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Flight. August 7, 1931 AIRCRAFT ENGINEER AND AIRSHIPS First Aeronautical Weekly in the World. Founded January, 1909 Founder and Editor: STANLEY SPOONER A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice and Progress of Aerial Locomotion and Transport OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 1180. (Vol. XXIII. No. 32.) AUGUST 7, 1931 r Weekly, Price 6d.[.Post free, 7$d. Abroad, 8d. Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.2. Telephone : (2 lines), Holborn 3211 and 18S4. Telegrams : Truditur, Westcent, London. Annual Subscription Rates Post Free. United Kingdom .. 33s. Od. United States .. $8-75. Other Countries .. 33s. Od,* • Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency. (See lastEditorial Page.) CONTENTS Editorial Comment : PACK Schneider Tragedies and Prospects .. . . . . .. • • 777 Blind Flying 779 Schneider Trophy Contest 782 Cranwell .. .. .. .. .. • • • • • • • • 783 Oxford University Air Squadron .. . . • - • • • • • • 784 New Argus 8-Cylindcr Engine .. . . . . .. • • • • "88 Airisms from the Four Winds .. .. .. . . • • • • 789 Private Flying and Club News 790 Gliding 792 Correspondence .. .. .. .. • • • • • • • • 793 Airport News . . .. .. . . .. . • •. . • 794 Air Transport .. .. .. .. .. . . •. • • 795 Royal Air Force .. .. • 797 Air Pust Stamps 798 la Parliament 8 DIARY OF CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of importantfixtures are invited to send particulars for viclusion in this list:— 1931 July 25-Aug. 9. Rhon Gliding Competitions, Germany. Aug. 12. Flying Meeting at Cowes Aerodrome Aug. 15. Scarborough Ae.C. Air Pageant. Aug. 15. Manchester-Liverpool Inter-City Race. Aug.22. Northants. Flying Party at Horsey Toll. Aug.22. Newcastle-on-Tyne Air Pageant, Cramlington Aug. 29. Flying Meeting at Yarmouth. Aug. 29-Sept. 5. Boulogne Air Week. Aug. 29-Sept. 7. U.S. National Air Races, Cleveland, Ohio. Sept. 5. Norfolk and Norwich Ae.C. Display at Yarmouth. Sept. 5. Haldon Flying Meeting. Sept. 12. Schneider Trophy Contest. Sept. 19. All-Women's Aviation Meeting at Northamptonshire Ae.C., Sywell Sept. 23-Oct. 11. French Two-Seater Light "Plane Competition. Sept. 26. Garden Party, Bristol and Wessex Ae.C. EDITORIAL COMMENT E have to offer our profound sympathy to our two competitors in the coming Schneider contest, Italy and France, on tragic crashes which have cost each of those countries the life of one of her Schneider pilots. On Thursday, July 31, M. Bougault, one of the French pilots in training at Etang de Berre, crashed into the lake while on a trial flight and was killed. It is said that the propellor of his machine broke in the air. Bougault and Guilbaud were famous as the first two airmen to fly from Paris to Madagascar. On Sullday' August 3> CaP*- Gi<> vamn Monti, of the Italian Schneider team, crashed with his seaplane into waters of Lake Garda and was killed. This catas- trophe comes home to us with especial poignancy, for we had an opportunity of seeing and knowing Capt. (then Lieutenant) Monti at Calshot during the last Schneider contest in 1929. He was the first string of the Italian team, a position to which he succeeded owing to the fatal crash of Capt. Motta at Lake Garda a few days before he was due to start for England. Monti was a splendid and most daring pilot. The delivery of the new Macchi seaplanes had been made very shortly before the date of the contest. Motta was understood to have gained some experience of the type, but he was killed on the first machine of the type. The two others were brought to Calshot before either of them had been flown, and it is doubtful if either Monti or Cadringher had been up in the type on Lake Garda. Certainly they had neither of them had much experience of the type. It is a fact that one of those two Macchis took off for the first time in the actual seaworthiness test at Calshot the day before the speed race. To Ctempt to make a race in two practically untested machines was a desperate feat of daring ; yet that was what Monti and Cadringher did. In the race they took off and began to fly round the course. Before long a water pipe burst in Monti's machine and scalded the pilot rather badly. He successfully landed his heavily laden seaplane off Seaview, and was taken
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