FlightGlobal.com
Home
Premium
Archive
Video
Images
Forum
Atlas
Blogs
Jobs
Shop
RSS
Email Newsletters
You are in:
Home
Aviation History
1937
1937 - 1293.PDF
MAY 13, 1937. FLIGHT. 485 RAeC. OFFICIAL NOTICES The FA J. Conference : Low Flying at Newmarket : Zurich Meeting : Club Appointments AT the invitation of the Royal Aero Club the Federation Aeronautique Internationale will hold its annual con-L ference in London on June 22-27. The F.A.I, is the recognised international body em bracing all the national aero clubs of the world. It is the supreme controlling authority for the sport of flying and for international world records. It has also for one of its main objects the development of international air touring and the removal of the barriers which hinder it. Founded in Paris in 1905 by eight countries, including Great Britain, the F.A.I, now consists of thirty-five national organisa tions. Since its inception it has held its annual conference in all countries of the v/orld, the last three being in the United States, Yugoslavia and Poland, respectively. The committee of the R.Ae.C. is naturally anxious to arrange an attractive programme for the entertainment of the foreign delegates attending this conference. It is anticipated that approximately 100 delegates will attend, and the com mittee is also anxious that the hospitality extended should be on the same scale as that which has in the past been offered by the other countries. To mark the importance of this conference, H.M. Govern ment will give an official banquet to the delegates on Friday, June 25. Apart from the general and committee meetings of the F.A.I, which will take place daily, the R.Ae.C. will enter tain the delegates to a luncheon at the Savoy Hotel. The Under Secretary of State for Air, Jthe Right Hon. Sir Philip Sassoon, is holding a reception at 45, Park Lane, the Marchioness of Londonderry is giving a cocktail party at Londonderry House, and the delegates will visit the R.A.F. Display at Hendon as guests of the Royal Aero Club. On the final day, Sunday. June 27, the delegates will visit Ratcliffe, Leicester, as the guests of Mr. W. Lindsay Everard, M.P., chairman of the Royal Aero Club. For thii visit the Club wishes to provide air transport to Leicester and return for about 100 delegates. It is proposed to start from Heston at about 10.30 a.m., returning at 3 p.m. Mr. Lindsay Everard will be grateful if private owners willing to assist will kindly send in their names to the Royal Aero Club, 119, Piccadilly, London, W.i, with particulars of air craft and seats available. It is estimated that a sum of £500 should be at the disposal of the committee in order to carry through the week's pro gramme. It is appreciated that only last year an appeal was made to members and private owners to support the Week- End Aerien, which appeal met with a most generous response. The " Hindenburg" Disaster WITH amazement and horror, intensified by the seeming "impossibility" of such an occurrence, the world learned last Friday morning of the destruction by fire of the German Zeppelin L.Z.129, or Hindenburg, at Lakehurst, New Jersey, the previous evening—Thursday, May 6. The airship reached the neighbourhood of New Jersey at 4 p.m., and cruised round for three hours to allow a thunder storm to clear. She approached the mooring mast. From that moment there are many conflicting accounts, some of which say that faulty mooring manoeuvres caused her tail to hit the ground. Whatever happened, there was a belch of burning hydrogen, and in a few seconds the ship fell to the ground, ablaze from stem to stern of her 803ft. length. During the following days widely divergent estimates of the death-roll appeared. Last Monday it was authoritatively stated to be 35, of which number about two-thirds consisted of members of the crew. Among the victims who died in hospital from their injuries was Captain Ernst August Lehmann, who, since the war days, when he led raids over Britain, has shared with Dr. Eckener a leading part in bringing Germany's commercial airship ser vices to