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62 FLIGHT. JANUARY 20, 1938. Private Flying FROM the CLUBS and SCHOOLS LONDONF LYING time lor last week was 4S hr. 25 min. and among the new members were Messrs. A. R. West and J. B. Mills. MARSHALL'S Such high winds as were evident on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday were the cause ol thu low flying total, which was 20 hr. 25 rain. C.A.S.C. llie Corp's fourth annual dance will be held on Thursday, Feb- ruary 17, at the First Avenue Restaurant, Holborn, W.C.I. Owing to extremely high winds no flying was possible at Cambridge last week-end. NEWCASTLE The £25 Scholarship Scheme is going ahead rapidly and several new pupils have started instruction. Although the flying weather has been very indifferent a total of 10 hr. 55 min. flying was put in by members. HAMPSHIRE An Impersonation Party is to be held in the clubhouse on Satur- day, January 22, 193S. Flying for the fortnight ended January 14 was logged at 50 hr. 10 min. Mr. E. P. Swallow is a new pupil with " 15 " licence intentions. _ ;._-;• ," .• \ • • .'. • . YORKSHIRE * " The dance in the clubhouse on Saturday, January 8, proved a great success and another one is to be held shortly. January has already produced 28 hours' flying, which was the total ior the whole of January last year. BOMBAY During the month of December a total of 223 hr. 20 min.'s flying included 1 hr. 50 rain's night flying. Mr. D. A. Samant has been concentrating on night cross-country flying from Bhavnagar. Flights were made to Poona, Rajkot, and Bhavnagar. Messrs. C. B. Rodgers and P. D. Byramji obtained their India " B " commercial pilot's licences. The membership of the club now totals 560, and during 1937 a total of 2,670 hr. 55 min. flying was recorded and this exceptionally good total was entirely free from accidents. HANWORTH The annual general meeting of the club took place at the Han- worth Park Hotel on January 12 and a general purposes com- mittee was appointed with Mr. J. Rush as chairman, Mrs. Jill Wyndham, Sir Charles Wrench, Messrs. R. C. Jude, Welsh, Henry, A. H. Swann and J. Brady as members, and a flying committee with Mr. James Rush as chairman and Messrs. J. Brady, R. C. Jude and T. V. Welsh. A club dance will be held at the Hanworth Park Hotel on February IT. A cabaret show and running buffet will be among the attractions, whilst visiting machines will be housed free of charge. A further Aeronca will shortly be available at the school. Several cross-country trips were made, including one to Shoreham and another to Gatwick, and a total of 35 hr. 20 min. was spent in the air. HERTS AND ESSEX One hundred hours fifty-nine minutes were recorded for the fort- night ended January 13, although bad weather stopped flying on two days. A tramps' party is being arranged for Thursday, Feb- ruary 3, to be held in the clubhouse. DONCASTER The bad weather of December has continued into January and has been chiefly responsible for limiting flying time to a little over 5 hours A small but steady flow of members continue to join. The clubhouse has been redecorated throughout and is rather attractive. " ."• NORWICH Whilst compiling the Air Ministry returns for 1937 it appeared that 1,515 hours' ilying had been put in, showing an increase of 50 hours over the previous year. Thirty-one pilots were trained and, of these, thirteen were members of the Public School Aviation Camp. The fleet now consists of four Gipsy I Moths and a Hornet Moth, having been increased by the purchase of a Moth. Further developments were the new tennis court and the gliding section which is run by a special committee under the chairmanship of Mr. A. R. Colman. . SOUTH COAST ; - " J ; A review of the year 1937 by Capt. Davis at the New Year dinner revealed that a large increase in membership was apparent, there now being 320 members, while flying for the year totalled 1,500 hours. An even more interesting programme is being arranged for 1938 and Mr. White and several members have offered to present trophies. A dawn patrol, even bigger and better than the last, is being considered for the Spring, when the South Coast Flying Club intend to eat all the breakfasts themselves. The annual general meeting was held on Saturday and the committee for the ensuing year was elected. Flying activities have been somewhat held up by the bad weather, but a series of lectures, up to th« standard of Ground Engineer's " A " and " C" licences by the chief ground engineer, have been designed so that time might