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3fePTEMBER 22, 1927 2. Italy In most cases the civilian and military aerodromes are in one, the civilian being on the opposite side to the military. At Rome, I landed at the wrong end, and owing to the very hard and rough surface I had to take oft and land again the other side to save my under-carriage the severe strain of taxying. The organisation for dealing with civilian aircraft was considerably slower than in France. The western coastal route possesses a large number of emergency landing grounds, in most cases not far from a town, marked in white with the name, on each side of which was a " T." Although these would be of use for landing with a failing engine, in most cases they appeared to be unattended. On the main aerodromes in both France and Italy, the direction of the wind is indicated, in addition to the usual wind sleeve, by a white " T," mechani- cally mounted, which is kept trained with the cross of the" T " in the direction from which the wind is blowing. In many cases, especiallv with a light breeze, this was a better guide than the wind sleeve. Also, at Rome and Naplw, tmoke bombs were ignited as an additional guide when I circled the aerodrome. Fuel Petrol and oil—particularly the latter—are more expensive on the Continent than in England, and some of the grades of petrol supplied in Italy (although called '" Aviation special ") were of doubtful quality. It was also found that in several cases quite an appreciable amount of water was trapped by the chamois leather when filling. Castrol " R " was obtain- able at Le Bourget Aerodrome (Imperial Airways) the Grand Garage, Nice, and at Naples (Emanuele Vaccaro, S. Lasquale, 45-47. Tel. 1190S). Customs, Log Books, etc. The carnet issued by the Royal Aero Club went a long way towards satisfying the foreigner's craving for " papers," chiefly, I think, because it is written in French ! This document is absolutely7 essential for touring abroad. The customs officers did not trouble us much about personal luggage, but in Italy our camera had to be sealed the whole time. Cameras may not be carried by foreign pilots over Italian territory unless so sealed, and must be produced at each aerodrome visited, a notation being made in the Journey Log Book to the effect that it has been inspected. The Journey Log Book has also to be visaed by the aero- nautical authorities on every occasion of arrival and departure at an aerodrome, and by the customs authorities when entering or leaving a country. Maps " Taride " maps to the scale of 1/500.000 or approximately 8 miles to the inch was quite a convenient size. Although in England, which i:i SO COngt'Btt-'d, especially in the .south, this scale is somewhat on the small side, in France distances are so much greater and the towns correspondingly spread out that no difficulty was experienced in identifying the country. The only bad point about the French maps was that mountains were denoted by hatching instead of contour shading, forests and rivers were plainly marked. Messrs. Stamford, of Charing Cross, arranged my maps in a very convenient form, folding them 10 in. by 7 in., which exactly fitted the shelf above the dashboard of the " Moth." The maps were waterproofed and had large scale plans of landing grounds (cut out of supplements to the Air Pilot) pasted on the backs. LIGHT 'PLANE CLUBS London Aeroplane Club, Stag Lane, Edgware. Sec, H. H. Perrin, I3, Clifiord Street, London, VV.l. Bristol and Wessex Aeroplane Club, Yate, Gloucester. Secretary, [Lieut-Col. C. Fleming. Filtan