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1927
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OCTOBER 6, 1927 New Air Survey Contract THE Aircraft Operating Company have secured a contract from the Government of Northern Rhodesia to survey the upper waters of the Zambesi River, starting from Livingstone and proceeding up river as far as 400 miles. It will also include two tributary rivers, the Lungwebungu as far as the Angola boundary, and about 150 miles of the Kabompo River. This company is already carrying out a survey of Northern Rhodesia and one of the machines there now will be sent to Livingstone for this new work. Major Cochran- 1'atrick will be in charge, as he is of the present contracts in the territory. A New Harmon Trophy AVIATORS of a score of nations will be able to compete henceforth for a new Trophy, which is soon to be inaugurated by the International League of Aviators. Mr. Clifford B. Harmon, the League's pioneer president, is responsible for the idea. Each nation possessing a section of the League with 200 fliers, will be eligible for the competition, which will qualify the winner for the title of that nation's " national •champion," and thereby a candidate for the Harmon Inter- national Trophy. The latter, which is always on view at the League's headquarters in the Bois de Boulogne, was won last year by Pelletier Doisy, the French champion. The new Trophy will be kept at the headquarters of each Section per- manently, but its annual winner will receive a suitable replica, inscribed with the League's commendation of his performances. This will be accompanied by a " Certificate of Honour," the design for which is now being competed for by students of the Ecole des Beaux Arts of Paris, and other artists. R.A.F. Golf Championship SQDN.-LDR. C. H. HAVVVARD, who has held the R.A.F. •Golf Championship since 1922, was again the winner in the Championship Finals, which was held at Camberley Heath on September 30. He defeated F. O. G. R. Beamish •over 36 holes by 7 and 5. Schneider Pilots see Premier. PRIOR to the Air Council Luncheon on October 4, lrlt.- Lieut. Webster and other members of the British team were received by Mr. Baldwin at 10, Downing Street. Air Mails to Dutch East Indies LIEUT. KOPPEN arrived at Karachi from Bushire on his flight to the Dutch East Indies with mails. His machine is a Fokker monoplane. Dutch Air Developments M. I'I.ESMAX, genera! manager of the Dutch Air Services, has gone to Batavia to study the question of a regular air line between Holland and the Dutch East Indies. If this is •established, a link would be provided between England and Australia. New German Atlantic Flight A JUNKERS three-engined monoplane of the G 24 type, fitted with floats, left Norderney on October 4 to fly to America by stages. Three pilots are on board, Herren Loose, Starke and Lowe, as well as a mechanic, Herr Fritzler. Loose piloted the Junkers " Bremen " on its attempt to cross the Atlantic recently. He will act as wireless operator on [" FLIGHT " Photograph SCHNEIDER WELCOME : Col. Henderson, on an Avro, provided some excitement by taking off and flying around over the aerodrome (sometimes driven backward by the strong wind) trailing a huge " Daily News" banner with the words " Bravo Webster " on it. this new machine. Both transmitting and receiving appa- ratus are fitted. After leaving Norderney the machine landed at Amsterdam. The next stage will be Lisbon, then the Azores, and finally, New York via either Newfoundland or Bermuda. It is stated that neither Lufthansa nor Junkers have any direct interest in this endeavour. It is further reported that Seeflug-Versuchs A.-G. and a big steamship company are interested. Considerable mystery has prevailed over the whole project. San Francisco—Australia By Air ABOUT October 15 an effort to reach Australia from San Francisco via Honolulu by air is to be made by airmen whose names are not vet disclosed. Mails will be carried. On the Lido: Some British represen tatives in an idle mo- ment : From left to right, stand- ing, Major Penny, Mr. Perrin, Major Buchanan, and Col. O'Gorman. Seated, Mr. Parrott, Mr. Wallace Barr, Major Maurice Wright, and Mr. A. V. Roe. 705
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