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1937
1937 - 1102.PDF
420 FLIGHT. APRIL 29, 1937. THE FOUR WINDS ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL QUARTERS ARRANGEMENTS are being made for the observation of May 29 as Em pire Air Day throughout Australia. Woodstock Mill, Royton Junction, near Manchester, has been bought by the Air Ministry for the manufacture of air craft parts. Struck by lightning, an observation balloon crashed from 2,000ft. over Mailly Camp, in France. One occupant was burned to death. The Argentine Ministry for War has placed contracts for the supply of no machines for the Argentine Army. Twenty will be constructed in Germany and ninety in the U.S.A. Among the aircraft which will be demonstrated at the R.Ae.S. Garden Party at Heathrow (a preliminary list of which appeared in Flight of April 15) will be the Hafner gyroplane; this will be its first public appearance. - •_ The Airspeed Envoy built for the use of the Royal Family is understood to accommodate four passengers, steward and wireless operator in addition to Wing Commander E. H. Fielden, the pilot. It has Siddeley Cheetah engines and the in terior is said to be finished in grey and red. The Federation of British Industries, in reply to a Home Office request that manufacturers should co-operate in air raid precaution schemes for their fac tories, suggests that the Government should bear the cost, especially since the factories would mostly be on national service in time of war. The Siamese Government has ordered a number of Martin twin-engined bombers, the value of the contract being 625,000 dollars. A new glider-looping world record is said to have been established by Fit. /Lt. E. L. Mole, who, at Cairo recently, looped 67 times in succession. M. Pierre Cot, the French Air Minister, was due to fly to London yesterday to be chief speaker at a peace rally at the Albert Hall and to meet Mr. Winston Churchill and other M.P.s. The S.B.A.C. static exhibition will be held in the R.A.F. Reserve hangar at Hatfield on Monday, June 28, and Tues day, June 29. Aircraft will be available for inspection on the Monday, and will be demonstrated on the Tuesday- One hundred men from the R.A.F. depot at Uxbridge, with the assistance of the Royal Air Force Band of 60 players, will give a display including figure forming, club swinging, doubling and singing, at the Royal Tournament to be held at Olympia from May 27 to June 12. No member of the display party was in the Service before January this year. In view of the fact that low flying is liable to be a source of danger to racing drivers, pilots may not land on Brook- lands aerodrome between 1300 and 1730 hours on May 1 and 17, June 26, July 10, August 2, September 18 and October 16, without first having obtained written permission from the aerodrome manager. Pilots should also avoid flying near the track below 2,000 feet during races. RECORD-WRECKER : The French pilot Rossi, who, as related on page 418, broke the speed record over 5,000 km. in a Renault-engined Caudron Typhon last week. In view of the fact that a '' tricycle landing gear is specified for the Douglas D.C.4,*it is interesting to learn that an undercarriage of this type is being tested on an OA4-B amphibian by the U.S. Army. The Emperor of Japan has conferred the " Order of the Rising Sun " on the pilot (Mr. Iinuma) and the wiress oper ator'(Mr. Tsukagoshi) of Divine Wind. The third "" routine transfer " of air craft from the U.S.A. to Honolulu was completed 'recently when twelve of the new Consolidated. PBY-i flying boats (two Twin Wasps), manned by crews totalling eighty, made the long trip non stop. « Herr Hitler has issued a decree for the creation of a Nazi flying corps with the objects of " Keeping alive the aviation spirit in the German people, establishing a system of preparatory flying instruc- tion'prior to military service and unify- ing_the manifold air-sport activities of Germany." GEOGRAPHY AND GEODETICS : Vickers aircraft (on the marine side, at all events) are well known to men of the Royal Australian Air Force, so it was with keen interest that this Coronation contingent inspected the Weybridge works last week. They are seen in front of a Wellesley. (Flight photograph.) Tiventy-five Years Ago (From " Flight " of April 27, 1912.) " Summer is approaching, and it would be a thoroughly fine thing for aviation generally if a few enterprising financiers were to place immediate orders for a small fleet of hydro-aeroplanes, cum pilots, with which they could estab lish themselves at the principal seaside resorts in the height o£ the season for the purpose of giv ing passenger flights on a calm day."
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