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1935
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JUNE 6, 1935. FLIGHT. 607 THE FOUR WINDS ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL QUARTERS Eager It is stated that after announcement of R.A.F. personnel requirements the Air Ministry received no fewer than 29,000 enquiries in four days; 9,000 were for employment as officers or airmen pilots. The Macon Crash A report issued by the U.S. Navy 1Hpartment declares that the Depart ment is unable to determine whether a gust of wind or a structural defect caused the loss of the dirigible Macon which fell into the Pacific in Februarv. British Aircraft for Sweden The Swedish Government has ordered two Handley Page bombers, and on the satisfactory completion of tests it is likely that more of the type will be constructed under licence in Sweden. A Transatlantic Hitch The maiden voyage of the giant Latecoere flying boat Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris, which was to have been made last week, has been postponed owing to an outbreak of fire. Cutting the Cost The Fahlili monoplane, which, as already recorded in Flight, is the subject of a contract from the U.S. Bureau of Air Commerce, uses a converted 90 h.p. six-cylinder Plymouth car engine which gives the machine a. top speed of 120 m.p.h. Home from Antarctica The Curtis-Wright " Condor " (715 h.p. " Cyclone ") used by Admiral Byrd on his second Antarctic Expedition is now cm its way home to Boston by ship. Fitted alternately with floats and skis, it flew 30,000 miles during the expedition, over 250,000 square miles being explored and / or surveyed. SERVICE MODES. A group of pilots caught by a Flight camera during a rehearsal at Upper Heyford last Friday for the special formation-flying item at the forthcoming Hendon Display. The squadrons concerned are Nos. 15, 18 and 57, and the machines are "Harts." Service flying kit of to-day makes an interesting contrast to the well-rememter»d fashions of 1916-18. Tit'ent;y-/ive Years Ago From "Flight" of June 4, 1910 " Shortly aftei 8, however, Mr. Grahame-White started again, and flew for a quarter of an hour over Putney and Barnes Common at a height of about 600ft. Arrange ments were made to take a num ber of people for five-minute trips at /io 10s. each. * $£ *aiipfc$?; „ j SANS QUEUE. The latest French contribution to the " flying flatfish " cult, M. Fauvel's machine has a 75 h.p. Pobjoy engine, giving a top speed of 115 m.p.h. High Bidding? What is said to be the first aeria" bridge drive took place last Sunday ir a K.L.M. Fokker F3O over Schipol Aero drome, Amsterdam. Thirty-two of Hol land's foremost bridge experts took off at 3.30 p.m. and landed at 5 p.m. On the Spot Autogiros carrying mails landed on and took off from the roof of the Phila delphia Post Office last week. The roof measures less than 400 ft. by 275 ft. A regular service is to be flown between this post office and Camden (N.J.) Air port. Death of a Parachutist Flight regrets to record the death of Mr. Ivor Price, a parachutist with Sir Alan Cobham's Display. He was making a droj> at Woodford, Cheshire, last Thursday, and his parachute, for some reason unexplained, did not open. Mr. Price had made many hundred descents, and at Cardiff last September made eight jumps in 16 min. 50 sec. Air Day Attendances The Air League has announced that 60,000 people attended the civil aero dromes open to the public on Empire Air Day. This figure included 9,139 whc visited the Rolls-Royce works at Derby. The combined total of paid attendance? at R.A.F. and civil aerodromes wa; 200,000, and the Air League states tha; the R.A.F. Benevolent Fund will benefit to the extent of not less than £4,000.
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