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1936
1936 - 0831.PDF
FLIGHT. APRIL 2, 1936. TWO MONTHS and 16,000 MILES The Story of an Out-and-Home Trip to India in a Short Scion (Pobjoy Niagara Engines) to Compete in the Viceroy's Trophy Handicap C ROYDON-COLOGNE, 312 miles (21 /1 /36).—Took off from Croy don at 07.22 hours. After a short stop at Lympne made direct for the French coast, where there were patches of sunshine. Ground-speed check gave 140 m.p.h., flying at 2,000ft. Great satisfaction. Landed at Cologne just before a thunderstorm arrived; decided to stay, as weather too bad over hills to Frankfurt. 22 /1 /36 : Cologne-Vienna, 485 miles. —Left Cologne at 08.50 hours with good visibility and clear in the zenith, but clouds ahead. G.S. check gave 120 m.p.h., but later dropped to 108 m.p.h. Air temperature, o°C. Con tinental ground stations were very patient with our slow and somewhat bad operating, for we had not yet got used to flying the machine and operating at the same time. Raining hard at times, but clear in patches. Decided to rpHESE notes are extracts—purposely kept in their original form—from the log of the Short Scion G-ADDT two 90 h.p. Pobjoy Niagara II engines) which Mr. C. E. Gardner took on a no- trouble trip to India, accompanied by Messrs. Peter Mursell (Navigator) and W. Coppen (Engineer), in order to com pete in the recent handicap race for the Viceroy's Trophy. The machine finished fifth. A number of demonstrations were also made, and the mileage flown in two months totalled nearly 16.000. stay under the murk, as we were not sufficiently skilled with the wireless to come in on bearings. Landed at Nurnberg, and stayed about an hour doing Customs and waiting for further met. reports to come through from Passau and Linz. Left Nurnberg and Bradshawed through the valleys to Passau. Ex perienced slight carburetter freezing, which was easily cured by throttling back each engine in turn. Austrian Alps on the right very beautiful. Got in touch with Vienna, and found con ditions O.K. Landed; surface poor. 23/1/36: Vienna-Niche, 452 miles.—Left Vienna 08.43 L.M.T. Arriving Belgrade, weather gets worse and rain starts. Had to make a turn soon after unsticking due to hill behind hangars at west end of aerodrome. Rain becomes heavy, real cold-front type. Bradshaw up valley toward Niche, but have to wait about for front to pass over before reaching it. Front slowly passes, but not quickly enough to allow time to get to Sofia before darkness; so stop at Niche—a garrison town; everyone very kind, but no English or French spoken except at English Serbian Mission, where they gave us an excellent and most welcome tea. 24/1/36: Niche-Istambul, 419 miles.—Left Niche 07-4 hours. Rather bumpy take-off. Weather marvellous, This sketch map indicates the route flown by the Scion. A diversion on the homeward route is shown dotted. Cer tain small detours have been omitted. as the scale wouW not be sufficiently large to show theffl clearly-
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