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NoVEML'ER 3, 1917 Solo Instruction ; Messrs. Lister, Lax. •• A " Pilots : Messrs. Thomson, Wilson, Wood. " B " Pilots : Mr. CarterPassengers with Captain Beck : Mr. Ellis. With Mr. Thomson : Miss Hadwick, Mr. Claxton.Owing to gales, fog, wind, and rain, the flying this week has been confined to two days, Sunday and Saturday. These two days our " Bluebirds "were kept busy until darkness intervened and prevented further aerial activity. •Flying Officer Atchcrley again favoured us with a visit this week-end,butjowiug to the adverse Air Ministry weather report, left quite early on Sunday mornii g. Mr. and Mrs. Baxter Ellis called in on their way back from London with LXlooking very " posh." At the conclusion of the financial year, and only after very serious considera-tion, the Directors of the club have reluctantly been compelled to revise the Annual Subscription, etc. These will be as follows, and will operate on andfrom November 1, 1927, except in the case of present members. Flying Members :—Subscription £5 5s. per annum. Entrance Fee, £5 5s.Associate Members :—Subscription, £2 2s. per annum. Entrance Fee, £2 2s. 0 E JR/SMSFR0MT1FQVJtWM)S Great Flying Boat Cruise THE R.A.F. " Southampton " flying boats reached the JJhaleron air station at Athens from Brindisi on October 28 shortly before noon. The following day they reached Abukir, where they will remain until November 3.Batavia-Amsterdam in Nine Days LIEUT. KOPPEN has completed the homeward flight from Batavia to Amsterdam in the record time of nine days. He reached home on October 28 and received a great welcome. Briefly his progress was as follows :—He left Batavia on October 17, arrived at Singapore (625 miles), October 17 ; Bangkok (1,(K.)O miles), October 18: Calcutta (1,160 miles) October 21 ; Allahabad (490 miles), October 22 ; Karachi (950 miles), October 23 : Bander Abbas (745 miles), October 24 ; Baghdad (995 miles; October 25 ; Aleppo (5(10 miles), October 26 ; Belgrade (1,375 miles), October 27 ; Amsterdam (1,015 miles). October 28. Lieut. Koppen, it will be remembered, set out from Amsterdam on October 1, and took ten days for the flight to Batavia. He has thus accomplished the double journey from start to finish—in 2S days, or well within the month ! The object of the venture was to test the possibility of an air mail route to the Dutch East Indies, and mail to the value of £3,000 was, in fact, carried on both the outward and the homeward trips. The machine was a Fokker F. \II-3m. monoplane, fitted with three Armstrong-Siddeley " Lynx " engines, which combina- tion behaved splendidly throughout the whole flight, maintain- ing an average speed of a little over 100 m.p.h. The three aviators concerned, Lieut. Koppen. second pilot l-'ryns, and mechanic Elleman, have received a knighthood in the Order of (>range-Nassau.Slotted Wings for Air Liners ? MAI. H. G. BKACKLEY, Air Superintendent of Imperial Airwavs, Ltd., has been testing a machine fitted with the Handler Page automatic wing-slots with a view to the adop- tion of this safety device on the air liners.I nder- Secretary for Air at Ottawa SIR 1'HIIIP SASSOOX, now on a visit to America, flew from Buffalo to Ottawa on October 3(1 in a U.S. Army machine. He was met by the Canadian Minister of Defence and entertained at a luncheon by the Governor-General, Lord \\ ilhngdon Me left again the same day for New York Latest l.S. Aircraft Carrier AMKKK \ has just commissioned a new aircraft carrier named the " Saratoga," which will be followed by a sister- ship, the " Lexington." The cost of the former is /9,000,000 and i! carries 31 bombing machines. She is also equipped for fighting, scouting, torpedo and spotting machinesFamous Test Pilot Returns C\j>r. F. T. CoiKTMiV arrived at Calshot air base on October 31 after his sojourn at Corunna, where he was forced to descend when attempting to reach the Azores on the Dornier " Whale " flying