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1937 - 1983.PDF
JULY 15, 1937- FLIGHT. 73 THE FOUR WINDS ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL QUARTERS A FOX THAT NEVER GOES TO EARTH : Another view of the new Fairey Sea Fox (Napier Rapier VI) light reconnaissance seaplane illustrated on p. 66. (Flight -photograph.) TAMES MATTERN plans a non-stop J flight from San Francisco to Moscow within a month. He intends to refuel in the air over Alaska. Included in next year's R.A.F. flying programme may be a flight to South Africa by a formation of Bristol Blen heims. An air pageant will be held on July 22, 23. and.2.4 to celebrate the opening of Durban Municipal Airport by the Hon. Mr. G- Pirow, Minister of Defence. The main event will be the race for the Governor's Cup and about /goo. The Government of Singapore has placed an order for a number of G.E.C. illuminated buoys for the seaplane channel in Singapore Harbour. The whole of this channel will be marked by means of these amber-lighted buoys, situated about 100 yards apart. At the F.A.I. Conference the Jugoslav representative offered, on behalf of 14-year-old King Peter II of Jugoslavia, a permanent trophy for an annual inter national aircraft models contest. The first competition will be held in England next year. Regular flights w«re recently made by two aeroplanes with heavy loads of food and supplies, which were dropped to 2,000 workmen cut off from the rest of< the world by landslides in Zagidan, Black Sea Territory, a mountainous country where it is impossible to land. Four Boeing YB-T7 bombers (four 850 h.p. G-type Wright Cyclones) re cently made a non-stop flight from Lang- ley FleM,'.Virginia;, to .Mairi^, across to Cleveland, and back to Langley Field." The remainder of the thirteen YB-178 ordered are being delivered at short intervals. The Hindenburg' s engines have been sent back to Germany, while American metal companies are bidding as high as ^2,400 for the wreckage, which lies in a tangled mass at Lake- hurst, New Jersey. At the U.S. national gliding meeting at Eimira, N.Y., Peter Riedel, of Germany, piloted a sailplane 132 miles into Penn sylvania, and claimed to have reached a height of 8,400 ft. At the same meeting, Carl Thompson, Jr., operated a radio-controlled robot glider for an hour, causing it to do a number of circuits and return to its start ing; point. It has a span of 13ft. and weighs 10 lb. It is reported that two women, Miss Beverley Dodge and Mrs. Virginia Thomas, have reached a height of 17,000 feet on a light aeroplane; unofficially this is a U.S. national record. The world's record for Class C, first category light aeroplanes, is 20,062 feet, held for France by Mme. Madeleine Charnaux and Mile. Clarck, flying a Farman 357 monoplane with Renault engine. INSTRUCTRESS : Does a woman make an efficient flying instructor ? One answer to an old controversy is provided by Mrs. A. Patterson of the South Staffs Aero Club, the first woman both to take the G.A.P.A.N. Instructor's Ticket arid to obtain an instructional post. She has completed some 400 hours of instruction, and of thirty-odd pupils ten have already taken their " A " licences^ Twentj'five Years Ago (From "Flight" of July 13, 1912). '' After the splendid series of demonstrations given by Com. Samson, and the naval aviators at the manoeuvres a few weeks back, the presence of the hydro aeroplanes at the Review at the beginning of this week was no novelty. Nevertheless, they did emphasise the fact that this machine is likely to prove a very valuable adjunct to naval work . . . '' On this occasion the battle ship 'London/ of the fourth class, was fitted up as the mother ship, and from her deck, when steaming at •'••15 knots, Lieut. L'Estrange Malone flew on S.38 to the shore, a trip of 19 miles."
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