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AUGUST 20, 1936. FLIGHT. 209 Private h tying HESTON Aeroplanes from the Heston flying school may now be hired for rn)SS i ountry work at a flat rate of £4 4s. a day, fully insured, hirer [/provide petrol and oil. No extra charge will be made for keeping the machine away overnight, provided it is brought back to Heston bv 10 a.m. the following morning. BRISTOL Mr and Mrs. H. D. Raynham and Mr. I. G. Duncan have become member? and Mr. P. R. Scott has gone solo. Last week's flying time was 44 hr. 45 fhin. Mr. D. Stewart-Clark, of the Scottish Q„b, and Mr. B. Heath of the Cambridge Air Squadron have been flying the Club's Cadet. C. A. S. C. The majority of the 5 hr. 10 min. flying logged last week was in connection with service work at Portsmouth. Two machines visited Broxfooume and Messrs. Harris and Arrighi took trial lessons to qualify for probationary membership. CAMBRIDGE Marshall's Flying School, The Cambridge Aero Club and the University Aero Club flew no hr. during the week ending August 16. Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Hutchinson took their " A " licences and jlr. Worsdel passed the flying examination for his " B " licence. The Rand Race THREE more entries for the London-Johannesburg Race were added to those published in Flight last week when en- trie> closed at ordinary fee last Friday. The official entries list issued by the Royal Aero Club now numbers twelve machines but it is possible that a few more will be added when the list closes finally on August 28. The three additions are a B.A. Eagle, entered by C. G. M. Alington, and to be piloted jointly by him and Lt. P. H. Booth, R.N.; a Miles Peregrine entered by Eateman Scott, and to be piloted by Fit. Lt. H. R. A. Edwards and Sqd. Ldr. B. S. Thymic; and a Percival Vega Gull entered and presumably to be piloted by Mr. John Carberry. The Brisbane-Adelaide Race FINAL plans have now been made for the Centenary Air Race from Brisbane to Adelaide—a distance of 1,440 miles. The event will be run in two sections on speed and handicap. The winner of the handicap race will receive £500 and £250 will be given to the first in the speed contest. Both races will finish the same day, December 18. Alto gether eight prizes will be given. The machines in the speed section will leave Brisbane at 4 a.m. on December 18, and there will be compulscry stops for refuelling at Melbourne and Sydney. There will be at least fifteen machines from New South Wales and nine from Queensland. Lympne's Big Meeting DLAXS are being rapidly developed for the Cinque Ports 1 International Rally and Wakefield Cup meeting on August 2-1 and 30, and by the time this paper appears there will be exactlv twenty-four hours for intending competitors in the race to send in their entries at normal fees. Entries at double fee may be sent in up to next Monday morning. The course for the Wakefield Cup race will be the same as that used last year and, apart from the trophy, there will be prizes of 50, £25 and/10 for the three leaders and the Yates trophy for the pilot making the fastest time. The heats will be run off on Saturday, August 29, and the finals on Sunday. Lord and Ladv Willingdon will be present and will give away the prizes. So far as the International Rally is concerned, a number of famous foreign pilots have already signified their intention of coming over, amongst them being Dipl. Ing. Kropf. who is bringing over a Focke Wulf Stosser, and Paul Fiirster. Hereford Comes in r\S September 18 and 19 a flying meeting and handicap air ^ race over three laps of a triangular course between Here ford, (doucester and Worcester, is being organised. A cash prize oi £50 and the Hereford City Trophy goes to the winner, with two other trophies and £30 and £15 for the second and third finishers. The pilot making fastest time, the first lady finisher and the first pilot flying a machine with an all-up height of less than 8ooH>. to finish will each be awarded a rophv. The race will start at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Septem- er '0. and all normal entries must be in by first post on Sep tember 12; late entries at double fees can arrive by first post on September 18.. The " base camp" will be the old racecourse at Hereford, which is being cleared by the city council, and will be officially recognised by the Air Ministry as a landing ground; the runs are about 800 yards, in each direction. Unfortunately, the organisers have not noticed that the Lon don-Cardiff race is due to be held on the same date, and, as this is something of a classic, it is likely to take all the entries. Perhaps the Hereford show can still, in the circumstances, be dated back a week. Pilots and manufacturers who are interested should write to Mr. J. Buckley, c/o Thome's, Ltd., Commercial Road, Hereford. The organisers are Western Aircraft Sales, Ltd., 18, The Butts, Worcester. A Dunkerque-Mato Rally THE Aeio Club of Dunkerque will organise a rally on August 29 and 30 at Dunkerque. The arrangements include a banquet and ball on the Saturday evening in the Casino, given by the Municipality of Maio-les-Bains, and a flying exhibition and fete on the Sunday. Further particulars may be obtained from the Royal Aero Club, 119, Piccadilly, W.I. The Navy is at Home FOLLOWING the Eastbourne affair on Saturday, the Royal Naval Flying Club held an At Home at Portsmouth airport on Sunday, and a number of the machines which were at the former were simply flown down the south coast to the second event after lunch on Sunday. Once again the weather was perfect. At 3 p.m. the novices' landing competition was held. This was for those pilots with less than fifty hours' solo flying to their credit and the winner was Lt. A. W. Rainey, Royal Marines. Afterwards there was a bomb-dropping competition. This was won by Lt. J. W. Hale, R.N., his winning bomb being only 5^ yards from the target. Fit. Lt. Williams, the Portsmouth Aero Club's instructor, then put up a clean acro batic display which was followed by a height-guessing com petition. This was won by one of the visitors, Mr. A. G. Howard. Thereafter there were demonstration flights by visiting machines, including a Heston Phoenix, a Kronfeld Drone, a Short Scion, a C.30 Autogiro, a Monospar, an Aeronca, a Tay lor Cub, and, of course, an Airspeed Envoy working on home ground. After the demonstrations the prizes for the competi tions were presented by Mrs. C. E. Kennedy-Purvis, the wife of Rear-Admiral Kennedy-Purvis, chairman of the Royal Naval Flying Club. The afternoon concluded with passenger flights for those who wished lo take them. Aspirations and Inspirations From Heston to the High Alps, by Douglas Fawcett Macmllan. 6s.). O NCE again the reading public is firmly reminded that neither the art of learning to fly nor its natural conse quences are for the young man alone. At an age little short of seventy years, Mr. Douglas Fawcett learnt to fly at Heston, and made use of ihe aeroplane to re-discover the mountains which he climbed as a younger man. " AH possessing fairly keen senses," he says, "sound circulatory and nervous systems and pluck can learn to fly." Of the delights ot flying, he says, "I am of that age at which emotions are supposed to become placid, but I never go up without elation, pure and undefiled, and, with blue sky over arching my flight and wisps of cloud brushing the wings, I envy no man." The first part of this charming little book is devoted to the story of his experiences and impressions as a pupil. Al though one might expect it to do so, this section does not clash in any way with Mr. Filson Young's recent book, but, without belittling our high regard for Heston's teaching, it would be nice to read a book by someone who was trained elsewhere ! Mr. White's England Have My Bones is the ouly exception we can call to mind. Best of all things in the book are the Alpine photographs —and, in particular, those of the Matterhorn and its plume of cloud. Those who know Mr. Fawcett hope that he will purchase a twin-engined machine for Alpine flying, though. even with a single engine, this sport may be less dangerous than guideless mountaineering. However, if we bothered eternally about relative risks, we should never dare to cross a busy street.
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