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FLIGHT, JULY 3, 1931 4JCISA4S THE !f€UIP WINDS The Flying Princes THE Prince of Wales flew from Windsor to Eastbourneon June 30 and spent a very busy day there. Prince George has been touring the west country, and has alsomade use of aeroplanes. He left Hendon aerodrome on June 24 for Torquay, and from there flew on in a seaplaneto St. Austell in Cornwall. Another flight took him to Looe. On the 26th he flew from Torquay to Newquayin a Koyal Air Force machine, and opened a new hospital there.Great Flights by Stack and Chaplin CAW. NEVILLE STACK and Mr. J. R. Chaplin aremaking aeronautical history with their Vickers-Napier two- seater. On June 24 they flew from London to Warsawand back in 15| flying hours at an average ground speed of 130 m.p.h.—a truly amazing feat. They left Heston at4.20 a.m. and arrived at Warsaw at 12"30 p.m. The return flight commenced at 2.34 p.m., and Croydon wasreached at 9.45. The aeroplane was built by the Vickers company at Weybridge, and has been modified to carrymail matter as well as two pilots. The engine is a 530 h.j). Napier. On June 29 the same two pilots setoff again on an attempt to fly to India and back in six days. Starting from Lympne early, they reached the SanStefano aerodrome at Constantinople after a flight of 12 hours 35 minutes. At 5.30 a.m. next morning theystarted off again for Aleppo, but after arriving there in the afternoon, they decided to make an effort to reachBaghdad that evening—a distance of 1,470 miles from Constantinople.A Race Round the World MR. FUKUMA and Mr. Shingu, two Japanese jour-nalists, are taking part in an interesting race round thv world, in opposite directions, using regular passenger airservices. They both met at Croydon aerodrome on June 25. Mr. Fukuma, representing the Tokio Asahi, leftTokio on June 15 and reached Croydon at 4.15 p.m., June 25, the eleventh day after setting out. His westwardjourney was made with halts at Seoul, in Korea, Novosi- birsk, in Siberia, Moscow and Berlin. The stage betweenSeoul and Novosibirsk was made by the Trans-Siberian railway; otherwise the whole distance from Japan toEngland was covered by air, including a flight of 24 hr. between Moscow and Berlin. Mr. Fukuma left Croydon at8 o'clock on June 26 for Paris, and will travel from Cher- bourg to New York in the Aquitania. Mr. SutemaruShingu, who represents the Osaka Asahi, left Osaka on June 6. Travelling by the reverse route to that followedby Mr. Fukuma, he sailed from Tokio to Victoria, British Columbia, and flew by way of Seattle, Salt Lake City,and Chicago to New York. He crossed the Atlantic in the Europa, reaching Southampton on June 25 andLondon at 3.30 p.m. He motored straight out to Croydon, and after a conversation with Mr. Fukuma onthe aerodrome, left at 5 p.m. by Imperial Airways liner for Paris, his next stage being Berlin. While in London Mr. Fukuma presented a letter ofgreeting to the Lord Mayor from the Mayor of Tokio. The Lord Mayor handed Mr. Fukuma a letter to theMayor of Tokio, in which he said:—" Our two countries have long been on the friendliest terms, and we view withmuch admiration the progress made by the Japanese people in the march of civilisation; we remember withpride and satisfaction the happy visit paid to the City of London by their Royal Highnesses the Prince andPrincess Taknmatsu oi Japan." Graf Zeppelin ON June 30 the German airship Graf Zeppelin leftFriedrichshafen with 12 passengers on board on a trip to Iceland. The airship passed over Cromer in the afternoonand then flew along the Yorkshire and Durham coasts. After leaving and taking in mails at Reykjavik, it isexpected the airship will return, via Norway, to Fried- richshafen to-day.The Danes Get Across THE two Danish airmen, Holger Holris and OttoHillig, who, as briefly recorded last week, left Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, on June 24, in a Bellanca monoplaneto fly across the Atlantic to Copenhagen, have succeeded— after a certain amount of anxiety as to their whereaboutstowards the. end of the crossing. It appears they com- pletely lost their bearings, and on making land thoughtthey were over Spain. They