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1949
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JUNE 30TH, 1949 FLIGHT 757 (Top left) Piper Patrols built by A. P. Jacobs—5ft span, 27 oz 2 c.c. diesel. (Top right) Mr. Webb's jet-rotor helicopter. (Bottom left) P. Donavour-Hickie's D. H. Hornet. (Bottom right) H. J. Towner's Seagull; it awaits its first coat of dope. side hours later. Many power models, too, departed on cross-country flights, but the local standard of honesty seems high, for news of distant landings was coming in constantly andbroadcast for the reassurance of anxious owners. The sailplane which won the Flight Cup was airborne for 39 min 42 sec. The more orthodox rubber-driven machines were necessarilyless spectacular to watch than were the internal-combustion models, but the standard of performance was high, particu-larly in the Queen's Cup competition, the rules of which are designed to develop the larger type of rubber-driven machine,with good aerodynamic design and a structure strong enough to resist the considerable tension of the rubber, and landingshocks also. The ultimate winner of the Cup, R. H. Warring, achieved a three-flight aggregate duration of 10 min 31.5 sec. During the course of the day, periodical loud hissing noisesmarked the passage of models driven by the increasingly popu- lar Jetex units, which are small rocket-motors fuelled witha slow-burning solid charge developed by I.C.I. Two such units, incidentally, provided rotor-tip propulsion for an admir-able helicopter built by a Mr. Webb—which, if nothing else, proves how well aeromodellers keep abreast of the latest full-scale developments. One other jet aircraft, by the way, was a most formidable looking control-line racer powered with atrue pulse-jet liquid-fuel unit. Apart from the presence of the C.A.S., the occasion waswell supported by the Royal Air Force, a party of fifty Halton apprentices under S/L. B. Crane, A.F.M., assisting in marshall-ing, message and other duties, while the prizes other than the PRINCIPAL RESULTS The Queen's Cup.—-(t) K. H. Warring, 631.5 sec aggregate; (2)R. Jessop, 475-4; (3) E. T. Watts, 475.2. "Flight" Cup (gliders).—W. J. Balaam, 3<5 min 42.2 sec.Faire.y Cup (duration, rubber-driven models).—E. D. Gordon, 17 inin 20.2 sec. Coronation Cup (power-driven models).—C. W. Alien. Concours d'Elegance POWER.—K. Chambers. GENERAL, FLYING.—J. K. Brady (sailplane). FLYING SCALE MODELS.—H. I. Towner (SeagulH). DITTO, CONTROL-LINE.—P. Donovour-Hickie (Hornet). SOLID SCALE MODELS.—N. Young (Messcrschmitt 210). HELICOHERS.—Mr, Webb. B. 9 Queen's Cup were presented by Mrs. North-Carter, wife ofA. Cdre. North-Carter, C.B., Halton's Commanding Officer. Short and snappy—which, as Flight said recently in a lead-ing article, is what flying demonstrations should be—the show put on by Hawker pilots provided a spectacular finish to themain programme. Neville Duke in his own Tomtit, and Doc Morrell in a Tiger Moth, fought a mock battle in the 1914-18tradition, a distinctly "dicey" affair of stalled turns and phenomenal avoidances; Wimpey Wade did some spectacularbeat-ups in a Sea Fury, leaving in his wake a terrific eddy which came roaring and rustling earthward, like a miniature tornado,when the aircraft was a mile distant; and Arthur Harrison made a nicely judged parachute descent from the Tiger. THE INDUSTRY HONOURS C. M. POULSENA T a farewell luncheon given by the management committeeof the Society of British Aircraft Constructors at the Cate Royal, London, on June 22nd. to Mr. C. M. Poulsen,on his retirement from the editorship of Flight, he was officially informed that, in recognition of his services to the Britishaircraft industry during his connection with Flight, it had been decided to present him with a sailing vessel and an out-board motor. Mr. Robert Blackburn, as one of the oldest friends of Mr.Poulsen, referred to the sane and balanced way in which the products of the British aircraft industry had always beenpresented in the pages of Flight. In reply, Mr. Poulsen said that he had always attempted to be fair and impartial, andrecalled that on one occasion the representatives of two rival firms had each claimed that too much publicity was given tothe products of the other firm—from this he concluded that he had managed to hold the scales fairly evenly. Those present were: C. V. Allen; R. Blackburn (Blackburnand General Aircraft); E. C. Bowyer (Director, S.B.AC.); H. Burroughs (Gloster); Sir Arthur Gouge (Saunders-Roe);Sir Frederick Handley Page, C.B.E ; M. H. Harris; R T Hughes (Sec, S.B.A.C.); Sir Hew Kilner, M.C. (Vickers-Arrnstrongs); J- D. North (Boulton Paul); J, J. Parkes (Alvis); F. E. N. St. Barbe (de Hav4!land); J. Smith, C.B.E. (Super-marine) ; Sir Frank Spriggs, K.B.E. (Hawker Siddeley); and W. R. Verdon-Smitb (Bristol).
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