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1936
1936 - 2328.PDF
AUGUST 27. T936. FLIGHT. 221 THE FOUR WINDS ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL QUARTERS THE former Arrol-Johnston motor car factory at Dumfries may be- re opened to manufacture aero engines under Italian patents. The engagement is announced of Mrs. Elise Battye to Mr. Leonard Hackett, sales manager of Phillips and Powis. The War Commissariat states that the Soviet Air Force will soon be as large as the aggregate of the air services of all other countries. Mrs. Beryl Markham, a 31-year-old English airwoman, will attempt a non stop solo flight from London to New York shortly in a Percival Vega Gull. The Air Ministry proposes to take over retort houses and other buildings at Gaythorn Gasworks, Manchester, in connection with balloon experiments. The Zeppelin ffindenburg* has created a new record by making the round trip from Frankfort to Lakehurst and back in in hr. 50 niin. Tiiis included a seven-hour halt at Lakehurst. Two new company registrations of un usual interest are recorded on p. 238. One is of Imperial Airways (Bermuda). Ltd., and the other of the Caproni Agency Corporation (England), Ltd. THE PATRON : Mr. I. W. Schlesinger, donor of the £10,000 prize money '°r th,e Johannesburg Race, leaving Waterloo with Mrs. Schlesinger for South Africa last Friday. GROOMING AT GRAVESEND : Capt. Percival superintends the preparation of some of his products for the Schlesinger Johannesburg Race. In the foreground is the 225 m.p.h. Mew Gull to be flown by Capt. Miller, which is receiving a Ratier variable pitch airscrew Twenty'five Years Ago (From "Flight" of August 26, 1911.) "The first lady to obtain an aviator's certificate from the Royal Aero Club of the United Kingdom is Mrs. Maurice Hewlett, who made the necessary flights on Friday of last week at Brooklands. Mrs. Hewlett has been taught by M. Blondeau, with whom, in partner ship, she has a flying school at Brooklands." Workers at the Bloch factory in France decided to present two machines built for the French Government to the Spanish Popular Front, offering to "buy" them by working overtime. They threatened to strike unless they received satisfaction. The Air Ministry warns pilots that Service aircraft will be flying at night without navigation lights within a radius of twelve miles from Biggin Hill from sunset to sunrise the following day, during the period August 24 to September 6 inclusive at altitudes above 6,000 feet. One of the new diesel-engined Junkers Ju.86 monoplanes has flown the 3,728 miles from Dessau to Bathurst, West Africa, non-stop in 20 hours, the average speed being 186.4 m.p.h. The pilots were Herr Achterberg and Capt. Untucht of the Junkers company. Mrs. Dorothea Canneld, well known in western North Dakota, U.S.A., for her aerial coyote hunting, has been killed in a crash. When hunting coyotes Mrs. Canneld flew the machine while her husband fired at the animals with a swivel-mounted shot gun. Joseph Smith and Arthur Gargett, woodworkers employed by Airspeed, Ltd., crashed at Portsmouth last Thurs day in a Courier which they had taken without the permission of the firm and which they intended to fly to Spain Neither was a qualified pilot. Forthcoming Events August 28-29. Southend Flying Club: Week-end "At Home.' September August 29-30. Cinque Ports Clubs : International Rally and September Wakefield Cup Race. Septembe August 29-Sept. 6. British Gliding Association: Annual September competition, Gt. Hucklow, Derbyshire. Septembe "gust 30. Gordon Bennett Balloon Race, Poland. September September 4-5. Magyar Athletic Club Motor Section : Inter- September national Flying Meeting. Septembe eptember 5. Bristol and Wessex Aeroplane Club and Bristol October 25 "ranch, R.Ae.S. : Garden Party. November 5-6. Aero Club of Hungary: Week-end Aerien. 12. London Aeroplane Club: Hatfield Garden Party. 12. Rochester Empire Air Week Display. 13. Aero Club de France: Coupe Deutsch Race. 19. Cardiff Aeroplane Club : London-Cardiff Race, 19. Three Counties Air Race, Hereford. 20. London Air Park Club: Display. 29. London-Johannesburg Race. Aero Club de France: Saigon Race. 13-29. International Aero Exhibition. Paris'.
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