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1934
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FLIGHT, MARCH 15, 1934 K.L.M. entry for England - Australia race WE understand that the K.L.M. company has entered two aircraft for the MacRobertson England-Australia race. It seems probable that one of these machines will be the F.XXXVI, which is now under construction. This machine will be a high-wing cantilever monoplane of typical Fokker construction fitted with four Wright " Cyclone " engines of 650 h.p. each, enclosed in N.A.C.A. cowlings. The esti- mated maximum speed is 168 m.p.h. and the cruising speed 142 m.p.h. When fitted for passenger carrying, the range at cruising speed should be about 870 miles. The other type to be entered is not known, but we would recall that besides the F.XXII which, like the F.XXXVI is near- ing completion, K.L.M. have at their disposal the F.XX, which, in its latest form, is said to have a top speed of over 200 m.p.h. and a cruising speed of 171 m.p.h. This machine is at present in service on the Amsterdam-Berlin route. Surely there are few pilots more fitted to fly the machines than those who have flown so consistently well on the Amsterdam-Batavia route.An Australian machine also? ON March 10 the London Evening Standard published a Reuter report to the effect that an all-Australian twin- engined two-seater monoplane is being built in Sydney for the forthcoming England-Australia race. The pilot, it is stated, will be Mr. D. Saville.The U.S. air mail crashes PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has had to bow to the storm which has arisen over the numerous accidents which have overtaken Army pilots who have been detailed off to fly the air mails while the dispute over air mail contracts is being settled. Some ten pilots have lost their lives, some actually on the mail routes and others while in training for the work, or on their way to take up the duties. On March 11 Maj.-Gen. Foulois, Chief of the Army Air Corps, ordered the suspension for a few days of all Army air mail flying pending the drafting of modified air mail schedules.Novel authorship A VENTURE which should prove of great interest to all those concerned was planned to start on Wednesday, March 14, this being the flight of Messrs. F. E. Clifford and T. N. Stack in a " Leopard Moth " (" Gipsy Major ") down the west coast of Africa. Their route lies through Marseilles and Alicante, and eventually to Lagos and Accra. Mr. Clifford, who is a well-known racing motorist and who has already accomplished a solo flight to the Cape, will on this occasion record the prepress of his excursion with Capt. Stack by using a Dictaphone to write a book record- ing the impressions of the two pilots during their journey. The Dictaphone Co., Ltd., Rich & Cowan, Ltd., pub- lishers, and Mr. C. A. G. Martin, managing director of Rowley Advertising Limited, are understood to be behind the venture, which is expected to cover a period of about a month. A METAL-CLAD AIRSHIP : A drawing of an all-metal airship which, provided the necessary funds are made avail- able, will be constructed for the U.S. Federal Government. It will be 550 ft. long, 119 ft. diameter, and^ will carry a crew of 30, with 20-30 passengers and mail up to 12,000 lb. The airship is to be used on a service between Washington, Puerto Rico and Brazil, and thence to Cape Town. For stratospheric research A FUND, to be named after Fedossenko, Vasenko and Usiskin, the Soviet airmen who perished in the wreck of the stratostat Osoaviakhim is to be inaugurated under the auspices of Osoaviakhim (Society for Air and Chemical Defence). The proceeds of this fund, which is to be sup- ported by voluntary contributions, will be devoted to financing further exploration of the stratosphere. The Rubber Research Institute, which is attached to the Rubber Industry of the U.S.S.R., is ready to build the new strato- stat Osoaviakhim II. A group of engineers at the Institute have worked out a new design for the balloon, which will be considerably lighter than the U.S.S.R., which made a successful ascent into the stratosphere last September. The fabric will be capable of resisting tempera- tures as low as minus 70 deg. C. According to one report, it is claimed that the balloon will be capable of reaching a height of 24 miles. No crew will be carried, but all the apparatus will function automatically. Photographs will be taken from various heights of the earth's surface, and instruments will transmit the impulses of cosmic' rays by wireless.British antarctic expedition UNDER the leadership of Mr. J. R. Rymill, a member of the Watkins Arctic Air Route Expedition, a British Antarctic Expedition has been organised and will leave England in September next for Graham Land. The coast- IMITATION THE SINCEREST FORM OF FLATTERY : This machine, known as the " Chidori- go," was constructed by the Tokio Gas 8C Electric Industry Co., and is remarkably like a D.H. " Fox Moth "—although the company is in no way associated with the de Havilland Co. It is fitted with a 7-cyl. 150 h.p. Gasden " Zimpu " (which, again, closely resembles the Armstrong-Siddeley " Mon- goose "). It is being used by the Japan Aerial Transport Co. for taxi and joy-riding purposes. A brief specification of this machine is as follows :—Span, 9 ft. 2 in.; wing area, 236.7 sq. ft.; weight empty, 1,212.75 lb.; laden weight, 2,116.8 lb.; speed range, 46-122 m.p.h.; range, 404 miles. 254
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