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1936
1936 - 2262.PDF
mmmmmmmmmm AUGUST 20, 1936. FLIGHT. 197 \y STBOURNE we" : Representative Gathering at Wilmington aerodrome. Mr. Brie "direct-controlled" in his usual inimitable manner, and later he busily Autogirode the populace. The Heston Phcenix whispered its way around the sky in the hands of Mr. Hordern, and Mr. Kronfeld made his now familiar hands-off knees-on landing, fol lowed (after a climb to stratosphere altitudes) by a dead- stick landing. The public had nearly forgotten all about him when the Drone rustled in over the fence. Even Mr. Ashcroft, the pilot, was not too sure that he would be able to get the cantilever Pou off in the allotted space, but in due course, after a nerve-shattering bounce and swerve, the machine became air-borne. After Mr. Munday had flown the Cirrus-Swallow and repeated the dead-stick performance, Messrs.- Tangye, Diamant and Courtenay (the owner of the Swallow and the microphonist) sallied forth to do their most difficult task, that of judging the entries for the Concours d'Elegance. Allowance had to be made, of course, for the number of hours flown by each machine, and this automatically ruled out any but the most incredibly resplendent new machine. In the cabin class the white Monospar Ambulance not unexpectedly took the first prize, with the Heston Phcenix and F/O. C. Allen's Leopard bracketed as runners-up. In the open class Lord Patrick Crichton-Stuart's much- raced Hendv Hobo won the cup, with the Duchess of Bed ford's Moth Major second. Unhappily, one of the London Club's Tigers, brought over by Mr. E. M. Wright, was missed by the judges owing to an error in their sheets, and this machine might have stood a good chance with 600 hours of instructional flying to its credit. Mr. Wright had previously put up a safe, excellent and quite extempor aneous aerobatic exhibition to fill a gap in the programme. j Altogether, a worthy piece of work by the organisers of -oth the "At Home" and the weather. Those pilots returning to London in the smooth air of the evening obtained an almost unparalleled view of Sussex and Surrey, ana we, loftily perched in the nose of the London Club's out f Ronfly- saw the whole of London clearly spread °r the third time only in our experience. Willi 1111^ «wti'"""',<' A general view of the scene at the Eastbourne Club's " At Home " immediately prior to the prize-giving, with some of the club members and guests in the tea enclosure and the Monospar Ambulance on the left. Above is Capt. E. I. Short, the organiser of the event and secretary of the club. (Flight photographs.) Alderman C. J. Knight presents one of the prizes to Prince Chirasakti, who won the arrival competition with his recently acquired Hornet Moth. (Flight photograph.)
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