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1937
1937 - 1808.PDF
12 FLIGHT. JULY T, 1937. THE FOUR WINDS ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL QUARTERS Thousands of workers headed by Stalin gathered at the Moscow central aerodrome last Saturday to welcome Pro fessor Schmidt and other members of the expedition which flew over the Pole. The first non-stop Continental flight in made by Mr. Richard Archbold last Fri day. He flew from San Diego, Cali fornia to North Beach Airport, New York, in 17 hr. 2 min. Presumably the machine was his twin-engined Consoli dated flying boat. • American trans- a seaplane was OUT OF THE PAST : It is almost exactly a hundred years ago since Charles Greens' great Nassau balloon covered 500 miles in 18 hours. During that century the sport has flourished and almost died, the annual Gordon Bennett Race now being the only noticeable manifestation of its existence. The start of this year's race, from Brussels on June 20, is seen above. A PILOT was able last week to land his machine without injury to him self or to his passenger after the airscrew had broken away and cut through the rudder while flying at about 1,500ft. near Crewe. The ashes <?f Sir Eric Geddes, late chairman of Imperial Airways, Ltd., were scattered from the Empire boat Caledonia last Friday night over the English Channel on the route to Alexandria. Mrs. Amelia Earhart-Putnam who is now nearing the completion of her world flight, her average daily mileage having been about nine hundred. While the Electra was crossing India eagles caused some trouble and were found fly ing as high as 5,000ft. The three Russian airmen, Chkaloff, Baidukofi and Beliakofl, who landed on the banks of Columbia River, Vancouver, on June 21, flew on to San Francisco in a chartered machine. Their own mono plane is being dismantled at the Van couver military airport prior to shipment back to Russia. The week of the F.A.I. Conference ended on a festive note last Sunday, when the delegates, in some fifty aero planes—which included Heracles—visited Ratclifle, Leicestershire, as the guests of Mr. W. Lindsay Everard, M.P. Five machines from Germany and an am phibian from France were among the fleet. Twenty-five Years Ago From "Flight" of June 29, 1912. '' Monoplane design has been settling down to such well de fined lines of late that the parti culars of the new Codi monoplane we are able to publish this week will come as quite a shock to those who have been reckoning that something like finality of design has been reached in aeroplanes of the single-deck type. Its im mense size and marked originality were the chief characteristics of his first biplane. His new mono plane is no exception to the rule." [The machine referred to had a span of 46ft. Pin. and a length of 37ft. These figures are within a few inches of the dimensions of the De Havilland Don.] RIGHT WAY UP ! During a recent visit to the C.F.S., Flight's photographer inveigled these three pilots into a " close-up." Since the Hendon Display crowd almost saw their faces as they flew their Avro Tutors inverted at low altitude, we make no apology for departing from the Hendon " no limelight " convention. Left to right : Fit. Lts. Mermagen and Stephenson and Fit. Sergt. Scragg.
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