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1932
1932 - 0493.PDF
FLIGHT, MAY 27, 1932 PrioMfe TWtf ft flliHmd Society at Heston S Up' HE annual display of the Household Brigade Flying Club was \ ") I held at Heston on Wednesday, May 18. This meeting has Hi.. come to be looked upon as one of the chief social functions in the aviation year, and as such it naturally attracts large numbers of people who would not otherwise be interested in aircraft. It was not purely a Garden Party, however, for the flying display was definitely excellent. Some of the demonstrations might perhaps with advantage have been shortened, for a series of aircraft of the same type being shown one after the other is bound to become somewhat tiring, as there is very little which any one pilot can do which is different from the manoeuvres of the others. The programme opened with the final of the " Gwynn Madocks " Cup Competition. This is a landing competition wherein the competi tors have to close their throttles at 500 ft. and then land as near to the centre of the aerodrome as possible without further use of their engine. The winner was Mr. J. E. Harrison, Grenadier Guards, who also won the Cup last year. Following this there was a landing com petition under similar rules against two members of the Royal Naval Flying Club. Both these competitors suffered from a lack of practice on the Home Aerodrome, so well known to the members of the H.B.F.C., and were beaten by a fairly wide margin of points. A demonstration of wireless control was somewhat unique, in that four different machines using a light, aircraft wireless receiver of the THE PARADE : The tarmac was very fashionable at Heston on Wednes day, May 18, even the funereally-shaped flower beds looked like new season's models with their array of forget-me-nots. (FLIGHT Photo.) Mr. J. E. Harrison receiving the " Gwynn Madocks " Cup from Air Chief Marshal Sir John Salmond, on the occasion of the House hold Brigade Flying Club Meeting. ("FLIGHT Photo.) Standard Telephones & Cables Co., Ltd., were directed as to their movements from the broadcasting equipment on the aero drome. The machines used were the " Tiger Moth " of the Standard Telephones & Cable Co., the " Puss Moth " of Mr. R. P. G. Denman, the " Moth " of Mr. Ivor McClure, and the " Moth " of Mr. Baillie. F/O. J. F. X. McKenna put up his usual pretty display on a Comper " Swift " (Pobjoy), which, having been fitted for inverted flying, allowed him to do almost everything that can normally be done on any single-seater fighter. After this the military element was emphasised by a fly past in formation of a flight from No. 601 County of London (Bomber) Squadron Auxiliary Air Force. This flight was com posed of Westland " Wapiti " day bombers (Jupiter), and as has so many times been emphasised in FLIGHT, their station keep ing and formation flying is as good as that to be seen anywhere. F/O. A. J. Saint displayed the Gloster Multi-Gun Fighter for the first time at a civil air meeting. With its carefully cowled Jupiter engine this machine has quite a good turn of speed, and although it is a two-bay biplane, is still distinctly manoeuvrable. Other high-speed fighting aircraft which gave those present some idea of what the skilled pilot can do in the way of power dives and such-like manoeuvres were the Hawker " Fury (Rolls Kestrel), flown by Fit. Lt. Stain- forth ; the Fairey *' Firefly " (Rolls Kestrel), flown by Fit. Lt. Staniland ; and the " A.W.XVI " (Panther III), flown by F/O. A. C. Campbell-Orde. The first two are, of course, somewhat similar in their performance, and, as is well known, it was extremely difficult to choose between them for Service use. The latter, however, is an entirely different machine, for in the " Pan ther " it has a radial air-cooled engine, and it is probably, though not quite, as fast as the former machines, the fastest radial air-cooled-engined single- seater fighter in the world. One thing stood out as most impressive in all these machines, and that was the ex ceptional speed range which has been achieved in modern design. After dives. 461 B
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