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1936
1936 - 0966.PDF
APRIL 16, 1936. FLIGHT. 409 Langston Harbour, looking South towards the entrance between Eastney Point on the Portsmouth side and Gunner Point on Hayling Island. [Flight photograph.) passenger traffic at South ampton, so that facilities for exchanging passengers and mails between liners and living boats could easily be provided. Southampton Water has plenty of water at all states of the tide, but it is not particularly sheltered, and at times there is a consider able sea running. Another objection to the use of Southampton Water itself might be the amount of shipping going up and down, which might conceivably in terfere with the flying boats (and vice versa, of course). Nevertheless, Southampton Water cannot be ruled out altogether, and already it has close contact with avia tion in the Fairey works on Hamble River and in the A.S.T. aerodrome (with its slipway) at Hamble, while the new works of British Marine Aircraft are being erected a short distance further up Southampton Water. The existing aerodrome at Eastleigh would not be too well placed as a link in the Empire scheme because ground and/or sea transport would be necessary between it and any flying-boat base situated either on Southamp ton Water or in Langston Harbour. The ideal would obviously be a base which had its aerodrome adjoining the flying-boat jetties, and which was served by a railway line, so that passengers from and to London could reach it either by air or by water or by rail. It remains to be seen whether such an ideal site can be found. One thing is certain : It is very necessary to take the long view, and to establish a base which can expand as traffic grows without becoming obsolete, either through limitations in size or through geographic unsuitability. A £200 Single-seater DIILT to sell at under ^200, a new ultra-light single-seater •L* monoplane will shortly appear on the market. Of the high-wing type and fitted with a Perman-Ford engine, it will he produced by E. G. Perman and Co., 24-26, Brownlow Mews, Guilford Street, Gray's Inn Road, London, W.C.l. The makers, who are well known as builders of Poux-du-Ciel, emphasise that it will be far removed from the Pou type of aircraft. Next Monday's R.AeS. Lecture TEXT Monday, April 20, Dr. H. J. Gough, M.B.E., F.R.S., 1 and Mr. W. A. Wood, M.Sc, will lecture before the PK -S ,?n " The Strength of Metals in the Light of Modern ysics." The lecturers will present an account of their re- em work on the deformation and fracture of metals in uncti1 precise methods of X-ray diffraction have been em ir i m °rder to make a systematic study of the changes 01 H d m the Cfystalline structure of metals. It has been 'Q possAle, for the first time, to show that failure under X ne structure which are identical. X-ray diffraction rri*firnd fati8ue stressing is associated with changes in the cr\stalline struc^— -<-;-? • , ,. , „ e,.~ ire shi >licati( ture, which will be very fully" illustrated, will be Jo? sl?own to distinguish clearly between the effects •cation of safe and unsafe ranges of stress, lire fully illustrated •30 p.m. in the Lecture Hall of the Institution of Elecrri it F u xne lecture rian ot tne institution 01 Loud™ \v "gmeers- Savoy Place, Victoria Embankment, ondon, W.C A HELP- i "P°U" NeWS lerue for Pou constructors has been evolved of hr the p utnam Aircraft" Co.' HollowavUrT ru,tnam Aircraft Co., of 407, Hornsey Road APplehv fle ' N" who built the Pou which Mr- S- V- ^Ported rm S° successfully at last Mondav's Southend rally .Caedfe°nJTS406and4°7)- ? the Coram -•I° constructors may build their own machines , in? avaihn S ^orks> making use of its jigs and tools and "hethet thet >+ • exPert advice of Mr. G. A. Putnam. obtain their parts and materials from the Com pany or elsewhere is left entirely to their own discretion. In addition to Mr. Putnam, the staff consists of Dr. H. A Tracey, Mr. S. W. Soden and Mr. J. Kirkpatrick, while Mr. Appleby is technical director and flight-tests machines. * * * The Austin Seven engine is being adapted for Pou work by Tupper Bros., Ltd., of Kingswood Works, High Road, Seven Kings, Essex. They are fitting a high-compression head, and a 2 : 1 helical reduction gear, accommodated in an Elektron nose-piece. "FLIGHT" NEXT WEEK ^JEXT week's issue of Flight will be a Special Number devoted to j LIGHT AIRCRAFT AND THEIR EQUIPMENT One very fully illustrated section, which will include j drawings of cabin and cockpit interiors, will review the types of smaller aircraft now on the British j market, dealing with them primarily from the pilot's angle; another will present the views of private owners on their ideal machine. Among other special j articles dealing with private flying will be one offering j advice to -newcomers to the movement who are j seeking to join a club and to learn to fly. Next Thursday %0SR April 23
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