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1928
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DECEMBER 20, 1928 Light 'Planes for S.A. Air ForceAN Avro " Avian " and a D.H. " Moth " have been used as an experiment for training cadets of the South AfricanAir Force at Pretoria. The machines were flown from Cape Town to Pretoria by Major J. Holthouse, O.B.E., andLieut. D. J. Roos. Should these experiments be successful more light 'planes will be acquired for training.Spanish Airways A MONOPOLY for air communications in Spain with aGovernment subsidy of £100,000, has been granted to a Spanish group formed for the fusion of the two companies now runningair lines between Madrid, Lisbon, Seville and Barcelona. A Madrid-Paris air line, long desired, will now possibly develop.Flight to West Africa CAPT. R. S. RATTRAY, Provincial Commissioner, GoldCoast, who is flying back to Accra on his own D.H. " Moth " (Cirrus) is still detained at Le Bourget by bad weather. Heleft England on December 5. Lady BaileyTHE French Government has advised Lady Bailey that it cannot give her permission to fly across the Sahara, forthe purpose of which she has been waiting at Gao, on the Niger, for the last fortnight. The reason for the refusal isowing to the disturbed conditions. She has been advised to fly to Dakar and thence to Casablanca, a route where officialfacilities will be granted. Lady Bailey is flying her Cirrus- Moth.Christmas Mail by Aeroplane A POSTAL aeroplane with Christmas mail will fly to theCanadian North-West and distribute the mail over a distance of 1,300 miles to several hundred settlers who, ordinarily,would only have received it six weeks after its despatch from the nearest railway station.Canadian Record A NEW Canadian air mail record was made recentlv when a machine left Montreal with 873 lb. of mail and flew 150 milesto Quebec City in 45 mins. Anglo-Belgian Co-operation SIR SAMUEL HOARE, Sir Sefton Brancker and Sir Alanand Lady Cobham are visiting Brussels this week to confer with the Belgian Minister for Air concerning co-operation inAfrican air development. Washington Conference Closed COL. LINDBERGH received the Harmon Trophy at theInternational Civil Aeronautics Conference which closed at Washington on December 14. This is an annual award tothe man who is considered to have done most for aviation during the year. Congress voted the D.F.C. to Mr, OrvilleWright and also one to the name of his dead brother, Wilbur. The presentation to Orville was made at the celebrationceremonies at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, this week. German Air Disaster A LARGE Luft-Hansa air liner crashed in a snowstormbetween Berlin and Hanover on December 11, and the pilot, Capt. Doerr, and two others, forming the crew, were killedThe only passenger was saved, although he was fast asleep when the machine crashed. He awoke to find the nose ofthe machine in flames. Another passenger had previously dis- embarked at Hanover. Capt. Doerr was a war-time " Ace."Hull and Aviation ON December 7 Sir Sefton Brancker visited Hull todiscuss with commercial men the proposal to establish an air port there. Maj. W. H. Carver, M.P., had askedSir Samuel Hoare to send a deputation to the city, and he was informed that there was no hope of a subsidy beinggranted for any air service. R.A.F. Boxers Win THE Royal Air Force boxers entertained the Belsize B.C.at the Stadium Club on December 14. After a number of good fights the R.A.F. won by five events to four. SIR ALAN COBHAM TRIES A NEW MOUNT : Sir Alan Cobham gave a fine exhibition of skilful piloting on the Simmonds " Cirrus-Spartan " at Croydon on December 11, in a high and very gusty wind. Sir Alan expressed himself as delighted with the airworthiness and " robust feeling " of the Spartan in the air 1068
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