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FLIGHT, AUGCSI 31, 1933 BRIEFLY MR. K. WALLER, who flew his " Moth " (" Gipsy I ") into first place at Folkestone on August 26, used Pratts petrol and Speedoline oil for his engine. The second and fourth home used the same spirit. UNTIL September 17 pilots flying near Blackpool should keep a good look-out for a captive balloon which may be flown by the R.A.F. from a position 1^ miles south of Stanley Park aerodrome and 1J miles north of Squire's Gate aerodrome. The height of this obstruction will not exceed 500 feet and the cable will be marked in the usual manner. IT is understood that the Percival " Gull " will be manufactured at Gravesend aerodrome. MR. R. DENMAN, who, as we announced last week, has obtained his commercial wireless operator's licence, has permission of the Postmaster-General to carry out transmission on ultra short wave lengths with a view to testing field strengths. K.L.M. are using variable pitch airscrews with great success. A saving of 30 per cent, in take-off run has been achieved with one design. MR. M. P. SPENCER has severed his connection with Maidstone Aero Cub and has taken the post of Secretary- Manager of the Gravesend Aero Club. MAJ. H. HEMMING will lecture on " Air Survey Work: Its Various Aspects and Uses," on Sunday evening, September 24, in the Wills Hall, Bristol. The lecture will be during the Tenth Annual Conference of the Asso ciation of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux being held at Bristol from September 22 to 25. Col. the Master of Sempill will be in the chair. Miss DELPHINE REYNOLDS has just returned from a ten-days' trip in a " Redwing." During that time she never once landed in a proper aerodrome, and yet had no difficulty about taking off. This shows that the " Red wing " can be got out off any field in which it can be landed. LIVERPOOL AIRPORT (Speke) now has regular Customs facilities for passengers. AIRSPEED, LTD., at Portsmouth, have three more Air speed " Couriers " under construction, the first of which will soon be flying. Sir Alan Cobham's machine of this type is ready for his attempt to fly to Australia non-stop by means of refuelling in the air, and it is expected that he will start on the flight during the early autumn. Mr. Tiltman is studying the question of a two-engined machine, but nothing has been settled yet. THE new D.H. " Leopard Moth " can be supplied with either the normal type of " joy-stick " control or with spectacle type wheel control. The first production model recently delivered to Sir Derwent Hall-Caine has the latter type. HESTON is now the venue for pilots from all over the world when they visit England. At lunch recently two ladies and four men could between them talk English, Spanish. French, German, Arabic and Flemish. A PROBABLE entry for the Australian Race which is being held next year is that of Mrs. Victor Bruce in a Miles " Hawk." THE Hampshire Aeroplane Club are likely to move to a new club-house in the near future. This will be the quarters which in years gone by were occupied by the CO. when Eastleigh was a Service aerodrome. The building is still in a reasonable state of repair, and will make a club house worthy of the club. The garden attached to the house has the remains of two grass tennis courts in it, and a member who is practised in such matters thinks he can resuscitate them sufficiently rapidly for play to be possible next year. IT should be remembered by those flying to Deauville that they must clear Customs at one of the aerodromes appointed for the purpose. Berck is the nearest which has Customs facilities. EXIDE batteries, which are so widely used in aircraft, are now being installed in the palace of the Dalai Lama, in Lhasa, the capital city of Tibet. RUMANIAN AIRCRAFT will in future bear the registra tion letters YR followed by three letters. Previously their distinguishing letters were CV. THE Junkers heavy oil engine type " Jumo " is now understood to have achieved a fuel consumption of only 0.35 lb./b.h.p. hr. during its type test at nine-tenths full power, i.e., at about 680 b.h.p. Luft Hansa are said to have ordered 30 Junkers " Jumo " heavy oil engines. VIA THEIR NATURAL MEDIUM : The Marconi agents from all over the country came to London for the Radio Exhibition at Olympia by means of D.H. " Dragons " (two " Gipsy Majors ") chartered from Hillmans Airways. Here are some of them arriving at Heston Airport. