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1933
1933 - 0971.PDF
FLIGHT, NOVEMBER 9, 1933 ^iSSHHHHHHHIHHHBHIHHi ON CIVIL (AIR) SERVICE : The above Westland " Wapiti " (" Jupiter 8.F ") with a closed-in back cockpit, faired away to the tail, is used by the Civil Air Board in South Africa. party will go to Delhi and Calcutta, and before they finish at the end of next April will have visited some 70 towns, where displays will be given and, it is hoped, many thousands of people taken up for flights. Among the attractions of the Display there will be two parachutists, Messrs. C. E. Longmore and R. Wyndham ; both will be using Irvin Chutes for their daily display drops. The " Tiger Moth " which Mr. Pugh is flying is fitted for in verted flying, and on this machine aerobatic displays will be given. Mr. A. H. Dalton, of Furlough Cars, Ltd., is Capt. Barnard's partner, and he is already in India with the advance party. A circus like this one demands the attendance of a fairly large ground staff with transport, particularly as it is operating away from England. Con siderable material must therefore be carried with them all the time, and for this purpose a fleet of Vauxhall cars and Bedford motor* trucks is being taken, while for the fuel and oil for both ground transport and aeroplanes the organisations oFShell and Wakefield are being relied upon. Mrs. Mollison A REPORT from New York states that Mrs. Mollison has been ordered a year's holiday from flying by doctors. She recently had two operations, but hopes to join her husband in Bermuda shortly. Lord Mayor's Show THE Lord Mayor's Show, which takes place to-day (Thursday), November 9, will include quite a little which flavours of aviation. To start with, the band of His Majesty's Royal Air Force will be included in the proces sion, and, for the first time, No. 600 City of London Bomber Squadron. Later on in the procession there will be two cars arranged by the City of London Retail Traders' Association ; the first will be a reproduction of a City shop of the past, the second car will represent a sugges tion of what the city shop of the future is likely to be, and included will be a landing stage on the top for aero planes. Still farther along the procession, under the Pageant of Empire Communications, will be two lorries symbolising the Air Mail and the Telephone Services. The air mail exhibit will depict a bird with a letter in its beak flying over the world. An air mail posting box will also be shown for the purpose of display and to direct attention to the blue colouring, as distinct from the red boxes for land mails. Next to these lorries will be a car arranged by Imperial Airways, Ltd. This car will show the extent of the company's services by a display portray- mg the world with an illustration of the Empire routes. Appropriately enough, the following cars represent the three principal sailing routes of the Peninsula & Orient Steam Navigation Co. Accident in France A THREE-ENGINED Farman machine which left Basle during the morning of Tuesday, October 31, crashed in a f °g at Etobon, near Belfort. The only passenger, Dr. Spoerry, and the wireless operator were killed, and the Pilot, M. Lafannechere, and a mechanic were injured. The machine was carrying a quantity of gold for the Bank of England, which was scattered over a distance of several hundred yards, and four chamois for the London Zoo. Two of these animals were killed, one was injured and the fourth escaped into the woods. The First Aircraft built in Manchukuo THE MUKDEN AIRCRAFT ARSENAL, maintained by the Manchurian Aviation Co., has succeeded in turning out two Fokker passenger monoplanes under licence. These are the first aircraft ever built in Manchukuo and constructed almost entirely of local materials with the exception of their engines, which are the Nakajima " Kotobuki " air- cooled engines of 460 h.p. On October 5, the company christened the new aircraft in the presence of Lieut.- General Koiso, Chief of Staff of the Kuantung garrison and many dignitaries at the Mukden aerodrome. A Japanese Reconnaissance IT was reported that nine Japanese military machines penetrated nearly 18 miles into Siberia on Friday. They crossed the Soviet frontier south-west of Vladivostok. The Soviet Government regarded this action with some concern, for, although on previous occasions Soviet terri tory has been violated by Japanese military machines, they have never flown so far over the border as on this occasion. The Japanese Government, however, have denied the report. A South Sea Island Aerodrome IT is announced by the Japanese Governor of the South Sea mandated islands that an aerodrome will be constructed on Saipan. The reasons given for this step are that the aerodrome will be of use in the study of atmospheric conditions, the assistance of fisheries and the improvement of communications. Saipan is one of the Marianne group. In 1930 about two-fifths of the popu lation were Japanese. New German Aircraft Constructors A NEW company, Biicker-Flugzeugbau, Ltd., has been founded at Johannisthal, Berlin, by Carl CI. Biicker and Ambi-Budd Presswerk, Ltd. This latter firm specialises in pressed-steel coachwork for cars. C. C. Biicker was owner of the Svenska Aero A.B. works at Stockholm. Under his management this concern turned out a variety of successful types, building both under licence from the Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke and, more recently, to its own designs. The name of Budd, of course, is closely associated with " shot welding," and it seems safe to assume that this process will be used by the new company. We understand that rolled-steel spars will be used in the company's machines, which will be built in the Ambi-Budd factories. WORKING ON THE NEW WIND TUNNEL : The 24-ft. jet wind tunnel is taking shape at Farnborough. The work is being done by Boulton 8c Paul, Ltd., and it may be recollected that 2,000-h.p. motors will give an airspeed up to 100 m.p.h. so that the central portion of an aeroplane can be tested at full scale. 1131
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