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Flight, October 26, 1933 MRCrMFT ENGINEER AND AIRSHIPS First Aeronautical Weekly in the World. Founded January, 1909 Founder and Editor: STANLEY SPOONER A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice and Progress of Aerial Locomotion and Transport OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 1296. /Vol. XXVA \, No. 43. ) 25th Year. OCTOBER 26, 1933 Weekly, Price 6d. Post Free, 7Jd. Abroad, 8d. TUtorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.2 Telephone : (2 lines), Holborn 3211 and 1884. Telegrams : Truditur, Westcent, London Subscription Rates, Post Free. V NITED KINGDOM s. d. 3 Months .. 8 3 6 „ .. 16 6 UNITED STATES 3 Months . . $2 '20 6 „ .. $4-40 12 .. 33 0 12 „ .. |8-75 CONTENTS Editorial Comment: The Marvellous Macchi . . . . , . A New Australian Record Portugal and France Handley Page " Heyford " .. To Australia in Under 7 Days 1 he Short Monoplane . . # From the Clubs 1934 International Touring Competition THE AIRCRAFT ENGINEER Air Transport: Tasmanian Air Services Airport News Airisms from the Four Winds South African Enterprise . . The Farman 390 Correspondence hsavian Hangar Doors Royal Air F'orce Aircraft Companies' Stocks and Shares .. Imports and Exports OTHER COU 3 Months . 6 12 >JTRIES s. A. 8 9 17 6 35 0 PAGE . . 1063 .. 1064 .. 1064 .. 1065 .. 1066 .. 1068 .. 1069 .. 1072 . . 1072A .. 1073 .. 1075 .. 1076 .. 1078 .. 1079 .. 1080 . . 1082 .. 1083 .. 1084 .. 1084 Oct. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov DIARY OP CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in this list:— 1933. Oct. 27. Hull Ae.C. Annual Ball, at Beverley Road Baths, Hull. Oct. 27-28. Lamport Hall Club " Concours d'Elegance," Sywell Aerodrome. 28. Yarmouth Reunion at Cafe Royal. 2. Air Command, Legion of Frontiersmen, Gen. Meet ing and Dinnerat Hambone Club, Gt. Windmill St., W.C. 2. " The Practical Side of Motorless Flight." Lecture by S. Humphries before Imperial College Gliding Club, S. Kensington. 2. "Variable-Pitch Airscrew and Variable Gears," Lecture by W. G. Jennings before R.Ae.S. 3. Norfolk and Norwich Aero Club Annual Ball, at Thatched Assembly Rooms, Norwich. Herts and Essex Ae.C. Annual Dinner and Dance, Wharncliffe Rooms, Hotel Gt. Central, London. 16. " Stiffness of Aeroplane Wings." Lecture by H. Roxbee Cox before R -Ae .S. 24. Yorkshire Ae.C. Annual Dance, Hotel Majestic, Harrogate. 25. Comrades of the R.A.F. Reunion Dinner, at Thames House Restaurant, Millbank, S.W.I. 30. "Tail Buffeting.'' Lecture by Dr. W. J. Duncan before R.Ae.S. 1. No. 3 Sqdn. R.F.C. and R.A.F. Reunion Dinner, at May Fair Hotel. 1. No. 70 Sqdn., RJV.F., Reunion Dinner, at R.A.F. Club, Piccadilly. 1. Lancashire Ae.C. Annual Ball, Midland Hotel, Manchester. l • Hampshire Ae.C. Annual Dinner and Dance, South Western Hotel, Southampton. Nov. 16. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. ;>ec. Dec. Dec. Dec. EDITORIAL COMMENT E can only express amazed admiration at the third speed record established by the Macchi-Fiat combination. When Warrant Officer (now Lieu tenant) Francesco Agello beat Fit. Lt. Stamforth's high speed record over a straight course of three kilometres, we admired, but we were not particularly surprised. It seemed to be only in the natural course of events that a machine specially built to cover three and a-half kilometres four times or so should Xhe be able to outfly a machine which had Marvellous been designed to stay the Schneider Macchi course of 350 kilometres. Once the designer can cut down the petrol tankage, many things follow which make it easy to attain a higher speed for a short time. It was a consoling thought, but our consolation has been rudely shaken. The next happening was that Col. Guglielmo Cassinelli beat Fit. Lt. Boothman's record for 100 kilometres in a closed circuit, and, if the reports are correct, he used the same Macchi-Fiat which had been used by Agello over the three kilometres course. That called for considerably more fuel. Now Capt. Scapinelli, also using the same machine, has won the Bleriot Cup by flying for half an hour, and covering over 192 miles. We may presume that this 2,800-h.p. Fiat uses at least 200 gallons of petrol an hour, and so 100 gallons must have been carried on this flight. The photo graph of the machine which we published last week shows that the floats used on the 100 kilometres flight are not diminutive, and could contain a con siderable amount of fuel, though we have no informa tion as to whether smaller floats were used for the original three kilometres record and were changed afterwards for more commodious ones. At any rate the latest flight of half an hour definitely takes the machine out of the class of what may be called short- spurt freaks. It may be useful to show the speeds of the three record flights in tabular form: — Agello, 3 kms. run four times, 682403 k.p.h, 423 76 m.p.h. Cassinelli, 100 kms. 629 37 ,, 391 Scapinelli, 30 mins. 619374 „ 385057,,
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