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1930
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FLIGHT, JANUARY 3, 1930 THREE GREAT FLIGHTS. THE pictures on thispage commemoratethree great flights, and one very interesting club meeting. The top picture shows the gather- ing on the famous terrace of the House of Commons, when Mr. (now Sir) Alan | Cobham returned from his flight to Australia and back. This was the third arcat journey which he made in the D.H. 50 aeroplane G-EBFO. On the first occasion, he took Sir Sefton Brancker to India and Burma, and back. The object of this journey was to enable the Director of Civil Aviation to co-operate with the airship experts who had gone to India to select l|8fr possible sites for airship stations. On this occasion, " FO " was a landplane, and had a Puma engine. The second flight was to Capetown and back, and then " FO " was given a jaguar engine. Finally, this machine became a seaplane for the flight to Australia and back. On its return, special arrangements were made for it to alight on the Thames, at Westminster. The pilot and his two com- panions landed on the terrace, and were received by the Air Minister, Sir Samuel Hoare, the Mayor of Westminster, and a great concourse of notable people. In the top picture, Sir Samuel Hoare is speaking, with Sir Alan and Lady Cobham seated on either side of him. Below, on the right, Sir Alan Cobham is shown flying the Singapore, in which he made a tour round Africa in 1927, accompanied by Lady Cobham. He flew down the Great Lakes, and then round the coast, returning by West Africa, where a flying boat was a most unique sight. No man has done more than Sir Alan Cobham to induce air-mindedness in the people of the British Empire. The monoplane on the left-hand side of the page is the famous " Spirit of St. Louis," a Ryan, with Wright Whirlwind engine, in which Col. Charles Lindbergh made his famous flight across the Atlantic to Paris, in the summer of 1927. It was the second non-stop flight across the Atlantic, and the first solo crossing. The first of all the non-stop Atlantic flights was made in 1919 by the late Sir John Alcock andSir Arthur Whitten-Brown, in a Vickers' Vimy, with two Eagle engines. Before Lindbergh started on this flight, his nickname in America was "The Flying Fool," but since his success he has become the great national hero of the American people. In the same year, three other American aeroplanes crossed the Atlantic. The bottom photograph shows the first meeting of the Household Brigade Flying Club. '• FLIGHT Photos. 65
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