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1933
1933 - 0441.PDF
FLIGHT, AUGUST 31, 1933 Cruise of No. 204 (Flying Boat) Squadron FOUR " Southampton " flying boats of No. 204 (Flying Boat) Squadron left Mount Batten air station on Monday. \ugust 28, to visit Helsingfors on the occasion of the British Week in Finland. H.M.S. York and the band of the 2nd Battn., Black Watch, are also going to Helsingfors for this "Week," which will be held September 4 to 10 to encourage the sale of British goods in Finland. On their way out the flying boats will visit Esbjerg, Copen hagen, and Stockholm. After their stay in Helsingfors the squadron will split up, two boats going to Viborg and two to Sortavala. On September 9 they will re assemble at Helsingfors and return, paying visits en route to Riga, Reval, Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Esbjerg. Long-Distance Flights with " Jupiters " AN overseas station of the Royal Air Force has recently carried out a series of long-distance flights with out refuelling, the aircraft used being Westland " Wapitis " fitted with Bristol " Jupiter " Series VIII.F engines. The first flight, in which three machines took part, lasted 8 hr. S3 min., the distance covered being 742 nnles. A further flight which was carried out, also with three " Jupiter-Wapiti " machines, lasted 11 hr. 30 min. During this period a distance of 1,040 miles was covered at a petrol consumption of less than 19 gallons per hour. French Air Minister's Tour' M. PIERRE COT, the French Air Minister, is organising a flight round Europe to demonstrate the latest develop ments in French comntercial aviation. Amsterdam, Malmo, Stockholm, Leningrad, Moscow, Kieff, Budapest, and Prague will be visited, and a total mileage of 4,400 miles will be covered. The machines on this tour will be a Dewoitine 332 monoplane (three 300-h.p. Hispano-Suiza engines), a Marcel-Bloch 120 monoplane (three 300-h.p. Lorraine " Algol " engines), and a Wibault-Penhoet mono plane, (three 300-h.p. Gnome-Rhone engines). The flight will probably begin at the end of September. M. Pierre Cot has also accepted the invitation of the Soviet Govern ment to visit Moscow. Frank Hawks' Fast Flight MR. FRANK HAWKS, on Friday and Saturday, August 25 and 26, flew from Vancouver to Quebec, a distance of 3,300 miles, averaging 200 m.p.h. He carried ;i letter from the Mayor of Vancouver to the Mayor of Southampton, which should reach its destination in seven ys\ The flight was undertaken to demonstrate the prac ticability of a fast air mail service across Canada. HUMAN BULLET " : Frank Hawks, of " Texaco," and his all-metal Northrop " Gamma " Sky-Ckief, on which he made his 200 m.p.h. flight across Canada. Autogiro Notes THE two-bladed single-seater " Autogiro," which, as was first announced in FLIGHT, is being manufactured by G. & J. Weir, Ltd., Glasgow, and of which the prototype has already been test flown fairly extensively at Han- worth, is still the subject of considerable test work. The construction is being considered from the point of view of its suitability to be a fully-jigged production job, as also is the engine, which is likely closely to follow the lines of the Douglas " Dryad." We understand that it is not yet settled whether this shall continue to be pro duced at Bristol or whether it will be manufactured by Weir's. A batch of C.30 " Autogiros " is now under recon struction. These will form the first production models of this type. They will basically be the same as the first direct controlled model, the tests of which have already been described in these pages, but will have the Armstrong Siddeley seven-cylinder " Genet Major " engine instead of the five-cylinder rnodel. This increase of horse-power to 140 should greatly improve the take-off. The first of this batch is under construction in the workshops at Heston, where Airwork, Ltd., are building it under the " Auto giro " company's direction. Further machines are being built by A. V. Roe's at Manchester. They will all have dual control. An amusing position arose recently when the Air Ministry were faced with the question of passing out for his " B " pilot's licence a pilot who had been trained ab initio on the " Autogiro " and who had never flown anything else. The Ministry do not possess a modern " Autogiro," nor have any of their staff who test pilots the requisite experience on this type of flying machine. After much delay and talk, we understand that a pilot who had bad experience with earlier " Autogiros " was 867
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