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1936
1936 - 0636.PDF
MARCH 12, 1936. FLIGHT. 277 THE FOUR WINDS ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL QUARTERS INFRA-DIG : Natives wait behind the hills for hours while R.A.F. machines in Egypt do their gunnery practice. As soon as the shooting has stopped they dash to the targets, grub for bullets in the sand and sell them at two-pence farthing per hundred to dealers. Here is a Vickers Vincent at practice. CIVIL air services in Italian colonies have been placed under the control of the Air Ministry in Rome. Flying schools, and ground training units of the R.A.F., are using films to help in training pupils. Group Capt. \V. H. Primrose, who was the first Air Mail Adviser appointed by the G.P.O., has resigned. The Heinkel He. 70a purchased by Rolls-Royce, Ltd., has been fitted with a Kestrel. It is now in Germany. The French Academy of Sports has awarded a gold medal to Miss Jean Batten for her South Atlantic crossing. In order to effect travelling economies in certain territories British air attaches to some countries are to have aeroplanes. Among the many exhibits at the Leip zig Technical Fair are fifty-seater bomb proof cellars furnished with air-purifying apparatus, airtight doors and seats. Twenty-five Years Ago (From "Flight" of March II, ,, r T9ir) Very fair success was attained I on Tuesday during trials over I Filey Sands with the Blackburn j monoplane. Mr. Hucks ran the J machine for three miles along the [ sand, just to see that everything I was in order. Then, on the eleva tor lever being moved, the mono plane took the air, and rising to a height of about 30ft., headed for [ Filey Brigg, at about 30 m.p.h." A New S.S. Fighter Great things are expected of the new single-seater fighter recently " launched " by the Vickers-Supermarine Works, and now undergoing its flying tests. The machine is a low-wing monoplane in corporating all the latest features, and is fitted with the Rolls-Royce Merlin. Commercial Kestrels ? It is almost cer tain that the three Junkers Ju. 86 twin - engined monoplanes for South African Air ways will be fitted with Rolls-Royce supercharged Kes trels of an im proved pattern. A RECORD FOR FAIRCHILDS : Mr. Sherman M. Fair- child with the largest single - unit aerial camera in the world. It has nine lenses, weighs 305 lb. loaded and stands more than a yard high. From 30,000 feet, at one click of the nine electrically operated shutters, it photo graphs an area of 600 square miles. Their Muses Flew Not It is announced that no prize will be awarded in the ^500 aviation book con test recently organised jointly by two prominent publishing firms here and in America. In the opinion of the judges, Sir Philip Sassoon, Mr. David Garnett and Mr. Grover Loening, no manuscript submitted reached a high enough stan dard. Canada Criticised The Canadian Government came in foi sharp criticism for its attitude to com mercial aviation in an address by R. J. R. Nelson, of Halifax, who stated that Canada is without a national policy on aviation, and remarked that while the United States is developing a trans- Pacific service, and Great Britain a trans- Atlantic service, Canada just marks time. A Cardinal Flies Cardinal Schuster, who is over seventy years of age, made his first aeroplane trip from Milan to Rome a few days ago in order to pay a visit to the Pope, and was so impressed that he has decided to return by the same method, and to adopt the aeroplane for his further travels. The Pope's Interest The Pope is understood to have ex pressed to the Cardinal his own desire to use the aeroplane should he decide on some long trip. "Some of my pre decessors thought the motor car would never be used by a Pope; it would be wrong for me to think that future Popes —or, perhaps, even myself—will not use the aeroplane for long-distance travel ling," his Holiness is understood to have remarked.
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