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1935
1935 - 0952.PDF
450 FLIGHT. APRIL 25, 1935. HERE and THERE " Looking at the Air" Between May 20 and July 22 the Midland Regional station will be broadcasting a series of six talks under the title of '' Looking at the Air.' '• Among the speakers, who are all intimately connected with aviation, will be Mr. Lindsay Everard, M.P. Towards New Zealand In view of the fact that tenders for the projected mail extension from Australia to New Zealand will shortly be called for, it is interesting to note that Sir Charles Kingsford Smith has definitely stated that he will put one in. The Wilbur Wright Lecture The Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture and Conversazione will be held in the Science Museum, South Kensington, by permission of Colonel E. E. B. Mackintosh, Director of the Museum, on Thursday, May 30. The lecture will be read by Mr. D. W. Douglas, President of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences, U.S.A., and designer of Douglas aircraft. The Late Fit. Lt. M. C. Budding, R.A.F.O. Fit. Lt. M. C. Dudding, R.A.F.O., met with a fatal acci dent whilst landing a Miles '' Hawk '' at Maimesbury last Friday afternoon. Only a few days previously he had accepted the post of pilot to Mr. Gardner, of Warlingham, though he remained instrument-flying instructor to Surrey Flying Services, Ltd., at Croydon, in which capacity he had been employed for the past six months. Fit. Lt. Dudding joined No. 5 Squadron, R.F.C., in 191G as an aircraftman, and subsequently served in 31 and III Squadrons in India and Palestine respectively. Later he was for six years at No. 5 F.T.S., Sealand, as an instructor, having in 1921 passed the C.F.S. Instructors' Course at Up- avon, category B.I. ; in 1925 be was recategorised as A.I. In January, 1928, his civil aviation career began with an appointment as an instructor at the Sir W. G. Armstrong- Whitworth, Ltd., R.A.F. Reserve Training School, Whitley, Coventry, where he was for a time in charge of operations prior to being transferred to Hamble in 1931. At Air Service Training, Ltd., he passed the instrument flying course and instructed Reserve officers and civil pupils in this branch of training, and afterwards organised the flying boat and sea plane training courses at Hamble prior to resigning in May, 1933- He next joined Spartan Air Lines, Ltd., and put up a very regular performance with a Spartan '' Arrow '' on the early morning Croydon-Ostend newspaper service, and was later to become even more well known for his steady flying and sound judgment in all weather conditions on the Croydon to Isle of Wight route of that company. He left Spartan Air Lines, Ltd., after having explored the possibilities for an amphibian run to the Channel Isles, and in October last year resumed instructional flying with Surrey Flying Services, Ltd., AN AMERICAN SPRINTER. "Art" Chester's tiny two- year-old monoplane, in which he has done 272 m.p.h. over a closed course. The engine is a supercharged Menasco C-4-S developing approximately 200 h.p. A new machine, essentially similar, will have a six-cylinder Menasco. at Croydon, where his organising ability and enthusiasm re sulted in provisional Air Ministry approval being accorded to that company's " blind-flying " course. He was a mem ber of the G.A.P.A.N., and had, in all, flown over 5,300 hours. Dudding's loss will be keenly felt by a wide circle of friends both within and without of civil and Service aviation (writes a correspondent), and none more so than at Croydon, where, in the course of his duties as air-line pilot and instructor, he had endeared himsell alike tc colleagues of his own and other nationalities, his passengers and his pupils. To his wife, son and daughter we offer our sincere sympathy. America's Aircraft Exports Figures recently issued show that there was a marked in crease last year in the oversea sales of American aeroplanes, engines, and components, shipments attaining a total of £3,532,590, as compared with only ^1,836,070 in 1933—an advance of £1,696,520, or over 92 per cent. Details are as follows:— . Aero and seaplanes, and other aircraft Engines for aircraft Parachutes ... Other aircraft parts and acc?ssories Total No. 490 1,009 1934. Value, £. 1,639,100 891,740 29,640 972,110 £3,532,590 1933. No. 406 2,903 — — Value, £. 1,078,300 290,470 17,465 449,835 £1,836,070 An interesting feature is the reduction in the number of exported engines coupled with a considerable increase in the gross value. AN ELOQUENT ARRAY. A concentration of Fairey "Foxes" and "Fireflies" with Rolls-Royce "Kestrel IIS" engines at Everes Aerodrome, Belgium. The King of the Belgians has flown in one of the "Foxes."
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