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1936
1936 - 0453.PDF
196 FLIGHT. FEBRUARY 20, 7936. THE FOUR WINDS ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL QUARTERS THRUST : In this view of the Napier-Halford Dagger III engine in the Hawker Hector, the sturdy bearers and the uncommon exhaust arrangements are visible. The Dagger III has 24 cylinders and develops a maximum of 805 h.p. MISS JEAN BATTEN has been elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Empire Society. Ratier has successfully adapted the C.P. airscrew to the Moteur Canon. Picturesque registration letters noticed recently on a Danish aeroplane: OY-DUD. The six Blackburn Shark torpedo spctter reconnaissance seaplanes for Portugal are nearly completed. Students in the department of i:ro- nautical engineering at Loughborough College are building a light biplane. With two 'Wright Cyclone G-5 engines supercharged to give 800 h.p. at 11,500 feet, the new' Douglas DC-3 does 219 m.p.h. Messrs. Lincoln Ellsworth and Hol- lick-Kenyon, who were rescued by the research ship Discovery 11, have arrived at Melbourne. Some of the new Savoia Marchetti triple-engined 200 m.p.h. bombers are being used by the Italians in their Abys sinian campaign. According to reports from Japanese sources, Soviet aeroplanes have bombed Japanese-Manchukuo troops on the Mongolian frontier. Next Tuesday, in the B.B.C. National programme, "Conquest of the Air" series: Capt. J. Laurence Pritchard on " The Designer's Task." Other speakers in this series will in-, elude Mr. Ivor McClure, Brigadier Gen. P. R. C. Groves, Air Cmdre. J. A. Chamier and M. Henri Bouche. The authorities at Canton have ordered ten Boeing single-seater fighters. A Vultee bomber is being demonstrated in China by a Curtiss-Wright representa tive. Mr. David Llewellyn, who is flying an Aeronca to the Cape, reached Cairo ou Monday afternoon. The U.S. Navy has ordered 114 Douglas torpedo bombers; they are believed to be low-wing monoplanes. The recently published register of French civil aircraft shows that on Janu ary 1 there was a total of 2,093 machines. Of this total 730 were privately owned (there were 717 proprietors), 498 were the property of 208 flying clubs, 154 be longed to Air France, and 309 were oper ated by commercial concerns. Twenty-five Years Ago (From "Flight" of Feb. 18, 1911.) " What no doubt must be re garded as the first time of using an aeroplane in actual warfare is re ported in connection with the Mexican rebellion now in progress. Mr. Harry liarkness, on his Antoinette, under an arrangement with a patrol of American cavalry, which is watching the Mexican boundary to prevent any of the insurgents crossing into the United States, flew from San Diego, Cali fornia, to Juana, a distance of about 40 miles, carrying with him a message to the patrol." - A Neu' Dawn? After sitting for about nine months the Special Airship Committee of the American Science Advisory Board (com monly known as the Durand Committee) has reported unanimously in favour of airships as practical commercial vehicles and for military (naval) purposes. It re commends a programme for their con struction and use. The Aerial Flivver Again Mr. Henry Ford has been granted a Department of Commerce experimental licence for a new light aeroplane powered with a newly developed V-8 engine. Ap parently it has dual control, and in addi- tion to two passengers will carry 6olb. of luggage and 30 gallons of petrol. About seventeen miles to the gallon is quoted as the consumption figure which it is expected to achieve. Hughes' Trans-American Record The engine of the Northrop Gamma used by Howard Hughes to cross America in 9 hr. 25 min. was the latest Wright Cyclone, giving 930 h.p. ior take-off. A special single-seater model, the Gamma averaged 263.5 m.p.h., and of the 690-gallon fuel load with which it took off from Los Angeles about 225 gallons were left in its tanks in New York. WSs$~: "%&.-- "'I • X PAROCHIAL TRANSPORT: This,1S the Rev. Father J'. M. Coulture who, as mentioned in Flight of February 0, tends the needs of his flock by air. The machine is a ski-equippea Aeronca. on which the " sky pi'<* owner has covered many thousanu miles.
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