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FLIGHT, JANUARY 11, 1934 SPEED FOR INDIA : The " Cheetah "engined " Courier " of R. Dundas, Ltd., on the tarmac at Almaza Aerodrome, Cairo. Lord Ronaldshay, Managing Director of the Company, is flying to India in this machine, piloted by Mr. C. E. Kelly. (FLIGHT Photo.) Regnier is the French concessionaire for de Havilland engines, and the six-cylinder Regnier is virtually a " Gipsy III " with two cylinders added. Untucht's record stood at 347.477 km./h. (215.9 m.p.h.). French flying-boat across the Atlantic THE French Latecoere flying-boat, Croix du Sud, which, as reported in FLIGHT last week, flew from France to St. Louis, Senegal, left Senegal on Wednesday, January 3, and arrived at Natal the next day after a non-stop flight across the Atlantic. The Croix du Sud has been designed and built for regular mail service across the Atlantic. It was piloted by Capt. Bonnot and Lt. Jean Pierre, and is powered by four 650-h.p. Hispano-Suiza engines. New autogiro for France THE French Government have ordered a direct-control Autogiro which was delivered on Friday, January 5. It was flown across to France by Mr. R. A. C. Brie, who took 2 hr. 20 min. to fly the 225 miles from Heston to Paris. That represents a cruising speed of about 96 m.p.h. Machine for Emperor of Ethiopia RAS TAFARI, the Emperor of Ethiopia, has brought a secondhand machine for his own personal use.Civil Cross for Ruysselede crash rescuer His MAJESTY THE KING OF THE BELGIANS has awarded a Civil Cross to Camille van Hove, one of the rescuers of the Ruysselede crash. M. van Hove is a farmer who was endeavouring to drag clear one of the victims when the wreckage of the machine burst into flames. He was severely injured, and has been lying in hospital ever since. The latest Nieuport Machines A GOOD performance is expected of the new Nieuport " tailless " machine when it makes its first flights shortly. The Nieuport 690, it is thought, will not be put into production, as, for its power (300 h.p.) it is considered rather heavy.Well-merited recognition NEWS has just been received that the American Society of Automotive Engineers has awarded the Manly Memorial Medal to Mr. A. H. R. Fedden, Chief Engineer of the Engine Department of the Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd., for his development work on air-cooled aero engines. Readers of FLIGHT will derive a great deal of satisfaction from the fact that this coveted American distinction has been bestowed upon a British designer. The award follows the reading of a very important paper by Mr. Fedden to the International Automotive Engineers' Congress in Chicago in September last, and is a very fitting recogni- tion of the work which Mr. Fedden has done in develop- ing the radial air-cooled aero engine. On behalf of our- selves and our readers, we extend to Mr. Fedden our very hearty congratulations. In another form this work has already been recognised by no less than 16 different countries, which are building Bristol aero engines under licence. Not •• Javelin " and not " Genet Major " AMONG the illustrations to Mr. Fedden's very interest- ing paper on air-cooled engines, which the Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd., were kind enough to lend us for publication in FLIGHT, those published in our issue of December 28 last, on p. 1315, were wrong in two respects. The engine on the left was not, of course, a Napier "Javelin," which is an inverted six-cylinder engine, and the radial engine in the centre was not, as stated in the caption, an Armstrong-Siddeley " Genet Major," but a Salmson A.D.9. Will readers who wish to have their copies of FLIGHT accurate please make the necessary corrections. THE HISTORY MAKERS : Orville Wright, who thirty years ago made the first aeroplane flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C., and Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam, the first woman to make a West to East solo flight across the Atlantic, are shown here at the new Franklin Memorial Institute, Philadelphia, standing beneath the 'plane in which Miss Earhart crossed the Atlantic, while beside Wright is the motor of the 'plane in which he made his memorable flight. 41
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