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1934
1934 - 1073.PDF
OCTOBER 18, 1934. FLIGHT. COMPLETE EQUIPMENT : An interior view of Capt. Stack's Airspeed "Viceroy," showing the wireless equipment, the chart table, and, in the pilot's department, the P.B. Automatic Pilot. In its Australia Race guise the machine has an N.A.C.A. cowling, without baffles, and a Hamilton metal propeller. The instruments are Pioneer for the most part, with the venturi mounted between the two upper cylinders, and the gauges for the large fuselage tank and for the two small gravity tanks are quite among the neatest—reminiscent of those fitted to the gravity-tank Ford cars. Wright gave the present range as being in the vicinity of 1,000 miles. So now there were two machines. Broadcasting House had been more than depressing about the weather ahead, and on Sunday morning a strong and cold wind swept the aerodrome. Spectators arrived in their legions for the doubtful pleasure of seeing a dozen racing machines flying and taxying in the distance, and a few of the luckier—or more brazen—among their number obtained means of ingress to the sacred precincts There were rumours and rumours. The Mollisons had TANKAGE: There are three of these " semi- cyilndrical " tanks in the fuselage of Kay and Hewett's44 Dragon Six "; together they hold approximately 230 gallons of fuel. * * .,'.'-• . * ') been offered, or had asked for—nobody was .qjjite certain —£S°'OO° to fly the assassination film across the. Atlantic, but were checking in "just in case"; Lorabardi had left Italy with an incredibly fast Bergamaschi; Lombardi had scratched his entry; and so on. In the meantime, repre- sentatives of the Press did their work amidst a clamour of new restrictions and in a shower of special passes. C. J. Melrose had axrived with his cleaned-up "Puss Moth ' '—actually the machine in which he had flown from Australia in record time. In racing form My Hildegarde, as it is called, is fitted with spats, a Fairey metal propeller, and an extra tank giving a range of 1,200 to 1,300 miles. Both air brake and wing-folding fittings have been removed and the engine is a Gipsy Major—unusual in a "Puss Moth "—with stub exhausts. Mr. Melrose claims that his "race" will be a sight- seeing tour, and he proposes to take twelve or thirteen STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOP: The Miles •• Falcon " was only delivered to Mr. H. L. Brook on Saturday. • v , Note the position of the extra tank flUer cap.
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