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FLIGHT, SEPTEMBER 23, 1932 detailed key plans and particulars to enable this to be done easily and economically. In cases of buildings destined for overseas markets, these particulars are always given. The activities of Boulton & Paul's constructional engineering department are not confined to aircraft hangars. They secured the important contract from the Air Ministry for the erection at Farnborough. of the new full-scale wind tunnel, on which work is now proceeding. A particularly high degree of accuracy is neces sary in the construction, but with their experience of working to limits of a few thousandths of an inch in the long girders of the air ship R.101, Boulton & Paul are not likely to be daunted by this task. Quite apart, however, from aviation, Boulton & Paul have designed and erected fac tories, workshops, transmission towers, garages, grandstands, plants of every description at copper mines, paper mills, etc., and, in fact, steel- framed structures for every conceivable purpose. The AN ESSEX VENTURE :' Hillmans Airways run regularly from Maylands Aero drome, Romford, to Clacton. At Romford they house their machines in this hangar. (FLIGHT Photo.) aircraft industry, and all those connected with aviation, should address their inquiries to Boulton & Paul, Ltd., Norwich. (London Office—139, Queen Victoria St., E.C.4.) Royal Aeronautical Society Lecture Programme THE following is a list of the lectures as at present arranged for the first half of the 1932-33 Lecture Pro gramme. Lectures will be held in the theatre of the Royal Society of Arts, 18, John Street, Adelphi, W.C.2, at 6.30 p.m. Advance proofs of the lectures will be available, price 6d. each, or 4s. for the half session, a few days before each lecture is delivered. October 6. " Air Navigation." Captain N. MacMillan, M.C., A.F.C., A.F.R.Ae.S. October 20. " Flying Conditions on the West Coast of Africa." Flight- Lieut. W. G. Pudney. October 27. " Aeroplane Covers and Wheels." (Joint Meeting with Inst, of Rubber Industry.) Mr. F. Fellowes. November 3. " Civil Primary Training." Mr. H. Q. T ravers, D.S.C. November 10. " Airscrew Design." Mr. D. L. Hollis Williams, B.Sc, A.F.R.Ae.S November 24. " The Evolution of Aircraft Wireless Equipment." Squadron- Leader H. Leedham, O.B.E., R.A.F. December 1. " The Behaviour of Fluids in Turbulent Motions." Mr. A. Fage, A.R.C.Sc.,F.R.Ae.S. December 8. " Air Survey." Lieut. J. S. A. Salt, R.E. December 15. " Lessons of the DO.X." Dr. C. Dornier. Visitors are admitted to any lecture on signing the Visitors' Book with their full name and address. G.A.P.A.N. 2nd Class Navigators' Classes THE classes for the 2nd Class Navigators' Licences by the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators for the benefit of those who desire to sit for the examination in March next, will commence on Tuesday, November 8, 1932. The syllabus will be published in an early issue of FLIGHT. The fee for the course will be 5 guineas, and books, charts and equipment will be supplied. The lectures will take place on two evenings a week from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m., and it is hoped that by kind permission of the Air Ministry the classes will again be held at Gwydyr House. The com plete course will comprise about 34 lectures. Provided sufficient support is forthcoming, a course for 1st Class Navigation Licences will also be held, the fees for which will be 8 guineas. Applicants desirous of attending the lectures for either course are requested to make early application to Capt. A. G. Lamplugh, c/o The Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators, 61, Cheapside, E.C.2, and to mark envelopes " Navigation." It is also requested that cheques made payable to " Caot. Lamplngh, Navigation A/c 1932 " should be forwarded with the applications. The 2nd Class course will be limited to 30 members. Busk Studentship in Aeronautics THE Trustees of this studentship, founded in memory of Edward Teshmaker Busk, who lost his life in 1914 whilst flying an experimental aeroplane, have awarded the studentship for the year 1932-33 to Mr. Herbert Brian Squire, of Balliol College, Oxford. Farnham Crash Inquest THE inquest on the three victims of the crash of a " Puss Moth " at Farnham on July 27 was concluded on September 14, when the jury returned a verdict of " Death by Misadventure." The three victims were Mrs. A. C. Bossom, aged 43, her son, Mr. Bruce Bossom, and Count Otho Erbach-Furstenau, aged 23, of Hanover. Maj. Cooper, Air Ministry inspector of accidents, in his evidence, said minute examination of the wreckage at Farnborough had failed to determine the cause of the accident, and had revealed no evidence of faulty material or workmanship. Maj. Cooper proceeded: — " From the condition of the wing parts it seems certain that the main planes of the aircraft failed downwards under an extremely heavy load— certainly more than four times the weight of the aircraft. They appeared to have failed downwards at the same moment and in exactly the same way. In my opinion that evidence is definite. In my view the only explanation for this excessive down load on the machine would be either a very complete failure of the tail plane or failure of the body or fuselage of the machine. I am satisfied that the tail plane did not fail in the air. The only conclusion I have been able to come to, which is purely a speculative deduction, is that the fuselage was the part of the machine which failed in the air. This failure I attribute to slight damage or slight crippling of the fuselage or some member of the fuselage as the result of an abnormally heavy landing at some time." Canadian Government Air Operations DURING the period April 1-June 30 of this year the Canadian Government accomplished the following air opera tions '.--Vancouver : Fire preventive and miscellaneous, 159J hr. ; Photographic in British Columbia, 128 hr. Winnipeg : Forestry patrols, etc., Manitoba, Saskatchewan and N.W. Territory, 229 hr. Ottawa : Fire preventive in maritime province, transport and mail, 1,020 hr. No. 57 (Bomber) Squadron No. 57 (BOMBER) SQUADRON will move from Nether- avon to Upper Hey ford, with effect from September 5, 1932. The Last of Collinstown BUILT during the Great War at a cost of £250,000, Collinstown Aerodrome, County Dublin, has frequently been in the news as a possible airport for the City of Dublin. Time and time again plans for the establishment of the airport have fallen through. Now the hangars have done likewise, and all that remains of a once well-equipped aerodrome is a heap of bricks and broken beams. Five hangars were to have been built, but four only were com pleted during the occupation of the aerodrome by the R.F.C. When taken over by the Free State Army Air Corps, after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921, it was abandoned, and the headquarters of the new corps established at Baldonnel. Last year an estimate was pre pared to show the cost of putting the hangars in repair and making the site suitable for a civil airport ; the total of this estimate was £20,000. 904
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