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1935
1935 -2- 0141.PDF
AUGUST I, 1935. FLIGHT. 127 THE FOUR WINDS ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL QUARTERS ' THE NEW D.H. "COMET" with which Mr. T. Campbell Black hopes shortly tomake three long-distance record flights—to Cape Town and back in five days, England to Hong Kong in five days, and Canada and back in a week-end. Thenew machine derives a cruising speed of 220 m.p.h. from its two special " Gipsy Sixes" and has a range approaching 3,000 miles. Seen beside it are Mr. Blackand Mr. Nicholson, the sponsor of the attempts. Aerial Battle Cruisers The French Navy is said to haveordered three Latecoere flying boats generally similar to the Lieutenant deYainseau Paris. The B.Q.A.'s Big Week Preparations are being made to houseforty machines and to entertain nearly a hundred pilots for the British GlidingAssociation's competitions at Sutton Bank, Yorkshire, from August 24 toSeptember 1. Team Tactics Sixty bombers and thirty fighters leftMadrid recently on an instructional flight round Spain. The crews are carry-ing out exercises in radio transmission, bombing, machine gunnery, photographyand navigation. Competition is provided by the allocation of marks for teamresults. Jubilant Boeings Nineteen Boeing P-26A fighter mono-planes, belonging to the first Pursuit Group of the U.S. Army Air Corps,flew from Self ridge Field, Michigan, to Brantford. Ontario, to participate in theJubilee celebrations. Communal Record-breaking Four German pilots have broken thenew world's gliding record set up about a week ago by Ludwig Hoffman, whoflew 305 miles. AH four succeeded in landing at Brno, Czechoslovakia, about310 miles from their starting-point. Inventions on Show The Eleventh International Exhibitionof Inventions will be held in the Central Hall, Westminster, from October 2-12.From November 20 to 30, inclusive, the exhibits will be transferred to St.George's Drill Hall, Newcastle-on-Tyne. An Oi'ergrou'ti Irvin A large parachute, capable oi lower-ing a complete aeroplane, has been made tor Col. Koscoe Turner by the Irvin Air-chute Company. Soviet Uplift The other day the Soviet dirigible V-itook a passenger on board without in- terrupting its flight. It descended toabout 300 feet, threw down a socially adapted guide rope and lifted the mailsafely to its cabin. Charles Lindbergh—Doctor Col. Charles Lindbergh has hern help-ing Dr. Alexis Carrel in the Rockefeller Institute to investigate methods ol keep-ing human organs alive when divorced irom the human body. Lindbergh has de-signed a pump with which the organs of animals have l>een made to function forlong periods almost exactly as if alive. Such experiments are of the greatestvalue to cndocrinologists and may even make the curing of disease a compar-tively simple matter. A Fireproof Fuel ? Adolph Prussin, a PmsMan-jK>rnchemist who has been heard of in this country in connection with a method ofsolidifying petrol to make it proof against incendiary bullets, 1ms now, with thehelp of the Guggenheim School of Aero- nautics in America, producer] a solidifiedfuel called Solene, into which Clyde Pang- born has fired many incendiary bulletswith no serious results. Tests have also been carried out with a small single-cylinder engine, using the exhaust heat to vaporise the Solene. Twenty-five Years Ago (From " Flight " of July 31, 1009) " The speed was almost incred- ible," said the chief officer of the coastguard station, who watched M. Bleriot's arrival, and certainly the sight of a monoplane, coming out of the distance at forty miles an hour would appeal to the imagination even of one whose duty it is to watch all that goes on ir. the Channel. THE BIG BOEINGBOMBER: This photo- graph shows the newBoeing 299 in its com- pleted state. Its grossweight is said to be 30,000 lb., its bomb loadsix tons, top speed 250 m.p.h., ceiling25,ooo ft.and range without re- fuelling 2,500 miles.The construction is termed " three-ply all-metal." Theenginesare Jour Pratt and Whitney.
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