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1936 - 0585.PDF
25t> FLIGHT. MARCH 5V ly36. Private Ffyin? BORDER The committee of the Border Flying Club has purchased a B.A. Eagle which should be delivered this week. Mr. G. Thompson has become a flying member. A number of pilots of Tiger Moths from Reserve schools in the North are using Carlisle aerodrome as a refuelling point and others as a stopping place overnight. LONDON GLIDING . The best flying day of the year at Dunstable, so far, has been February 23, when, in a chilly but " bump-less" west wind, a total of twenty-six hours' soaring was put in by about as many pilots. Thirteen soaring machines took the air, more than half being club-owned. These included the club's latest acquisition from the Slingsby works at Kirbymoorside, the Falcon III side-by-side two-seater, which was busy most of the day taking up passengers for periods of as much as an hour. Another new arrival was an improved version of the Zander & YVeyl Cambridge type, recently illustrated in Flight. Often six or seven machines at a time were strung out along the hill, but this was the most the air would safely hold as at this time of year the belt of lift tends to be confined to the immediate neighbourhood of the hill, owing to stable temperature conditions in the atmosphere. Hiscox, however, in the Kirby Kite—another Slingsby production—got up 600 feet, and Dewsbery in the German- built Rhonsperber was higher still. A day like this provides also a splendid opportunity for recently trained soaring pilots to pile up flying experience, ready for the time when the earth warms up and thermal currents arrive to test their skill. The new building is now in use—an unofficial house-warming was held in the clubhouse a month ago—and the hangar is already full to capacity with nineteen machines fully rigged. Later, after a bit of jugglery with trestles and things, it is expected to hold even more. ISLE OF WIGHT The Isle of Wight Flying Club now has sixty members, eighteen being in the flying category. Two have just qualified for their " A " licences. The clubhouse has modern furnishings and has beer, in use since November 16, 1935. Spartan machines with Gipsy 11 engines are being used, and the instructor is Mr. \V. A. Andrews. Flying time since November 7, 1935 (which was the date on which the Club was recognised by the Air Ministry) totals 57 hr. 40 min Before that date members put in over seventy hours. A successful carnival ball was held on February 7, BROOKLANDS The weather still failed to improve during the fortnight ending March 1, but school flying hours were 100 during this period. Cant". Mux. Findlay has returned to duty again after his sojourn at North ampton. Capt. Duncan Davis and Mr. Ken Waller have just left on their cruise. Mr. A. D. J. Allan has now taken his Pou over to Reading, where, with the better surface conditions, he hopes to be more successful. New members were: Messrs. J. F. Keast, J. V. Heriz-Smith, T, S. Gunn, and C. Stonhill, and the Hon. Miss Ruth Cokayne. Miss 15. Brice has "completed her tests for an " A " licence. The navigation competition was won last Sunday by Mr. K. 0. Vokes. Mr. J. A. M. Henderson was second in his Hornet Moth, whilst Mr. C. S. Burney was third. The Leap Year Dance held in the Club on Saturday was a great success. Mr. S. V. Appleby has now arranged to bring his Carden-engined Pou for a demonstra tion on Sunday, March 8, while General Aircraft are sending over the Jubilee Monospar on March 15. A landing competition has been arranged for which members may enter any Saturday or Sunday during March. At the end of the month the three competitors having the highest score will be asked to compete in the final. Luton's Aerodrome P REPARATION of an aerodrome site on the outskirts of Luton, Bedfordshire, is shortly to begin, and Chamier, Gilbert Lodge and Co., have been appointed aerodrome con sultants to the Borough.. It is thought that such an aerodrome would be particularly valuable to those contemplating the establishment of an air craft factory, and it will be specially :laid out for such a purpose. All communications in connection with factory sites should be addressed to the Town Clerk of Luton. Not So Technical WHEN, on Februaiv 21, the De Havillaud Technical School students held their annual ball at the Hyde Park Hotel the difficulty was. as some self-effacing person remarked, to "' find the students.' On the dance floor—which was just pleasantly crowded—and at the supper table could be seen all manner of people con nected, directly and indirectly, with