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1933
1933 - 0144.PDF
FLIGHT, JULY 20, 1933 journey was carried out to schedule in seventeen days, and demonstrations were successfully given in each town. It will thus be seen that the average daily distance travelled was some 200 miles, and there is little doubt but that had any other means of transport been employed the time taken would have been 3-4 months. The Williamson Manu facturing Co., Ltd., are to be congratulated on their euterprife, and it is gratifying to be able to say that already the business results have fully justified the venture. A Mishap near Littlehampton A FAIREY " Fox," owned by Mrs. Victor Bruce and flown by Fit. Lt. J. B. W. Pugh, A.F.C., caught fire near Littlehampton, Sussex, on July 14. Fit. Lt. Pugh landed the machine at Ford aerodrome, but received an injured ankle. His two women passengers were also slightly injured. Stinson Freighter Machine THE Stinson Aircraft Co. are producing a new canti lever low-winged monoplane, which will be able to carry three cars of the size of an " Auburn." The average speed of this machine will be about 85 m.p.h. ; it will probably be multi-engined developing between 1,500 and 2,000 h.p. G.A.P.A N. Medical Adviser THE Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators has appointed Dr. A. Penrhyn Bowdler as its honorary medical adviser. Dr. Penrhyn Bowdler has served for many years with the Central Medical Board, and is personally known to a great number of commercial pilots. The Court feel, in making the appointment, they have selected somebody who will be able to give them most able counsel and assist ance on the difficult subject of medical standards of physi cal fitness, and one who has the interests of pilots entirely at heart. New R.A.F. Caterpillars, etc. THE following Royal Air Force personnel have recently jumped for life with Irvin parachutes and qualified for membership of the Caterpillar Club:—Fit. Lt. J. Moir, F/O. A. C. Drew and L.AC. M. G. Friese-Greene. Two new foreign members are Lt. H. von Schinkel, Swedish Air Force, and Sgt. Pilot Marcel Hanset, Belgian Air Force. The latter makes the seventh Belgian member and the former the eleventh Swedish member on record. Mem bership of this club is open to all nationalities and both sexes, and at present totals nearly 800. Police Aircraft SIR JOHN GILMOUR, the Home Secretary, stated in the House of Commons on Monday, July 17, that he had given permission to two county police authorities to incur small items of expenditure by experimenting with aircraft for official purposes. Low Flying Over Churches REPRESENTATIONS have been made to the Air Ministry concerning low flying over cathedrals, churches and other ancient buildings. The Air Ministry calls attention to pilots to the necessity of exercising care when flying over FLYING—150 YEARS AGO : In 1783 the Brothers Montgolfier made pioneer history when they accomplished the first balloon ascent at Annonay, France, by means of hot air heated by straw burnt underneath the balloon. The 150th anniversary was celebrated, as shown above, at Annonay by a graphic reconstruction of the ascent, with " villagers " wearing costumes of the period. such buildings. Article 9 of the Air Navigation Order, 1923, covers this, of course. High Speed from Milan to Rome A YOUNG engineer, Signor Monti, flew from Milan to Rome in a new monoplane averaging 210 m.p.h. Honour for A. V.-M. Longcroft AIR VICE-MARSHAL CHARLES LONGCROFT had the honour of being received by His Majesty the King, who handed to him the Insignia of Gentleman Usher of the Scarlet Rod of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. mr A / 0 1 % \ THE CABIN OF G-ACGG : Last week the newspapers made much of a " forced landing " made by the Prince of Wales' " Dragon " when H.R.H. was on his way to Weymouth to open the new harbour works on July 13- Actually, of course, Fit. Lt. Fielden, the Prince's pilot, merely made a precautionary landing near Swanage, as the weather was so bad that it was unwise to go on by air. (FLIGHT Photos.) 728
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