their present strong position. Flying sometimes as commander, sometimes as chief technical adviser to the com pany, he had made scores of Atlantic crossings since his first one in the Z.R.3 in 1924. From 1924 to 1927 he helped to organise the American branch of the Zeppelin Company at Akron. A discussion of possible causes of the disaster, and some Editorial comments, appear on pages 466 and 467. The Week-End Aetien was for the entertainment of foreign private air tourists, whereas the Federation, while including many such tourists, is mainly concerned with the representa tives of the national aero clubs whose function in their respec tive countries does so much to encourage the progress of inter national aerial circulation. r The committee hopes that all members will realise the im portant part that the Federation has played in international aviation matters, and give such financial support to the Club as will enable it to offer suitable entertainment to these im portant delegates. * » * The Jockey Club has informed the Royal Aero Club that many aeroplanes arriving at the recent Newmarket Races crossed very low over the paddock. The stewards of the Jockey Club have requested the R.Ae.C. to bring to the notice of all pilots the undesirability of flying low over the paddock when racing is taking place on the Rowley mile course with so many valuable horses engaged. The Royal Aero Club would be grateful if all pilots visiting Newmarket would give careful attention to the request of the Jockey Club. » * * The following British entries have so far been made for the Zurich International Aviation Meeting, July 23 to August 1 : Miss Constance Ruth Leathart, Alex Monteith, Reginald Presland, Charles Gardner, Miss L. Dillon, Miss Mabel and Miss Sheila Glass, Robert Somerset. * * * The following appointments have been made by the Club for the year 1937-38 :— CHAIRMAN:—W. Lindsay Everard, M.P. VICE-CHAIRMAN :—F. Handley Page, C.B.E. RACING COMMITTEE :—W. Lindsay Everard, M.P., Capt. H. S. Broad, Major J. S. Buchanan, C.B.E. ; Fit. Lt. P. W. S. Bulman, M.C , A.F.C. ; Major A. Goodfellow ; R. Ashley Hall ; A. C. S. Irwin; Capt. R. L. Preston; P. Q. Reiss; Major R. H. Thornton, M.C. PRIVATE OWNERS AND AIR TOURING COMMITTEE :—Air Vice- Marshal A. E. Borton, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. ; D. P. Cameron ; Fit. Lt. C. Clarkson ; The Marquess of Douglas and Clydesdale, A.F.C., M.P. ; J. G. Ciammond ; W. D. McPherson ; W. R. D. Perkins, M.P. ; Major H. A. Petre, D.S.O., M.C. ; W. L. Runciman; G. H. Wilson-Fox. HAROLD E. PERRIN, Secretary. New York-Paris Race Entries AS recorded briefly in last week's issue of Flight, 22 machines have been entered for the air race from New York to Paris. The race period extends throughout August, each pilot picking a day to suit himself, and the result being decided by individual timing. No. 1 2 3 4 5 0 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 16 20 21 22 Entrant. Sir Hugo CunlilTc-Owcn . . A. E. Clouston Miss Amy Johnson Alex Papana French Air Ministry ,, ,. ,, ,, Attilio Biseo Angelo Tondi Samuele Cupini Umberto Fiori Antonio Lippi Guiseppe Gaeta Enrico Rolandi Aldo Anzani Vittorio Suster Prince Cantacuzene Societe Transoceanic JoeThorne Henry Merrill James Mattern Karl Linder Nation ality. G.B. G.B. G.B. K. p_ F! F. I. I. 1. 1. I. I. I. I. I. R. F. U.S.A. U.S. A. U.S.A. S. Aircraft and Engine. Clyde Clipper (2 Rolls-Royce Kestrel!. De Havilland Ccmet (2 Gipsy). Caudron Goeland (2 Renault). Hellanca (2 Mcnasco, 1 Ranger). Farman 2300 (4 Hispano). M. Bloch100(4-engined). Amiot 370 (2 Hispano). Savoia-Marchetti (3-engined). r .• n »• .. .. ,, ,. * „ ,. ., Fiat 20. — "„Proccllaria-1 (2 I.-F. Asso). a J» Caudron Typhon (2 Renault) Couzinet 10 (2 Hispano). Lockheed (twin-engined). ft •> f* M Junkers Ju. ?0 (2 P.W. Hornet). Nationality (determined by club through which entry is made): G.B., Great Britain; R., Roumania ; F., France; 1., Italy; S., Sweden.
Sign up to
Flight Digital Magazine
Flight Print Magazine
Airline Business Magazine
E-newsletters
RSS
Events