Aer ..drome. Patchivay. i Hampshire Aeroplane Club, Hamble Southampton. Sec, Maj. Ross iWhite, Hamble, Southampton. ! Lancashire Aero Club, Woodford, Lanes. Sec, C. J. Wood, Oakneld, ;Dukinneld, near Manchester. j Midland Aero Club, Castle Bromwich, Birmingham. Sec, Maj. Gilbert \Dennison, 22, Villa Road, Handsworth, Birmingham. ! Newcaslle-upon-Tyne Aero Club, Cramlington, Northumberland. Sec,A. H. Bell, c/o The Club. Norfolk and Norwich Aero Club, Mousehold, Norwich. Sec, H. O.Bennett, 5, Opie Street, Norwich. The Scottish Aero Club Movement, 101, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow.Sec.: Harry W. Smith. Suffolk Aeroplane Club, Ipswich.—Secretary, Courtney N. Prentice," Hazeldell," Stowmarket, Suffolk. Yorkshire Aeroplane Club, Sherburn-in-Elmet, Yorks. Sec, D. M. N.Giles. Th>- Aerodrome, Slierburn-in-Eliiiet. LCNTCX AEROPLANE CLUB REPORT for the weekending September IS. Flying time : 39 hrs. 35 mini.Dual : 21 hrs. 10 mins. Solo: 15 hrs. 55 mins. Passenger: 2 hrs. 3n mins. Dual Instruction : With Capt. F. G. M. Sparks.—J. H, Veasey. A. T.Richardson. R. G. Whalley. H. R. Presland. Mrs. Russell. J. Ncsbitt, F. Yat-s Brown, J. W. Radbone, E. K. Brodrick. W. L. M. O'Connor, R. P. Cooper,Miss Spooner. J. Bickley, G. Weston, F. C. Fisher. L. Rowson, Capt. Hurt, E. A. Lingard. W. L. M. O'Connor, E. K. Blyth, Miss Fl-tch.r, H. Solomon.With Capt. S. L. F. St. Barb?.—J. H. Percy. L. Martin, E. N. Clarke. P. W. Hoare. P. H. R. White head, F. Yates-Brown. I. W. Radbonc, MissWilson, R. G. Whalley, R. P. S. Taylor, Capt. Burt. G. Black. Mrs. Russell. G. E. Clair. P. W. Hoar,-. F. C. Fisher, L. Rowson, M. Parkin. Solo Flying : J. J. Hofer, X. H. Tones. G. C. Bonner. W. Hay. P. W. Hoar.-,J. H. Veasey, Miss O'Brien, B. B. Tucker, W. Roche-Kelly. R. P. Cooper. C. E. Murrel'l, A. F. Wallace, J. H. Saffery. K. V. Wright, Major Beaumont.A. G. D. Alderson, D. P. H. Esl.r, E. K. Blyth, L. C. Davey. Passenger Flights : With Capt. F. G. M. Sparks.—Mrs. Cartenav. WithCapt. S. L. F. St. Barb-.—Mrs. Hof.-r. With R. Malcolm. —C. I>. Elliott. With O. J. Tapper.—J. J. Hofer. With W. Hay—A. Fowler. BRISTOL &. WESSEX AEROPLANE CLUB FLYING report for weekending S-ptember 17.— Flying time, 16 hrs. 45 minsInstruction, 13 hrs. 2i> mins. Soloists, 2 hrs. Hi mins. Passengers. 1 hr 15 mins.Instruction (with Mr. Bartlett) : Miss Miles , Mis? H. Pitman. Messrs. D. H. Amory, Hon. H. C. H. Bathurst, A. H. Downes-Shaw, R. S. Clan,A. E. G. Hawkins, R. A. Hall. R. H. C. Peters, J. E. Tratman, N. H. Warren, G. L. R. Welch, J. H. Roberts.Soloists (under instrurtion) : A. H. Downes-Shaw, R. A. Hall, J. E. Tratman. Passengers (with Capt. Barnwell) : Master R. A. Barnwcll and MasterBarn we 11. Pilots : Capt. Barnwell.Last week saw our first soloist launched under instruction. This week we have, three, our chairman, Mr. A. H. Downes-Shaw and Mr. Tratman havingcarried out their first solo flights. On Monday Miss Miles, piloted by Mr. Bartlett. visited the Patron of ourclub His Grace the Duke of Beaufort and landed in the grounds at Badminton. The Rt. Hon. Sir Samuel Hoare, Bart., C.M.G., M.P., has kindly consentedto come, down on Saturday, October 8, and officially open the club. As stated last week, we hope that all those interested in aviation will visit us onthis occasion. A5R0fLANE CLUB REPORT for week ending September 18.—Flying time, 20 hrs. 40 mins.Instruction, 13 hrs. 25 mins. Soloists, 4 hrs. 50 mins. Joy riders, 50 mins. Test flights, 1 hr. 35 mins. Instruction (with Flight-Lieut. Thomson) : Mrs. Aitken Dick, 1 hr. 25 mins.Sir F. Carmichael Anstruther, Bart., 30 mins. ; Hon. H. R. Grosvenor. 