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FLIGHT, SEPTEMBER 4, 1931 AIBISMS THE FQUK WINDS A STRANGE-LOOKINGBEAST: The De Havilland-built Autogiro has but three rotor blades.A wheel under the nose prevents overturning on the ground.Another, equally strange (if not more so), view of this remarkablemachine will be found below. The Lindberghs Reach Tokio AFTER several annoying de-lays in the Kurile Isles, Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh have concludedtheir flight, in a Lockheed " Sirus " mono-seaplane, from New York to Tokio. They landed at Kasumigaura aero-drome on August 26, and proceeded by train to Tokio, where they were accorded an enthusiastic welcome. Theyleft New York on July 27, and the total flying time for the trip has been 84 hr. 5 min.So Does Fraulein von Etzdorf FRAULEIN MARGA VON ETZDORF, who left Berlin onAugust 18 in a Junkers " Junior " (Armstrong Siddeley " Genet ") en route for Tokio, has also concluded herflight. She reached Seoul from Mukden early on August 28, and reached Tokio the following afternoon.Miss Amy Johnson Miss AMY JOHNSON resumed her homeward flightfrom Japan on August 28, when she flew from Osaka to Seoul. She reached Seoul some 40 min. after Fraulein vonEtzdorf had left, and so missed meeting the German " Amy Johnson." She arrived at Mukden later the sameday, and left again the following morning. Sir Alan Cobham Home SIR ALAN COBHAM, who has been carrying out a sur-vey flight in Central Africa, in a Short " Valetta " sea- plane (Bristol " Jupiter "), has arrived back in England.He reached Naples on August 26, and, after a short delay owing to weather at Sete on August 29, arrived at South-ampton on August 31. The next day Sir Alan flew from Southampton to Rochester, passing over London on hisway during the luncheon hour. Graf Zeppelin HAVING arrived safely back at Friedrichshafen earlyon August 20 after her English trip, the German airship Graf Zeppelin set out on its 216th flight on August 29 enroute for Brazil—her second trip to South America. Dr. Eckener was in command and there were 13 passengers, acrew of 44, and 400 lb. of mail on board. The object of the flight was to demonstrate that a regular commercialairship service to South America was a feasible proposition at any season of the year. In the evening of August 30Friedrichshafen received a message from the airship giving her position approximately 180 miles south-west ofGibraltar, and later she was reported over Tangier. She passed over Rio de Oro at 6.20 a.m. (B.S.T.) on August31 and over Cape Blanco shortly after. The airship reached Pernambuco in the evening of September 1 aftera stormy passage across the Atlantic. Do.X No. 1 and No. 2THE German flying-boat Do.X 1, continuing her flight from South America to New York, reached Charleston fromMiami on August 25, and Norfolk, Virginia, next day. The flying-boat arrived at New York on August 27.The second Do.X, which was built to the order of the Italian Government, and is fitted with Italian Fiat engines,flew from Friedrichshafen to Spezia, Italy, on August 28. During this flight the flying-boat established a world'srecord for heavy aircraft by reaching an altitude of 10,000 ft. She carried a crew of 12 Germans, a commis-sion of Italian officers, and a cargo of 42 tons. On September 1 the King of Italy, under the guidance ofGen. Balbo, inspected the flying-boat in Lake Mass- chinccoli.Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture THE Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture for 1931 willbe delivered by Mr. Glenn Martin in the Science Museum, South Kensington, at 9.15 p.m. on Wednesday, Septem-ber 16. Admission will be by ticket only. The lecture will be on " The Development of Aircraft Manufacture."Mr. Martin's lecture will emphasise the need of systematic research in the science of aircraft manufacture to facili-tate the growth of aeronautics. He. will endeavour to define the fundamentals toward which research should bedirected, and something of the manner in which such studies should proceed. In 1908, when Mr. Martin taughthimself to fly, he acquired sufficient manufacturing facili- ties to carry on his experimentsin aerodynamics. Since then he has been keenly interested in the'" ' ; co-ordination of manufacturing technique and design requirementsin such a manner that low selling costs can be maintained with ahigh wage scale. He will make known the methods by which re-search in manufacturing has been promoted within his organisationfor many years. The lecture will include some of the more notableresults recently achieved, and THE NEW AUTOGIRO: Frontview of the latest type, built for the Cierva Autogiro Company bythe Dc Havilland Aircraft Com- pany. The engine is a " GipsyIII." 889
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