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1936
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MAY 21, 1930. FLIGHT. M* THE WINDS ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL QUARTERS TWENTY-ONE : Scylla was chartered by Mr. Leslie Irvin, of parachute fame (seen on the lelt), to fly his daughter's twenty-first birthday party guests to Paris last week. THE anti-aircraft demonstration which was to have been held in Battersea Park on May 24 has been cancelled owing to objections by the L.C.C. A Curtiss V.P. airscrew is on test in an R.A.F. Pegasus-Vildebeest. Canopus, the first of the Short Empire boats, is expected at Felixstowe in a few- weeks. The Zeppelin Hindenburg passed over the South of England last week on her way from America. A very large Dornier four-engined fly ing boat, known as the Do.20, is being built. It will cruise at 150 m.p.h. for 3,000 miles. Miss Naomi Heron-Maxwell, best known in this country for her parachute descents, is learning to glide at Greis- heim, Germany. Mr. H. L. Brook, who is flying a 36 h.p. Hillson Praga to the Cape, reached Juba, East Africa, on Saturday. He left England on May 6. Recruits in Turkey are to be trained in parachute descents from the famous Bayazid (Fire Tower) at Istanbul. To avoid a climb of 366 steps a lift is being installed. By experimenting with sounding bal loons a Russian professor, P. A. Mol- chanov, has observed that the upper layers of the Arctic air remain warmer than the lower." The data will prove useful in planning Arctic air routes. Twenty-jive Years Ago From "Flight" of May 20, 1911.) One of the first sights which greeted the German Emperor as the Imperial yacht Hohenzollern neared Sheerness was a couple of aeroplanes piloted by two of the naval officers who have undergone their training at Eastchurch. They did not approach very close to the Imperial • yacht, but were ' close enough to be clearly observed. Pou Breaks a Blood Vessel An attempt by Mr. Claude Oscroft, of the Aero 8 Club, Ashingdon, Essex, to make a cross-Channel Pou flight last week-end was frustrated by a broken oil pipe. Fishy ! Under the provisions of a recent barter agreement between Norway and Italy four Breda training air craft have been traded for supplies of Norwegian herrings and klip-fish. The machines will be de livered to the Norwegian Navy. Hangers-on The failure of a trans port machine to rise from Bucharest aerodrome caused the pilot to leave liis cockpit and inspect the machine. He found two' shabby urchins clinging to the tail. Un able to stow away in the cabin, they had taken up their precarious perch un observed. Lake Tsana : Seaplane Base It is reported that only a few weeks after their occupation of the Lake Tsana territory the Italians started a seaplane service between Massowa, on the Red Sea, and Laka Tsana. The lake, it is claimed, may become a seaplane base of no little importance, for civil as well as for military purposes, in the course of the next few years. FULL WAR LOAD : Empire Air Day visitors will see how a Martle- sham test pilot arrays himself before a high- altitude flight. Points to notice are the aneroid and note-pad. (Flight photograph.)
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