be profitably used. .. • • BROOKLANDS ~ The humbler games of Peggety, draughts and table tennis took the place of flying over a wet and windy week-end. While the rain fell outside, it was possible to go further into the discussion of the handicap series of club competitions and it has been decided that the Ted Jones challenge cup, which was given by the late Mr. Jones for the best, performance by any member in any one year, will be held for the year by the member who aggregates the highest marks—as was mentioned last week. In addition, the Don- caster Trophy, which Brooklands' team won outright a few years ago, is to be used for an inter-club competition between teams from Brooklands, Lympne, Shoreham and Northampton. This will prob- ably be an annual event, and the competition will be held in July. The annual general meeting of the Brooklands Flying Club will take place on Saturday evening, January 22, to be followed by a dinner and dance. Topics of the Day (Continued from page 61.) it in practice work, but the expert user can produce the most amazing results with one hand once he has become accustomed to its operation, and I am looking forward to the chance of using one of them for a few weeks. Although practically all our minor problems can, in fact, be worked out by the intelligent use of a plain proportional calculator, some of us derive special, if misguided, pleasure from the operation of very complicated devices. Though quite why it should be fun to work out accurate E.T.A.'s in perfectly good weather conditions, or to work out the approximate air temperature at operating height, is beyond INDICATOR.me. Perth's Aero Ball '"PHE second annual ball of the Strathtay Aero Club was held J- in Perth last Friday. Something like 200 members and guests turned up—coming from Angus, Perthshire, Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh. A feature of the entertainment was a midnight cabaret, the artists being members of the local pantomime. The Earl of Airlie, a member of the club, was patron of the function. Cheshire Centre SINCE the Liverpool and District Club transferred themajority of its activities to Speke, not a very great deal has been heard of the long-established aerodrome at Hooton on the Cheshire side. This i;; now known as the Merseyside Air Park and it is expected that the landing area, which already provides a prevailing wind run of 1,300 yards and a minimum run of 800 yards in every direction, will shortly be extended to provide minimum runs of 1,000 yards in every direction, thus bringing the area within the maximum require- ments laid down by the Maybury Committee. Apart from Service flying by one of the auxiliary squadrons —No. 610 (County of Chester)—Utility Airways carry out charter and taxi work from their base at Hooton and the Liverpool Club still provides facilities on the Cheshire side of the water. Additionally, quite a number of other companies have depots there and facilities are provided for such sports as indoor tennis, squash and riding. The estate is controlled by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Davison, who also control both the Utility Airways and Altigraph, Ltd., and art both experienced pilots. Cropped Airscrews in England IT appears that Mr. A. J. Walter, the Taylor Cub distributorin this country, has obtained the agency for the Everts single-blade airscrew. Examples for use with low-powered engines are already over here and Mr. Walter expects to be able to import a version suitable for a 1,000 h.p. engine in the near future. The idea behind this single-blade airscrew idea is, of course, one of obtaining maximum efficiency. The inventor found that the air stream was smoothed out practically to the normal flow during one revolution of a blade, whereas a second or third blade was working in disturbed and inefficient air at normal cruising speeds. Apparently the Cub, for instance, has its cruising speed increased by something like ten miles an houi. Needless to say, the single blade is counter-weighted and the only adverse effect on the aeroplane to which it is fitted is in its appearance. This is, to say the least of it, quaint. Recently, by the way, the American Taylor Aircraft Co.'s name was changed to the Piper Aircraft Corporation and a new mode' has been announced as a companion to the familiar "Trainer." This will be known as Cub "Sport." Mr. Walter's address is 37, Lancaster Close, St. Petersburg Place, London, W.i, or Hanworth Air Park.
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