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1937
1937 - 2177.PDF
AUGUST 5, 1937. FLIGHT. 143 earned reputation during the week for precision in their formation stuff. May be it was the early afternoon heat bumps -they were obviously irritating. But the French put one thing across well, a complete bunt in Squadron V—a har rowing spectacle to watch when executed on high, thick wings braced by long stays. Two parachutists, Wurmli and Wil liams, appalled by delayed drops from Swissair's venerable Fokker F VII. Five Gipsy I Moths of the Lausanne section of the Swiss Aero Club formated with changes pleasingly but rather slowly executed before Capt. Burckardt led out his eight-year-old Dewoitine D.27 fighters of the Swiss Air Force. Owing to the Swiss training system the Service pilots have to do most of their practice in spare time. Their show was very creditable, lines abreast—several times—" L " ' and " T " shapes, and several of the other more usual ones. Hanna Reitsch in her red overalls is an official German Flugcapitan, a rank that is not awarded until 500,000 kilo metres have been flown. She was towed up to a safe height in her '' Habicht'' (" Hawk",), said to be the only glider in existence capable of the inverted loop. She did this manceuvre several times on her way down, mixed up with loops, steep turns, slow rolls, and what looked as nearly as comfortable to a T.V. dive. Her last dive took her down to a steep turn at no altitude over the parked Furies. Later on Udet took her up in his Fieseler "super Gugnunc." Lifting into a 45-degreeish climb after a 30-yard run was something new on Hanna. She was to be observed holding on ftight when Udet crawled in over the multi-flagged grandstand to sit down with a gentle thump and a spreadeagling of an elastic- seeming undercart. Overhead Reginald Brie hovered in his C.30. The Italians came on last and repeated x\ 1—£*• v-|r The four Hawker Furies in their fam ous diamond formation. their rehearsal of Friday. Ten Fiats make much more noise than four Furies, and the crowd liked it. Sunday started with rain and A.V.-M. Gossage and his party laying an official R.A.F. wreath on the Dubendorf pilots' memorial, and ended, as far as the Inter national Meeting was concerned, with a cloudburst dead overhead just as the Furies were taking off. It caused acute anxiety for us on the ground, but gave Fit. Lt. Donaldson and his team an opportunity for scoring an even bigger triumph than Saturday's. Although they disappeared at the top of some of their more prolonged rocket- ings, there was otherwise no departure from their ordered aerobattings. And the crowd, huddling beneath umbrellas, appreciated it. On Saturday the Italians got the pro gramme changed so that they came after the Fury turn instead of before. Per haps they regretted it on Sunday. With the clouds coming down the programme was abandoned at the end of, the Fury turn. Otherwise Sunday went as per the day before. Hanna Reisch glided and Willi Stor aerobatted with his compatriot Graf von Hagenburg. The latter won the aerobatic competition fairly comfortably from two Swiss contestants, Kuhn and Horning. The Czech squadron led by Lt. Novak in their seven Avias (350 h.p. Avia RK17 motors) gave a fine, polished display of non-sensational formating, including several new shapes in which pilots cricked their necks to fly imme diately beneath one another. They won the single-seat category with 243 points over Remondino's Italians with 233. The French and three Swiss squadrons came next. Briefly . . . The B.F.W. fighter and the Henschel, which took first and second places in the climbing and diving competition, were fitted with V.D.M. constant-speed airscrews. These, as a matter of interest, are being built in this country by Constant Speed Air screws, Ltd., of Warwick. Either electrical or hydraulic operation can be specified and the " works " are behind the engine, the action being transmitted to the actual operat ing mechanism at the boss by means of a flexible drive.. AND AT HOME IN ENGLAND : The Maharajah of Nawanagar, accompanied by the Maharanee, visited the R.A.F. Station at Abingdon. Seen in front of a Bristol Blenheim are (left to right) : Wing Comdr. C. E. W. Lockyer, Mrs. Guilfoyle, Air Comdre. Sidney Smith, O.B.E. (A.O.C. No. 1 Bomber Group, who received the visitors), the Maharajah, Mrs. Sidney Smith, P/O. Hull the Maharanee, Mr. W. Rootes, P/O. Kemp, Mrs. Edelsten, Group Capt. Guilfoyle, O.B.E., M.C., Mrs. Walmsley, Miss Smith, and Wing c dr- H. S. P. Walmsley, O.B.E., M.C., D.F.C. The visitors saw demonstrations by Blenheims and by Hawker Hinds of No. 82 (B.) Squadron. (Flight photograph).
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