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1931
1931 - 0677.PDF
FLIGHT, JULY 3, 1031 MORE SMOKED AEROBATICS: THE SIX VIEWS ON THE RIGHT AGAIN SHOW PROGRESSIVE STAGES : THIS TIME IN THE FORMATION OF A WREATH OF INTERWOVEN ORANGE AND WHITE TRAILS. THE OTHER PICTURES SHOW THE FORMATION OF A HUGE SPIRAL (TOP) AND A TRIPLE LOOP (BOTTOM). (FLIGHT Photos.) wearers willy-nilly off their posts. As they descended right in front oithe enclosure two collided, but soon separated, and all six made perfect landings—some two point, some four point and some single point! Aerobatics End in Smoke Event 11, the next on the programme, was an exhibition of aerobaticsby pilots of the Armament Experimental Establishment, in which coloured smoke, produced by the " Skywriting " apparatus supplied by MajorJack Savage, was employed to " imprint " in the sky the evolutions per- formed by the aircraft. The pilots were Flight-Lieutenants D. M. Fleming,C. B. Wincott and J. R. Adams, and they were flying Gloster " Grebes " (Armstrong-Siddeley " Jaguars "). These three first formed huge smoke spirals in orange-white-orange, afterwhich they made a " Prince of Wales' Feathers," the outer plumes being in orange, followed by an extended triple logp. 631
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