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FLIGHT, MAY 15, 1931 HONOUR TO MR. GRIFFITH BREWER N Saturday, May 9, Mr. Griffith Brewer was the guest of honour at aluncheon given by the Hanworth Club at Hanworth.The occasion was by way of cele- brating the fortieth anniversaryof Mr. Griffith Brewer's first flight, which took place in aballoon from Chelsea. Readers will remember that Mr.Griffith Brewer held his first func- tion as President of the CharteredInstitute of Patent Agents at Hanworth Park last year, and onthis occasion he also celebrated the fact of his return to aviation.Since that time he has flown his own Moth regularly at Hanworth,and is a shining example to many others who look upon themselvesas being too old to fly. COL. THE MASTER OF SEMPILLwas in the chair, and said how glad he was to have an oppor-tunity, on behalf of Hanworth Club, and the Committee of theRoyal Aero Club, to welcome Mr. Griffith Brewer. Mr. Brewer, hesaid, was one of the original mem- bers of the Royal Aero Club, and also of Hanworth. Hementioned many others who were present and who could claim, together with Mr. Brewer, to be pioneers of aviation. A view taken at Hanworth on this occasion. Mrs. Griffith Brewer is holding the presentation cigarette box, with Mr. Griffith Brewer on her right. On the extreme right of the photograph is Mr. Griffith Brewer, Jr. flying, chief of which was the thrill of not knowing in theleast where you were going. The war, he said, had killed ballooning, and now thatSecond only to Mr. Brewer, he said, as their chief guest, people were able to buy small machines and fly cheaply, he was Mrs. Griffith Brewer, who, by flying to France in aballoon in 1906, was the first lady to cross the Channel by air. Reference was made to the association that Mr. Griffith did not think it likely that it would be resuscitated. MR. M. L. BRAMSON, as Chairman of the Hanworth ClubCommittee, made a speech, in which he drew attention to the extraordinarv contrast in character which Mr. BrewerBrewer had always had with the Wright Bros., of whom presented, in that he was reckless by going off in balloons, Orville Wright had taught him to fly, and to Mr. Griffith while at the same time, in his job as a Patent Agent, he Brewer s present activities with his own privately-owned had to be extremely careful and meticulous as to detail,machine at Hanworth. He then, on behalf of the club, presented Mr. Brewer with MR. GRIFFITH BREWER himself, with great modesty, re- a silver cigarette box, suitably inscribed, as a mark ofJerred to his past flights, and to some of the successes he esteem and to commemorate the anniversary. This box had had, both in distance flights and in landing at selected was beautifully engraved with a balloon on one side, datedpoints. There was nothing quite like ballooning, he said, 1891, and Mr. Griffith Brewer's own Moth on the other and it held thrills which were quite absent from modern side, dated 1931. FLIGHT" (COPYRIGHT) POSTCARDS JN response to many requests, sets of FLIGHT copyrightphotographs in postcard form, as detailed below, have been prepared and are now ready for issue. These are realphotographs and are made up in sets of six. The cost of each set is 2s. post free. In each set will be included oneextra photograph (see * below) from our historical collec- tion, and, where possible, this is a prototype of those in-cluded in the set. Any of our readers who desire to obtain these remarkable records should remit 2s. per set (specify-ing the particular sets desired) to the Publishers, 36, Great yueen Street, Kingsway, London, W.C.2. The twelve sets make a very complete collection ofpnotographs of modern aircraft. Set No. 1.—Single Seater Fighters : WTestland Wizard,Bristol Bulldog, Gloster Gamecock, Fairey Firefly, Hawker Fun-, Armstrong Whitworth Siskin, and*Sopwith Tabloid. Ser No. 2—Day Bomber and General Purpose Machines : Hawker Horsley, Westland Wapiti, Fairey Fox,Hawker Hart, Fairey III F, Armstrong Whitworth, Atlas and *B.E. 2c. Set No. 3.—Twin-Engined Bombers and Troop Carriers : Handley Page Hinaidi, Vickers Virginia, Handley Page Zle" Handlev Page 19/27, Boulton and Paul Side- strand, Handley Page Hyderabad and *Cody Biplane. No. 4.—" Pictorial " Photographs : Short Singapore wer the Medway, No. 43 Squadron in formation, "airey In F landing on H.M.S. Glorious, No. 601 squadron in the clouds, A Hinaidi off on a night raid, No. 17 Squadron in formation, and *Sunset flying *t pre-war Hendon. Set No. 5.—" Stunt " Photographs : Avro Lynx crazy fly-ing, Handley Page " Gugnunc " leaping off. No. 43 Squadron in " Flights Astern," Hawker Hawfinch" ground strafing," Hawker Fury fighting, Broad on D.H. Moth inverted, and *Hamel en Vol Plane. Set No. 6.—Large Machines : Handley Page 0/400, Arm-strong Whitworth Argosy, Beardmore Inflexible, Dor- nier Do.X, Handley Page Hannibal, Short Kent and*Rucker Rhomboidal. Set No. 7.—Flying Boats : Supermarine Southampton, Blackburn Iris, Saunders-Roe Cloud, Short Singapore I, Blackburn Sydney, Saunders-Roe Cutty Sark and •Supermarine P.B.I. Set No. 8.—Commercial Machines : Vickers Vellore, GlosterAir Survey, Avro 10, Armstrong Whitworth Argosy, Avro 6, Westland Wessex and *Enclosed Avro. Set No. 9.—Commercial Machines : Short Calcutta, De Havilland Hercules, Short Valetta, Handley Page W.10, Avro 5, Handley Page Hannibal and *Grahame White Char-a-banc. Set No. 10.—Private Owner Types : De Havilland GipsyMoth, Blackburn Bluebird, Parnall Elf. Comper Swift, De Havilland Hawk Moth, Klemm Monoplane and•Short Biplane. Set No. 11.—Private Owner Types : Robinson Redwing,De Havilland Puss Moth, Desoutter II, Hendy 302, Spartan Arrow, Cierva Autogiro and *Avro Triplane. Set No. 12.—Private Owner Types : Southern AircraftMartlet, Boulton and Paul Phoenix, Avro Avian, Segrave Meteor, Saunders-Roe Cutty Sark, JunkersJunior and 'Barber's Valkyrie. 431
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