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FLIGHT, MAY 8, 1931 A1R1SMS FROM THE FOUR WINDS T, Prince Flying to Manchester the night. On the following day they were to visit theO Mav 12 the Prince will fly to Manchester to address R.A.F. College, and then proceed to Grantham and visit «h Chamber of Commerce. He will lunch privately with No. 3 Flying Training School. On Saturday they will pro- i H Derbv and after tea with the Lord Mayor of Man- ceed to Hornchurch, visit No. 54 (Fighter) Squadron, and, hester will" fly back to London. "fter lunch, proceed to Mansion, where they will stay theChester King Albert in an Autogiro WHEN a Cierva Autogiro, piloted by Mr. Brie with Lord Stonehaven as passenger, arrived at night, before departing for Belgium, and League of Nations Advisory Committee Appointed St. VICE-ADMIRAL DREYER has been appointed to succeed wWert lerodrome o May 2, King Albert of Belgium, Vice-Admiral Anderson as British representative on the ho was also visiting the aerodrome, expressed a wish to Permanent Advisory Committee of the League of Nations BO UD in the machine. Although the Queen indicated some for military, naval, and air questions, anxietv the King climbed into the cockpit, and was taken The Late Air Vice-Marshal Sir Sefton Brancker for a" ten-minute flight, with which he was extremely THE following donations have been received by The nleased—saving " what a wonderful invention." Royal Aero Club towards the cost of an oil painting of Cant Stack "and the'Australian Flight the late Air Vice-Marshal Sir Sefton Brancker:—Royal \FTKR three abortive starts, Capt. Stack and Mr. J. R. Aero Club, £21 ; Petroleum Distributors' Committee, Clnplin succeeded in reaching Constantinople in one day. £10 10s.; Captain H. Barber, £5 5s.; Liverpool and District "•hev left Lvmpne at 4.22 a.m. on Saturday, May 2, and Aero Club, £5 5s.; A. C. M. Jackaman, £2 ; Lieut.-Col. reached Constantinople at 9 o'clock the same night. The Sir Francis McClean, Commander James Bird, F. Handley journey of 1,660 miles was made in 15 hr., with only one stop of 40 min. at Vienna. The continuation of the flight Longden, was, however, abandoned owing to the uncertain behaviour of the engine, and the return journey was made to Heston in 14 hr. 45 min. on Monday, May 4. Capt. Stack has announced that work will be started at once on overhauling the engine, and that, if possible, another start will be made Page, C. R. Fairey, M. S. Abrahams, John Lord, D. H. Burroughes, Wing-Commander R. L. G. Marix, A. J. A. W. Barr, £1 Is. each. Donations should be sent to The Royal Aero Club, 3, Clifford Street, London, W.I. Captain Hawks visits Ireland CAPTAIN FRANK HAWKS paid a " flying " visit to for the flight within a few days. The machine, which has Ireland on April 30, in his Travelair machine ' lexaco 13. already been described in FLIGHT, is a Vickers Napier, with His speed for the flight averaged 182 mjxh., and he a cruising speed of some 135 m.p.h. Tommy Rose starts for Home FLIGHT-LT. TOMMY ROSE left Maitland Aerodrome, covered the distance between Heston and Baldonnel, Co. Dublin, 320 miles, in 100 minutes. On arrival at Bal- donnel, Captain Hawks was met by Mr. A. J. Singleton, Capetown, at 3 a.m. on May 1 in his Avro Avian, en route managing director of the Texas Company (of Ireland), for England—in, he hopes, 4£ days. He made a non-stop Ltd. ; Mr. James O. Denby, Secretary of the American flight to Bulawayo, covering 1,100 miles in 12| hours. Legation in Dublin ; Captain Hannon, Acting Officer Com- After a spell of sleep, he left again at midnight, and made manding the Free State Army Air Corps, and a few mem- another fine hop of 1,120 miles to Tabora. On May 3 he bers of the. Irish Aero Club. After lunching off a few sand- flew on to Kisumu, and left again shortly after towards wiches and a bottle of beer, Captain Hawks left Baldonnel on a tour of the Free State. His times were:—Baldonnel- Cork-Limerick (64 miles), 15 minutes ; Limerick-Galway (62 miles), 17£ minutes ; Galway-Athlone (58 miles), 15 minutes. The distances given are approximate. After his return to Baldonnel, Captain Hawks expressed the opinion that a fast mail-plane be of great Khartoum. He passed over Malakal on the afternoon of May 4, and reached Khartoum at 5 a.m. on May 5. Pro- Cork (159 miles), 42 minutes ceeding half an hour later, his splendid progress received a check, for he had to make a forced landing at Esna, 30 miles south of Luxor, and damaged his machine. Mrs. Montagu Crashes THE Hon. Mrs. Edwin Montagu and her pilot, Mr. service between Galway and London would Rupert Belville, who are making a tour of Persia and Soviet Russia in a Gipsy Moth, met with a mishap on May 2 when flying from Teheran to Moscow. Their machine crashed near Sabzawar, Persia, and, although the machine was burnt, they were both unhurt. Tokio-San Francisco Flight Starts THE Japanese pilot, Seiji Yoshihara—who flew from Berlin to Tokio last August—left Tokio on May 4 on the first lap of his flight to San Francisco across the Pacific, via the Aleutians. He is flying a Junkers Junior mono- plane (Armstrong-Siddeley " Genet ") equipped with floats, and proposes to complete the 6,000 odd miles in two stages. He reached Numasaki, N.E. Japan, thus complet- ing the first lap of his flight. Long Polish Flight Completed Two Polish pilots, Capt. S. Skarzynski and Lt. A. Markiewicz, landed at Warsaw on May 4, after a flight of nearly 14,000 miles over Europe and Africa in a Polish- built machine fitted with a Wright engine. They left Warsaw on February 1. DO.X. Resumes THE German flying boat DO.X, which had been under- going repairs at the Canary Islands since February, re- sumed her flight on May 1, making for the African coast, on her way to South America, and, flying via Villa Cisneros, wived at Bolama. Visit of Belgian Air Squadron ON Tuesday, May 5, a squadron of Belgian aircraft arrived in this country, under the command of General ^lllieaux, who is the head of the Belgian military Air Ser- 7IC6' Belgians landed at Manston, and visited No 2 Army Co-operation) Squadron and the School of Technical iraimng. They stayed the night at Manston, and were L'.ie to proceed on Wednesday morning to Worthy Down. £n A ncheon ^ey were to visit Nos. 7 and 58 (Bomber) - ^uadrons, and stay the night there. Next day they were Capt. Hawks at Brooklands. This photograph shows the Proceed to the practice camp at North Coates Fitties rapid sweep-in of the fuselage in the region of the pilot's .. .™sit the camP of Nos. 35 and 207 (Bomber) Sauad- cockpi ~" . . " pit is seen easily from this view. [FLIGHT Photo.] +^ ^e Pra°tic Fitties, rapi sweepi pilot to visit camp o Squad cockpit. The very complete windscreen fairing over the cock- •ns. They were then to proceed to Cranwell and stay pi i ee easil view [FLIGH Photo] 409
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