25 mins. Lieut.-Comdr. Woodhouse, R.N., 15 mins. ; Lieut. Hall Thomson, R.X., 45 ruin*.: Lieut. Laiilje. R.N., 2" mms.: i.i'-ut. Maml villi . K.N.. So miti.-,. ; Messrs.Duggan, 2 hr». In miiis. : A. R. Mrllnr. 1 5 mius. ; Whittle, m ruins. ; Molony, 10 mins. ; Bayncs. 1" mins. ; Standard. 1 hr. 25 nuns. : Diekson, 45 mins. ;Crook, all mins. : Blake, 25 mins. ; Hancock. I hr. 15 ruins. : Puttock. 3n mins. : B iil au. 25 mins. : and Capt. Molyneux, M.C., 25 niins. Soloists : Don J. tl- la Cierva. in mins. ; Hon. H. R. Grosvenor, 15 mins.:I". O. Southey, 55 mins. ; M-ssrs. Mellor. 4u mins. : Buweu, 45 mins. ; Sanders Clark. 25 mins. ; Wells, 15 mms. ; Nicholson, in mins. ; Fagan. 35 mins.;Rii'nbl". In niins. ; E. A. L. Parker. 15 mins. : Lieut. Graham, R.N., 10 mins., and Stanford. 5 mins.Passeiig-rs (with Flight-Lieut. Thomson; : Mr. Aitken Dick. Master Waite, and Mr. ThririK. (With K. P. L. B.wen) : Mr. Brady, Mr. Boxhall. (WithF. <>. South-v. : Mr». Graham and Mrs. Crook. On Sunday. Mr. Stanford (assistant to McCrarkcn, our ground engineer)mad- an excellent first solo flight after six hours' dual. Mrs. F.liott Lynn dropped in on her Avian on Sunday afternoon. , 13 hrs. 5Passenger flights, LANCASHIRE AERO ClUB RKPOKT for week ending September 17. -1-Iving time,Instruction, 3 hrs. 55 niins. Solo flights. 3 hrs. 55 mins. P fl 4 hrs. 5n mins. Test, 25 mins.Instruction (with Mr. lirownl : Messrs. Ril"y Wilson, Brooking, Browning, Ruddy, Stonex, Tweedale. Sykes and Allott.Soloists (under instruction) : Messrs. Rowley, Anderson. Meads, Shier* and Miss Baerlein. Pilots : Me srs. Fallon and Harber.Pass-ngers (with Messrs. Brown, Cantrill, Scholes, Goodfellow. Williams, Costa and Michelson) : The Misses Smith. Morgan, Elston, Plant and Parrot! :Messrs. Tattersall. Mills, Gort, G. Guest, John finest, James Guest, Rodman, Spruce, Preston, Dawson. F. Scholes. Moore and F.wan.LV had an adventurous time on Saturdav afternoon. She started by standing on her nose in the middle of the 'drome, smashing the prop anab-nding th~ cowling, but was flying again an hour later. Determined toavoi'.i the middle of the 'drome this time she came down heavily on a »a(i ""^close to the boundary. Two years ago she would probably have leapt'a skittishly 40 ft. into the air and thought nothing of it, but now, alas,knees gave under her and with a sad sweet smile sh" buried her nose nrml> the mud to the accompaniment of gentle cracking and scrunching sounds ironih-r longerons and spars. It was only last week that one sp.'nt from Sp-"1- l 1.20 a.m. trying to convince Capt. Lamphigh how reallywell behaved an ouimachines were. It's very 'ard. " ,\V mulieri credite." . . Hooton Park, S-pteml^r 24. -It looks as if at least 50 kites are going to _Fortunately, there is plenty of spac • m-wlarmn. meand accommodation present. Fortunately, there is plenty of space and accommouoi.""- R.A.F. is putting up an hour's programme with Gamecocks, Horslcys, » • Snipes, Avros and twin-engined night bombers. Owing to thfl n"m"l the entries for some of the events it will be necessary to fly off heats uuri b morning.morning. . TTririaV A dinmr-danc" will lie held at the Midland Adelphi, Liverpool, on ' ™ ) evening. Tickets (12s. tid. each) may U- had in advance by wn""*' .,.v cheque, to Mr. M. Anderson, 3, Lord St., Liverpool. Those intending toat the AdelpSi arc advised to book their rooms in advance 672
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