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FLIGHT, NOVEMBER 23, 1933 AIRISMS FROM THE FOUR WINDS French African flight TWENTY-FIVE of the twenty-eight French machines, which are doing a flight to the French African possessions, have arrived at Gao. One machine came down in the desert and two others remained behind to escort it. on after repairs had been done. On Thursday, November 16, the whole flight reached Mopti in Upper Senegal. By November 20 they had reached St. Louis, Senegal, having flown via Kayes and Dakar. The R.A.F. South African flight (1934) THE itinerary for the Service South African flight of next year has been fixed provisionally. The machines will leave Heliopolis on February 26, and will fly to Pretoria by way of Kisumu, Moshi, and Buluwayo. Pretoria should be reached on March 7. The homeward journey will be gin on March 13, and the machines should be back in Heliopolis by May 4. During the journey home halts will be made at outlying places in Rhodesia and Nyasaland. The Lindberghs COL. AND MRS. LINDBERGH arrived in Lisbon on November 15. Air defence in Warsaw ON Wednesday, November 15, air exercises were held in Warsaw to train the army and civilian population in measures to be taken against air attack. Automatic parachutes AN experiment has recently been tried in America with parachutes of an automatic nature. A machine cruised about 1,500 ft. above the ground, and from that height two passengers and their metal seats were projected out of the machine and into thin air by the operation of a lever in the pilot's cockpit. Parachutes opened above the passengers, who were thus safely conducted to mother earth. A second pull on the lever discharged a couple more passengers in a downward direction. Shell business flight DETAILS were given in FLIGHT for November 2 of a long business flight being undertaken by Shell Mex, the machine, a Monospar, being flown by Jerry Shaw. Accord ing to the Asiatic Petroleum Co. the machine was damaged at Shaibah through an oleo leg springing out after running over rough ground, which caused a collapse of the under carriage. The machine is being totally dismantled and shipped to Karachi. Dornier to move? IT has been reported that Dornier Metallbauten have decided to transfer their works from the shores of Lake Constance to those of the Baltic. Wismar is the site HELICOPTER RESEARCH : M. Florine, the designer of the helicopter illustrated last week, is seen seated in the machine, while standing in front of it is. M. Collin, the pilot, who kept the machine in the air for just under 10 min. 1182 mentioned, and is situated in Liibeck Bay, a position not too far removed from either the verv important city of Hamburg or from the Kiel Canal. A Dornier freight carrier THE Dornier works at Altenrhein, Switzerland, have just completed the Do.Y, a three-engined cantilever high- wing monoplane. The machine is designed to carry freight and has a fuselage with plenty of space. The three direct- drive Bristol " Jupiter " engines are mounted as tractors, one on each side on a level with, but ahead of the leading edge of the wing, and the third engine above the wing, farther aft. The wing span is of 91 ft. 10 in., and the wing area is 1,195 sq. ft. The tare weight is 11,000 lb. and the gross weight 18,700 lb. The cruising speed is given as 137 m.p.h. and the range as 930 miles. The first Turkish-built aircraft AN aeroplane built from Turkish raw materials has been built by the " Kaissari " manufacturers. Originally belonging to the Junkers group, these constructors are now operated by American (probably Curtiss) interests. " Emeraude " makes more history LAST week we recorded briefly the flights from Paris to Marseilles and back and to Dakar made by the Dewoitine D.332. The machine has since made the return flight to Paris, and as extremely good time was made, it may be of interest to give a few particulars. On the outward flight to Dakara, start was made from Le Bourget, Paris, on November 10. The time-table turned out as follows: — Departure Le Bourget, 8.07, arrival Marseilles 10.30 ; depar ture Marseilles 11.40, arrival Casablanca 18.38 ; departure Casablanca 22.12, arrival Agadir 23.40 ; departure Agadir 1.10, arrival St. Louis 7.20; departure St. Louis ?, arrival Dakar 9.50. The outward journey thus took 25 hr. 43 min. As the distance from Paris to Dakar is 3,540 miles, the " commercial speed," i.e., speed based on lapsed time, was 137.5 m.p.h. The actual flying time was 19 hr. 6 min., giving an average flying speed of 185.3 m.p.h. The return journey was started on November 12, and the following times were logged:—Start Dakar 4.35, arrival Villa-Cisneros 8.30 ; departure Villa-Cisneros 9.07, arrival Casablanca 15.23 ; departure Casablanca 4.35, arrival Mar seilles, 11.45 ; departure Marseilles 12.47, arrival Le Bourget 16.00. Owing to the relatively long stay at Casa blanca, the return journey took a lapsed time of 35 hr. 25 min., giving a commercial speed of about 100 m.p.h. The actual flying time was 20 hr. 41 min., giving an average flying speed of 171 m.p.h. Among the passengers was, on the return flight from Marseilles to Le Bourget, Mr. Plesman, the Managing Director of the K.L.M. British Polar Year Ex pedition THE six members of the British Polar Year Expedition have now returned to England, and the leader, Mr. J. M. Stagg, has issued a report on the work done. Their station was at Fort Rae near the northern shore of the Great Slave Lake in northern Canada. The airri of the expedi tion was to carry out a pro gramme of observation of meteorol ogy, terrestrial magnetism, aurora, and atmospheric electricity. The party was at Rae for a year, living in log huts covered with mud. The observations were made continuously from August 1, 1932, to August 31, 1933. Not a little difficulty was met with from various delicate instruments getting out of order in the changing temperatures. Hydrogen was manufactured on the spot for inflating the balloons, which were constantly sent up carrying re cording instruments. In all, about 450 balloons were sent up, many of which reached heights of over 20,000 ft. Two records of temperature and nrressure pressur
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