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1934
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FLIGHT, MAY 17, 1934 fMNQUE PORTS ^ Messrs. Brown, Webb and Fellows have purchased a " Moth " which will be available for club hire, so there are now five training machines at Lympne. Mr. G. Fellows has joined the staff as assistant to Mr. W. E. Davis. Flying time during the week totalled 21 hours, with one new "A" licence. Several members propose to go over to the Whitsun meeting at Eelde. OOUTHERN ^ During the first fortnight in May 36 hours were flownand the " Fox Moth " has been in great demand for taxi work. One cross-country to Portsmouth by two clubmachines was " befogged " there, and at Tangmere on the way back. Mr. John Tranum, who is making a" drop " at the display on May 26, has arranged to renew his licence at Shoreham. CGYPT *-• Mr. D. Carroll, the Chief Instructor of the Misr Airwork School, is completing plans for the flight to Turkey in School machines, which is due to leave Cairo during the early part of June. Three machines are to take part in the flight, which covers some 2,750 miles, and five pupils intend to make the journey. Such long cross-country flights offer valuable experience. I IVERPOOL •*-* High winds still trouble the embryo (and other) pilots at Hooton Park, but 31 hr. 20 min. were flown last week. pOVENTRY ^ The Coventry Aviation Group now operates at Whit- ley aerodrome by permission of the Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircroft Co., and the address of the Secretary, Mr. H. T. Jackson, is 61, Huntingdon Road, Coventry. The last meeting was on May 10, with Maj. J. E. Bonnik- sen, of Leamington, instructing. INDIA1 Apart from the fact that no fewer than 10,819 hours were flown during last year by the nine clubs, someinteresting points can be gleaned from the annual report of the Aero Club of India & Burma, Ltd. For instance,a census shows that the average amount of dual control necessary for Europeans and Indians was 13 hr. 59 min.and 21 hr. 19 min. respectively. The Delhi Club now has an Indian instructor, Mr. Bhagat B. Lai, who succeededCapt. Riley, and was the first Indian to be granted a " B " licence. Two " Monospars " are owned by theJodhpur Club, which owes so much to the enthusiasm of the Maharajah. Fourteen " B " licence pilots have beentrained in India. TEUTONIC TOURISTS German Pilots Entertained in England by the Royal Aero Club The visiting machines on the tarmac at Heston. (FLIGHT Photo.) IN return for hospitality received in the past by Britishpilots visiting Germany, the Hospitality Committeeof the Royal Aero Club entertained, on Saturdaylast, a party of German pilots who had flown over to Heston. This party consisted of Flieger Commodore Loerzer, Flieger Kapitan Bieber, Staasterat Florian, Flieger Schwarmfuhrer Wegenast, Flieger Kommandant von Bulow, Flieger Kommandant Homburg, Flieger Kommandant Laumann, Heir Bruegmann, and Herr Scholz. After being entertained at a luncheon at Heston, pre- sided over by Mrs. Nigel Norman, the party flew to Mr. Lindsay Everard's aerodrome at Ratcliffe, escorted by The Leicestershire Vixen. During the week-end visits were made to the homes of Lord Willoughby de Broke and Maj. Shaw. On Monday evening the tourists were enter- tained to a dinner at the House of Commons, and those still remaining behind lunched with Mr. Gordon Selfridge, Junr., on Tuesday. Altogether a very full itinerary. The machines flown by the visitors were of particular interest, and a striking point was that they were all biplanes. They were, in fact, three Focke-Wulf " Stie- glitz " and two Heinkel " Kadetts." The sudden appear- ance of crops of German light biplanes is not, it is sug- gested, quite without significance. For the most part these are in the class of our " Tiger Moth "—in other words, they are manoeuvrable two-seaters which may be used for training or for aerobatics, and possess more of the characteristics of high-powered military aircraft than the larger and heavier cantilever monoplanes of similar power which have been in vogue in Germany for some years past. The three Focke-Wulfs were similar in design, being standard " Stieglitz " biplanes. The " Stieglitz " is a biplane of equal span with heavily staggered wings, for which wooden construction is largely used, while the fuse- lage is a welded steel tube structure. A distinctly neat undercarriage of the divided type is fitted, and in this the shock absorbers and radius rods are enclosed in a common fairing. With 150-h.p. Siemens Sh.l4a engines the top speed is 125 m.p.h., cruising speed 115 m.p.h., landing speed 42 m.p.h., initial rate of climb 1,004 ft./min., and service ceiling 16,730 ft. Of the two Heinkel He.72 " Kadetts " brought over, one was fitted with the same type of engine, and the other with an Argus A.S.8R. inverted air-cooled type of 135 h.p. As in the case of the " Stieglitz," the " Kadett " is a staggered biplane of equal span. With the Siemens engine its top speed is 115 m.p.h., cruising speed 97 m.p.h., and landing speed 48 m.p.h., and with the Argus the top speed is 112 m.p.h. and cruising speed 93 m.p.h. The range is about 400 miles. 492
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