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owners. He delivered the first of the Gipsy-Moths whichis to operate the Swedish night postal service from Oslo to Malmo. Except for clearing customs at Lympne CaptWhite s first stop was Rotterdam, where another Gipsv-Moth was found in t^ie hangar. It proved to belong to a privateowner who was on a week-end visit to Rotterdam En route to Hamburg, he passed over the Kaiser's PalaceAfter leaving Hamburg, he proceeded over Laaland and Zeeland, where he encountered a strange sight in a heavvrain storm : the complete circle of a rainbow. Capt. White made an attempt to fly through the centre of the rainbowhut was unsuccessful. At Malmo, the machine was fitted with night flying apparatus. FLIGHT, JUNE 13, 1929 Capt. White then took the Norwegian pilot as passengerover the route to Gothenburg and Oslo. That trip of roughly 350 miles is accomplished in just over 4 hrs. flying time.After a short delay the machine left again for Malmo with the first mails, returning the next morning with mails fromMalmo. The train journey for the stage takes 14 hrs., and a mail machine will make the journey Oslo-Malmo eachevening and return each morning. A Veteran Moth.—We learn that the Mark I Cirrus-MothG-EBMO, presented by Sir Charles Wakefield to the Lan- cashire Aero Club, has just completed her first 1,000-hrs.flying. This machine has been in constant service by the Club for over three years and is still in perfect condition. BRISTOL'S MUNICIPAL AERODROMET HE Bristol City Council received from the TownPlanning Committee an important report on the proposed municipal aerodrome, and approved of itrecently. The Committee had the advice and assistance of the Air Ministry and the Bristol and Wessex AeroplaneClub, Ltd. After viewing prospective sites the committee selectedone at Whitchurch, and approved of options to purchase the site being obtained on behalf of the Bristol and Wessex Clubwho have secured such options to purchase for the sum of /16.386, in respect of certain land. The area of the land is289 • 5 acres, and, therefore the price will be a little in excess of /56 per acre. This area complies with the requirementsof fhe Air Ministry to provide 1,000 yards in every direction for flying purposes, and affords additional land for thenecessary buildings. The Committee believes that the land referred to affordsnot only the best but the only site near Bristol which can be considered as desirable from all points of view for the estab-lishment thereon of a municipal aerodrome for the purpose of maintaining the prosperity and aiding the future develop-ment of the city. It is conveniently situated to afford easy access to the docks and to the railway station at TempleMeads. The straightest distance from the centre of the aerodrome to Temple Meads is 2 J miles, and by road fromthe south of the site to Temple Meads is 4 miles. It may be that under the proposed Town Planning schemefor the Whitchurch area that a new road will be planned which will give better and easier access to both the docks and to the city. The Club offered to transfer the benefit of the option topurchase the site to the Corporation provided the Corporation established an aerodrome thereon, and permit the club uponpayment of £100 per annum to use it and the facilities there provided jointly with other persons desiring to make useof the same. It is proposed that such a licence shall be granted to the club for a period of 21 years, determinable by eitherparty at the end of the seventh or fourteenth year. To com- mence operations it will be necessary to provide a club house,hangars, workshops, water, electric light, drainage, etc. Capital expenditure at the outset will be £23,046.The club also offered to manage the aerodrome for a period in the first instance of at least twelve months after it isestablished at a fee of £520 per annum. The committee do not submit any estimate of income, but suggest the followingas sources of revenue :—Garaging of privately-owned machines ; garaging commercial machines ; landing fees ;manufacturers of machines—premises for sale, supply, repair, and service ; tolls for passengers, mails, and goods ; profiton sale of petrol ; grazing rights ; rent of club premises ; letting of spare land between and behind hangars for tenniscourts, bowling greens, etc. ; rental of restaurant ; percen- tage of profit from displays, pageants, etc. The committee recommended that the land at Whitchurchbe acquired by the Corporation, and that ,£23,046 be borrowed in respect of purchase and equipment. Mr. Randolph Trafford with his Morane-Saulnier parasol monoplane fitted with a 120-h.p. Salmson engine.*«rt many private owners go to France for their machines, but Mr. Trafford is very pleased with the per- formance of this successor of a war-time fighter—the old "M.S." parasol, which saw so much service, not only in the French, but Allied Air Forces. ["FLIGHT" Photographs 487
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