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1935
1935 - 1410.PDF
636 FLIGHT. JuM xj, 1935. MAINLY Fit. Lt. Johnson makes a final circuit—dead on time—around the Hatfield beacon after his aerobatic display with the " Tiger Moth." (Flight photograph.) AMIDST the swimming and mannequin displays, the wheelbarrow races, the hat-trimming competitions L (for men only) and the bottle competitions (neither for men only nor on accepted lines), the various fly ing demonstrations were all the more appreciated at Hat field last Saturday. Flying people appear to be favoured by the meteorolo gical department, for, once again, a devastating morning developed into a very pleasant sunny afternoon, though the wind continued to blow with unabated violence until The London Aeroplane Club's Garden Par, the evening. Consequently, the number of visitors by road or by air was severely curtailed, and it was all the more surprising that the two most lightly loaded machines due to appear arrived at Hatfield at all. Both Mr. Kron- feld's "Drone" and Mr. Collin's sailplane came in and each was shown off to full advantage. Despite the comparatively small support, the winner of the arrival competition, Mr. "Pat" Hattersley, fly ing the British Continental Airways' " Rapide" with Mr. Farey Jones on board, touched down within a second or so of the mysterious time in the envelope. The visitors drifted towards the swimming pool, wherp Mr. Vivian Holman, whose announcing throughout was above reproach, introduced the bathing and beach costume mannequins with unexpected insight. Mr. E. H. Temme, the Channel swimmer, gave a short talk and a demon stration ; members of the Highgate Swimming Club, fron; the diving board, exhibited various gliding angles, wing loadings and methods of losing height quickly ; and Miss Blanks showed us all how very easy and effortless a matter it is to swim quickly. Meanwhile, Fit. Lt. W. E. P. Johnson appeared out of the blue—actually and not metaphorically—with a London Club "Tiger Moth" and proceeded to lose height in both an inverted and a normal spin before continuing with his singularly polished aerobatic display at a stili safe altitude. Only when the "Tiger Moth " was brought down to five hundred feet or so did one realise the diffi cult conditions under which Fit. Lt. Johnson—who, inci dentally, was originally trained at the London Club—was working. At that height it was possible to see how the machine was being thrown about in the vicious bumps. Mr. Robert Kronfeld had already arrived over the aero
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