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Il62 Commercial Aviation FLIGHT. HESTON NOVEMBER I, 1934. ~,A Saharan Flight :" Potting" Noises for the B.B.C. A Rajah's "Commodore" Taxis and " Taxis MESSRS. J. H. Wright and John Polando, the pilots oithe Lambert monocoupe competing in the Australiarace, were, as is known, arrested in Persia, where theymade a iorced landing. It is now learned that Airwork, Ltd., was responsible for their release. Capt. E. G. Cummings, the pilot in charge of an Ainvork '' Dragon '' on charter to the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. and Mr. S. Ford, an English residem. used their local influence to get the two prisoners released, though, unfortunately the two days' detention had already- ruined their chances in the race. With regard to the Sahara flight recently undertaken by- Mr, and Mrs. K. W. H. Knight, we are indebted to the editor of Le Manche a Balai, the Shell Company's North African aeronautical review, for some interesting amendments to the information given in Flight of October 18. It was stated in error that Capt. Wauthier was the only pilot to have made this desert crossing from Algiers prior to Mr. Knight's attempt. Ill actual fact the first civil aviator to have flown this route via In-Guezzam and Tamanrasset) was Mr. Robert Germain, who reached Agudfs (about 400 miles north of Kano, Mr. Knight's destination) on January 15 of this year. Forty-eight hours afterwards Capt. Wauthier completed the same flighi Finally, at the end of March, Messrs. Hirshauer and Poulin took this route on their way to the Belgian Congo. In addition to these civil flights, a certain number of military aircraft from North Africa have penetrated as far south as In-Guezzam. while others belonging to the squadrons of French Equatorial Africa, have flown north as far as Agades. From the Shell Company it is learned that Mr. and Mrs. R. W. H Knight reached their destination, Kano, Nigeria, on Wednesday, October 24 after a flight lasting two weeks and two days. To those whose offices are not directly situated on the tarmac, the accustomed sound of aero engines is as soothing as bluebottles iii a schoolroom. Nevertheless, out of con- sideration for those telephoning within a fifty yards' radius, engines are now bench-tested at dead of night. To the B.B.C.. however, aeroplanes are just one more of the "noises off" which must be potted against the time when they may come in handy. Some days ago the Airwork chief instructor contracted a crick in the neck flying in tight circles round the micro- phone in preparation for the wireless play " Delayed Drop.' Now the B.B.C. are down at Heston again making records for Air Post Stamps Owing to extra pressure on our space this week our monthly instalment of "Air Post Stamps," by Douglas B. Armstrong, has been held over until next week. Boulton and Paul Aircraft, Ltd. On Wednesday the subscription list opened for an issue at par of 1,000,000 shares of 5s. each for Boulton and Paul Air- craft, Ltd., which company has been formed to acquire the business of aircraft designers and constructors now carried on by Bouitpn and Paul, Ltd., Norwich, and one-third of the issued share capital of the A.T.S. Company. In addition, the Company will acquire the patent rights and processes held or controlled by Boulton and Paul, Ltd., including those relating to the Townend Ring. Uncompleted orders in hand at June 30 last represent approximately £188,000, and include a large crder from the Air Ministry. Orders are. also in hand for Imperial Airways. The Chairman of the Company will be Lord Gorell, and the other directors will include Viscount Sandon, Mr. J. D. North, and Mr. S. W. Hiscocks. NEW COMPANIES * AIR LIMOUSINES, LIMITED, 127, Fenchurch Street, E.C.3. Nominal capital£1,000 in 5s. shares. Objects, to adopt an agreement with R. G. Doig, and to carry on the business of aeroplane tnfrs. and dealers, to open and own airports, etc. Theelirectors are:—Ronald V. Rhodes, " Charmaine," North Cray Road, North Cray, Kent, public accountant. Robert G. Doig, The Cottage, Birchwood Avenue, Sidcup,aero engineer. DISTRIBUTORS OF WORLDWIN PISTONS, LTD., 81, Regent House, 253,Regent Street, W.I. Capital £100 in £1 shares. Objects: to carry on the business of sellers and distributors of pistons manufactured by Worldwin Pistons, Ltd., forinternal-combustion and/or other engines. The subscribers (each with one share) are:— Edward Edwards, 235, Regent St., W.I. solicitor's clerk. Enid Mongredien,20, Queen's Avenue, Muswell Hill, N.10, cleric. The first directors are not named. Solicitors: John B. Borer, 235, Regent Street, W.I. use in their MacRobertson Race commemoration programmeon Wednesday. • ' " The entrance of .aviation into the field of daily transporthas led to a misunderstanding which is a sign of