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1937
1937 - 0552.PDF
210 Private Flying FLIGHT. MARCH 4, ig2j. C. A. S. C. Indifferent weather resulted in a total flying time of 7 hr. 15 min. at Camb (>ra\ esen I, all last week. Even worse conditions have prevailed at owing only 1 hr. 30 min. flying to be done. BOMBAY Flying times for February aggregated 26HI hours. The Hon. Secre tary, Mr. I'. X. Ritchie, qualified for his " A " licence, Three machines of the Club flew down to Rajpipla State and were wel-comed by His Highness at the aerodrome. A large number of joy- rides were given, which necessitated one machine remaining in the State ior lour days. A new Gipsy Major Moth has recently been purchased, bringing the fleet up to six machines. For the fourth year in succession a fleet of four aeroplanes will leave Juhu early in June ff;r Heston and will remain in England for three months. During this time they hope to visit many clubs in England. LEEMING Xew members are Messrs. Dent, Spandon and C. King Clark (the last-named has recently taken delivery of a Miles Whitney Straight, in which he intends to fly to Egypt during the coming week), while new pupils are Messrs. Dove and Barrowclough. Mr. I. D. F. Proctor has gone solo. Visitors during the week included Mr. 1'ackeiiham, the two Fit. Lt. AtcherR-ys, Lord Grimthorpe and Mr. Jones, of the North Eastern Airways, and several officers from Catterick (ami). Arrangements for the International week-end are going ahead, several acceptances having already been received. General Council AT the meeting of the General Council of the Light Aero plane Clubs, which was held on February 17, it was de cided that K.A.F. support, promised for two meetings, should be given to the Cinque Ports and the Plymouth Clubs' flying meetings. Mr. R. Ashley Hall, Major A. Goodfellow and Major R. H. Thornton were elected to the K.Ae.C. .Racing Committee, and Col. Sir Joseph Reed was re-elected vice-chairman of the Council. Vacations ct Ely BETWEEN March 30 and April 12 the Ely Aero Club is organising a special Easter flying course on Drones. Any pupil who gets through his course in time to complete three hours' solo on Moths will, of course, have an "A" licence available for all types. Special lectures and maintenance in struction will be given. The fee for the course, including a year's club subscription and accommodation, will be /20. The club's official address is City Chambers, Market St., Ely, Cambs. G.E. Examinations THE examinations for ground engineers' licences will be held at the following places and times: (a) London, weekly, on each Tuesday in April, May and June; (H) Croydon, on the second Friday in April, May and June, (c) Manchester, on the first Friday in June; (d) Bristol, on the first Friday in April; and (e) Glasgow, on the first Thursday in May. Applications should be made to the Secretary, Air Ministry (C.A.2V, Adastral House, Kingsv/av, London, W.C.2, on C.A. Form *B. Associated Sociability THE second annual dinner and dance of the Brooklands Associated Flying Clubs at the May Fair Hoi el, London, was one of those first-class gatherings after which each guest begins to think about reserving a table for next year's. After "The King," Mr. Percy Bradley, the chairman, very briefly proposed Ihe toast of " The Four Clubs," remarking that Capt. Duncan Davis, who was to reply to the toast, was one of the finest speakers and should certainly do any speaking that had to be (lone. Capt. Davis then gave a very brief and humorous survey of the founding of the club. He said that Northampton now- had new hangars, a larger field and a reserve school, that club secretaries and committees were blamed for everv for tunate or unfortunate event on the whole aerodrome, but that the success of the clubs depended entirely upon them. He added a tribute to the excellent work of the ground engineers and said that the instructors all flew "hands off" and never said " I've got her" until the next world was very near. Then the band, whose average age was 17, got everyone on the move with popular melodies. A cabaret, including "Mr. Claude Dam- pier, followed, and dancing continued until 2 a.m. The Tenth at Norwich SOME 150 guests attended the tenth annual dinner of th-Norfolk and Norwich Aero Club, which was held kw Thursday. The president of the club, Sir Henry Holmes, was in the chair, and Lord Sempill was the guest of honour. Second International at York ON June 4, 5 and 6 the York and Leeming Flying Clubs are organising their second international flying meeting This will include a handicap race, demonstration flying and a visit to the Sutton Bank gliding centre. Hampshire's Eleventh AS one of the first half-dozen light aeroplane clubs lo be formed in this country, it was right and proper that the Hampshire Aeroplane Club's eleventh annual dinner, held last Friday, should have been graced by the presence of so many well-known people—among them, as guests of honour, bein." Sir Francis and Lady Shelmerdine. After many years of un avoidable absence, the president of the club, too, Lord Louis Mouutbatten, was in the chair—he had actually changed in the train from London, and arrived more or less on the stroke of the gong (or on the first words of the toastmaster). In proposing "The Club," Councillor R. J. Stranger ex plained how the club had been an asset to the Southampton airport, giving that impression of activity which is so im portant in the case of a newly developed aerodrome. Mr. G. H. Winn, replying, gave details of the club's pro gress during the past year. A Leopard had been bought so that anyone "could leave Southampton in a hurry by day or night," and a contract had been obtained for delivering news papers to the Isle of Wight. Alterations had also been made to the buildings so that sleeping quarters could be provided for pilots. The two trophies for blind flving and safe flying had been won respectively by Lady Hoare and Mr. J. Winning, The latter collected his there and then from the hands of the president. After running through the list of important guests, Lord Louis Mountbatten, in proposing their toast, explained that Lady Louis was flying around Africa and so was not able to be present with him. Referring to his recent appointment to the Naval Air Division at the Admiralty, he explained how, after slight discomfort followdng his discovery that so many of his new subordinates were men of long, practical experi ence, he had searched his memory and found he had flown in 1911 wdth Air Marshal Longmore, and in 1906 as ballast in a Parseval airship. Sir Francis Shelmerdine had one very welcome piece of news to impart in his reply. The Air Ministry was working on an idea to encourage, by some form of subsidy, those pilots who did not normally continue their flving after obtaining a licence. The Hampshire Club had trained 300 pilots in the last eleven years and had earned ^15,000 in subsidy. Toasting the chairman, the Rev. E. Bruce Corn lord was not too charitably humorous at the expense of the powers that be (in the Admiralty and elsewhere) and of the Portsmouth Council, who had, it appeared, agreed to build an Empire base by a majority of two. New Scandinavian Airports THREE new airports are planned for Denmark. The choice of sites near Esbjerg and Aalborg (both in Jutland) and Ronne (Isle of Bornholm) has been sanctioned by the Danish Air-Traffic Department. The aerodromes, which are con structed with a view to planned internal airlines, will be com pleted by the spring of next vear. Meanwhile, about 5! million Kr. have so far been spent on the building of the new Oslo airport at Fornebu, which was commenced on October 1, 19J4. A large quantity 0 rock had been blasted awav, but even that was only part 01 the work necessary. With the exception of a Governroeo allowance of 300,600 Kr. all the costs of building the new airport are borne by the Municipality of Oslo. When com pleted, the Fornebu airport will have required a total outlay of nearly 12 million Kr., but it will then be the most up-to- date airport in Scandinavia. Two other Norwegian nirPor are in course of construction near Stavanger and Troudheini- Mr. Petersen, chief of the West Norwegian Meteorologies Service has been compiling special weather and visibility ports for the North Sea during the past five y^rs'. nl,'and to judge the conditions for services between Englani. Scandinavia. Aberdeen Airways, it will be remembered, due to start their Norwegian service in the spring.
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