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1935
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JUNE 6, 1935. FLIGHT. 60= at BROOKLANDS Other Enthusiasts Visit the Aerodrome for Club Display of the Season Lord Londonderry, Secretary of State for Air, was among the visitors ; he arrived in an Avro "Cadet." (Flight photograph.) that 170 m.p.h. three-seater cabin monoplane to the best advantage. Avros grave and gay next took the stage—a '' Commodore '' (215 h.p. "Lynx") and a "Cadet" (135 h.p. " Genet Major"). The "Commodore," of course, is the British reply to the popular American private-owner or " business-man " type, and carries pilot and three passengers at 125 m.p.h. in a cabin that simulates a comfortable saloon car down to the smallest chromium-plated details. There is sound psycho logical sense in designing aircraft interiors on these lines—a lot more people would fly if the insides of aeroplanes didn't look so much like the insides of aeroplanes. The "Cadet" in its various manifestations everybody knows. The British Aircraft Manufacturing Company's products, the "Eagle" (130 h.p. "Gipsy Major") and the "Swallow " (80/90 h.p. Pobjoy "Cataract II") displayed their charac teristics in the respective hands of Fit. Lt. J. B. Wilson and Mr. Bay. The "Eagle," with its striking dark and light blue finish and revokable wheelwork, gave a spectacular show, and Mr. Bay, after demonstrating the 112 m.p.h. maximum of the "Swallow," just to show there was no deception, pro ceeded to float about the sky at 25-30 m.p.h., alternately stopping and starting his motor from the cockpit and even tually making a dead-stick landing. And the "Swallow," to quote the words of an aeronautical announcer on another auspicious occasion, has neither slops nor flats. Speedy Commercial Types Fit. Lt. Colman, with the Airspeed "Envoy" (two "Lynx TVC") showed the uninitiated the means by which passengers on an increasing number of internal air lines are conjured swiftly from A to B, and Mr. Seth Smith displayed the paces of another speedy two-engined low-wing passenger monoplane, the S.T.10 (two 90 h.p. Pobjoy "Niagaras"); the machine was G-ACTS, the winner of last year's King's Cup, and Mr. Smith flew her variously on two engines, one engine, and practically no engine at all. The why and wherefore of flaps, with especial reference to landing, was expounded most impressively by Fit. Lt. "Tommy" Rose with a Miles "Falcon," and Fit. Lt. Milne, flying the "Hawk Major" showed that this machine is quite happy in inverted and other unorthodox attitudes. After an interval for a very excellent tea party in the big>
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