the times. On October ig a pupil rang up the Heston traffic office askingfor a taxi to meet him at Rochford Aerodrome, Southern!. Both motor cars and aeroplanes are booked from the same-counter, and a puzzled official, answering the telephone, en- quired if he really meant a taxi. Answered in the affirmative,he despatched -a fast car from a local hire service. Some time later the pupil rang up again enquiring about the non-arrival of the aeroplane. Flying accidents can be. counted in the newspapers and therepair shops, and the lay reader or visitor gets an exaggerated idea of their number. But to-day, in the main Heston work-shop, out of eleven aeroplanes, onty ±wo are " crashes, '_ neither of which, incidentally, resulted in personal injury tothe occupants. It was incorrectly stated last week that two " Gipsy Gulls"were to be delivered to Indian Transcontinental Airways. The, company awaiting delivery is actually Indian National Air-ways, with whom Airwork, Ltd., is associated. On October 21 Mr. H. Tyndale-Biscoe, an instructor ofthe Madras Flying Club, left Heston for Madras in an Avro " Commodore." He is delivering this aeroplane to the "Rajahof Vizianagram, who recently learned to fly at the Madras Club. The machine, which is equipped with a complete setof blind flying instruments, is arranged so that half of the back seat can be adapted as a bed if necessary. Mr. Tyndale-Biscoe is about to join the fiVing staff of Messrs. Tata, in India. An Apposite Lecture After all the hullaballoo in the papers apropos airline speeds., it will be interesting to heai what M. Louis Breguet has to say when he lectures next Thursday before the Royal Aero- nautical Society on "Speeds of Commercial Aircraft." H«, will go into all the questions that are so easily overlooked by the casual observer, and will analyse the effects of speed on cost, overhead and administrative charges and depreciation- Stratosphere flying, too, will be considered by M. Breguet. The lecture, which will be illustrated, will be delivered at G.30 p.m. in the lecture hall of the Royal Society of Arts. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED ; Aeronautical Research Committee Reports and Memoranda. No. 1610. Abstract.Analysis of Experimental Observations in Problems of Elastic Stability. By R. V.. Southwell. December, 1931 Price 2d. net. London : H.M. Stationery Office.National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Report No. 477. Effect of Viscosity on Fuel Leakage Between Lapped Plungers and Sleeves and on theDischarge from a Pump-Injection System. By A. M. Rothrock and E. T. Marsh, Price 10 cents. No. 478. Experimental Verification of the Theory of Wind-TunnelBoundary Interference. By TheodoreTheodorsen and AbeSilverstein. Price 10 cents. No. 481. Working Charts for the Determination of Propeller Thrust at Various Air'.Speeds. By Edwin P. Hartman. Price 10 cents. No, 482. Wing-Fuselage Inter- ference, Tail Buffetting, and Air Flow about the Tail of a Low-Wing MonoplaneBy James A. White and Manley J. Hood. Price 10 cents. No. 484. A Flight Investigation of the Effect of Mass Distribution and Control Setting on the Spinningof the XN2Y-1 Airplane. By N. F. Scudder. Price 5 cents. No. 486. Infra-red Radiation from Explosions in a Spark-Ignition Engine. By Charles F. Marvin, Jr.,Frank R. Caldwell and Sydney Steele. Price 10 cents. United States: Superinten- dent of Documents, Washington, D.C. The Autogiroand How to Fly It. (Second Edition.) By Reginald Brie. Price-5.1-net. London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd. Denmark, 11)34. Published by the Royal Danish Ministry for Foreign Affairsand the Danish Statistical Department, 2tt, Pont Street, S.W.I. Airships in Peace and War. By Captain J. A. Sinclair. Price 18/-net. London:Rich & Cowan, Ltd. . -e> -^ <5> -Q- AERONAUTICAL PATENT SPECIFICATIONS Abbreviations: Cyl. — cylinder; i.e. — internal combustion ; m. — motors.(The numbers in brackets are those under which the Specification will be printed and abridged, etc.) APPLIED FOR IN 1933 Published November 1st, 1934. 3237. NAAMLOOZE VENNOOTSCHAP INSTITUUT VOOR AERO- AND HVDRODYNAMIEK. Aircraft. (417,504). 9123. CHANCE BROS. & Co., LTD., and SLIM, T. H. Flashing apparatus for navigational and other lights. (417,261). 10450. BRISTOL AEROPLANE CO., LTD., FEDDEN, A. H. R., and MAYER, F. Liquid coolers for aircraft or other vehicles. (417,334). 19612. BLACKBURN AEROPLANE & MOTOR CO., LTD., and RENNIE, J. D. Fuel- jettisoning valve arrangement for aircraft. ' 3212T. FAIREY AVIATION-CO., LTD., and BROWN, A. C. Control surfaces of aircraft.- (417,487). 10118. PEIRCE,H. C.,& DESOUTTEB, A. M. Navigation lamps for aircraft. (417,319)* 27152. NAAMLOOZE VENNOOTSCHAP INSTITUUT VOOR AERO- & HAH Aircraft. (417,581).
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