came down to find out where they were, and actually landed at Krefeld, near Diisseldorf,at 5.30 p.m. on June 25. After a short rest, and replenish- ing their practically empty fuel tanks, they left for Copehagen, landing for the night at Bremen. Copenhaj">n w « reached next afternoon, and they were given a triumphalwelcome on landing at the aerodrome. King Christian of Denmark has awarded Capt Hnlr'the Order of the Knight of Dannebrog. ' s Gen. Balbo has another mishap GEN. BALBO, Italy's energetic Air Minister, me* withanother adventure during a 12-day aerial tour round Tripolitania. When he was heading homewards across thTyrrhenian Sea, N. Sicily, he had to make a forced landin? in rough sea 20 miles N.E. of Ustica. It was not untiltwo hours later that he was picked up by a passing steamer and taken to Naples, From here he continued his journevin another machine to Rome, where he reported to Signor Mussolini according to schedule!French Airwoman's Record MLLE. MARYSE BASTIE took off from Le Bourget inher 40-h.p. Farman monoplane on June 28 with the object of beating the long-distance record for light planes. Shesucceeded in reaching Nizhni-Novgorod—a distance of about 1.800 miles,Vicomtesse de Sibour's Eastern Tour VlCOMTE AND VlCOMTESSE DE "SlBOUR, who left LeBourget by aeroplane on June 16 for the Far East, reached Peking on June 25 from Mukden after flying across SiberiaA.F.C. for Mr. C. W. A. Scott IT was announced in the London Gazette for June 29that the King has been graciously pleased to approve oi the award of the Air Force Cross to Mr. Charles WilliamAnderson Scott in recognition of the distinguished services rendered to aviation by his recent flights between Englandand Australia. Col. Sempill Honours Channel Airmen COLONEL THE MASTER OF SEMPILL gave a dinner partyat the Carlton Hotel on June 27 in honour of M. Bleriot, who crossed the Channel 22 years ago on a Bleriot mono-plane, and of Herr Kronfeld, who crossed it on a glider a week ago. The others present were:—Mme. Bleriot, AirCommodore and Mrs. Weir, Mile. Lippens, and the Hon. Mrs. Forbes-Sempill.Air Aide-de-Camp to the King THE Air Ministry announces the appointment of GroupCaptain Francis Knox Haskins, D.S.C., as Air Aide-de- Camp to the King, vice Group Captain Edmund DigbyMaxwell Robertson, D.F.C., who vacates the appointment on promotion to air rank.The B.R.C.S. Air Ambulance AT Dorking, on June 27, Princess Mary, on the occa-sion of the inspection of the Surrey detachment of the British Red Cross Society, also inspected the Desoutterambulance which was presented to the division by an anonymous Croydon donor. The machine flew overheadand dropped a bouquet—which, unfortunately, caught in the tail.League of Nations Air Fleet THE creation of a League of Nations air fleet and theabolition of all other air rivets was advocated by Viscount Cecil in a talk with a number of delegates to the RotarianConvention at Vienna. Credit where Credit is dueIN the special supplement to last week's issue of FLIGHT, which dealt with the history of Britain's Air Arm.occurred an omission which we hasten to point out. The photographs of the Royal Aircraft Factory machines, BE,FE and SE series, were Official Crown Copyright photo- graphs. Practically all the other photographs publishedwere FLIGHT Copyright.San Marino is Airminded The pocket republic of San Marino, high up in theAppenines, has now joined the ranks of the air-stamp issuing countries of Europe. Presumably they are in-tended for use on letters transmitted over the Italian air lines, as, so far as is known, San Marino itself has no ailservice. Handsomely engraved and printed in England by Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co., after the design of Prof.E. Federici, they show a panoramic view of Monte Titano, on which the tiny state stands, with an eagle flying over-head and supporting a scroll charged with the inscription, " Posta Aerea." The denominations and colours of thesestamps are:—50 centesimi, green; 80 c, red; 1 Lira, light brown ; 2 L, mauve ; 2 L. 60 c, pale blue ; 3 L.,grey; 5 L., olive ; 7 L. 70 c, dark brown ; H., orange; and 10 L., blue 648
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