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1935
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556 FLIGHT. MAY 23, 1935. The original de Havilland "Moth" (Cirrus engine), seen below, was the first of a long line of light aeroplanes. (Flight photograph.) First produced in 1013, the Avro 504 shown above became and remained the standard training machine of the R.A.F. until a few years ago. The engine of the original machine was an 80 h.p. Gnome rotary. (Fhghi photograph.) adopted by other constructors, and in time the float with vee bottom and one or two steps came into use, the step facilitating the take-off and the vee bottom reducing landing shocks. The single-hull flying boat came later than the twin- float seaplane. One of the first companies to introduce this type of machine was the Curtiss company of America. Lieut. J. C. Porte, R.N., secured the British rights for this type, and from it developed during the war a series of flying boats known as the " F " type. In 1913 Mr. Noel Pemberton Billing founded the Super- marine Aviation Works at Southampton, and at the aero show at Olympia next year tie exhibited a small flying boat in which the rounded sections and curved sides fore shadowed yet another " family " of flying boats, the Linton Hope type. The "Bat Boat" Earlier still the Sopwith Aviation Company had pro duced the so-called " Bat Boat," in which the tail was carried not on the hull itself, which was quite short, but on tail outriggers. A single engine driving a pusher air screw was mounted in the gap between the wings, and the occupants sat near the nose of the hull. One of these machines, with a retractable undercarriage, was the first British amphibian flying boat, and on it Mr. Harry Hawker won the Mortimer Singer Prize by taking off from and alighting on land and water alternatively. All these seaplanes and flying boats had floats and hulls of wood construction. One disadvantage of this was that the wood, no matter how carefully varnished, soaked up a considerable quantity of water. It was not until metal construction was introduced, several years after the war, that this trouble was overcome, and the flying boat as we know it to-day could compete with the' aeroplane in the matter of efficiency. The Sopwith " Bat Boat " exhibited at Olympia in 1014 was one of the earliest British flying boats. The engine was a 200 h.p. Salmson Canton-Unne 14-cyl. water-cooled radial. Flight photograph.) Forthcoming Events Club Secretaries and others are invited to send particulars of important fixtures for inclusion in this list. May 23. Jubilee Air Bali. Air League of the British Empire, at the Dorchester Hotel, London. Miv 25. Empire Air Day, Air League of the British Empire. May 29. Household Brigade Flying Club. Nlght-Flylng Demonstration, Heston. May 30. Wilbur Wright Lecture, bv Mr. Donald W. Douglas, Science Museum, South Kensington. June 1. Brooklands ' At Home." June 1-15. Lisbon Aero Show. June 7-11. Whltsun Flight through Austria, Oesterreichischer Aero Club June 8. London Aeroplane Club. Garden Party, Hatfield, .'une 8. Official opening and garden party, Witney and Oxford Aero Club. June 15. R.A.F, Flying Club Annual Display, Hatfield. June 15. Bristol and Wcssex Aeroplane Club, S.B.A.C. Challenge Cup, Whitchurch. June 16. Scottish Flying Club Display, Renfrew. June 29. Royal Air Force Display, Hendon. July 1. S.B.A.C. Display, Hendon. July 6 Royal Air Force Fly-past before H.M. the King ai Duxford, July 7. Douze Heures D'Angers, Aero Club de France. July 13. Opening of Leicester Municipal Airport. July 20. Opening of Brighton, Hove and Worthing Municipal Airport, Shoreham. July 20-21. Coupe Armand Esders, Aero Club de France. July 28. Private Owners' Garden Party, RatclIHe, Leicester. Aug. 17. Round the Isle of Wight Air Race and Portsmouth Air Trophy. Aug. 24-25. TJilrd International Flying Meeting, Lympne. Aug. 24-25. Cinque Ports Club. International Flying Meeting and Wakefield Cup Race. Aug. 24-30. Raduno del Littorio, Rome. Reale Aero Club dltalia. Sept. 4-18. Jungtraujoch Concours, Aero Club de Suisse. Sept. 6-7. King's Cup Air Race. Sept. 14, Cinque Ports Club. Folkestone Aero Trophy Race. Sept. 15. Gordon Bennett Balloon Race, Warsaw. Oct. 12-28. International Aircraft Exhibition, Milan. B 20
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