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•f 158 FLIGHT. AUGUST 6, 1935. THE FOUR ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL QUARTERS PILOTS' PICNIC : The mess waiters provide a welcome interlude for pilots of No. in Squadron at Biggin Hill between interceptions in last week's air exercises. (Flight photograph.) A GERMAN Academy of Aeronautical Research has been founded. It will have sixty full members and ioo associ ates. A well-known figure in Spanish military and political circles. Gen. Jose Sanjuro, was killed in a flying accident near Lisbon on July 20. Particulars of the Third International Egyptian Aviation Meeting, to be held in February, 1937, are obtainable from the R.Ae.C. The event was originally to have taken place last March. General Aircraft have commenced delivery within the scheduled time of the Hawker Furies which they are building. It is expected that the whole of the number ordered will be delivered before the end of this year. This is the first occasion on which this type has been placed in the hands of sub-contractors. I - Twenty'five Years Ago I (From " Flight " of August 5th, • "The new Voisin of the ; j ' Canard ' type, which has been j : built with a view to rising from j : and coming down on the water, j j made its appearance at Issy the j : other day. Its general design is j j the same as that of the now fami- ; : liar ' Canard' type machine, ex- j j cept that it is equipped with four \ : floats and a supplementary rudder I : under the forward end of the fuse- j j lage. One of the floats is placed • : in front, while the other three are i j disposed beneath the main planes." Four British pilots, Messrs. Deterding (Falcon), Linnell (Hornet), Humble (Leopard), and Frogley (Stinson) took part in the Olympic Games Air Rally at Berlin last week. Lord Sempill, who left England on Thursday, reached Jask (Persia) on Friday, but was forced to return there by bad weather. Lord Sempill, who is flying the Mono- spar Croydon to Australia, landed at Karachi at 11.30 a.m. on Sunday, stat ing that he would stop for a few days while a damaged tail wheel was repaired. Mr. H. A. Marsh demonstrated the Weir jump-start Autogiro at the Brook- lands Bank Holiday car meeting. A special exhibition dealing with the history and development of Britain's Air Forces is now in progress at the Royal United Service Museum in Whitehall. The Queensland Government is to pur chase two more aircraft to add to the '' flying doctor service '' which has been operating so successfully in various parts of Australia. After completing a normal jump and folding his parachute, a Russian para chutist fell asleep on the flying field and all efforts of doctors and scientists have failed to waken him. Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brook- Popham, Inspector General of the R.A.F., accompanied by his staff, arrived in Cyprus last Thursday in a Vickers Valentia for a five days' air survev of the island. The trustees of the Busk Studentship in Aeronautics, founded at Cambridge University in memory of Edward Tesh- maker Busk, have awarded the student ship for the year 1936-37 to J. W. E. Clarke, B.Sc., Glasgow. In the King's Bench Division last week an apprentice who lost an arm while swinging an airscrew was awarded £5,000 damages against the pilot, Mr. W. H. Corrv, and Gravesend Aviation, Ltd. Mr. Justice Greaves-Lord held that the accident was due to a misunderstanding between the pilot and the apprentice which led to the pilot switching on be fore he was given the word "contact." It was contended on behalf of Graves- end Aviation, Ltd., that judgment should not be entered against them having regard to a clause in the ap prenticeship deed. Legal arguments followed, and judgment was reserved until next term. THE CROWD that came to see the Poax race at Ramsgate on Saturday-and stayed to joy-ride in the airport's Short Scions. Mr. Whitney Straight, incidentally, is having some fine hangars and club buildings erected. (Flight photograph.)
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