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1928 - 0488.PDF
[" FLIGHT " Photograph PARACHUTING FOR A LARK : Miss June invented a new sport at the Midland Pageant. In descending from an Avro with her " Guardian Angel " parachute, as shown above, she caught a lark in the " cup " of the parachute. punctually at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday with a shower of rain, and the start for Midland Inter-Club Handicap final (one lap), in which six competitors started, as follows :— Machine and Moth-Cirrus 1 " Moth-Cirrus I 'Moth-Cirrus 1 ' Moth-X -Cirrus Engine. 'LT ' 'OT' 'LW H " 'PTAvian Ill-Cirrus III " 'VZ Moth X-Cirrus II " 'WI Handicap. mins. sees.i -n 1 070 57 0 270 26 .. Scratch JUNE 14, 1928 Midland Inter-Club Handicap First Prize—Midland Inter-Club Challenge Trophy, and /25 ; second prize, /10 ; third prize, /5. Pilot and Entrant. S. H. Smith (Midland Ae.C.) . .Miss W. E. Spooner (London Ae.C.) . R. D. Bedneli (Midland Ae.C.)F. L. Turnbiill (Newcastle Ae.C.) Miss W. S. Brown (Lancashire Ae.C.] Norman Jones (London Ae.C.) It was obvious to all that each competitor as he, or she got away was feeling the bumps pretty severely, but they all took off and proceeded on their way in excellent style, and were soon out of sight. As soon as the scratch man had left, event No. 2 was proceeded with—this being an exhibition of inverted flying by E. G. Lowdell on a Blackburn " Bluebird," fitted with an Armstrong-Siddeley " Genet " engine. It was quite an interesting display, in which the pilot repeatedly turned the " Bluebird " over on to its back and flew thus for several seconds. Just as he was concluding his exhibition, some of us were taken unawares by the return of the " Inter-Clubites." The first of these to cross the line was Turnbull, on the Newcastle " Moth " 'PT, whose time was 10 mins. 24§ sees., and average speed 80 m.p.h. Close behind was Norman Jones (London) on " Moth " 'WI, with 10 mins. 28-i sees., and 83 m.p.h. Miss Winifred Brown came in a close third, on the Lancashire " Avian," with 10 mins. 37 sees., and 78 m.p.h. As to the others, we lost them altogether, and did not see them come home in the confusion of the other machines circling to land. Event 3 followed promptly to time, and comprised a very interesting " Instructional Demonstration " by Fit.-Lieut. W. R. Cox, Adjutant of No. 605 County of Warwick (Bomb- ing) Squadron, on an Avro-Lynx. He first showed us how to take off across wind (and there -was plenty of it), a useful procedure when one wishes to get out of a confined space. He then demonstrated such evolutions as the spin, the loop, the half-roll, the side slip, and finally a cross-wind landing (while the wind was still plentiful as well as cross !). Capt. Neville Stack—who, with Mr. B. S. Leete made history with their light 'plane flight to India—then gave us a remarkable display of aerobatics on the ADC " Moth " G-EBUF. He looped, rolled, and spun his machine at very f" FLIGHT " Photographs CRAZY FLYING—SLOTTED AND OTHERWISE : Sqdn.-Ldr. Noakes (left) adds a few new spasms to his reper- toire of crazy flying on the Avian with Handley-Page slots. On the right, Capt. Stack also did some " loopy " flying, without the aid of slots, on the D.H. " Moth " (A.D.C.) 444
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