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1932
1932 - 0898.PDF
FLIGHT, SEPTEMBER 2, 1932 Shg ftvAu/rtfr. PERSONAL LUGGAGE : Flt.-Lt. W. E. P. Johnson is taking a Blackburn B.2. Trainer to Portugal as personal luggage! His "package" is here seen on one of F. Cook's Mercedes-Benz diesel lorries. It was brought from Brough by this means and loaded on board an ex-rum runner (now a Portuguese cargo-ship) as deck cargo, in the London Docks. NEW B.A. WAREHOUSE ""THE British Aluminium Co., Ltd., A Adelaide House, King William Street, London, E.C.4, have removed their London Warehouse from 34-38, Banner Street, Golden Lane, London, E.C.I, to 23-25, Pancras Road, N.W.I. All communications for the London Warehouse should be addressed to their new premises. Telephone number 5301 (two lines). 1RVIN AIR CHUTE IN TURKEY HERMES RELIABILITY ""THE following letter from the Chief Instructor of the Royal Singapore Flying Club to the Cirrus-Hermes En gineering Co., Ltd., of Croydon Aero drome, Surrey, England, speaks for itself and testifies to the excellence of the engines of that firm: — " Dear Sirs,—At this Club we have now completed the change-over from Cirrus Mark III to Hermes Mark II engines in our ' Moth ' seaplanes, and it seems an opportune time to tell you how satisfactory these Cirrus Mark Ill's have been. I have flown behind many different engines, but I have never had a more reliable type. " Our engines are subjected to far greater strain than engines in land- planes, and they operate under worse conditions—yet our troubles have been few. One engine has exceeded 1,140 hours, and the others are around the 1,000 hours mark. Last year we did not have a single engine failure in over 1,300 hours' flying. " We are very pleased with the Hermes so far. The take-off is much easier owing to the extra power avail- ""THE Turkish Air Force has accepted able' and no trouble has been experi-1 the Irvin Air Chute as its stan- "iced. Wishing you continued suc- dard parachute equipment, and placed cess-—(signed) s- H. Potter." NEW MEYROWITZ GOGGLES C B. MEYROWITZ, LTD., announce • a new development in connection with their Luxor Goggles in the form of a hand-ground safety-glass lens. These lenses will be called the " white streak " lenses, because they are tinted at the upper and lower por tions, leaving a clear streak in the line of vision, giving the wearer per fect protection from glare coming from above or below his line of vision. The price of the No. 6 Luxor Goggle with the lenses is £4 5s., and can be seen at either of Meyrowitz's branches, 1A, Old Bond Street and 199, Regent Street, or their agents. This improvement overcomes one of the great troubles with goggles, as glare incapacitates one's vision more easily than anything else, and those who find it difficult to look near the sun should certainly invest in a pair of these new goggles. a large contract with the Irving Air Chute Co. for their standard types. An expert of the Company has recently been in Turkey instructing the Turkish airmen in the maintenance and operation of parachutes. Following the wise example set by our own Royal Air Force, no Turkish military airman is now allowed to fly without an Irvin parachute. CASTROL AT FOLKESTONE ""THE Comper "Swift" (Gipsy III) in which Mr. A. J. Styran won the Folkestone Aero Trophy at Lympne on August 25 was lubricated with Wakefield Castrol oil. This oil was also used by Fit. Lt. N. Comper, who came second in a similar aeroplane with a Pobjoy engine. TO OBVIATE GLARE: These new Meyrowitz goggles should be a boon to pilots who suffer when flying towards the sun. (FLIGHT Photo.) THE " METEOR " ENGINE (Concluded from previous page.) weight is only 210 lb. All tests have been made with the engine driving a *' Gipsy III " propeller, from the tips of which some 3| inches have been cut away. The engine will drive this propeller around at 2,000 r.p.m., when it is estimated that the propeller absorbs about 110 b.h.p. The designers estimate that by the use of aluminium alloys, cylinder steel sleeves, etc., the weight could be reduced to not much more than 150 lb., while they feel confident of getting nearly 150 b.h.p. out of the engine at a speed of 2,300 r.p.m. As the engine is particularly simple to manu facture (there are but three gear wheels in it, for example!) the production costs should be low, and the aero engine weighing a pound per h.p. and costing £1 per h.p. may not be as unattainable as it looks at present. Roller bearings are used throughout, and oil is forced by pump to circumferential grooves in the cylinder walls. The crankcase bearings, etc., are at present lubricated by splash, but will later be converted for dry sump lubrica tion. The experimental engine has now run about 30 hr. under its own power, and about 100 hr. " motoring." 34
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