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1937
1937 - 0783.PDF
MARCH 25, 1937. FLIGHT. 299 THE FOUR WINDS ITEMS OF INTEREST FRON ALL QUARTERS THE WEARING OF THE GREEN : An Avro Anson (two 310/355 h.p. moderately supercharged Siddeley Cheetah IXs) on test at Woodford prior to delivery to the Irish Free State Air Force, which is composed almost entirely of Avro aircraft. All its machines, including some Vickers Vespas, have Siddeley engines. Flight photograph.) EXPERIMENTAL '' hookings-on-to '' and " droppings-off-from " the Zep pelin Hindenburg have been made by Colonel Udet in a Focke Wulf Stieglitz biplane. Mat Berry, a veteran pilot in the arctic regions of Canada, has been awarded the McKee Trans-Canada Trophy for 1936 in recognition of some outstanding rescue work. Miss Mabel and Miss Sheila Glass, who put up such a commendable performance in the recent Egyptian International Meeting, are planning to attack Mrs. Mollison's Cape record of 3 days 6 hr. 26 min. At two thousand feet, between Gautemala and Vera Cruz, a baby tuna fish entered an air liner via a cockpit window, bespattering the pilot with fish scales. Unromantic explanation of glamorous story : one of a flight of frigate birds flying above became frightened and dropped his supper. Major Al Williams, in our contem porary, U.S. Air Services, .says that it took him one hour to "buck fourteen miles of traffic in a bus from the center of London to the Croydon Airport" and that it took him only one hour and forty- five minutes to fly to Rotterdam, two hundred and five miles away. The first annual general meeting of the Association of Aeronautical Ground Engineers will be held on Monday, April 5, at 7.30 p.m., at the Feathers Hotel, Broadway, London, S.W.i. Information and forms of application for membership may be obtained from the honorary sec retary, Mr. R. S. Moore, E.3 Maisonette, Croydon Road, West Wickham, Kent. His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to become Patron of the R.Ae.S. It was in 1918 that His Late Majesty King George V graciously conferred the prefix "Royal" to the title of the Aeronautical Society. In 1926 His present Majesty, then H.R.H. The Duke of York, became a Patron of the Society. Tiventy-five Years Ago (From "Flight" of March 23, 1912.) '' I hear that the Avro works at Manchester are pushing well ahead with the three biplanes for which they have received orders from the War Office. These are to be much the same type as the new 60 h.p. E.N.V. model, which has shown itself excellent in its pre liminary trials, under the direction of Lt. Wilfred Parke, at Brook- lands. It is tremendously fast, the average of the various speeds estimated by observers is some where near 66 miles an hour." MAGISTER ARTIUM : Mr. F. G. Miles, past-master of the art of aircraft demonstration, reveals the qualities of the Miles Magister ;rainer (D.H. Gipsy Major) at a "family gathering" of Phillips and Powis employees last week when the proto type was christened with due ceremony by Mrs. Miles. The Magister is basically similar to the Hawk Trainer, but has been revised in detail. Note, for example, the new undercarriage and the tail wheel. Flight photograph.)
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