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Flight, April 1, 1932 A1RCRAFTING1NEER AND AIRSHIPS First Aeronautical Weekly in the World. Founded January, 1909 Founder and Editor: STANLEY SPOONER A Journal devoted to the Interesto, Practice and Progress of Aerial Locomotion and Transport OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 1214. (Vol. XXIV. No. 14.) APRIL 1, 1932 f Weekly, Price 6d. [Post Free, 7*d. Abroad, 8d. Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.2. Telephone: (2 lines), Holborn 3211 and 1884. Telegrams: Truditur, Westcent, London. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free. United Kingdom .. 33s. Od. United States $8-75. Other Countries .. 35s. Od. CONTENTS Editorial Comment: High-Speed Flying Two More Records Broken No. 605 County of Warwick (Bomber) Squadron England—Cape Town in 4 J Days Caproni CA. 113 Private Flying and Gliding Airisms from the Four Winds Airport News A Wireless Telephone for Air Taxis Air Transport : Breda 32 Commercial Monoplane [Concluded) Aviation in the Argentine A New Forlanini Airship Speed Flyiutr Wing Com. Orlebar on High The Industry Royal Air Force Models PAGE . 272 274 278 279 280 282 284 285 286 288 289 290 291 293 294 DIARY OF CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in this list:— 1932 Apr. 1. Entries close at ordinary fees for King's Cup Race. Apr. 1. Opening of Greek Aero Show, Athens. Apr. 2. Rugby : Army v. R.A.F., at Twickenham. Apr. 2-10. National Aircraft Show, Detroit, U.S.A. Apr. 3. Northamptonshire Ae.C. Air Display. Apr. 7. " Wing Construction," Lecture by H. J. Stieger, before R.Ae.S. Apr. 7-8. Imperial Services Boxing Championships. Apr. 16. W.R.A.F. Reunion Dinner at Criterion Restaurant. Apr. 16. T.M.A.C. Dance at Suffolk Galleries, Suffolk St., S.W.I. Apr. 13. " The North-West Frontier of India," Lecture by Maj.-Gen. S. F. Muspratt, before R.U.S.I. Apr. 14. " Aero Engine Accessories," Lecture by W. L. Taylor, before R.Ae.S. Apr. 21. "Air Port Development," Lecture by N. Norman, before R.Ae.S. Apr. 23. No. 45 Sqdn. R.A.F. Reunion Dinner at Crown and Cushion Restaurant, London Wall. Northamptonshire Ae.C. Combined Motor-cycling and Flving Display. Entries close at double fees for King's Cup Race. Heston Spring Cruise begins. Antwerp Aviation Club Air Display and Garden Party. Coventry Ae.C. Air Pageant. 14-15. Skegness Air Pageant. 16. Northamptonshire Ae.C. Annual Pageant. 18. Household Brigade Flying Club Meeting, Heston. May 21. "Morning Post " Cross-Country Air Race, Heston. May 21-23. Scottish Flying Club Display, Moorpark, Renfrew. May 22. Husbands Bosworth Flying Meeting. May 22-30. Conference of Transoceanic Aviators at Rome. May 28. London-Newcastle Air Race for " Newcastle Evening World " Trophy. Brooklands Meeting. Bristol Airport Summer Flying Meeting. Cardiff Flying Meeting. Leicester Ae.C. Flying Display and Motor Gymkhana at Ratcliffe Aerodrome. June 5. Reading Ae.C. At Home, Woodley Aerodrome. June 11. Leicester Ae.C. Meeting, Desford. June 18 Hull Air Display. 1. 7. 7. 14. May May May May May May May May May 28. June 4. June 4. June 4. EDITORIAL COMMENT EMBERS of the Royal United Service Institution were much impressed when Wing Com. Orlebar read a paper to them on " High Speed Flying " on March 23. The state ment that an aeroplane can be flown " hands off " at 330 m.p.h. espe cially astonished them. The sensa tion-loving Press has delighted to paint pictures of intrepid birdmen battling with death as they grimly held a hurtling bullet on its course, gasping for ( breath in the exhaust fumes, wrestling Flyingeed with the controls' sinking into uncon sciousness at each turn, facing the risk of diving into the sea before they could recover control, and thinking longingly of the glass of milk which would revive them at the end of their course. Orlebar's picture of the ease and fascination of flying at high speed rudely upset this lurid picture. The take-off, it is admitted, is rather " peculiar," but once the machine is in the air it gives the pilot a perfect joy-ride, and he soon comes to think of anything under 300 m.p.h. as absolutely slow. Perhaps even more striking was the statement that in the take-off the floats have to travel at the speed of the world's record motor boat. Obviously there is nothing much of the superman about the high speed pilots when they are in the air; but when they are on the water, they, and Mr. Kaye Don, are very much to be admired. Wing Com. Orlebar is very good at making the punishment fit the crime. He has great judgment in selecting what is fitting to each occasion. Prob ably that was one reason why he made such a suc cessful CO. of the High Speed Flight. Speaking to the Royal United Service Institution, he wisely avoided the technicalities which would have been fitting if his audience had been the Royal Aero nautical Society. On the other hand he also avoided the sensational, the frivolous, and the statistical treatment. In his own words, he did not reckon how many cups of tea could have been boiled by the heat generated by the engines. After describing the main features of high-speed flying, he turned to a consideration of its utility. The cost had been A2
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