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1934
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FLIGHT, JANUARY 11, 1934 AIR1SMS FROM THE FOUR WINDS Lord Londonderry's air tour LORD LONDONDERRY, the Secretary of State of Air, arrived in Baghdad on Monday, January 1. On the following day he left by Imperial Airways for India and arrived at New Delhi. On Sunday, January 7, he flew on to Calcutta, where he remained as the guest of the Viceroy until January 10. Discussing the journey by air, Lord Londonderry is reported to have said that the whole journey to India might be speeded up by the elimination of the train journey between Paris and Brindisi. Colonial Secretary's air tour SIR PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, is making a six weeks' air tour of East Africa. He left England on Wednesday, January 3, and travelled overland to Brindisi, whence he flew to Egypt. During his tour Sir Philip will visit Egypt, the Sudan, Uganda, Campala, Nairobi, North Tanganyika, Lake Victoria and Kisumu.Stranded Arctic explorers LAST week FLIGHT mentioned the stranding of the Russian icebreaker Cheliushin, which was on an exploration expedition in the Arctic under Prof. Schmidt: It was also mentioned that aeroplanes might be sent out to effect a rescue. It now transpires that the rescue plans will have to be abandoned until the end of the winter. Two specially prepared machines will, however, spend the winter at Providence Bay ready to set out on an attempt at rescue at a moment's notice. Antarctic expedition* r IT is reported that Capt. Ernest Miles Joyce, the Polar explorer who accompanied the Scott and Shackleton expe- ditions, is organising an air expedition to the Antarctic. A "SILLY SYMPHONY' Then I'll taff and I'll puff with the usual apologies) SIR JOHN SIMON IN ROME : The Foreign Secretary flew from Capri to Ostia in an Italian seaplane on January 3. On his arrival at Rome (shown above) he spent two hours with Signor Mussolini. THREE LITTLE PIGS : All who have s*en Walt Disney's " Silly Sym- phony " will appreciate this cartoon by " Poy," reproduced by kind permission of the Editor of the London Evening News. The object of this expedition, which may leave in August, is to investigate the commercial possibilities of the land discovered by Scott, Ross and Shackleton. The expedi- tion will have three aeroplanes. Meanwhile Admiral Byrd has discovered two hundred thousand square miles of sea which, up to the present, have been chartered on maps as land. No doubt Admiral Byrd is also considering the com- mercial possibilities of this new and remarkable discovery.Yet more air rescues ONE hundred motorists are reported to have been marooned along the main road near Kroonstad, in the Orange Free State, by reason of heavy floods. Food has been dropped to them by aeroplanes. ...,: : ,.,— :.,,,.. Those pylons again FOLLOWING on the heels of the Apollo disaster, we have to record more crashes also due to the pylon menace. Last Friday, Miss Evelyn Frost, an American, and Mr. Geoffrey Benskin Ruddle, both members of the Reading Aero Club, left Orly for an aerial tour of Southern France in a " Moth " belonging to Miss Frost. While flying near Nevers, Mr. Ruddle, who was flying the machine, lost his bearings while searching for an aerodrome, and, in trying to make a landing in a field, hit an electric cable and crashed on a road. The aircraft caught fire and Miss Frost was burned to death. Mr. Ruddle was thrown clear, but was badly burned in looking for Miss Frost in the flames. He was taken to hospital in Nevers. Another disaster occurred at the Civil Aviation School at Brunswick, Ger- many, when a pilot and mechanic were killed in a collision between the training machine in which they were flying and the mast of a wireless station. Both occupants were burned to death.Another speed record for France LAST week we recorded that M. Delmotte, piloting a Caudron C.362 monoplane fitted with Renault " Bengali Special " engine, had established records for light planes over 500 and 100 km., at Istres, Marseilles. Now the world's speed record for unlimited engine size and aero- plane weight appears also to have gone to France, the pilot, Massotte, being reported to have covered a distance of 1,000 km. (621.4 miles) at an average speed of 226 m.p.h. This figure must be accepted for the present with a certain amount of reserve, pending official confirmation, but, if correct, it means that the previous record over 1,000 km., held by the German pilot, Untucht, on a Heinkel, with B.M.W. 630-h.p. engine, has been beaten by approximately 10 m.p.h. by a machine having an engine of only about 200 h.p. The Caudron monoplane flown by Massotte was similar to that used by Delmotte, but the engine was a Regnier six-cylinder in-line air-cooled. M. 40
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