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FLIGHT, NOVEMBER 2, 1933 sion to have a Municipal Airport, had eventually been compelled to go nine miles outside the borough for a suitable site. He assured the gathering that the Town Council had the question of the early establishment of a Municipal Airport for Southend well in hand. A commit tee is at present investigating three possible sites in or near the borough, and he hoped that before long a definite announcement would be made. Meanwhile, the Southend Flying Club were providing good facilities for flying ; a good deal of air taxi work was being done, and the Club were laying the foundation for an air service for Southend. pINQUE PORTS FLYING CLUB '-' The activity at Lympne has increased since the arrival of the Egyptian Squadron, who are undergoing training on Avro " Trainers " fitted with " Cheetah " engines and special equipment. Sqd. Ldr. Tate and Fit. Lt. Webster are in charge. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Davis, Messrs. K. Waller, and Harraway are going out to Cairo for the Inter national Meeting in December. G-EBTD is undergoing its annual C. of A. at the Club. The fact that, apart from replacing a few hinge pins, there is practically nothing to be done speaks well for the work of the ground staff. A new course has come to the Small Arms School, and Messrs. Vernon and Seymour-Evans have lost no time in joining the Club. Flying times have been much upset by poor weather. A NEW INDIAN FLYING CLUB *~* A new flying club has been formed in India, called the Central Provinces and Berar Flying Club, Ltd. It has been formed with the intention of providing a centre of information and advice on all matters pertaining to aviation, and to instruct members in the art of flying. A FLYING LICENCE IN A MONTH ^* A young Cambridge undergraduate has just suc ceeded in gaining a pilot's " A " licence in a month. During the Long Vacation he returned to his home in South Africa and joined the Rand Flying Club, obtaining his " A " licence before returning to the university. It is his intention to join the Cambridge University Air Squadron. Fareham Aerodrome THE Fareham Town Council are considering the pos sibility of laying out a municipal aerodrome, or, at any rate, reserving a site. The subject was on the agenda of their last meeting. This is very interesting, and shows praiseworthy initiative, for Fareham is by no means a large town. As a matter of fact, an aerodrome might prove very useful to Fareham, for, although it is only 70 miles from the centre of London, it takes between two and a half and three hr. to get there by train. A Flying Printing Works? RUSSIAN propaganda is to call in all the latest aids to efficiency if one can believe rumours from Russia to the effect that a giant eight-engined monoplane is in course of construction. This new machine, which will be christened the Maxim Gorki, is reported to have a designed gross weight of 40 tons, and a wing Span between 60 and 70 metres (197-230 ft.). Eight engines of 800 h.p. each are to be fitted. The wind tunnel, etc., tests are reported to have been carried ouj by the Aero-Hydrodynamic Institute of Moscow. The Maxim Gorki is to be used for propa ganda purposes, and it is even reported that a printing press will be carried on board so that propaganda based on the latest items of news received on board by wireless can be printed during flight and then dropped on the villages over which the machine is flying. The Kadenacy Cycle SOME extremely interesting experiments have recently been made in France with a new two-stroke system, named after its inventor, the Kadenacy Cycle. Very briefly ex plained, M. Kadenacy's theory is that in an internal com bustion engine the behaviour of the exhaust gases has been imperfectly understood. He maintains that as soon as the exhaust valve opens there is a sudden and extremely violent outrush of the gases, so violent in fact that it leaves the cylinder momentarily empty, even to the ex tent of approaching a perfect vacuum. In all engines built hitherto, he maintains, what happens is that actually the exhaust gases oscillate violently to and fro, leaving and re-entering the cylinder. By an ingenious arrange- ment of his exhaust valve ports he has been able to pre vent this, and to utilise the vacuum in the cylinder for ^rawing in a full charge of fresh mixture, which presum- bly rushes in