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HT] JANUARY 12, 1928 LIOHT 'PLANE CLUBS London Aeroplane Club, Stag Lane, Edgware. Sec, H. E. Perrin,3, Clifford Street, London, W.I. Bristol and Wessex Aeroplane Club, Filton, Gloucester. Secretary,Iieut.-Col. C. Fleming, Filton Aerodrome, Patchway. Hampshire Aero Club, Hamble, Southampton. Secretary, Maj.Ross White, Hamble, Southampton. Lancashire Aero Club, Woodford, Lanes. Secretary, C. J.Wood, Oakfleld, Dukinneld, near Manchester. Midland Aero Club, Castle Bromwich, Birmingham. Secretary,Maj. Gilbert Dennison, 22, Villa Road, Handsworth, Birmingham. Newcastle-upon-Tyne Aero Club, Cramlington, Northumberland.Secretary, A. H. Bell, c/o The Club. Norfolk and Norwich Aero. Club, Mousehold, Norwich. Secretary, H. O. Bennett, 5. Opie Street, Norwich. Nottingham Aero Club, Hucknall, Nottingham. Hon. Secretary,Cecil R. Sands, A.C.A., Imperial Buildings, Victoria Street, Nottingham.The Scottish Flying Club, 101, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow. Secretary, Harry W. Smith. Suffolk Aeroplane Club, Ipswich. Secretary, Courtney N. Prentice," Hazeldell," Stowmarket, Sufiolk. Yorkshire Aeroplane Club, Sherburn-in-Elmet, Yorks. Secretary,D. M. N. Coles, The Aerodrome, Sherburn-in-Elmet. LONDON AEROPLANE CLUB REPORT for weekending January 8, 1928.—There has been no flying duringthe week. BRISTOL S> WESSEX AEROPLANE CLUB REPORT for fortnight ending December 31, 1927.—Total flying time,12 hrs. Instruction, 2 hrs. 45 mins. ; soloists, 4 hrs. 4(1 mins. ; passengers, 4 hrs. 35 mins. Instruction With Mr. E. B. W. Bartlett : Miss H. Pitman, Messrs. H. A.Tiarks, E. T. Garnett, A. E. Stephens, P. H. Bryan, A. E. Arnold, and Dr. F. J. Farr. Soloist under instruction, Mr. A. E. Roberts. "A" Pilots: Messrs. A. H. DoWnes-Shaw. J. E. Tratman, R. A. Hall,and C. E. Pitman. Passengers with Mr. Bartlett : Hon. Miss U. Bathnrst, Mrs. Bowles, Mrs.Mauri, and Mr. Morris. With Mr. Tratman : Mr. Kilsby. With Mr. C. E Pitman : Miss H. Pitman, Mr. J. Pitman, Mr. P. Pitman,'Mr. T. H. Clarke. The club consider that it has established a record. Mr. C. E. Pitman leftFilton for Eton and returned with his younger brother, Mr. P. Pitman, in under three hours. This is the first time that a member of a public schoolhas returned for his holidays by aeroplane. REPORT for week ending January 7.—Total flying hours : 2 hrj. 5 mins. ;instruction, 1 hr. 5 mins.; passengers, 1 hr. This is the worst week as regards weather conditions that the club hasexperienced since its formation. Further remarks on the club's activities will be found elsewhere in this issue of FLIGHT. HAMPSHIRE AEROPLANE CLUB REPORT for week ending Jan. 7, 1928.—Figures for last week's work arenot at present available, but further remarks on the club's past, activities will be found elsewhere in this issue of FLIGHT. LANCASHIRE AERO CLUB REPORT for period ending January 7. 1928.—Flying time, 17 hrs. 5 rains. ;instruction, 4 hrs. 35 mius. ; solo flights, 9 hrs. ; passenger flights, 1 hr. 50 mins.; tests, 1 hr. 40 mins. Instruction (with Mr. Brown) : Messrs. Heath, Chart, Hall, Meads, Brown-ing, Cort, Miss Baerlein and Miss Brown. (With Mr. Cantrill) : Messrs. Davison and Browning. (With Mr. Scholes) : Mr. Benson.Soloists (under instruction) : Messrs. Heath, Browning, Caldecot, Ruddy, and Browning.Pilots : Messrs. Goodfellow, Twemlow, Lacayo, Hardy, Leeming, Meads, Michelson, Nelson, Cattrell, Rowley, Crosthwaite, Miss Brown. Passengers (with Mr. Cantrill) : Miss Boyes. (With