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1935
1935 - 0813.PDF
APRIL II, 1935- FLIGHT. 389 THE FOUR WINDS ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL QUARTERS A Hyde Park Show? A scheme, it is reported, is under con sideration for the organisation of a Jubilee pageant representing the pro- progress of'aviation from 1910 to the present dav. The scene will possibly be Hyde Park. Her Qrace Proceeds The Duchess of Bedford, who is mak ing an African tour, arrived at Khar tum on Saturday. She intended to leave on Monday lor Cairo. Illuminated Jubilation A "fly past'' of illuminated Service machines from Worthy Down during a torchlight procession will be a feature of Winchester's Jubilee celebrations. Leading the Way Sir Philip Sassoon, Under-Secretary for Air, has made a donation, sufficient to provide a flying scholarship, to the Young Pilots' Fund of the Air League of the British Empire. An Arboreal Alighting Disentangling himself from shroud lines and branches, Mr. C. L. Harris climbed unhurt from a tree in which he had landed from a parachute drop. He was giving a display at Denbury, the new Devofi aerodrome. Pole Jumping at Cannes One of the founders of Cannes airport claimed that the municipality, which took over the airport in 1931, owed him £18,000. Obtaining no satisfaction, he erected an array of sixty-foot poles on land adjacent to the airport. But Gov ernmental sanction was secured for the removal of the gentleman's handiwork, and the airport of Cannes is once more in commission. ® PHOTOGRAPHING THE LANDING SPEED. The Boeing Company determines the landing speeds of its aircraft through the means of a film camera, a large wire grid, and an anemometer. The pictures taken show the forward travel of the machine and the gliding angle, and, by plotting the line of flight across the grid screen and by allowing for ground wind as measured on the anemometer, an accurate calculation of the speeds is obtained. Austria's Revivalist Meeting During a parade of the entire militaty garrison in the grounds of the Imperial Palace of the Hapsburgs, Vienna—the first since the war—fifteen military aero planes circled overhead. The possession of military aircraft is forbidden to Austria by the Treaty of St. Germain. NEARER STILL : This Pitcairn Autogiro, ordered by the U.S. Bureau of Air Commerce, has a Pobjoy engine. The Bureau of Air Commerce, it will be remem bered, has been studiously fostering the fool-proof private owner type of machine. The Family Fastness One clause of a Bill passed through the Czech parliament compels all con tractors building new houses to provide bomb-proof shelters in the cellars. Meanwhile— In a lecture to members of the medical profession in London, Major H. S. Black- more, R.A.M.C., said "The safest shel ter in the event of an air raid is an ordinary room, rendered gasproof, on or about the first floor." Demonstrative Contending that they had been accorded insufficient representation, some of the tribes along the banks of the Euphrates recently protested "by forcible demonstration. To remind them of the power of the Government, seventeen machines of the Iraq Flying Corps flew over the affected area. The First Wright Biplane It is probable that the original Wright biplane, on which the Wright brothers made their first flights at Kitty Hawk in 1903, and which has been one of the principal exhibits at the Science Museum, South Kensington, when it was on loan for a period of eight years, will soon have to go back to its native land. The technical data centre which is being formed at Kitty Hawk is to bt opened early next year, and a place has been allocated tor the famous biplane.
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