with the same violence as that with which the exhaust gases leave the cylinder. A Junkers single- cylinder heavy-oil opposed piston engine was converted to 'J1™ the Kadenacy cycle, and instead of developing 11 b.h.p. at 1,400 r.p.m. it developed 20.4 b.h.p. at 1,500 tiP'm' a?d 19 D-n-P- at MOO r.p.m. At the same time, tue specific fuel consumption fell from 210 grammes per !hP'hPer h°Ur *0'462 lb./h.p./hr.) to 170 grammes (0.374 '• / h.p./hr.). The engine ran for 25 hours under official ^pervision. The Hare and the Tortoise A PARAGRAPH which must have given yachtsmen and .,,m1a,nn.e motorists'* great delight was published in last *'-ek ^ issue of FLIGHT. It stated that Mr. Sopwith was '' make an attempt to wrest the Harmsworth Trophy from America. As the craft which Mr. Sopwith is having built h 1H ?6e^ sa^ng yacht, while the Harmsworth Trophy is sn + ^ ^ar Wood with a high-speed motor boat, the lectacfe of Mr. Sopwith racing Gar Wood should draw "lrge " gate." Some years ago Mr. Oswald Short and his friend Mr. Donald Maxwell, the artist, were to have had a race to Switzerland through inland waterways. If we remember right, Mr. Maxwell was shipwrecked shortly after leaving home and the race was cancelled. Mr. Max well used his little sailing craft and Mr. Short was to have used a high-speed motor boat, and was to have given Mr. Maxwell a fortnight's start. The challenge which Mr. Sopwith is making is, of course, for the America Cup, which the late Sir Thomas Lipton tried so valiantly, but vainly, to " lift." Everyone in British aviation as well as yachting circles will wish Mr. Sopwith success. Lloyd's Register and the British Corporation THE annual report of Lloyd's Register of Shipping for the year ended June 30, 1933, has just come to hand. We are naturally most interested with the activities of the Joint Aviation Advisory Committee of Lloyd's Register and the British Corporation Register, and it is important to notice that while the shipping activities of Lloyd's continue to suffer from depression, the activities of the aircraft inspection side continue to grow. Up to the end of June last 453 aircraft were inspected for renewal of C. of A. and 183 for damage ; this indicates an increase of 70 and 55 machines in each class, respectively, when compared with the previous twelve months. This is largely due to the Air Ministry delegating to the Joint Societies surveys for renewal of C. of A. of all privately-owned and bona -fide club machines and also aircraft used by the R.A.F. Reserve training schools. Airwork, Ltd., have now provided facili ties for a resident surveyor at Heston, and Mr. VV. E. Packman has been appointed, to this first exclusive outport of the Joint Societies. Mr. Maurice E. Denny has succeeded Mr. Arthur L. Struge as Chairman of the Advisory Com mittee for the ensuing year, Messrs. L. C. Harris and A. J. Whittall replace Messrs. I. C. Geddes and P. Hargreaves, and Mr. Charles Hendry, Vice-Chairman of the British Aviation Insurance Co., Ltd., has been elected in place of Sir Robert McLean. Diesel-Engined Car Record Speeds DRIVING an A.E.C. Diesel-engined racing car on Brooklands track last Friday, October 27, Capt. G. E. T. Eyston beat the previous best speed for this type of car by several miles per hr. The car he used was a saloon, built with as little air resistance as possible and seating four people. The engine is a standard A.E.C. heavy-oil bus engine, with a bore and stroke of 115 mm. and 142 mm. respectively, giving a capacity of 8.85 litres and developing 130 b.h.p. It has a total weight, including auxiliaries, of 1,414 lb., and although the car was driven at over 100 m.p.h. it ran so cool that Castrol AA was used as the lubricant, despite the fact that this oil is the lightest of the standard motor ing grades made by the Wakefield Co. The car is also interesting on account of its economy. Even at 100 m.p.h. the fuel consumption is somewhat better than 20 m.p.g. It should also be noted that fuel used, costs at present only 5|d. per gallon. The speeds and times attained were : — FLYING MILE (fastest mean time for both directions).— Time: 35.30 sec. Speed: 101.983 m.p.h. FLYING KILOMETRE (fastest mean time for both direc tions) .—Time: 21.333 sec. Speed: 104.86 m.p.h. FASTEST RUN MADE DURING TEST (kilo, in reverse direc tion).—Time: 20.975 sec. Speed: 106.647 m.p.h. 1099
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