Mr. Twemlow) : MessrsAUott and Hall. (With Mr. Goodfellow)': Mr. Mills. (With Mr. Leeming) : Messrs. Thompson, Moffat, Benson, and Mathews. One owes an apology, does not one, for the absence of club notes fromLancashire during the festive season. There are several explanations of an impeccable nature, all true, but as none of them would be believed, howeverplausible, one refrains from giving them. Just before the Christmas holidays Lt. Heath went solo and got throughhis tests, all in one week, a very creditable performance. Since the New Year, however, things have been going badly. Avian QL's engine having sirasheda con-rod, her sister RR's engine went on sympathetic strike, a big end bearing disintegrating for no apparent reason except pure cussedness. ThereuponMr. Crosthwaite, on our veteran Moth MQ, lost control when taxi-ing down wind over the frost-hardened ground and dived nose first into the pondThis reduced us to the Renault-Avro and even with the help of Moth V, which we have taken back from Mr. Anderson temporarily to ease the situationwe are still in a bad way. Incidentally, MQ's crash produced the first injury of any note to the per-sonnel of the club. The pilot was quit*? all right but Mr. Dobson, motoring out to the crash at speed, struck a ridge on the aerodrome with the result thatColonel Nelson, who was with him, sustained a fracture of his classical nose and a generally bent face. Jolly hard lines. No claim has been made on the B.A.I.C. under our expensive persona)accident policy ! NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE AERO CLUB REPORT for weekending January 1,1928 :—Total time flown, 11 hrs. 50 mins.Dual instruction, 7 hrs. 30 mins. ; solo training, 1 hr.; " A " pilots, 2 hrs. 4 mins.; tests, 35 mins. Instruction (with Mr. Parkinson) : Messrs. V. Heaton, L. Heaton, L.Middlcton, J. E. Griffiths, Dickinson, and Dr. Alderson. Solo (training) Mr. De Pledge. 6'" A " Pilots : Messrs. D. Wilson, A. Bell, Mrs. Heslop, Messrs. C .Thompson Baxter Ellis, F. L. Turnbull.Passengers : i(with Mr. Baxter Ellis) Mr. P. L. Lawson ; (with Mrs. Heslop) Mr. C. Thompson ; (with Mr. C. Thompson) Mrs. Heslop, Mr. Luckman. Week ending January 8, 1928 :—Total, 8 hrs. 15 mins. Instruction1 hr. 45 mins. ; " A " pilots, 4 hrs. 50 mins. ; tests, 10 mins. Instruction : Miss O. Klyver, Messrs. L. Middleton, J. E. Fairless." A " Pilots : Mrs. Heslop, Messrs. Leech, Turnbull, R. N. Thompson, C. Thompson, D. Wilson.Passengers : (with Mrs. Heslop) Mr. C. Thompson ; (with Mr. C. Thompson) Mrs. Heslop .Mr. Luckman ; (with Mr. F. L. Turnbull) Mr. R. N. Thompson ;(with Mr. R. N. Thompson) Messrs. Turnbull and Griffiths. NOTTINGHAM AERO CLUB REPORT for three weeks ending December 28, 1927.—Total flying time17 hrs. 25 mins. Dual. 11 hrs. 50 mins. ; solo, 4 hrs. 55 mins. ; passenger, 40 mins.Instruction (with Mr. Martin) : Messrs. Calladine, Whitby, Blake, Cox, Pilgrim. Walter. Glenn and Paul. Solo (under instruction) : Messrs. Wilcox, Hallam, Sands, Blake, Whitbyand Cox. Solo (" A " Licencrj : Mr. Ball. Passenger :—With Mr. Martin : Messrs. Slocombe, Trunk and Walker.With Mr. Ball : Mr. C. Davies. In spite of snow. rain, fog and wind, we have managed to send off threemore soloists, making the total up to six, the latest additions being Cox, Whitby and Blake, the last named being, between ourselves, our first realab initio £50 merchant. Blake Went with the minimum of 8 hrs. dual, and put up a first-class show with a snow-covered " deck." Mr. Cyril Sands has been appointed " Official Observer" to