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AUGUST 12, 1937- FLIGHT, 159 THE FOUR WINDS ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL QUARTERS ACHIEVEMENT : An inspiring view of Vought Corsairs over the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco. This structure is claimed to be the world's longest suspension bridge and was opened to traffic a few weeks ago. LEVA-NEVSKI, who in 1935 made the first abortive attempt to fly from Russia to America, may follow up Russia's recent successes and attempt a third flight to California. A landplane version of the big four- engined Hamburger seaplane designed for transatlantic service is to be built. It will have four B.M.W. -132 engines. Each of the Armstrong Whitworth Ensign type four-engined transports will cost ^54,000. The first machine is Hear ing completion at the company's Hamble works. The official test of the first of a batch of sixty-five Hawker Hartebeests being manufactured by the South African Union Defence Force have been success- full v passed at Pretoria. It is rumoured that the Dutch Air Force plans to purchase a number of Fokker T.VI heavy bombers developed from the Pegasus-engined T.Vs now under construction. Southampton Borough Council has just accepted the offer of the Super- marine Aviation Works, made in 1932, to present to the town the Supermarine S.6 built for the 1929 Schneider contest fn which F./O. (now Sqn. Ldr.) R. L. R. Atcherley achieved the fastest lap and set up a world's speed record over 100 km. of 331.75 m.p.h. The Farman 2-230 four-engined land- plane specially built for Air France- Transatlantique's experimental flights between Paris and New York, and one of the principal French entries in the race from Istres to Damascus and back to Paris, is the first of the big French machines entered for the race to be ready. The Amiot described last week may not start. An Approved Type Certificate has been allotted the single-blade variable- pitch airscrew developed by the Everal Propeller Company, of Lancaster, Penn sylvania- Hundreds of orders are said to have been received. Advantages claimed are better fake-off and climb, more miles per gallon, freedom from vibration and a reduction in gyroscopic action, resulting in longer life of air frame and engine. A Soviet parachutist, K. F. Kaitanoff, claims to have jumped at Leningrad from a height of 32,000 feet which, if confirmed would be a world's record. The prototype Barkley-Grow mono plane, which resembles a Lockheed Electra but has a fixed undercarriage and a new form of wing construction, has been sold to Denmark. Its maximum speed with two Wasp Juniors is 225 m.p.h. The new medium-supercharged Bristol Mercury, XI (890 max. at 6,000 ft.) has satisfactorily completed a 200-hours' flight endurance test in a Hart with Bristol constant-speed airscrew. This combination gave a most impressive climb and the take-off usually occupied less than five seconds. Climbs were made to 28,000 ft. Seversky claims to have complete^ tests with the world's fastest two-seater fighter which has been built for export. The machine has aroused great enthu siasm in China and Russia, and substan tial contracts are likely to ensue. The tankage is sufficient for a range of 4,000 miles in overload condition. Boeings have received an order for thirteen more YB-17 heavy bombers to augment the fleet of these machines al ready in service with the U.S. Army Air Corps. Four of the latest Wright Cyclone G engines, giving 1,100 h.p. for take-off, are specified. Except for minor alterations in equipment the machines will be similar to those already delivered. No news has been received of test flights with the still larger Boeing bomber which was designed for r,50o h.p. engines. Twenty-five Years Ago (From " Flight," August 10, I9T2.) We congratulate Mr. Cody upon the result of the arbitration proceedings before the Lords Com missioners of the Treasury where by he has been awarded -£5,000 as compensation in respect of his man-lifting kites which form part of the equipment of the British Army. It is also good hearing to know that Mr. Cody has given an undertaking not to communicate his invention to any foreign Gov ernment."
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