aviation. Among the D.H. people were Capt. Geoffrey de Havilland, Mr. C. C. Walker, Mr Groombridge and Mr. Buckingham, but the affair was, too, as it should be, one at which all the friends of the De Havilland organisation could get together. Some!htng New from America WITHIN a 'fortnight something interesting in the charter-cum-private owner type should be on view at Croydon. During his visit to the States, Mr. Grant, of Surrey Flying Services, obtained the European rights for the Cessna mono plane, and the first purchaser is Mr. Turner, late of Wright- ways. The machine is already on its way here, and Mr. Turner intends to use it largely for press charter work. That the Cessna C-34 is an extraordinarily efficient machine is apparent when one considers that it carries four people at 162 m.p.h. on 145 h.p. In general layout it is a high-wing cantilever monoplane. The wing is in one piece, tapers both in plan form and thickness, embodies solid spruce spars and spruce ribs, and is covered with plywood and fabric. Flaps are fitted between the ailerons and fuselage. The fuselage is a conventional welded structure of steel tubes, and is covered mainly with fabric. This type of con struction is also employed for the cantilever monoplane tail unit. A particularly notable feature is the single-strut canti lever undercarriage which embodies oleo-spring shock absorbers and "streamline" wheels. The engine, a 145 h.p. Warner Super-Scarab, has a long- chord cowling and a steel tubular mounting. Fuel is carried in the wing. Four seats are arranged in two pairs, and there are dual controls for those in front. On each side there is a door, and baggage can be stowed aft of the cabin. Tare and gross weights are, respectively, 1,220 lb. and 2,200 lb. The makers claim a cruising speed of 143 m.p.h. The Tipsy "S" THE first of the production Tipsy ultra-light aircraft, designed and manufactured by Avions Fairey, of Gosselies, Belgium, recently undertook a non-stop flight from the aero drome at Gosselies, near Charleroi, to Paris. The distance was covered in one and throe-quarter hours, making an average of 97.5 m.p.h. with no wind. This is a remarkably good average for a machine having an engine of only 25 h.p. Thv Tipsy "S" ultra-light single-seater is, of course, a low-wing cantilever monoplane, fitted in this case with the Ava four-cylinder 25 h.p. two-stroke engine, while other engines have also been installed, such as the Douglas and Sarolea. The prototype machine was originally described in Flight of June 13, 1935. The Viceroy's Cup ALTHOUGH the Miles Hawk was unplaced in the Viceroy's Trophy race, it put up an extremely good performance, averaging 148.3 m.p.h. over the whole r,500-odd miles, in spite of a head wind for the greater part of the way. According to the Phillips and Powis agents, R. K. Dundas, of New Delhi, the engine was revving at about 2,400 r.p.m. throughout, and no trouble of any sort was experienced. The Aero Club of India and Burma, in considering the various results of the Viceroy's Challenge Trophy Air Race, 1936, have decided that for the next race the minimum speed at which any machine will be handicapped will be 115 m.p.h. The com mittee has decided to modify the system of handicapping which has been based hitherto on the manufacturer's advertised speeds. In future a machine of a type which has previously flown in a race will not be handicapped at a speed less than that which it has actually performed in the race. Scooped / '* This Flying Business," by Alex Monteith and R. F. Thatcher (obtainable through IF. H. Smith and Co., Charley and Pickerggill, or the York County Aviation Club.) A LAS, as a representative of the trade, Flight seems, for once, to have fallen down on the job. Messrs. Monteith an:I Thatcher have shown us things in their tfue perspective. \>e bothered ourselves in our recent Airports Number with ini-.e bagatelles—wireless, hangars, petrol pumps and kindred trn es —but never a mention of such fundamentally important items as beer handles, pin tables and the activities of the Incorporate.! Siphon Re-chargers. 1 This Flying Business is devoted to club, and not commercial, flying, and deals in an appropriately flippant manner \M "average people who like to fly." These, it is explaintu, take (in the embrvo stage, at least) a deep breath as tncy 0 open the throttle'; and a good stiff drink when they an safely down again. . fl .:n« The whole book is good fun and the account of a little n> tour of club aerodromes is pleasantly instructive. -'
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