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FLIGHT, OCTOBER 5, 1933 examined by other learned Soviet professors, who will issue a more detailed scientific report later. If this record is authentic the Soviet balloon has exceeded the height reached by Prof. Piccard by just over 9,000 ft. According to a report from Moscow, the barograph of the flight has been published. Kingsford-Smith's Australian Flight AIR COMMODORE SIR CHARLES KINGSFORD-SMITH left Heston Airport for Lympne on Tuesday, October 3. His intention was to await favourable weather before taking off on a fast flight to Australia. He, as already announced in FLIGHT, is flying a Percival " Gull " (" Gipsy Major "). Sir Alan Cobham's Air Displays FOLLOWING his tour of over 300 towns in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, Sir Alan Cobham is return ing to the London district this week-end for the final displays of the National Aviation Day Campaign. One squadron will be seen at Molesey on Saturday and Staines on Sunday, while the other will be at Dartford on Satur day and Romford on Sunday. The return of the squadrons is to be heralded by an air re-union over London on Satur day morning, when, unless prevented by low clouds, they will meet over Trafalgar Square at noon approximately and combine in a grand formation flight over Central London. By Spartan " Cruiser " to Australia CAPT. W. P. CRAWFORD GREENE, M.P., has chartered a Spartan " Cruiser " (three " Gipsy Majors ") for a trip to Australia and back. The flight will be made in easy stages, with many visits en route, and during the time spent in Australia an extensive tour will be made. This will enable Australians to see a type of machine new to them and one which is already making a name for itself as eminently suitable for feeder line work or on scheduled routes where a capacity for six or eight passengers is sufficient. The machine which is being taken out is one of the standard ones as has been used with such success on the Heston-Cowes service run by Spartan Air Lines during the past summer, except that extra tanks have been fitted, giving the machine a cruising range of eight hours at a speed of 118 m.p.h. The trip will commence on October 9, and the machine is due at Sydney on October 29. The start back will probably be about November 21. Mr. P. W. Lynch Blosse, chief pilot to Spartan Air Lines, will fly the machine, and as he is thoroughly conversant with Australian conditions, having worked out there on air-line working before coming to this country, he should be able to take full advantage of the opportunities for demonstrating the " Cruiser " which a trip cf this nature is bound to give him. " Gipsy Major " engines are already well known out there, and their inclusion in the specification should ensure a warm welcome by Australian pilots and a trouble- free trip. The Coupe Zenith FOR the fifth year in succession the winning aeroplane in the Coupe Zenith has been fitted with a " Gipsy " engine. This year the winner was M. Finat, whose low-wing Farman monoplane was carried round the circuit at 220.63 km./hr. (137 m.p.h.) by a " Gipsy Major " engine. The circuit this year was Paris, Poitiers, Bordeaux, CLOSED IN : The latest and next edition of that popular light aero plane, the Miles " Hawk," will have a cabin top, as seen in this sketch. The undercarriage will be of the single strut type—not so far seen in recent years in this country—and a tail wheel will be fitted. The first one (with a "Gipsy III" engine), which is being built for Mr. S. Cliff, should have a high cruising speed. Carcassonne, Niems, Lyons, and back to Paris, a distance of 1,577 km. (981 miles). M. Finat also gained second prize for a previous attempt, when he averaged 206 km./hr. (128 m.p.h.). MM. Arnoux and Brabant gained third prize, also with a Farman monoplane of similar type, but with a Renault engine, at a speed of 203 km./hr. (126 m.p.h.). The Fifth Round Poland Flight THE fifth annual round Poland flight was finished on September 10, and once again it was a triumph for British engines ; 36 competitors started on September 2, and the first five to finish had engines built by manufacturers in this countrv. The final order was:—1, M. Pronaszko, on an R.W.D.5 (" Hermes IV ") ; 2, M. Szarek, on an R.W.D.8 (" Hermes IIB ") ; 3, M. Derzewiecki, on an R.W.D.7 ("Genet"). The fourth and fifth home were members of the Warsaw Aero Club, both flying R.W.5's (" Hermes IIB "). A Concours D'Elegance ON October 27 and 28 a Concours d'Elegance will be organised by the Lamport Hall Club, at Lamport, which is situated near Northampton. This country club has been opened in Lamport Hall, the ancestral home of the North amptonshire Ishams. Mr. Gyles Isham is the President of the Club, and Messrs. E. C. Simon and J. W. Buckley are managing it. Aeroplanes attending this event, at which many members of Brooklands will be present, should be landed at Sywell aerodrome, and pilots are asked to bring their own pickets and cockpit covers as hangar accommodation is strictly limited. Many special arrange ments are being made to make the week-end a success for those attending. On the Saturday there will be a dinner- dance and cabaret, and on Sunday an " Old English Roast Beef " lunch. Entries and applications should be sent to the secretary, Lamport Hall Club, before October 15. The total cost of the week-end will be £2 2s.; the dinner and dance only, 17s. 6d. to non-members and 15s. to members ; Sunday luncheon, 4s. ; and the Con cours d'Elegance for motor-cars only, 2s. 6d. The Hall itself is well worth a visit, and contains an enormous amount of ancient architectural interest. Students' Branch, R.Ae.S. ON Tuesday, October 24, Mr. E. V. Dolby will deliver the inaugural address before the Students' Section, Royal Aeronautical Society, at 7 p.m., at 7, Albemarle Street, W.l, with a paper on " The Recent Development and Immediate Future of Civil Aviation." The chairman will be Lt.-Col. Shelmerdine, Director of Civil Aviation. FLAPPED : Mr. A. S. Gibbons, who has for some considerable time been a staunch adherent to the " Klemm," has now forsaken his " Pobjoy "engined machine for this new model with a " Gipsy III," which he has purchased from Herr Fretz, ot " Swissair." As will be seen in our photograph, it has large flaps on the trailing edge of the wing which, in effect, materially increase the camber, so that slow landings and quick take-offs can be made. He tells us that he can cruise at about 125 m.p.h. and that his landing speed is very slow. Herr Fretz had this machine built for last year's Rund Flug. (FLIGHT Photo.) 1006
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