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1938
1938 - 1975.PDF
mmmiwmmmnmmnmmmmmmmmm JULY 7, 1938. FLIGHT. Private Flying FROM the CLUBS and SCHOOLS JLONDON T HE flying time for last week was 48 hr. 15 min. Mr. A. K. Thomas completed the tests for his " A " licence and live new meaibers were enrolled. STRATHTAY The total flying time for June was 95 hours. One new member has joined. EDINBURGH High winds and rain have . restricted flying hours, there being 25 hours' dual and 30 hours' solo. Five new members joined the club. BARTON (BEDS) Large crowds were at Barton for the King's Cup air race, which was followed by a dance in the clubhouse. Two associate and three flying members were enrolled. READING High winds and gales prevented flying on two days last week. Mr. Alston completed his " A " licence tests and two cross-country flights were made. YORKSHIRE The total flying time for the week at Yeadon was 83 hr. 20 min. and the total for June was 42.5 hours, a record lor one month's flying. Main- charter trips were undertaken. BORDER The forced landing competition was won by Mr. W. Roddick; Messrs. A. Scott and R. Ellis were the runners-up in that order.' Very little flying was possible last week owing to the bad weather CINQUE PORTS On his way back from the air display at Gatwick Herr Paul Forster visited the club and gave a display of aerobatics. Six members flew up to Hatfield to see the King's Cup Air Race. One new member joined. BRISTOL AND WESSEX During June the flying totalled 89 hr. 5 min. Mr. S. V. Massey-Crosse obtained his " A " licence and Mr. A G. Taylor made his first solo. On August 5 the Club is taking delivery of a Wick 0 monoplane. The Public Schools Camp FOR the fifth year in succession the Public Schools Aviation Camp will be organised at Mousehold Aerodrome, Norwich. The camp starts on August 2 and will, as before, be in charge of Dr. H. Birchall, of Taunton School; the Norfolk and Nor wich Club will provide the instructors and machines. The Camp is open to public schoolboys over the age of iG, and flying training up to the "A" licence staridard will be provided at an inclusive cost of about ^30. During the past four years more than sixty pilots have been turned out by the Camp. At Luton /""^ONTRARY to the arrangements at one or two more recent ^-/ official airport openings, private owners will be specially welcomed at Luton when the municipal airport there is officially opened by Sii Kingsley Wood at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday, July 16. There will be an arrival competition between 11.30 a.m. and noon, with cash prizes for the pilots of three machines. The Secretary of State for Air, with the Rt. Hon. Leslie Burgin, Luton's M.P. and Minister of Transport, will fly up from Hendon in the Air Council's D.H. 86 B and the Air Min istry is sending over more than thirty Service machines for the display. Imperial Airways hope to send one of the first Ensigns, as well as a Short Empire boat and the Mayo com posite which, if it appears, will proceed to become two separate entities while flying over the aerodrome; and the Brooklands Club is bringing a formation of seven Tiger Moths. In order to prevent the possibility of interruption and con fusion, no machine^ will be allowed to lea\e the aerodrome before 5.50 p.m. and none may arrive between 2 p.m. and 6 pm. Private owners who propose to attend the display are asked to notify Mr W. Courtenay, who is organising the affair, either at his office in London or at the Luton Town Hall. Incidentally, in our issue of June 16 we managed to suggest that Mr. H. T, Rushton, who is looking after Luton's Air port, was previously in charge at Speke. Actually, of course, Capt. H. J. Andrews has been the manager of Liverpool Air port since this was opened in 1932, and we should have made it clear that Mr. Rushton was there as control officer—a position which he held for three and a half years before coming over to Luton. SOUTHEND Tlie week-end living was exceptionally good, and that for the month ol June was a record in the history of the Club. Mr. i-redenck Cockram qualified for his "A" licence and two new members have joined. BROOKLANDS Seven machines were visiting the Glasgow Exhibition last week end and expected to return on Tuesday. Madam Cyrynska and Messrs. Jeffreys and Tose made their first solo nights. Despite bad weather Army Co-operation was carried out to schedule on Tuesday of last week. NORFOLK AND NORWICH There were 160 guests at the garden party held kist Thursday. Baron and Baroness Sarigny and Messrs. P. Baylv and P. King Hew to the air display at Gatwick. The activities of the gliding section have much increased, for last week those being mainly con fined to the Kestrel sailplane. HERTS AND ESSEX Gales and heavy rain prevented flying on three days of the four teen previous to June 30. The total flying time, was 365 hr. 17 min. during the month. There were nine entrants in the blind flying com petition on June 26, the results for which were: 1st, Mr. R. C Sankey; 2nd, Mr. Archer Edwards; and 3rd; Mr. L. B. R. Pyle. Two members completed their "A" licence tests. HANWORTH The flying total for the week ending June 25 was S3 hr. 35 min. Messrs. S. Laurence and H. Behm completed their " A " licence tests, and Miss Ida van Zanten her first solo. The total time for last week was 85 hr. 45 min. Mrs. M. Diamant completed her " A " tests and Mr. le Chaminant carried out his first solo. Eleven new members joined during the fortnight. HULL The Hull Aero Club lias done more flying than last year, and at that time it had a fifty-hour Army Co-operation contract, so this is encouraging. The response to the special scheme for the Volunteer Reserve has been good and life at the aerodrome has consequently been considerably enlivened. The Moth is out of action at the moment, but the Swallow is carrying on the work. During June there was also a record number of new members. All the amenities of the clubhouse formerly available are now restored. Hours and Hours IT is customary during the summer months for club instruc tors and ground engineers to put in anything up to twelve hours' work every day in fine weather, and Brook lands has been no exception to the rule! In future, and in order to relieve the pressure, the Brooklands Club has decided that the normal hours for flying shall terminate at 7.30 p.m. Special arrangements can, of course, be made to suit members for whom the late evening is the only possible time for instruc tion. The Club day begins at 9 a.m., whereas at the majority of clubs the kick-oft is 10 a.m., so that an hour is saved here. Up-wind Soaring B RITISH sailplane pilots have not yet approached the record of 156 miles for an out-and-return flight set up on May 15 by Fraulein Hanna Reitsch in Germany, but they are putting in some good practice at up-wind soaring, which is obviously more than half the battle. On Sunday, June 12, in a north west wind blowing (according to Air Ministry Reports) at 6 m.p.h. on the ground and 16 m.p.h. at 3,000ft., Mr. J. S. Fox had himself launched by aeroplane-tow from Heston with the intention of flying his Rhonadler sailplane 60 miles in a direction west by south, so as to call on the Cambridge Univer sity Gliding Club's vacation camp at Pewsey, Wilts. After a very zig-zag course via Basingstoke and Newbury, followed by a climb inside a cloud from 4,000 to 6,000ft., Mr. Fox just made Pewsey, albeit he landed south of the town instead of north. Bu: the Cambridge Club's towing aeroplane soon put that right. Two days before this Mr. Peter Davis, who has a share in the Rhonadler, flew it no miles from Heston to Southwold, on the Suffolk coast. This is the fourth longest sailplane flight so far made in England. A flight of 65 miles in a Kirby Kite by Mr. J. E. Simpson, on June 5, from the Cambridge Gliding Club to pay a call on the gliding section of the Norfolk and Norwich Aero Club, is the second club-to-club soaring flight to be made. The first was from Newcastle to the Yorkshire Gliding Club, 86 miles, last April. A prize of £50, offered by Mr. C. Espin Hardwick, for the first sailplane flight from the London Gliding Club, at Dunstable, to the Midland Gliding Club, at Church Stretton, 108 miles, is still waiting to be won.
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