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1932
1932 - 0057.PDF
FLIGHT, JANUARY 15, 1932 flirisms ffoTTV flxa Tftvir A\9mdc R.A.F. East African Flight THE four Fairey III.F machines of Mo. 14 (Bomber) Squadron, under the command of Fit. Lt. R. L. Atcherley, which are to tour East Africa, left Heliopolis on January 11 and flew to Wadi Haifa. Next day they went on to Khartoum. An Autogiro Tour FLT. LT. A. H. C. A. KAWSON, Chief Test Pilot of the Cierva Autogiro Co., Ltd., is making plans at the moment for the first long-distance flight to be carried out on an Autogiro. This he hopes to undertake later in the spring. He plans to make his ultimate destination Tanganyika, flying in easy stages via Catania, Tunis and Cairo, and so on along the regular Cairo-to-Cape route. The Cierva Autogiro Co. are giving this matter their serious con sideration at the moment, although nothing definite has been decided. On Towards Egypt THE two Avro ]0's which Airwork, Ltd., of Heston, are sending out to the Egyptian Government, left Abukir at 8.30 a.m. on January 12. They are piloted by Fit. Lt Christopher Clarkson, Aviation Manager of Selfridges, and Capt. Dan Cameron. One of the passengers is Capt. Stocks, who is going out to assist Air Commodore A. G. Board, the technical adviser of aviation to the Egyptian Government. Mr. Muntz is going out to Cairo by the sea route, starting in a couple of days' time, with a view to conferring with the Banque Misr as to the final details of the new Societe Anonyme Misr-Airwork. A Fast French Flight. Two French airmen, Codos and Robida, flying a Breguet with 650 Hispano-Suiza engine, are making a fast flight to French Indo-China. Leaving Marseilles on January 5, Athens was reached in 11J hr. The next day Aleppo was reached in 6i hr., and by January 8 the Breguet was at Karachi, having called at Basra on the way. Karachi-Calcutta was flown non-stop in about 10J hr., which must constitute something of a record. Probably the fact that the Breguet (F-AKEZ) was using " Shell " spirit had a good deal to do with this rapid progress. In other words, " That's Calcutta that was." Sir Philip Sassoon's Tour. SIR PHILIP SASSOON, Under-Secretary of State for Air, is carrying out a tour of inspection of R.A.F. stations in the Near East and India. He arrived at Malta on Tuesday, December 4, 1931, informally, and reached Cairo on December 28. On New Year's Day he left by air for Jerusalem, after having inspected the stations in Egypt. He then flew on to Iraq, and Friday, January 8, left Basra by flying-boat for Karachi. He was to fly via Bahrain and Muscat, following a possibly new route along the Persian Gulf to India. Lost in the Desert SQD. LDR. PETER WARBURTON, M.B.E., who is on special duty as Inspector of Iraq Air Forces, set out from Cairo on Friday, January 8 in a " Puss Moth," accom panied by an Army captain, to fly to Baghdad. He lost his way in the desert, ran out of petrol, and had to land some miles south of Rutbah. The two officers were taken charge of by some Beduin tribesmen. When he did not arrive at Baghdad there was great anxiety, and 40 aeroplanes, British and French, set out to scour the desert in search of him. Four days later he was found among the Beduins. The " Graf Zeppelin " PLANS for the summer programme of flights by the airship Graf Zeppelin are said to have been settled. There will be further flights to Brazil, there may be one into the Arctic, while a suggestion has been made that the airship should visit Sydney in March for the opening of Sydney Harbour bridge. Franco-German Co-operation THE aviation section of the Franco-German Economic Committee which was discussing co-operation between the air lines of the two countries, chiefly as regards lines to the Balkans and to South America, has been adjourned until next month, when it will meet again in Paris. MILAN-MADRID NON-STOP : Sig. Meleri, last December, made a fine non-stop flight from Milan to Madrid, a distance of 930 miles in 7 hr. 18 min.—an average speed of 127 m.p.h.—in the Breda 33 (120-h.p. " Gipsy "). Our upper picture shows him landing at Madrid, while below he is seen (on extreme right) at Lisbon during a subsequent visit standing next to Maj. Pinheiro Correia, Commandant of the Portu guese Independent Bombing Squadron, and L. Monaco, a Director of the Breda Co. •*"? "^P i 57
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