boat on the preliminary stage across the Atlantic.Herr Konnecke Restarts THIS German pilot, who flow non-stop in a Caspar biplane from Cologne to Angora on September 20-21. has restarted his Far East flight, and arrived at Karachi from Bander Abbas on October 31. He had been delayed at Bander Abbas since October 8.French Attempts at Light 'Plane Records ON October 20 the French pilot Finat, flying a Caudron 109 (40 h.p. SalniRon), accomplished a flight, over a closed circuit, of 1,146 kms.' (712 miles) in 11 hrs. 15 mins. On October 22 he set out from Le Bourget in the same machine, accompanied by Mme. Finat, and flew to Berlin, a distance of 862 kms. (535-6 miles), in 9 hrs. 36 mins. Another French pilot, M. Knipping, also on a Caudron monoplane with 40 h.p. Salmson engine, flew on October 31 from Le Bourget to Kdnigsberg. He had covered a distance of about 900 miles via Brussels and Berlin, but was forced to land at Konigsberg owing to bad weather. It had been his intention of flying for 20 hours, and for this purpose he had 66 galls, of petrol on board. Col. Lindbergh Completes U.S. Tour THIS famous pilot has just completed his American air tour ranging over three months, during which time he has visited every State and 82 towns. He flew his equally famous Ryan monoplane, fitted with Wright " Whirlwind " engine, which has now done over 355 hours and does not yet require an overhaul. Col. Charles Lindbergh, was enthusiastically received everywhere. On his return to Long Island he was welcomed by Lieut.-Col. Foulois, commandante of the Mitchell Field, and Mr. Harry Guggenheim. This tour has been remarkable for the pilot's punctuality at almost every stopping place. Co!. Lindbergh has decided to be free of the many com- mercial offers made to him so that he might engage in experi- mental flying accordngly as he feels disposed. He will become a trustee of the Guggenheim Fund and give his services to that organisation in an advisory capacity as well. The " Red Rose " in the Desert Ox the latest stage of their flight to Australia, Capt. Lancaster and Mrs. Keith Miller were compelled to descend at Rutba Desert post, midway between Baghdad and the Mediterranean, owing to bad weather. The R.A.F. had provided a Yickers " Yernon " machine to escort the " Red Rose," which is an Avro " Avian."New R.A.F. African Flight THREE Fairey R.A.F". machines left Heliopolis, Cairo, on October 27, on a Service flight to Nigeria, via Khartoum, El Fasher, Abesher, and Fort Lamy, They were under the command of Wing-Commander F. W. Stent. They arrived at Wadi Haifa from Abukir the same afternoon. On October 28, Atbara was reached at 10.30 a.m., and, departing half-an- hour later, the three machines landed at Khartoum. On October 29 they made a forced landing at Iura, 50 miles from El Fasher, after leaving El Obeid. This was through lack of fuel. British Far-East Flight EARLY next week it is the intention of Capt. R. H. Mclntosh to make his delayed attempt on a long distance flight to India and even farther if it is possible. Using the Fokker monoplane fitted with a Bristol " Jupiter "of 500 h.p., he will be accompanied by Mr. Bert Ilinkler, the famous Avro test pilot.Fine Italian Flight Ax Italian " Savoia " machine, fitted with a 500 h.p. Isotta-l'raschini engine, reached Stockholm from Finland on October 27. In the course of a long tour from Italy, commenced on October 10, it had covered 3,800 miles. It flew via Belgrade, Konstan::a, Saratoff, Samara, Moscow, Lenin- grad, and Helsingfors. The next stage will be to Amsterdam and then Rome.The American Girl in Paris Miss RUTH ELDER and her pilot, Capt. G. Haldeman, who failed in an attempt to cross the Atlantic by air and were rescued in mid-ocean, arrived at Paris by air from Madrid. They had been loaned a Potez 25A for this purpose by Com- mandante M. Weiss and reached Paris two hours earlier than they were expected. 769
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