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FLIGHT, MARCH 4, 1932 P1^ mil llil i ill I%H "dB-& , GfflJli^ ] vA • Ml • II •• 1 ft JH E fl " V •••» 11 THE PRESS LEARNS TO FLY:—The Press Aero Club held their first meeting at Brooklands on February 21. The above group, taken on this occassion, include Percy Bradley, B.A.R.C.; W. Courteney (Daily Mail, Hon. Sec. P.Ae.C.); G. H. Grimaldi and Roger Fuller (Daily Mail); T. H. Wisdom (Daily Herald) ; Capt. and Mrs. Duncan Davis (Brooklands School)- About thirty Pressmen and women attended the Meeting. ILKLEY GLIDING CLUB * The annual meeting of the Ilkley Gliding Club was held on February 23. Mr. H. V. Price was elected President ; Mr. W. E. Dinsdale, Chairman ; Mr. J. Allen, Hon. Sec.; Mr. Hodgson, Hon. Asst. Sec, and Mr. Boden, Hon. Treasurer. It was decided that if possible an Easter camp should be held at Malham, and that in any case the usual Easter Sunday meeting would be organised. A joint meet ing with the Harrogate club was proposed for July, with Beamsley Beacon as the probable site. The summer camp will be held on August Bank Holiday. THE AIRCRAFT CLUB, HARROGATE *• The joint meeting held between this club and others at Saltersgate, near Pickering, Yorks, on February 14, 1932, attracted four sail-planes and gliders. These were Mr. Thompson's " Pruning," Mr. Slingsby's " Falke," the Aircraft Club's " Dickson Type " glider, and the York and Malton private owner's " R.F.D. " machine. The Harrogate machine was rigged early in the morning, and the weather, being fine and sunny, everything promised well for a good day's gliding. By lunch time the other machines were arriving, and the Harrogate machine was launched and made a contour flight, level with the top of the ridge, near the Hole of Hocum. When reaching a <s> <s> Running Costs of Car v. Plane ADDRESSING members of the Royal Empire Society on March 1—at which Lt. Col. F. C. Shelmerdine, Director of Civil Aviation, presided-—Col. the Master of Sempill gave an interesting comparison between the cost of run ning a light aeroplane and a 20-h.p. car. Travelling 12,000 miles in the year, the cost, he said, worked out approximately the same;—between 4d. and 4|d. a mile. An actual case was: — 20-h.p. car. Petrol and oil ... £40 5 Tax 20 0 Tyres 18 0 Insurance ... 23 5 Maintenance ... 64 15 Housing 39 0 u~ 0 (1 0 0 e 0 Aeroplane. £40 16 5 5 3 12 50 0 70 0 39 0 8 0 6 0 0 0 £205 5 0 £208 14 2 Grants to Flying Clubs IN answer to questions in the House on February 24, the Under-Secretary for Air stated that of the sums of £15,000 and £5,000 allocated in the Air Estimates to the projecting spur some three-quarters of a mile away to the west it lost the wind and was neatly landed. A heavy rain squall came on, when those present sheltered under Mr. Slingsby's glider and in the cars nearby. The rain ceased temporarily and the wind increased, when the " Falke " was launched, making a very pretty flight of 8f min. On landing Mr. Slingsby reported that the conditions aloft were exceptionally bumpy, and then proceeded to dis mantle his machine. The Harrogate glider was then launched the second time, from the opposite side of the ridge, over the western slope. There was a strong wind blowing of about 30 m.p.h. with an upward trend of 45 deg., the machine rose well, and Mr. Addyman, who was piloting, proceeded along the ridge for half a mile, when unfortunately the glider was caught in a strong gust, which lifted the pilot entirely out of his seat and took his feet off the rudder-bar. In attempting to regain the controls and his seat, Mr. Addyman inadvertently levered himself by the joy-stick, causing the machine to turn nose down with the wind and crash at a high speed. The glider was completely wrecked ; Mr. Addyman suffered severe injuries to his thighs and one hand was almost severed, which later had to be amputated at the wrist. He was taken to Malton Hospital, but is now in Harrogate, and doing very well. <$> <•> light aeroplane clubs and National Flying Services respec tively, the amounts of £9,092 and £1,470 had so far been expended, and that it was estimated that the total expendi ture for the year would be £10,600 to light aeroplane clubs and £2,000 to National Flying Services. Sir Philip Sassoon said that the agreement with the light aeroplane clubs expired on July 31 and that the whole matter was being very sympathetically considered by Lord Londonderry. Flying over Turkey SIR PHILIP SASSOON stated, in answer to a question in the House on February 24, that no complaints had reached him of difficulty in obtaining permission to fly over Turkish territory. The Turkish Government had shown themselves ready to grant applications submitted in accordance with Turkish air regulations. Difficulties had only arisen when civil pilots had failed to comply with those regulations. Meaning—If Any? MR. PERKINS asked the Secretary of State for Air, on February 24, " Does not the ho;i. gentleman consider that the time has come when Imperial Airways and the Air Force should be amalgamated under some scheme?" 195
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