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1936
1936 - 0198.PDF
86 FLIGHT. JANUARY 23, 1936. THE FOUR WINDS ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL QUARTERS NOT A NEW METHOD of airport traffic control, but a very fine piece of mural decoration by Maurice Lambert for the Transport and Airways Office in the Queen Mary. Measuring 5 ft. by 9 ft, it is executed in anodysed aluminium. CONTRACTS totalling several hun dreds of thousands of pounds have been placed by the Air Ministry for C.P. airscrews. Instruction in aeronautics will be given at Rossall School this term. With flaps the Avro Anson lands at 57 m.p.h. ; without them, at 66 m.p.h. A civil version of the Marcel Bloch 210 bomber is being built for Air France. A Glasgow enthusiast intends to fly from Clydeside to South Africa during April in a Pou. He is fitting extra tanks giving seven hours' endurance. Maryse Hilsz is to attack the woman's altitude record in a Potez. At present acting as host to the Vice roy of India, Thakore Sahib, ruler of Limbdi, tours his state in an Autogiro. He is 68 years old. A balloon with two airmen and an astronomer on board rose to 21,000ft. from Moscow on the night of January 8 to observe the lunar eclipse. The trip was counted successful. The Royal Aero Club has been in formed that the Egyptian meel:ng, which was to have been held in March, has been postponed indefinitely owing to the present political situation. A "Pou" Rally August Bank Holiday has been fixed as the date of a great assembly of " Poux " at Ramsgate. It will be inter esting to see if the attendance, after a spring's and part of a summer's "Pou" flying is as great as seems to be expected, Exit en Masse M. Henry Farman has decided to pro vide ten openings in the fuselage of the Farman F.224 forty-seater passenger machine now being built for Air France, to facilitate exit of the passengers by parachute. The 'chutes themselves will be carried in the bac":s of the seats. *«#^ Howard Hughes' Mount Apparently, the machine used by Mr. Howard Hughes to break the American Transcon tinental record, as recorded in Flight last week, was Miss Jacqueline Cochran's Northrop Gamma (Twin Wasp Junior). Catering for Canada A new company which in tends to build aeroplanes speci ally for the Canadian market has started business in Mon treal. Its first product is the Norseman, a high-wing mono plane with a 420 h.p. Whirl wind; it does 158 m.p.h. as a landplane. Mr. R. B. C. Noorduyn, who is not unknown over here, is the designer. ABYSSINIA FROM ABOVE : This photograph, and the two on the opposite page, were taken recently from Italian aircraft. The extremely ant- like creatures seen here are II Duce's soldiers concentrating before a "push."
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