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976 FLIGHT. SEPTEMBER 20, 1934. THE FOUR WINDS ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL QUARTERS Japanese Formation Flight Eighty aircraft attached to the Japan-ese Fleet will make a formation flight to Mukden, Hsinking, Kirin, and Harbin to-day (Thursday). A Japan'China Flight The Japanese newspaper Asahi—anextensive user of aircraft in its business —recently carried out a flight fromOsaka to Peking, as part of a com- memoration of the tenth anniversary ofthe flight by the Asahi's machines from Japan to Europe via Siberia. ' Themachine, designed and built in Japan for newspaper work, was flown by Mr.Masaki linuma, who was warmly wel- comed by Chinese officials on his arrivalat Peking. Across Australia in 9i Hours Leaving Perth at 4 a.m. on Tuesday, September 11, Air Com. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, in his Lockheed "Altair," took 9 hr, 32 min. to reach Sydney. The distance covered was 2,175 miles, and the average speed was about 230 m.p.h. The "Altair" will be flown by " Smithy " in the Mac- Robertson race if the trouble which has arisen over the airworthiness of the machine, when fully loaded for long- distance flying, can be overcome. Twentj'five Years Ago From "Flight" of September iS,ipoq. "With regard to Mr. Cody's intention to attempt to fly between London and Manchester, Mr. Brock, of the well-known firm of firework manufacturers, has sug- gested that the route should be marked by clouds of coloured smoke from shells sent up at various points to a height of 300 ft. Mr. Brock has drawn up a provisional code of colours . . . and suggests that shells should be fired at each point until the aero- plane passes, when the next point would take up the work." PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT: Sir Alan Cobham carries out arefuelling test at Portsmouth in preparation for his forthcoming non-stop flight to India with Sqd. Ldr. Helmore in the Airspeed"Courier." The "tanker" seen above is Sir Alan's Handley Page W.IO (ex City of Pretoria of Imperial Airways). Stack Busy On Saturday, September 8, Capt. Neville Stack broke by 50 min. his own record for the London-Copenhagen and return flight. On his former attempt in May, 1931, his time was 11 hr. 40 min., and his average speed for the 1,400 mile journey was 124 m.p.h. On his recent trip, for which he used a Miles "Hawk Major" ("Gipsy Major"), Capt. Stack rested for 45 min. at Copen- hagen before making the return trip to Heston. The " Hawk Major " had tank- age for a range of 1,500 miles and a cruising speed of 140 m.p.h. Capt. Stack described the conditions over the North Sea as " not too good." On September 16 Capt. Stack attempted to break the London-Prague and back record. Twice he was beaten off his course by storms and was forced to give up the flight, and to, land at Brussels. He described the flight as '' the worst he had ever experi- enced." On his return journey he struck a colossal thunderstorm over mountain- ous country and, to use his own words, was " tossed about like a piece of paper." Between Brussels and the coast he flew into a dense fog which firced him to turn back and to land at Brussels. Capt. Stack is making a series of these flights as training for the MacRobertson race, in which he will fly an Airspeed A.S.8. rN MEMORY OF GEORGES GUYNEMER : A ceremony was held at Le Bourget aerodrome onSeptember 11 in memory of Georges Guynemer, the famous French war ace, who fell in Flanders on September 11, 1917.
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