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1932
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FLIGHT. JUNE 24, 1932 The R.Ae.S. Garden Party f Iir-'HAT it was a very happy idea of the President VJ) I (Mr. C. K. Fairey) and Council of the Royal III Aeronautical Society to hold a Garden Party was shown by the exceptionally large attendance at the London Air Park at Hanworth on Sunday last, Altogether more than 600 members of the R.Ae.S. and their friends took the opportunity to visit Hanworth, so that with members of the Hanworth Club a total of some thing like 1,000 people, not counting the considerable number of representatives of the general public, witnessed some very fine displays of flying, and many of them took the air for short flights. The arrangement was that an inclusive fee was charged, for which visitors obtained their afternoon tea and a joyride flight in one of the club's machines. Many very distinguished members of the Royal Aero nautical Society were present at the garden party, and one noticed among them many who are infrequently seen at flying meetings, which must be very gratifying to the organisers. The large number of acceptances must have entailed a great deal of hard work on Mr. Pritchard and his staff, and it is worth placing on record the fact that we have not heard one single complaint of tickets not reaching their purchasers in good time. The programme of the day called for joyride flights before and after a series of demonstration flights by a selected number of aircraft types, and during the early afternoon the Hanworth Club's Desoutter monoplanes were kept busy taking up passengers. Heracles, one of Imperial Airways' air liners, had been flown over from Croydon to take up members of the general puDlic for joyrides. Towards the end of the day the Heracles came to grief through one of the wheels breaking through the covering over a ditch, and sustained considerable damage. About 3 p.m. the signal " cease fire " was sent to all the joyriders, Imperial and otherwise, and the spectacular part of the programme began. It is significant that much of the applause which greeted the various demon strations came from very eminent scientists and techni cians, who apparently enjoyed seeing the aircraft perform ing their intended functions all the more because many of them had been concerned in the " highbrow " sciences on which the aircraft are based. It was quite a happy thought to place first on the pro gramme an exhibition of " crazy flying " by Mr. Brown, Avro's chief test pilot, on the Avro " Cadet." Everyone who has flown this type is impressed by its uncommonly fine controllability, and Mr. Brown took some serious liberties with the machine in demonstrating what a pilot should not do. His exhibition put everyone in excellent mood to enjoy the afternoon's proceedings. TALKING IT OVER : Mr. C. R. Fairey, President of the R.Ae.S., and Mr. R. A. Bruce, Managing Director of Westlands, at the Hanworth Garden Party. (FLIGHT Photo.) Mr. Christopher Clarkson, manager of Self ridge's Aviation Department, " rode two mounts." First he showed the excellent climb and general handiness of the little Comper " Swift " (Pobjoy), and afterwards he boarded his " Gipsy Moth " and flew round and round the aerodrome upside dowrn. The. next item on the programme was to have been a flight by Fit. Lt. Schofield in the Monospar machine (two Pobjoys), but although the Air Ministry had agreed to permit the not-yet-but-soon-to-be-licensed machine to fly over from Croydon, it was not allowed to fly during the Garden Party. Such solicitude for the welfare of members of the R.Ae.S. is quite touching. F/O. Leech came next, with a splendid demonstration of the little Arrow " Active " single-seater (Gipsy III), which gives the impression of performing like a single- SOME OF THE PERFORMERS AT HANWORTH : A large variety of aircraft types was demonstrated, ranging from the Comper " Swift " (Pobjoy) to the Hawker " Hart " (Kestrel) and Fairey " Firefly III " (Kestrel). (FLIGHT Photo.) 566
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