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1931
1931 - 0009.PDF
FLIGHT, JANUARY 2, 1931 Cleanness of design and workmanship, the effectivenessof the cowlings, and streamlining, have effected an efficiency which is responsible for very good performance characteristicsof this machine. The 'plane now produced is an eight-place job, designedfor transport use, but the makers point out the fact that the design is elastic and may be applied to larger or smallerconstruction without material loss of efficiency. The designer, Mr. George H. Prudden, has long been identi-fied with the development of all-metal multi-motored aircraft, and to him has been accredited much of the advancement in that branch of the industry, having formerly been associatedwith Mr. William B. Stout during the development of the Stout metal aircraft. He may well be pleased with hislatest accomplishment. The sales activities of the company are under the directionof Mr. Edward Whitehead, who was'formerly connected with a General Electric merchandising organization, and alsoheaded a larger real estate development on the Pacific coast. Mr. Whitehead served with credit throughout the late worldwar, seeing active service on both the western and Italian fronts with the air forces. ! SNAPSHOTS FROM SOUTH AFRICA" ASOUTH AFRICAN reader of FLIGHT, Mr. G. M. Sargeant,Jun., has sent us the accompanying snapshots depictinga few aviation events happening in that part of the world during the past few years, which, we think may beof -interest. The first shows Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Butler deplaning from their Gloster " Survey " machine at WynbirdAerodrome, Cape Town, on their arrival there last April. The Gloster AS.31 machine, G-AADO, fitted with two Bristol" Jupiter " engines, it will be remembered, was flown out Universal " monoplane (Pratt & Whitney " Wasp " engine),used on the Union Airways Cape Town-Johannesburg air mail service. Below this picture (centre, right) is the Cape Town FlyingClub's first Avro " Avian," which was presented to them by the " Shell " Co. Our reader writes that this club has hadto close down as it was unable to pay its way without a Government subsidy.Next, bottom left, we have one of the Fairey "IIIF" from England by Mr. and Mrs. Butler for the important surveywork which the Aircraft Operating Co. had undertaken TO carry out m Rhodesia. This machine is also shown, intrie second snap on the left, about to leave Cape Town for the scene of operations. he toP right-hand picture shows the Fokker " Super- (Napier " Lion ") bombers of the R.A.F. Cairo-Cape flight(1929), at Cape Town. This actual machine crashed on the return flight.The last picture is the late Mr. Van Lear Black's Fokker F.VII.3m., G-AADZ, snapped at Cape Town when he flewthere in 1929. 11
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