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1932
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FLIGHT, APRIL 29, 1932 AIRJSMS FROM THE FOUR WINDS A Comper " Swift " Traveller ON April 21 Mr. M. Lacayo— a member of the Lancashire Aero Club, with some 600 hrs.' flying to his credit—set out from Heston in a Comper " Swift " monoplane (Pobjoy " R " engine) on a two months' tour of Europe. We understand the object of this tour is to demonstrate the excellent qualities of the Comper " Swift " monoplane and the Pobjoy engine en route. His itinerary includes: Brussels, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Bremen, Hamburg, Travemunde, Copenhagen, Gothen- berg. Oslo, Berlin, Stettin, Danzig, Konigsberg, Riga, Reval, Warsaw, Cracow, Brno, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Zagreb, Prague, Strasburg, Basle, Dijon and Paris. Mr. Lacayo is using Shell Spirit and Aero Shell Oil. King Albert's Flying Tour H.M. THE KING OF THE BELGIANS is a hardened air traveller. H,e has recently added to his experiences by making a high-speed tour of some of the Belgian territories in the Congo. He was away from Belgium for 32 days, and was able to spend 17 of them in his African posses sions. He spent 14 days in the air, and covered some 7,500 miles. His Majesty left Brussels on March 23 and travelled to Brindisi. There he embarked, as an ordinary passenger, on a " Kent " flying-boat of Imperial Air ways, and flew by the regular airway to Khartum. There fie was taken in a Royal Air Force Faireylll.F on a tour between Khartum and Lake Albert. On the return journey, Imperial Airways sent a special machine with Mr. G. Olley as pilot, to fly the King from Khartum to Aswan in one flight. On the return crossing of the Mediter ranean, the " Kent " met a strong head wind which would have so delayed it that the petrol would have been exhausted before Crete was reached. The pilot therefore turned back to Alexandria, and King Albert was much impressed by the general caution of the Imperial Airways pilots, of which this was one example. He was loud in his praises of the comfort of the British machines and of the general organisation of the air service. He reached Brussels again on April 25. H.E. the Viceroy Flies to Quetta HIS EXCELLENCY LORD WILLINGDON has lately been touring the North West Frontier, and on April 23 he flew from Parachiuar to Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan, •where he installed the young Khan of Kalat on the gadi (throne) and invested him with ruling powers. Whether A COMPER " SWIFT " TRAVELLER : Mr. M. Lacayo in the Comper " Swift " (Pobjoy '' R " engine) in which he set out from Heston on April 21 on a two months' tour of the Continent to demonstrate the qualities of machine and engine. the flight was made in the special Viceregal Avro 10 or in a R.A.F. machine is not yet certain. The flight started early in the morning, and a landing for breakfast was made at Fort Sandeman. Quetta was reached shortly before 1 p.m. By using an aeroplane, the Viceroy was spared 48 hours of dus-ty travel in a train in very hot weather. A Visit to Persia THE High Commissioner for Iraq, Sir Francis Humphrys, who was once rescued by aeroplane in dramatic fashion from the Residency at Kabul, has lately been pay ing a State visit to Persia. He was accompanied by some " Victoria " troop-carriers of No. 70 (Bomber Transport) Squadron and some " Wapitis " of No. 55 (Bomber) Squadron, and at the end of the visit these British machines gave a display at the military aerodrome outside Teheran. This was attended by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Minister for War, and the Chief of the Persian Staff. Persia has a flying corps equipped with Junkers machines, and at the end of the display some of the Persian pilots were taken up in the British machines and allowed to fly them. They are reported to have formed a very favourable opinion of the British aircraft. The First Lord on a Carrier DURING the last few days Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell. First Lord of the Admiralty, visited the Fleet at Ports mouth, and spent part of his time on board the aircraft carrier Courageous, the flagship of Rear-Admiral R. G. H. Henderson, the Rear-Admiral of Aircraft Carriers. On Monday, April 25, he made a flight off the deck of the carrier in a Fairey III.F piloted by Lt. Com. R. St. A. BY AUTOGIRO TO THE CAPE : The Cierva Autogiro C.19 Mark IV (100 h.p. Armstrong Sidde- ley " Genet "), in which Mr. J. N. Young set out from Hanworth on April 25, on a flight to the Cape. He landed at Beauval, near Amiens, for fuel, and proceeded to Abbeville next day (FLIGHT Photo.) 391
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