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1934
1934 - 0875.PDF
AUGUST 23, 1934. FLIGHT. :m 877 Commercial Aviation Provincial Airways Developments Two D.H. "Dragons," each with two-way wireless, are nowm service on Provincial Airways' Plymouth route, which is operated twice daily, leaving Croydon Airport at 10 a mMr. Jack Addison tells us that his company proposes to run through the winter according to schedule, whenever safety per-mits, and hopes that it will obtain an air mail contract in due course. When and if Southampton and Plymouth becomewireless-equipped, it will be possible to run the service in all but conditions of no visibility. This South West coast service makes a feature of personalattention to the passengers. There are two lists of fares, one of which includes a "door to door" transport service for thepassenger, and each person is allowed 30 lb. of baggage free, with an excess charge of 3d. a pound over this weight. Passen-gers may be put down or picked up at Southampton, Ports- mouth, Bournemouth, Dorchester, Weymouth, Haldon, Ply-mouth, Newquay or Hayle, though the service is scheduled normally to stop only at Southampton, Haldon and Plymouth.Machines are, of course, available at any time for special char- ter work. A "Perseus Scylla" For some time it has been rumoured that an Imperial Air-ways Short " Scylla " might be fitted with Bristol " Perseus ' sleeve-valve radials, and it will be interesting, therefore, togive the performance figures with these engines, which develop 660 h.p. at ground level. The maximum speed is increasedfrom 130 m.p.h. to 134 m.p.h., and the cruising speed from 105 m.p.h. to 113 m.p.h. The fuel consumption is slightlylower, the rate of climb increased from 600 to 800ft. per min., and the service ceiling increased from 14,000 to 15,000ft. Private Flying Continued from page 869.) FROM THE CLUBS /CARDIFF *—' Mr. C. Bowen-Davies, who is seventeen years of age, •went solo after only four days' instruction. He joined the Cardiff Aeroplane Club on Sunday, August 12, and made his solo flight on Thursday, August 16, after five hours and twenty minutes' dual instruction.W ALSALL The membership of the Walsall Aero Club has steadily grown, and the hundred mark has now been reached. Mr. G. Profntt made his first solo early in the week, and is the first member under instruction to accomplish this. The average flying time for July has been 21 hours a week. T IVERPOOL AND DISTRICT •*—' A garden party will be held at Speke Airport, Liverpool, on Saturday, August 25, to inaugurate the opening of the new club house of the Liverpool and District Aero Club. The programme, which includes tea, aerobatics, and a demonstra- tion by A. V. Roe & Co., Ltd., of the Autogiro, will extend from 3 to 6 p.m. XTORFOLK AND NORWICH -I-' On Saturday, September 22, the club will be holding its annual garden party, and the Women's Engineering Society, who are holding a conference in Norwich during that week-end, have been invited. There will be a supper-dance in the club- house during the evening. Mrs. J. A. Mollison has promised to attend. T3ROOKLANDS -D New members at the Brooklands Flying Club include Mr. Burge, Capt. C. H. Walter, and Mrs. Walker Sinclair. First solos were flown by Messrs. Henderson, Pepys and Muir, and "A" licence tests have been completed by Messrs. Henderson and Muir. Altogether instructional flying hours last week amounted to 104 hours. Several cross-country formation flights, with four machines, were made. The International meeting at Lympne is responsible for the erection of a pylon at Brooklands, and private owners who have entered for the races are practising turns in the most professional manner. f^INQUE PORTS V-' Among the week's new members, Mr. Provost is a Belgian subject and a war pilot, and Mr. Harben was in the R.F.C. and had not flown since 1919. He went solo after three hours dual, and has since informed us that his previous first solo was made on a warped wing Caudron, which, incidentally, caught fire on his circuit! Entries for the Cinque Ports Wakefield Cup and Folke- stone Air Trophy are coming in well, and include Fit. Lt. Stain-forth (Airspeed "Courier"), Mr. C. Powis (" Hawk Major "), Mr. Gardner (Avro "Cadet"), Sir Charles Rose (Gipsy 6"Hawk"), L. Lipton, Miss Giles, Mrs. Battye, and Mrs. Patterson. Two club machines have been entered. Apart from the races, the display will include demonstrationsof the Monospar by Fit. Lt. Schofield, of the Klemm " Eagle," "Hawk Major," Wolseley "Tom-Tit," and, it is hoped, byFit. Lt. Bulmai! on a Hawker "Hart." T ONDON GLIDINGi-* Few clubs, whether flying or gliding, have established themselves without outside help upon such sound foundationsas the London Gliding Club. A visit will show the surprising work that can be accomplished by co-operative club effort.Hangars, winches, launching apparatus, and hauling pulleys, to say nothing of an almost palatial club house, have all beendesigned and erected by the members themselves. The club house, in particular, is worthy of inspection by any clubwhich has aspirations in the same line. Naturally others are not likely to obtain anyone quite so enthusiastically efficientas Mrs. Turvey to looking after their catering, but Dunstable will at least show them an ideal at which they can aim. Gliding—or, at least, soaring—is a fascinating study aboutwhich it is impossible to know everything. There are, how- ever, several pilots at Dunstable who habitually stay up forhours at a time, when others can only glide from the top of the hill. Mr. Wills, Mr. Buxton, and Mr. Collins, to mentionbut three, have shown that the entire monopoly of soaring knowledge no longer remains with Germany. It is to be hopedthat the Government subsidy, forecast in Flight of June 14, 1934, will result in the training of more pilots of the same kind. During July members under instruction have completedthe qualifying flights for no fewer than twenty Royal Aero Club Gliding Certificates. On July 14 Mr. Wills made a credit-able duration flight of 5J hours in his Scud. This flight, coupled with his previous flight of 574 miles to Latchington,near Burnham-on-Crouch, during which an altitude of 5,400 feet was recorded, entitles him to the highest award of meritin gliding, the Silver C. This certificate is issued inter- nationally, and it has only been awarded to twenty-six persons. An interesting flight was made by Mr. -Collins on July 22,when he was launched by a motor winch from the bottom oj the hill, and attained an altitude of 4,700 feet. Eighteen new members joined the club last month, andboth a new primary training machine and a new sailplane are being added to the club fleet. A small party of members are atpresent attending the National Gilding Competitions at the Wasserkuppe. . The Beechcraft in England We hear from Mrs. Mollison that she has secured the agency in the British Isles for the Beechcraft high-speed cabm machine. There are three models of this machine, which is manufactured by the Beech Aircraft Co., of Wichita Kansas U.S.A., and one, fitted with a 420 h.p. Wright, was described in Flight of May 17 this year. Mrs Mollison is obtaining the smallest model, for demonstra- tion, in a few months' time, and this will be fitted with a 285 h.p, Wright " Whirlwind " engine, giving a top speed of approximately 190 m.p.h. ...... The Viceroy's Cup As we stated in our issue of July 19, the handicap air race for the Viceroy's Challenge Trophy will be held on Decem- ber 15 and 16, and the course will be from Calcutta to Cawn- pore and from Cawnpore to Bombay, with two checking points. The race is open to all machines under 400 h.p. registered in the British Empire, no dual control must be fitted, and no allowance will be made for wind in the handicap—each pilot being left to discover the best height at which to fly. In addition to the Trophy there will be several other trophies, cups aad cash prizes amounting to £500 in value.
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