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1937
1937 - 0480.PDF
iS8 FLIGHT. FEBRUARY 25, 1937. THE FOUR WINDS ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL QUARTERS A SPECIAL high-speed aircraft rescue ship, the Hans Rolshoven, was launched recently at Hamburg. Colonel and Mrs. Lindberg arrived at Karachi in their Miles Mohawk last Saturday. It is believed that they will tcur India. Mile. Vivienne Elder, the French air woman was rescued from the sea, thirty miles from Tunis, on Sunday, while flying to Cairo for the international rally. The German Ambassador, Herr von Ribbentrop, attended the annual com memoration service in Potters Bar churchyard last Sunday at the common grave of the crews of the two Zeppelins brought down at Cuffley and Potters Bar in 1916. Three types of Armstrong Whitworth Whitley heavy bomber are being built. The Whitley I has Tiger IX engines, the Mk. II version uses Tiger VIIIs with two-speed superchargers, while the power plants for the third model have not been definitely chosen. Thirty-six Junkers Ju. 86 bombers soon to be delivered without engines to the Swedish Air Force are being ac quired by barter, the "price" being agricultural and industrial products to the value of about nine million kronor. Finland has placed an order for a dozen German bombers. An " International Glider Competi tion," to be held on the Wasserkuppe, will be organised by the Aero-Club von Deutschland, from July 4-18. A nation may enter up to five seaplanes, for each of which two pilots may be nominated. An "International Aviation Meeting" is being planned by the same body, the probable date being July n, and the place Frankfurt-on-Main. A Coronation air display is to be held at Leicester Airport, Braunstone, on Thursday, May 13, the day following the Coronation. Aviation in the whole of the county will be represented, the display being organised by the Leicester shire Aeronautical Co-ordination Com mittee, formed at a luncheon meeting at the instigation of Mr. W. Lindsay Everard, M.P., Chairman of the Royal Aero Club. SOURDOUGH : A real old-timer from the frozen wastes of Alaska, this Ford tri- motor flew down to Boeing Field complete with skis and made an exemplary landing on the snowless grass. The total value of contracts placed by the Air Ministry in the present financial year up to December 31, amounted to .£67,122,500. The observation tower which is being built in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, for the Empire Exhibition of 1938- will rise to more than 500 feet. It is being built on the highest point of the Park and a powerful light will be fitted to provide a warning beam for aircraft, as the tower is only four miles from the aerodrome at Renfrew. To-night's R.Ae.S. lecture will lie given by Mr. N. S. Muir, whose subject will be " The Measurement of Engine Power in Flight.'' He will describe a new flight-testing transmission dynamometer. The B.B.C.'s broadcast of the "R.F.C." . concert party "Flying High," last November, was so popular ' that in the next performance, on March 29, the effective scheme of periodically switching from the concert party atmos phere to "reality" will be much extended. ! DOUBLY DEADLY : The two-seater fighter is a type well represented in the world's air forces. Holland's newest is the Koolhoven F.K. 52 with one of our own Bristol Mercurys of 830 h.p. maximum. The cantilever under carriage is reminiscent of the Gladiator. At 14,4°° ,._„ new Koolhoven does about 230 m.p.h. An int«£esrVf cockpit enclosure has been evolved, as shown on the 1 . the rear portion housing a special Koolhoven machine g" mounting.
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