing to go up. Every Councillor expressed his pleasure and sense of complete safety, and many promised to become Associate Membersof the club ; we hope they will often visit us. The catering was successfully carried out by Messrs. Langfords, who also are in attendance on Thursday andSaturday afternoons. We are anxious to get a larger number on these two afternoons and hope members, both associate and active, will please note.On Sunday, the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress came along and had tea ; we were very pleased to see them and hope they will come more often. TheLord Mayor saw how acutely We required another machine, there Were enough applications to fly to keep two machines going the whole afternoon.In addition to'the usual excitement, our instructor. Capt. Lines, bowled up after tea with a mechanical contraption in which he informed us he had justdone 73 m.p.h. We rather doubt this, especially as we found there was no carburettor on the machine when it arrived. It seems very unfortunate thatthis particular contrivance refuses to function on aviation spirit, we therefore express our deep sympathy to Capt. Lines. After seeing him in charge of theproposition our members have come to the conclusion that flying must be indeed a lame job. SUFFOLK AEROPLANE CLUB REPORT for week ending September 11. Flying Time : 10 hrs. 40 mins. Instruction (with Mr. D, Carnegie) : G. Hutley, S. Schofield, C. N. Pren-tice, N. Creasy. Instruction (with Mr. N. Comper) : Miss D. Creasy, Dr. Sleigh, H. Billinton,S. Schofield. G. Hutley, N. Creasy, C. N. Prentice. ' Passengers : Mrs. Hutley, Miss Creasy, G. Hutley, F. Jolly, S. Hutley,F. Clifton. Solo : Courtney N. Prentice.Five new members were enrolled this Week, and the " Bluebird " has been kept very busy. Squally weather and rain held up flying for two days. WRKSHrRE AEROPLANE CLUB REPORT for week ending September 10. Flying Time : 30 hrs. 45 mins. Instruction: 17 hrs. 20 mins. Soloists: 9 hrs. 30 mins. Passengers: 3 hrs. 55 mins.Instruction (with Mr. Beck) : General Atcherley, Capt. Milburn, Miss Wood- head, Hirst, Ten Bos, Bailey, Brown, Tattersall, Gratwick, Crouther, Dujardin,Mason, Priestley, Micklethwait. Leatham. " A " Licence : Miss Woodhead, Capt. Milburn, Messrs. Wood, Little,Norway, Thomson, Wilson, D. Atcherley, R. Atcherley, Watson, Rhodes, Brackenbury.Passengers : (With Capt. Milburn)—Messrs. Herbert, Ingham, Blackburn. (With Mr. Thomson)—Mrs. Herbert.The " Bluebird " which arrived last week, has turned out to be very popular, as was expected, and quite a number of members have already gone soloon it. Capt. Milburn now has his Moth back from Londo and is helping usconsiderably to put up flying hours. Don't forget our Pageant, October 1 and 2. 653
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