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1936
1936 - 3041.PDF
486 FLIGHT. NOVEMBER 12, J936. THE FOUR WINDS ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL QUARTERS TWIN-SCREW. The Koolhovensingle- seater fighter to be shown at the Paris Salon has two airscrews revolving in opposite directions. THE Danish Army Air Force is shortly sending a commission of four to this country. The Westland Army-co-operation monoplane has been taken off with full load in 120 yards and landed in 100 yards. Groups of trees in the shape of shields, the points of which will face south-west, are to be planted as landmarks for air men. Each ot the three "official" French entries for the Paris-New York race next spring will have four Hispano-Suiza engines. The Beechcraft which, flown by Louise Thaden and Blanche Noyes, won this year's Bendix Trophy race, has been sold to the Honduras Government. The French Air Ministry announces that units of " air infantry," using para chutes as a tactical weapon, are to be formed. This scheme was introduced by Russia. Two-hundred Aeroncas have been ordered from the Aeronautical Corpor ation of Great Britain for delivery by next March. This will mean an eventual weekly output of fifteen machines. The following estimated figures relate to Capt. Frank Hawk's new high-speed monoplane: Top speed at sea level 375 m.p.h., cruising speed (13,000-15,oooft.) 340 m.p.h., initial rate of climb 7,000ft./ min., landing speed 68 m.p.h. and ter minal velocity speed 750 m.p.h. Sikorskys announce the completion of designs for a 50-ton flying boat for trans atlantic service. There is accommo dation for 35 passengers in a number of staterooms and what an American con temporary terms a dancing pavilion. The engines will be eight 1,150 h.p. Twin Wasps. A number of Bristol Blenheim high speed medium bombers have been ordered by Australia, ft is reported that there will be at least one squadron of twelve machines with a reserve of the same number. The mass production of a device claimed "to keep an airscrew going after engine failure has occurred '' niav provide work for at least two hundred men on the Teams Valley Trading Estate Gateshead. Mr. L. E. Clark, the New Zealand farmer who left England for home on October 26 in a Percival Gull, arrived at Port Darwin, Australia, a week ago. Finland is to have twelve new British bombers. The Finnish Government are reported to have completed negotiations for their delivery before Christmas, and a lump sum of £250,000 is quoted in con- nection with the deal. Irish Hospitals Trust, claiming that the Bellanca monoplane used by Mr. James Mollison to cross the Atlantic was their property, sought an injunction to restrain Mr. Mollison and Rollason Air craft Services from -using the machine. But " as a gesture from sportsmen to a fine sportsman" they relinquished any right against Mr. Mollison to claim the machine. AIRSPEED INNOVATION. The new Series III Airspeed Envoy incorporates stressed-skin, plywood-covered wings of simplified construction. This view shows one of the first" going through.'' Twenty'five Years Ago From "Flight" of November 11, 1911.) "In a Dundee journal, a corre spondent who signs himself ' Terra Firma' asks: ' ' Is it moral, by the bait of considerable sums of money and of prizes, to lure young men, fiery with intre pidity, to a death, if not certain, at least very probable ? ' ' Is it not cruel to tempt foolhardy men to their deaths by these gilded baits ? ' ' Are we to demand gladiatorial sacrifice from our aviators ?' " THE BIG PARADE. Savoia Marchetti S.81 long-range bombers, with vari!f.^f craft beyond, looking pretty for 11 Duce at the Lonate Pozzolo airport, near M'» •
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