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APRIL 18, 1935. FLIGHT. xjORFOLK AND NORWICH IN the club's new "Fox Moth" has made two special charter nights, one to take two members of the Norwich Rugby Club to a match at Mildenhall, and the other a return trip to Birmingham. Visitors during the week included Mr. Norman Blackburn in a " Segrave " monoplane. REDHILL Club machines flew 27 hr. 40 min. during the past week. Mr. R. E. P. Bliss is taking a blind flying course for his " B " licence and Messrs. Houston, Lowe, and Place have been living the "Fox Moth" for "B" licence endorsement. BRISTOL On April 12, as recorded elsewhere, Mr. Kronfeld flew to Bristol from Hanworth in a B.A.C. " Drone " in 1 hr. 30 min. Messrs. B. Douglas and M. F. C. Smith have become pilot members of the club. HERTS AND ESSEX In spite of bad weather 46 hr. 15 min. flying, including 18 hr. 45 min. solo, has been flown on club machines. Messrs. P. W. Lambert, D. Griffin, R. G. Charter, and J. Ekham have become members. A novelty dance has been arranged for Thursday, May 2, to which members and friends are invited. LIVERPOOL On four days of the week gales made flying impos sible, but nevertheless 35 hr. 5 min. flying was logged. With the commencement of Summer Time the flying hours for Hootori and Speke on Sundays are from 10.30 a.m. until dusk. On Mondays and from Wednesday to Saturday the hours will be from 2.30 p.m. until dusk at Hooton, and at Speke from Tuesday to Saturday the hours will be similar. YORKSHIRE J- The outstanding event of the week was the opening on Monday of the London-Leeds-Newcastle Air Line. Club member flew about 20 hours during tne past week. Mi«s B. F. Hall and Mr. P. L. Pollard have become members. Eleven members of the Aviation Group are now training. AIR SERVICE TRAINING During March 707 hours of instructional flying were logged at Hamble, making a total for flie first ^quarter of 1,788 hours flown. The school fleet now totals thirty-one. The pupils who entered for the long commercial course last September have completed their first six months of practical training in the workshops and have started their flying tuition. Already three of them have obtained A licences. There are now twenty-three long-course students undergoing their B licence training. The next term starts on May 7. Capt. H. A. Crommelin has completed his instructor's coftrse, and Messrs. H. A. Lowe, T. M. McGrath, F. B. Tomkiiis, E. R. B. White and L. M. S. Whetham have completed their instrument flying courses. Mr. WhyTham is taking up an appointment with the Sperry Gyroscope Company 431 Private Flying The Avro Five has been much in demand for multi-engine experience. Messrs. O. G. E. Roberts and W. J. Scott have been much occupied with it, and the latter has now joined the P.S. and I.O.W. Aviation. This machine has also, of course, been in use for the wireless course pupils. One of these, Mr. K. M. Cass, has obtained his P.M.G.'s W/T Air Operator's licence and has joined the staff of Imperial Airways. Messrs. R. D. Hanbury and K. T. Murray have successfully completed their B licence technical and flying tests. E. J. Finnegan, who is, among others, awaiting his ground en gineers examination, has joined Imperial Airways. Capt. E. R. B. White, of Imperial Airways, has taken the examination for his First Class navigator's licence, and Messrs. A. F. C. Booth, J..L. M. Davys, R. J. Makgill, H. D. Primrose and E. Rotheram were examined for the Second Class licence. No. 7 Navigation Course, in preparation for the ex amination in October, will commence on Tuesday^lilay 7. Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton is the latest addition to the staff of flying instructors. Another Long-distance Instructional Flight As already recorded in Flight, plans are being made for another instructional flight to England by the Bombay Flying Club. At present the arrangements are that four "Moth" machines will make the trip, this time, instead of travelling via Egypt and south of Italy, it is planned to go across Turkey. Mr. Gazdar, the Club's pilot instructor, will be in charge of operations, and it is possible that the flight may be accom panied by Fit. Lt. Gordon Carey, the Secretary of the Aero Club of India and Burma, who will, presumably, take his Miles " Hawk." Two International Events in France The regulations for the two principal international races to be held in France during 1935 have now appeared. One, the Grand Prix, orgaSrtSeti by the Aero Club of France, will be held on July 20 and 21 and is open to single-seater and other machines possessing a normal certificate of airworthiness and with an engine or engines of less than eight litres capa city. The route will be, as usual, from Deauville to Cannes and return, and entries at normal rates, must be received on or before May 15 or, at double rates, on or before July 1. Prizes to the value of 200,000 francs are invplyed, with a cup presented by M. Armand Esders. The second, Les Douze Heures d'Angers, will be held at Angers on July 2 and is organised by the Aero Club de l'Ouest. Again it is limited to machines with engines,;of less than eight litres capacity, but is won by the pilot jjiutting in the greatest number of miles in the twelve hours over circuits Entries, at increasing fees, can be taken until June 14. Sums totalling 100.000 francs can be won, and there are both open and tourist classes. AN OUTSIZE IN this big Beitanca amphibian carries AMPHIBIANS Powered with two geared "Cyclones" oj 715 h.-Py B machine is a ^veYopment oflhl 3!^^ bombeTdescribed in Hi* of February ,8 this year. „ ~ v. There is over fifty cubic feet of baggage space in the stub wings. eighteen passengers at a cruising speed of about 170 m.p.h.
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