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FLIGHT. MARCH 6. 1931 AiRISMS FROM THE FOUR WINDS Q D. Barnard Air Tours, Ltd. ON April 1, Capt. Barnard, together with Messrs. Crossley and Ayre, will be setting out on an extensive tour of England for j0y-riding and general aerial propaganda. Capt. Barnard will be flying the now historic " Spider," which, it will be remembered, is the Fokker in which he, together with the ] luchess of Bedford, went to the Cape and back again, besides making many other long flights. It has now been fitted for twelve passengers, and together with other alterations which have been made, it should be quite suitable for the job. Messrs. Crossley and Ayre will be flying three-seater Spartans, while there is also a possibility that an Autogiro will accom- pany them. Mr. John Tranum, who has recently transferred his services as a parachute demonstrator to the Irving Air Chute Co., will also make drops in connection with the tour M most places. Altogether landing grounds at over 150 towns have been arranged, and at each of these some sort of demon- stration will be given, a large batch of school children will be taken up free, and payment will be made for one school boy to be trained as a pilot at the nearest flying club. Mr. 1). Kskcll, late of Imperial Airways and N.F.S., is in charge of the business side of the tour, which is expected to take about six months. Miss Reynolds' Flight to the Cape ON March 1, Miss Delphine Reynolds, daughter of Sir ]ames Reynolds, M.P., who, as mentioned last week, is carrying out a flight to the Cape via the West Coast of Africa, started on her journey from Hanworth. She is accompanied by Flight-Lieut. W. G. Pudney, an instructor of National Flying Services. The main object of the flight is to explore the possibilities of air transport along the river courses of West Africa, and they are flying a Blackburn " Bluebird " fitted with a D.H. " Gipsy III " engine. When flying from Le Bourget to Bordeaux, they had to land at St. Gaprays de Blaye, some 20 miles north of Bordeaux. R.A.F. Cairo-Cape Flight THE Vickers Victoria troop carriers of No. 216 Bomber Squadron, which started from Capetown on February 11 on their return flight to Cairo, reached Mpika on March 2. The Rangoon Flight to Basra THE three Short " Rangoon " flying-boats of No. 203 (F.B.) Squadron, which are flying to Basra from Mount Batten, arrived at Malta from Naples on February 25, after having been held up by bad weather. Polish Winter Challenge THE result of the Polish Winter Challenge, over the course Lublin, Zamosc, Luck, Brzest, Bugien, Biala, Pod- laska, Lublin, is announced as follows :—1st, K. Chorzewski, on an R.W.D.4, fitted with a Cirrus Hermes II, average speed, 157-963 k.p.h. 2nd, Lieut. Promaszko, on a similar machine, also fitted with a Hermes II, average speed, 156-013 k.p.h A Paris-Tokio Flight THE French pilots Burtin and Moench left Le Bourget on March 2 for Athens on the first stage of a flight to Tokio. Mrs. Bruce's "Bluebird " THE Blackburn " Bluebird," on which the Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce recently completed a world tour, was exhibited this week in the booking hall of Charing Cross Underground Station. No. 209 Flying-Boat Squadron THE two surviving " Iris " flying-boats of No. 209 (F.B.) Squadron are leaving Mount Batten for Gibraltar, as soon as the weather permits, toco-operate with the Mediter- ranean fleet in maruvuvres. The Schneider Contest IT is stated that the French team which has gone into training for the Schneider contest consists of Commander Amaurich, of the Navy, Capt. Marly, Capt. Vernold, Lieut. Retourna, Sergt. Major Dumas, Sergt. Baillet, Sergt. Goussiii, and Sergt. Labreveux. The first stages of training will be carried out on Bernard monoplanes with Hispano-Suiza engines, and there are also, it is stated, two Nieuport-Delage seaplanes at Berre. The racing seaplanes are not yet ready. They will include Bernards, Nieuport-Delages, and Dewoi- tines. The Air Ministry is ordering two new Supermarine- Rolls Royce S.6 seaplanes, instead of one, for the use of tin- British High Speed Flight. Recent Records FLYING a new Bleriot monoplane, with 600-h.p. Hispano- Suiza engine, the two French pilots, Boussoutrot and Rossi, claim to have established a new record for duration and distance in a closed circuit on March 2, when they landed at Oran after having been in the air for 75 hrs. 22 min. They were flying via the circuit Oran-Senia, and covered about 8,805 km. (5,500 miles), thus beating the previous record of 8 hr. 9 min. and 616 km. established by the Italians, Maddalena and Cecconi. Three other French pilots, Le Brix, Duret and Cadru, attempted to beat the same record, but were forced to land, on February 28, after 52 hrs. flying. The world's altitude record for light seaplanes has, it is reported, been beaten by the Italian pilots Antonini and Trevisan, who reached a "height of 5,324 m. (17,467 ft.) on a Caproni 100 fitted with a Cirrus Hermes II. THE SERVICE FLIGHT TO THE CAPE: One of the Vickers "Victoria " Troop Carriers of No. 216 (Bomber) Squadron landing at Maitland Aerodrome, Cape Town, on February 7. Table Mountain will be seen in the background. 2(>9
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