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FLIGHT, DECEMBER 25, 1931 Mr. A. J. Mollison's PlansIT is reported in Dublin, writes our Irish representative,that Mr. J. A. Mollison is plan- ning a double flight across theAtlantic to take place early next Spring. Capt. J. P. Saul, navi-gator of the Southern Cross on Kingsford Smith's Atlantic flightlast year, is to be Mollison's partner on the flight. It islikely that a third member of the crew will be invited to join theventure, probably as wireless operator, but up to the present nodefinite information is available. The machine which it is proposedto use is a Lockheed " Vega," and in some quarters it is statedthat one has already been acquired. Capt. Saul is of theopinion that the flight will start from Portmarnock Strand, Co.Dublin, the place from which Kingsford Smith took off, but thedetails have not yet been settled. Mr. Mollison, it will be remem-bered, had to abandon his BUTLER IN AUSTRALIA: This photograph, which arrived in England by theAustralian Xmas Air Mail, shows Mr. C. A. Butler landing at Hargrave Park, Sydney, in his Comper " Swift" (Pobjoy engine) after his record-breaking flight from England. attempt on the England-Cape record following serious dam- boat. These he soaked with petrol and used as distress age to his machine when landing in Upper Egypt. While flar« thus attracting the attention of the seaplane, on his way back to England he had to make a forced landing at Konia on December 11, and he was detained by flares, thu . R.101 Memorial THE Lord Lieutenant oi Bedfordshire and the latethe Turkish authorities as he did not possess the necessary Mayor of Bedford announce that £1,398 Is. 3d was sub- -•-4-1-—:------ • ' ' scribed to the fund for a memorial to the victims of the R.101 disaster. The memorial on the grave at Cardington has been erected at a cost of £1,075 5s. 6d., and there authorisation to land. Bert Hinkler Sees the PrinceON December 18 the Prince of Wales receivedSqd. Ldr. Bert Hinkler at York House and had a long remains £322 15s. 9d. ior the assistance of the dependents, talk with him concerning the Atlantic flight and the Memorial to Italian Atlantic AirmenPuss Moth," of which type the Prince himself is an owner. Mr. S. G. Watkins and Mr. A. Courtauld were alsoreceived by the Prince as President of the British Arctic Air Koute Expedition, in connection with which theexplorers were in the Arctic regions. The Long-range Monoplane Damaged ON December 15 the Fairey-Napier long-distance mono-plane was being brought back by Sqd. Ldr. O. R. Gayford and Fit. Lt. D. L. G. Bett to England after itstrial flight non-stop to Egypt, when fog obliged the pilots to land at a spot some three miles from Saffron Waldon, in GENERAL BALBO, the Italian Air Minister, togetherwith 22 men who took part in the formation flight from Italy to South America last January, left Naples by boaton December 16 for Bolama (Portuguese Guinea), where a monument will be unveiled in memory of the five airmenwho lost their lives in the flight. In the same boat were about 350 persons who will attend the ceremony. Manyof them took wreaths of flowers sent by public bodies and individuals.U.S. Navy and Ford Planes THE 11.3. Navv has placed a contract with the Aero-Essex. The machine came down in a ploughed field and plane Division of Ford Motor Company for two specially tipped up on to its nose, breaking the propeller and equipped three-engined planes for transport service. Thedamaging the wings. Repairs have been effected on special equipment includes a chromium-plated mast and the spot, and it was hoped that the machine would fly brackets for mounting a wind-driven generator for theagain on December 21. The non-stop flight to the Cape operation of a wireless outfit. The planes will also be is not likely to be attempted at least until the January equipped with a floor hatch to permit loading of sparefull moon. A Shoe-King's Air Tour M. BATA, the Czecho-Slovakian shoe manufacturer—who, as previously recorded in FLIGHT, is a keen advocateof aircraft as an aid to business—is engaged on a business air tour to the Far East in his private aeroplane. Themachine, which is carrying six passengers, is being piloted by Capt. Neville Stack, who is now his pilot.Honour for Vicomte de Sibour VICOMTE DE SIBOUR, the airman son-in-law of Mr.Gordon Selfridge, has been appointed a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honour.Seaplane Sees Speedboat's S.O.S. A SEAPLANE from Calshot air station noticed a speed-boat in distress off the Needles on December 17, and reported by wireless to the station. The message waspassed on to Yarmouth (I.O.W.) lifeboat station, and the lifeboat at once put off. It eventually rescued a Mr.Downs-Martin, who explained that he was on his way from Southampton Water to Christchurch. when his eneinebroke down about 2 p.m., iust off the Needles. He drifted engines ; disappearing petrol tanks in the wing tips witha capacity of 1,600 lb. ; landing lights, parachute flares and 103-gallon reserve petrol tanks. Success of New York " Air Ferry "THE New York " air ferry," originally inaugurated as a link between the Newark, Glenn & Curtiss and Floyd &Bennett airport, is rapidly achieving popularity as a ser- vice for sightseers. An hourly schedule for the triangulartrip is adhered to, thus providing quick transportation between the aerodromes, particularly to Newark Metro-politan Airport, from which most of the passenger air lines radiate. The Ford three-engined monoplane employed onthis circuit carried more than 1,100 passengers during the first week of operation. Sightseers adopting this up-to-dat<*method of touring the city obtain a wonderful bird's-eye view of the towering peaks of New York's skyscrapers. The Royal Aero Club and XmasTHE Royal Aero Club will be closed on Friday (Christmas Day), December 25, 1931, except in so far asaffects bedroom accommodation (with breakfast only) about until darkness, and, being without matches, he The Club will also be closed on Saturday, January 2, 193Z short-circuited his battery to set fire to the cushions in his from 3.0 p.m. to midnight, for the Annual Staff Dance. 1266
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