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1938
1938 - 1320.PDF
464 FLIGHT. MAY 12, 1938. THE FOUR WINDS ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL QUARTERS A ^A According to I'Intransigeant the threeBristol sleeve-valve engines, Aquila, Per-seus and Hercules, are to be manufac-tured under licence by Alsthom, theFrench Thomson-Houston Company. ANOTHER PUSHER : Developed byTuscar Metals, Inc., of New Phila- delphia, this tailless two-seater cabinpusher is now under test. It is said to do 120 m.p.h. with a 95 h.p. engine. A PAIR of the new Heinkel He. 116transports, with four 240 h.p. in- verted-vee engines, have been delivered to Japan for the Manchurian service A French army observation balloon was struck by lightning recently, and its two occupants were killed when it fell in flames at Bitche, near Strasbourg. Miss Phyllis Dorothea Verdon-Roe, eldest daughter of Sir Alliot Verdon- Roe, is to be married to Fit. Lt. J. H.<1. Sarll at Hamble on August 24. .. A special Koolhoven F.K.49, which looks very much like a large Short Scion, has been supplied to Turkey. It is par- ticularly interesting, because it is in- tended solely for survey work and is powered with two of the new Ranger inverted-vee engines driving v.p. Hamil- tons. Among the honours awards to be made by Bristol University is Mr. A. H. R. Fedden, who will receive the degree of DSc. in Engineering. The international aerobatic champion- ship at Saint Germain was won by Count Otto Hagenburg.' on nis Biickergung- meister. A Czech was second, and Cavalli, the French test pilot, third. The Philippine Army has ordered nine Boeing machines. Six will have Pratt and Whitney engines, three machine guns each, bombing apparatus and wire-r less. The others will be for training. Dick Merrill has been awarded the 1937 Harmon Trophy for the second consecutive year for his Atlantic flight with Jack Lambie last May. President Roosevelt made the presentation at the White House. A ten-foot motor dinghy was flown from Croydon to Brussels last week in one of the Curtiss Condors of Inter- national Air Freight. The freightage was £2 and the insurance is. 3d. The boat had been ordered only the pre- vious day. Mr. Philip Wills, of the London Gliding Club, recently flew from Hestan (aeroplane-launched) to St. Austell, Cornwall, a distance of 206 miles. The British long-distance, gliding record has been broken three times in as many weeks. A new aeroplane factory is being built at Malton Airport, Toronto, by the National Steel Car Corporation. Work will be commenced by mid-summer on a Canadian Government order. Some 300 hands will be employed and large com- mercial and military machines will be constructed. Lockheed Aircraft have put up a specially constructed six-seater transport adapted from the 12a for the U.S. Army Air Corps competition. It has a top speed of, 230 m.p.h. with two P. and W. Wasp Juniors. The use of the machine is for transport of Army personnel or for training in multi-engine operation. Dr. Eckner, accompanied by Dr. Issel, manager of the Zeppelin Co., is now in New York on business connected with the future of transatlantic air ser- vices and the smoothing out of diffi- culties in connection with the export of helium gas. He will be received by President Roosevelt. The U.S Govern- ment has refused to supply the gas on the ground of- its "military import- ance." Twenty'five Years Ago (From " Flight," May 10, 1913.) " The great hydro-aeroplane built by Maurice Jeannson was tested at Triel on the Seine on April 29 and made one or two short flights on subsequent days, Colliex being the pilot. The machine is said to have attained a speed of 62 m.p.h. when carry- ing three passengers, and during one test it carried a useful load of 1,600 lb." TJ^ ImP°rted *or *e use of Col. Vincenzio Coppola, the Air and Military Attache1 to the Italian Embassy in Washington, this Cant monoplane has three no h.p. inverted four-cylinder Fiat engines. It was assembled at the Floyd Bennet Field.
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