the RoyalAero Club, and the " A " Licence aspirants are showing themselves most anxious as to the state of his thirst. No flying was possible Christmas week owing to rather a lot of weatherand an engine-top overhaul. May we wish all readers a very happy and prosperous New Year ? REPORT for weekending January 6, 1928 :—Total flying time, 5 hrs. 50 mins.Dual, 3 hrs. 20 mins. ; solo (" A " licence), 10 mins. ; solo (under instruction) 2 hrs. : tests, 20 mins.Dual (with Mr. Martin) : Messrs. Wilcox, Blake, Cox, Granger. Hancock, Hallam, and Paul.Solo (" A " licence) : Mr. Paul. Solo (under instruction) : Messrs. Wilcox, Blake, Hallam, and Cox.Bad weather has reduced our flying days to two only this week. The top overhaul has been entirely successful ; the engine is now deliveringthe goods up to sample. *UFFOIK AEROPLANE CLUB REPORT for weekending January 8, 1928.—Flying time, 4 hrs. 10 mins.Instruction (with Mr. Lowdell) : Miss Edwards, R. Brown. F. Jolly. Instruction (with Mr. Prentice) : K. Peck, F. Verney, S. Schofield.Passenger (with Mr. Prentice) : Miss D. Owles. Soloists : Dr. Jas. Sleigh, S. Schofield.Sunday was the only day this week on which flying was possible. During the afternoon Dr. Sleigh successfully carried out his " A " licence tests in veryfine style. Mr. Creasy, one of our first soloists, has now joined the Royal Air Force. It is a great disappointment to the Club that he was unable to completehi? " A " licence tests before leaving. YORKSHIRE AEROPLANE CLUB REPORT for week ending January 7, 1928.—Flying time, 5 hrs. 30 mins.Instruction, 2 hrs. 40 mins. Soloists, 1 hr. 30 mins. Passengers, 1 hr. 55 mins. Instruction (with Captain Beck) : Messrs. Humpheries, Bell, TacksonClayton, Miller, Ellison. Solo Instruction : Messrs. Humpheries, Clayton." A " Pilots : Messrs. Thomson, Wood, Norway. Passengers (with Captain Beck) : Messrs. Ellis, Storey, Bamford. (WithMr. Wood) : Mr. Critchley. Of course, the weather this week has been beyond description, except onTuesday, when we discarded leather coats and flying boots and basked in the sun " a la Lido." Reg. at last! We have survived the months of damped enthusiasm andtriumphed in the end. Reg. Humpheries has been dogged by the foulest of luck right through his training. If it was not bad weather, there were nomachines ; if the machines were all right, we were booked up ; ifiwe weren't booked up, somebody wanted " I love that girl " on the banjuleli- ; and onthese lines he has struggled through and finally won. Another event of interest that has taken place this week is the marriage ofMr. R. H. L. Brackenbury to Miss Springman. Mr. Brackenbury has been an active member of the Club during our last season, and Miss Springman hasbeen one of our keenest joy-riders. We wish them both the greatest joy and hope that Mr. Brackenbury's connection with the Club has not been in vain,as there is every prospect of him acquiring a Honeymoon Express in the £arly spring. In South Africa LADY HEATH and her husband, Sir James Heath, havearrived at Cape Town and been the guests for a short time of the Cape Town Flying Club. Lady Heath intends to tourthe country in her new Avro " Avian." The East London Club has taken delivery of its " Moth," which was shippedout on the " City of Alexandria." The instructor will be Mr. F. Kurtz, and the charges for tuition will be £2 per hourdual control and £3 per hour solo flying. Joy-riding for the public is alsp included in the Club's programme. 24
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