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172 FLIGHT. FEBRUARY 13, iq^ may need more fuel than usual to accomplish cer tain stages with a sufficient margin; and this means that their loads of mails, passengers, and freight must be adjusted to allow for this extra fuel. Then there is often the question of the state of various intermediate aerodromes to be reckoned with. During spells of heavy rain it may be necessary to lighten loads so as to facilitate the take-off of the big machines. And so on. All such factors as these, and many others, have to be borne in mind by those at London headquarters. A special department in the booking office at Victoria deals with Continental traffic. This, as may be imagined, is simpler to cope with in many respects than is long-dis tance Empire traffic ; but at rush times, when services to the Continent may have to be duplicated or triplicated at IT is announced by the Royal Aeio Club that this year's King's Cup Race (for the Cup instituted by His Late Majesty King George V) is to take place on July 10 and 11. The race will again be flown in the form of an eliminating contest and final, the former taking place on the Friday, July 10, and the latter on the Saturday, July 11. The course of the eliminating contest will be approxi mately 1,240 miles—i.e., 287 miles longer than the cor responding course last year. Again this year the aircraft in the eliminating contest will be divided into classes of TirEEK-END Aerien, July 23-26, 193G.—The Royal Aero yy Club's letter to British private owners on this subject dated December 2, 1935 [see p. 601, Flight, December 5], has resulted in approximately 220 names of foreign private owners, representing twenty-two countries, being submitted for invita tions to attend. *As already stated it is the intention of the committee that the foreign guests should be under no expense whatever, other than that of oil and fuel, during the period of the official pro gramme, and that the cost of this hospitality should be met by a lund to be raised among British private owners, the Royal Aero Club, and others interested. Those who have enjoyed and perhaps hope to enjoy the lavish entertainment always given to British air tourists abroad will realise that we in this country should undertake our full share in showing our appreciation of this hospitality. It is the desire of the committee that the cost of entertaining our toreign guests, estimated to be in the neighbourhood of £2,500, should be widely distributed, so as to give every British private owner the opportunity of contributing even a small amount, and thus show the individual appreciation of all the members of the British aviation community. The committee is diffident in suggesting the amount of any individual donation, but is confident that it may be left to the British private owners to give as generously as they can. The sums subscribed will be used only for the entertainment of foreign guests and to meet the necessary expenses incurred in the organisation of the Week-End Aerien. It is hoped that British private owners will wish to participate in the various items of the programme, for which they will be charged the pro rata expense, which will be kept down to the minimum. Proposed plans include visits to Oxford and Cambridge, the Isle of Wight, and an official banquet in London, on Saturday, July 25. In the meantime, the committee is naturally anxious to know the amount of financial support likely to be forthcoming, and invites donations at the earliest possible moment. Forms are obtainable from the secretary. short notice, there are quite enough problems with which to grapple. There is also an increasing volume of passenger traffic nowadays which, after flying, say, from London to Paris by Imperial Airways, or from London to Berlin bv Lufthansa—for whom Imperial Airways act as general agents—continues on to distant parts of Europe by con necting services ; and all such connections have, of course to be arranged beforehand, and the necessary allocations obtained. And what one needs to bear in mind, as a final point, is that all such operations as one has described have to be carried out as rapidly as possible. It is time-savin^ that is the keynote of air transport—and this means timc^ saving not only in the air, but also on the part of the booking office and of every other department of the ground organisation. under and over 150 b.h.p. maximum output, but there is, in addition, to be a new class for multi-engined machines, in which there will be no horse-power restrictions. Fifty per cent, of the starters in each class (with a maxi mum of ten in each class) completing the eliminating course in the best time will pass into the final. In the final, the machines which have qualified will race on estimated performance handicaps over a course of ap proximately fifty miles—the same length as that of last year—starting and finishing at Hatfield Aerodrome. Full details will shortly be issued by the R.Ae.C. The committee would add that any sums not so expended will be refunded pro rata to the donors. Air Touring Abroad.—Members are reminded of the arrange ment whereby British private air tourists who are members of the Royal Aero Club are exempt from landing and take-off fees, and are given free garage for their aircraft for a period of forty- eight hours when visiting certain countries abroad. Since these facilities were first made available in April of last year the Club is pleased to state that it has been able to conclude negotiations with several additional countries. The facilities set out above are now available in the following countries: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Hun gary Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Poland, Roumania, Yugoslavia. In order to obtain these facilities members must produce the F.A.I. Identity Card on arriv al. The F.A.I. Identity Card for 1936 will be issued free to all members making application on a form which is obtainable from the Club. Applications must be accompanied by a photograph (passport size). The card is available only during the year of issue, is not transfer able, and is strictly confined to air touring in a private capacity. HAROLD E. PERRIN, Secretary. Numbers of Civil Aircraft AT the close of last year there were in Great Britain and •*"*• Northern Ireland a total of 1,577 registered civil aircraft, of which 168 belonged to regular air transport companies. These figures were exceeded in three other countries, Germany having a total of 1,809 (244 being transport machines), France 2,201 (221 transport), and the United States 7,202 (518 trans port). It is natural enough that the special geographical and other conditions of the United States should put that country a long way ahead of others in possession of civil aircraft, but it 1 not a little surprising that the German total should exceed tna of the United Kingdom by so little as 232 machines. No other country achieves a total of four figures or a nurr.n of transport aircraft running to more than three figures. THE KING'S CUP RACE To be Flown on July 10 and n : Multi-engine Class : Longer Eliminating Course ROYAL AERO CLUB OFFICIAL NOTICES
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