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1937
1937 - 2051.PDF
ULY 22, 1937- FLIGHT. THE FOUR WINDS ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL QUARTERS i FARTHEST YET: The three Russians who, as recorded on page no, flew the ANT. 25 monoplane 6,650 miles, via the North Pole, from Moscow to California. They are, right to left (and to give them their full honours), Hero of the Soviet Union M.M. Gromov, Engineer of the Third Rank, S. A. Danilin, and Major A. B. Yumashev. MR. BURGIN, the Minister of Trans port, surveyed some of England's trunk roads from an Imperial Airways D.H. 86 early this week. The Air Ministry has denied a report that a non-stop flight to Australia by an R.A.F. bomber is contemplated. Mr. David Llewellyn seems to have abandoned his attempt to beat the Cape- London record held by Mr. H. L. Brook. Organised jointly by a salvage com pany and Danish Airlines, an ambulance service operated with three Fokker F.VIIs is now available at 76 stations in Denmark. Norway has been puzzled by nocturnal visits of a large multi-engined machine, thought to be a new German Atlantic type under secret test—someone with an analytical ear has identified-it as having Diesel engines. Resembling a massive bunch of grapes, the latest balloon devised by Professor Jean Piccard (brother of the illustrious Auguste) has been destroyed in America by fire after an experimental flight.- It is reported from Vancouver, B.C., that Boeing Aircraft of Canada, Ltd., are to build eleven Blackburn Sharks under licence for the Royal Canadian Air Force. Representatives of the Com pany are at present in England. At the annual general meeting of the Air League of the British Empire, the Duke of Sutherland announced that the Air League's gift to charity as a result of Empire Air Day amounted to ^12,000. It was also announced that grants from the Young Pilots' Fund have been made to young men learning to fly at clubs in Canada, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. SPEED WITH LOAD : Lt. Bruno Mussolini (right), second son of IIDace, recently broke three international records with a Savoia-Marchetti S.79. ihey included 1,000 km. at 264.76 m P-h. with a load of 2,000 km. He « seen with his co-pilot, Lt.-Col. Biseo. Lord Swinton, Secretary of State for Air, last week visited the Handley Page works and, conducted by Mr. F. Handley Page and Mr. J. Hamilton (works mana ger) , saw Harrows in quantity produc tion. Aeroplanes equipped with flame- sprayers are being used by Government expeditions in a fight against locusts along the 30-mile front in the Western desert of Egypt, on the Libyan frontier. The completion of Germany's new Zeppelin, L.Z.130, will be delayed until the spring of 1938 for reconstruction to use helium. The structure weight must be reduced by about 20 tons to make up for the loss of lift. The amateur- built American Allen- baugh racing monoplane has a span of only 18ft., weighs 6751b. fully loaded, and does 200 m.p.h. with a 50 h.p. Hall- man B engine, which employs major parts of the Ford Model A unit. Denmark's air force is shortly to ac quire twelve Mercury-engined Fokker D.XXIs, ten of which will be built under licence in the country. It is rumoured that difficulty in obtaining delivery from abroad is causing an aircraft-building re organisation that will make Denmark in dependent. The Grumman concern is building a batch of civil amphibian monoplanes, each fitted with two Wasp Juniors. Data are : top . speed, 205 m.p.h. at 5,000ft. ; weight empty, 5,3201b.'; gross weight, 7,5001b.; range at 75 per cent, power, 795 miles. It is said that sixty or more aero dromes are in course of construction in various parts of Italy. A contract for 210 single-seater pursuit machines has been given bv the U.S. Government to the Curtiss-Wright Cor poration. They are 300 m.p.h. low-wing monoplanes with all wheels retractable. Major Alexander P. de Seversky, Pre sident of the Seversky Aircraft Corpora tion, has composed a march, dedicated to U.S. Army, Navy and Marine pilots, and entitled '' Over Land and Over Sea." The lyrics were written by Mrs.' de Seversky. Major de Seversky's brother is not unknown on English wire less programmes as "The Singing Pilot." Twenty-five Years Ago (From " Flight," July 20, 1912.) : " VVho will say that the Shop j Act may not indirectly benefit : aviation? It certainly should as regards Hendon, at any rate, for the Grahame-White Aviation Co., j Ltd., have hit on the excellent idea j of providing entertainment in the form of exhibition flights at the j London Aerodrome every Thurs- j day afternoon, for those members of the community that, by law, i have their half^holiday - on that j afternoon. The first of these exhi bitions took place on Thursday last and was a great success."
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