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FLIGHT, JULY 5, 1934 THE FOUR WINDS : ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL QUARTERS European Air Cruising Starting on July 21, a 3,000-mile cruise Of Europe will be undertaken by an Imperial Airways' machine of the " Heracles " class. This tour has been organised by the Polytechnic Touring Association. Instructional. Tour Arrives The four machines of the Bombay Flying Club, led by Fit. Lt. A. Bin- ley, arrived at Heston on Tuesday, June 26, after a 15-day flight. Gliding Record? An American pilot, Mr. Richard C. Dupont, it is reported, covered a dis- tance of 155 miles at the opening meeting of the Soaring Society of America. He glided from Elmira, New York, across the Allegheny Mountains, to Baskingridge, New Jersey, in 5 hr. 50 min. CRUISING AT 215 M.P.H. : The latest V I-A Vultee commercial machine flying above the clouds of Southern California.Cobham. Display Fatality Everyone who has seen the CobhamAir Pageant will be sorry to learn that Renfrew Aerodrome Coal Petrol at the Display Capt. W. Mackay died last Sunday at Ev Saturday and Sunday during For the first time, fuel produced by Farnborough as a result of injuries re- the summer the public are admitted low-temperature carbonisation from ceived in a crash on the previous day. to Renfrew Aerodrome at the moderate British coal was used in the Display. He had taken part in no fewer than cost of 2d and flights are Kiven at Incidentally, Nos. 3, 17, 23, 25, 32, 600 displays all over the country. 5s per head d 41 fighter squadrons, and one Ann >o JAI • flight of No. 24 communication A BeUanca s Second Atlantic A Souvenir squadron, are all using this fuel Crossing One of the airscrews from the Im- regularly. Two Polish airmen, by name Adamo- perial Airways' air liner City of Exhibition in M.OSCOW wicz, left Harbour Grace in a Bellanca Karachi, which was the first of the Full-sized models of aeroplanes and monoplane, with one crossing already D.H. "Hercules" type to be in regu- dirigibles of various designs are on to its credit, last Friday morning m lar operation between Kisumu and view at the aviation exhibition which an attempt to fly to' Warsaw. They Capetown in 1932, has been presented was opened in Moscow a few days ago were forced down at Flers, Normandy, by I.A.L. to the Aero Club of East This exnibition is being held at the owing to lack of petrol, and after- Africa. The " prop " has been placed Cit of Science and Technique and wards flew on to Warsaw, but came in position in the club-house on the among the exhibits is a model of the down once again near the German- Nairobi Aerodrome, with a silver plate gondola of the USSR stratostat Polish frontier. describing its historical significance. Twenty'five Years Ago I From FLIGHT of July 3, 1909. \ "It is a little world apart, this j of the flying movement, but those | in it are striving day by day ... I to broaden its opinions and to : bring closer that period which must ultimately and inevitably \ come to pass, when there will be no such section of the community as will call themselves ' Aero- nauts,' any more than there are people who call themselves ' Travellers in Railway Trains.' " s HOME MADE ! Riley Burrows with the machine in which he covered a three-mile triangular circuit at 185 m.p.h. near Los Angeles. Its wing span is 11 feet. 69J U.S. National Balloon Race Birmingham, Alabama, will be the scene of the National Balloon Race of 1934, according to an announcement made by officials of the National Aero- nautic Association. The race is scheduled to start on Saturday evening, July 28, and the winners of first, second, and third places will consti- tute the American team to compete in the Gordon Bennett International Race, which will start from Warsaw on September 20.
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