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FLIGHT, OCTOBER 9, 1931 the wayside, eventually finding their way to the coast roadfrom Newhaven to Brighton by " trial and error." In the meantime the primary gliders had been doinggjod work on the hill further to S.W. of this one, and quite a large crowd of spectators watched them. Considering the weather, the number of people whocame up to the site was really surprising, and the B.G.A. can pride itself on the fact that this, their Second Inter-national Competition Meeting, was a far greater success than many thought it would be.One of the most encouraging aspects of the meeting was the amount of support which Mr. Lowe-Wylde got for hispassenger flights. Both he and Mrs. Green, the latter with her hard-driven Bentley, worked like blacks the whole ofSaturday afternoon, taking up people in the two-seater B.A.C. VII for auto-towed flights. On Sunday, Mr.Lowe-Wylde tried out his latest production, a cheaper form of soaring glider, which has been built so that clubmembers may assemble it themselves. Conditions were, of course, bad, but the machine promised well. The results so far to hand are as follow: — PRIMARY GLIDERS.—SPOT LANDINC; COMPETITION.—1, T. H. Palmer, Essex Club (R.F.D. Glider), landed on the spot ; 2, O. Warren, Southern Soarers (R.F.D. Glider),11J yd. wide ; 3, N. Cave, Southern Soarers (R.F.D. Glider), 13 yd. wide. DISTANCE FLIGHT.—1, T. H. Palmer, Essex Club (R.F.D.Glider), 660 yd. ; 2, C. Palmer, Southern Soarers (R.F.D. Glider), 630 yd. DURATION FLIGHT.—1, L. R. Brown, Southdown Club(R.F.D. Glider), 1 min. 35 stc. ; 2, T. H. Palmer, Essex Club (R.F.D. Glider), 1 min. 12 sec. ; 3, N. Cave, SouthernSoarers (R.F.D. Glider), 1 min. 8 sec. CLUB AGGREGATE.—1, Southern Soarers, 8 min. 35 sec. ;2, Essex Club, 4 min. 26 sec. INTERMEDIATE GLIDERS.—DURATION AND SPOT LANDING.—1, L. C. Williams, London Club (Hols der Teufel), 6 min. 56 sec, 120 yd. wide ; 2, G. Humby, London Club(Hols der Teufel), 1 min. 13 sec, 140 yd. wide ; 3, M. Manton, London Club, (Pruning), 1 min. 2 sec, 145 yd.wide. DISTANCE FLIGHT.—1, L. C. Williams, London Club(Hols der Teufel), 600 yd. ; 2, D. Morland, London Club A BRITISH SAILPLANE: Major Petre about to take offthe " Tern." This full cantilever sailplane has an excellent view and has already made some record flights. (FLIGHT Photo.) (Pruning), 400 yd. ; 3, A. B. Gibbons, London Club(Pruning), 375 yd. ADVANCED MACHINES.—RIG AND FLY CONTEST,—Maj. H.Petre (The Tern sailplane), rigged in 3 min. 37 sec. and flown for 1 min. 15 sec. DISTANCE FLIGHT FOR THE DE HAVILLAND CUP.—1, G. M.Buxton, London Club (Professor), 500 yd. ; 2, Maj. Petre (The Tern), 335 yd. ; 3, L. C. Williams, London Club(Hols der Teufel), 60 yd. FIRST MACHINE IN THE AIR.—E. K. Robbins, SouthernSoarers (R.F.D. fitted with Nacelle fuselage). WAKEFIELD TROPHY FOR CROSS-COUNTRY FLIGHT.—1, G. M. Buxton, London Club (Professor), distance 3 miles ; 2, Herr Magersuppe (The Tern) ; 3, G. Humby,London Club (Hols der Teufel). FIGURE OF EIGHT CONTEST.—Maj. Petre, London Club(Tern), one complete figure, time 1 min. 2 sec. IN MEMORIAM, R101: On October 5 last, the villager* of Allone, near Beauvais, Northern France, where the British airship R 101 r crashed in flames on Sunday, October 5, last year, laid flowers on the spot. There •were present Group Captain _Bone, the British Air Attache in Paris, representing the Embassy, and Air Commodore'Fellows,'who came from London to represent the Air Ministry. British and French aeroplanes flew overhead and dropped flowers. 1021
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