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JULY 9, 1936. FLIGHT. 53 THE FOUR WINDS ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL QUARTERS THE ROYAL RAPIDE : As reported in a paragraph below, a new private aerodrome is being prepared for the King at Smith's Lawn, Windsor. This is the D.H.89 at present owned by His Majesty, and the photograph shows it on the compass base at Hatfield. G-ACTT, the other D.H.89 used by His Majesty when Prince of Wales, was sold some time ago to Olley Air Service. (Flight photograph.) NEXT week: The King's Cup Race Report Number of Flight, contain ing a fully illustrated description of the event and other special features. It is reported from Berlin that the first ribs of the new dirigible LZ 130, a sister ship of the Hindenburg, have been placed in position. Although essentially similar to her forerunner, which is now well established in service, the new ship will differ in a number of secondary details. Johannesburg Aero Club invites pro spective competitors in the Schlesinger African Air Race to spend the week after their arrival as guests of the Club. Huyton Hill School, near Liverpool, which has its own aerodrome, will have a Super Drone on view in the grounds during the boys' Floodlight Revue to morrow and Saturday. The British team has won the Wake field Cup in the model aircraft compe tition held last week in America. Messrs. Judge, Copland and Allman were 1st, 3fd and 5th respectively. According to a statement made in the House of Commons by Sir Phillip Sas-. s "on, Under Secretary of State for Air, the case of Lt. G. K. Horsev, whose naffin crashed on the deck of the Nor- mmdk, is to be tried by court-martial. w en lne King unveils the Canadian- war Memorial at Vimy Ridge on Sun- ay, July 26, visitors from London will e able to fly direct to Douai Aerodrome ». if hours from Croydon by a special AT France Service leaving London at 9 a -ra. and returning at 9 p.m. After its pilot had swung the airscrew preparatory to taking a friend for a flight at Hooton last week a machine began to move forward with no one at the controls. The woman passenger managed to jump clear but the machine went on, took off, and, according to some reports, circled the aerodrome twice before crash ing. By flying 1,020 km. (634 miles) non stop, carrying pilot and one passenger, a Praga Baby has established a new world's record for light aeroplanes (715 lb.) or 1 7 times its own weight. Leaving Cheb, in Czechoslovakia, the machine alighted at Vilna, in Poland, after a non-stop flight of 9^ hours. It took off carrying a load of 325 kg. (715 lb.) or r.ctually 1.7 times its own weight. Twenty'five Years Ago (From "Flight " of July 8, rgii.) " Of course it was inevitable that some daring and foolhardy aviator should flirt with death on an aeroplane above the Rapids of Niagara, and no one can but de plore the pity of it. Starting from a field about a mile below the falls, Lincoln Beachy, on his biplane, first flew over the falls, and then, turning, dipped down and swooped under the upper steel bridge span ning the gorge, which at this point is about 1 ooft. wide and 70ft. high." The Duke of Kent spent a good por tion of last Sunday in the air, flying on official business. At ir.25 a.m. he left Amsterdam and arrived at Northolt at 1.30. About four hours later he left for Speke. Flight regrets to record the death of Mr. Bernard Rubin, entrant of the Comet flown by Waller and Cathcart-Jones in* the England-Australia Race. Mr. Rubin was formerly a racing motorist. He was with Ken Waller when the unofficial Australia-England record was broken. On July 2 the Zeppslin Hindenburg completed' her fourth commercial flight from Germany to the U.S.A. Her time was a record—50 hr. ^^ min. A Bulldog, Demon and Gauntlet from Hornchurch paid an informal visit to the Aero 8 Club at Ashingdon last Saturday. Work has begun on a new privale aero drome for the King. It is situated on Smith's Lawn, which has been in use as a landing ground for some time past. It is reported that one feature of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty will be the re placement of the British Army by the R.A.F. as the main line of defence in Egypt. The number of Royal Air Force units in the country will, according to this re port, be considerably increased. It is rumoured that a Wilbault-de- signed machine to carry sixty-five pas sengers is to be built near Lincoln. It f^> ••: is to cruise at 200 m.p.h. and should be •,*•-' finished in the autumn of next year.
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