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1936
1936 - 0880.PDF
APRIL 9, i936- FLIGHT. 373 THE FOUR WINDS ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL QUARTERS MICHEL DETROYAT has dived the 300-m.p.h. Morane-Saulnier 405 fighter at 450 m.p.h. Ominous item in a Pou-du-Ciel cata logue: " Incidents gauge, as. 6d." More than 3,000 workmen are engaged in the construction of the Short Empire flying boats. The first of these machines should begin its trials at Rochester towards the end of this month. Dr. Eckener has presented 200 books to the English branch of the All Peoples' Association. The 240 m.p.h. Breguet Fulgur trans port, shown in mock-up form at the last Parish Show, is now flying. The Polish Air Force has ordered thirty P.Z.L. P.24 single-seater monoplanes, each armed with two 20 mm. canons. Hispano have produced a new engine in their " Y " series giving 920 h.p. at 11,800ft. The compression ratio is 7:1. One thousand pounds has been pre sented by the South Australia Centenary Committee for a Sydney-Adelaide air race in December. Twenty-five Years Ago (From "Flight" of April 8, 1911.) " In order to allow of trials being carried, out with the airship ' Suchard,' Herr Brucker has post poned the proposed voyage across the Atlantic. . In view of the pro posed system of sprinkling the envelope with water to counteract the effect of the sun's rays, it is felt that the apparatus should be thoroughly tested." PROOF : Lord Sempill's flight to Berlin (11 hours) and back (o hours) in a B.A.C. Super Drone must have given a jolt to those who habitually scoff at ultra-light aircraft. Lord Sempill is seen at Croydon with Mr. Kronfeld (right). Comment on this flight appears on pages 369 and 375. Quarding the Midlands It has been decided to convert the 5th Batt. the York and Lancaster Regiment (Territorial Army) into an anti-aircraft unit to protect Midland industrial centres. • • ^PAINTED Lal'fomia is sents SHIP . . . This "battleship" on the famous Muroc Dry Lake, a target for U.S. Army Air Corps machines. The box affairs repre- a magazine and a funnel. Note the 300 lb.-bomb craters. Mrs. Mollison's Flight Mrs. Amy Mollison took off in a Perci- val Gull from Gravesend at 5.30 a.m. on Friday morning to attempt a record flight to the Cape. She reached Colomb- Bechar at 3.45 p.m., but in taking off again damaged the undercarriage of the Gull. At the moment it seems uncertain if she will proceed to the Cape. Another Cape Bid ? After their marriage last week Mr. H. L. Brook (of Australia flight tame) and Mrs. Brook left Heston in a Jersey Airways machine to spend their honey moon in the Channel Islands. Mr. Brook said he intended to collect a Praga Baby aeroplane from Prague early this month and fly it from England to the Cape. American Exports There was a marked decline last year in the export sales of American aero planes, engines, components, and allied productions, the shipments from the United States attaining a total of only ^2,858,168 as compared with ^3,532,590 in 1934. De-icing on the Qrand Scale Following a sudden change of tem perature the ice carried by the principal rivers is causing serious obstruction to shipping in Solec, Poland. Aeroplanes are being used to drop bombs on the giant iceflows as the most effective method of combating the serious meance.
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