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED Silhouettes of the Royal Air Force Aircraft. Air Publication 1480. London : H.M. Stationery Office, W.C. 2. Price Is. 3d. net. Aeroplane Design. By R. Rodger. The Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen. Session 1932-33. London : Draughtsman Publishing Co. Ltd. Price 6s. net. Aeronautical Research Committee Report for the Year 1932-33. London: H.M. Stationery Office, W.C.2. Price 2s. net. Aeronautical Research Committee Reports and Memoranda. No. 1519. Lateral Stability of an A emplane bevond the Stall. By L. W. Bryant, I. M. W Jones and G. L. Pawsey. June, 1932. Price Is. 3d. net. No. 1529. Abstract: Flexural Centre and Centre of Twist of an F.lastic Cylinder. Bv W JA Duncan, D. L. Ellis, and C. Scruton.' April, 1933. Price 2d. net. No. 1534. Spinning of High and Low Wing Monoplanes. By H. B. Irving. H. S. Batson, and A. G. Gadd. February, 1933. Price 6d. net. London : H. M. Stationery Office, W.C.2. Aeronautical Research Committee Reports and Memoranda : No. 14-i. Experiments on the Hawker " Hornbill ' Biplane. Part I. By S. B. Gai^s, A. Ormerod and R. A. Fairthorne. Part II. By A. V. Stephens. Part III- By H. B. Irving and A. S. Batson. August, 1932. Price Is. 3d. net. No. 1512. Effect of Tractor Airscrew on Body-Wing Interference. By E, Ower, R. Warden and L. J. Jones. Nov., 1932. Price Is. 9d. net. No. 1 ••>•«• Simplified Presentation of the Subject of Spinning of Aeroplanes. By H. »• Irving. March, 1933. Pricels.9d.net. No. 1520. Air Torque on a Cyhndet Rotating in an Air Stream. By A. Thom and S. R. Sengupta. Oct.. 1W~ Price 6d. net. No. 1536. Effect of Stiff Ribs on Torsional Stiffness of B'«js- By H. Roxbee Cox and D. Williams. Jan., 1933. Price Is. net No. Mj>-- Drag and Pressure-Distribution Experiments on Two Pairs of Stream' Bodies. By C. N. H. Lock and F. C. Johansen. March, 1933. Price Is. net. London : H.M. Stationery Office, W.C.2. Catalogue Collected Researches of the National Physical Laboratory. April, li London : H.M. Stationery Office, Adastral House, Kingsway, W.C..:. AERONAUTICAL PATENT SPECIFICATIONS Abbreviations: Cvl. = cylinder; i.e. = internal combustion ; m. = m- jjj (The numbers in brackets are those under which the Specification <••>" be printed and abridged, etc.) APPLIED FOR IN 1932 <und. Published August 81, 1933 1,941. J. R. S. WHITING. Apparatus for training air pilots on the g (396,378.) BFPI.YX 17.975. AIR SERVICE TRAINING, LTD., H. F. JENKINS and K. c. w Mechanism for the ground-training of air pilots. (896,5 -- ^ 17.976. AIR SERVICE TRAINING, LTD., H. F. JENKINS and R. C. »_- Mechanism for the ground-training of air pilots. (3»b,' ' VN 17.977. AIR SERVICE TRAINING, LTD., H. F. JENKINS and R. c _*> \n 0f Mechanism for controlling pitch-indicators for the lnstrm aircraft pilots. (396,539.) _ n RJVK 17.978. AIR SERVICE TRAINING, LTD., H. F. JENKINS and i Mechanism for controlling an indicator device for the in of aircraft pilots. (396,540.) tion 20,858. S. B. SMITH. Variable-pitch propellers. (396,550.)_ landing- 36,497. DORNIER METALLBAUTEN GES. AND C. DORNIER. Aircran gear. (396,609.) APPLIED FOR IN 1933 Published August 31, 1933 , 1,306. AKTIEBOLAGET MILO. System for driving propellers. (39 1,817. G. CAPRONI. Wings for high-speed aircraft. (396,o&t&gt;.J 882
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