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1950
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PLIGHT, 18 May 1950 603 left : The Zaun- koenig tries to emulate a helicop- ter. Below : The Hurel-Dubois was aninterestingstudy in span loading. C apt. J. Laurence Pritchard, retiring secretary of the R.Ae.S. M. Bugerhout bringing in the Fokker S.I2 at the conclusion of his demonstration. with saying that stall turns in line- abreast and bunts in close-vie are sights not to be forgotten. M. Perrier also performed a man- oeuvre which we do not recollect ever having seen before, namely, an outside slow roll, i.e., with the pilot on the outside. Mr. J. O. Mathews flew the Fairey Junior in an astonishing series of tight turns at about 100ft over the crowd, and Ranald Porteous manhandled his Auster with 20 deg of simultaneous bank and yaw with one wheel of its Goodyear castering undercarriage on the ground. The aerobatics for which Mr. L. C. Marmol is now renowned were given in his Lunak L.107 sailplane and earned for him a burst of merited applause. The Hawker Cygnet (Sidney Camm's first effort) proved recalcitrant in starting, but Mr. Hayward—who, on and off, has been swinging its airscrew since 1924—finally prevailed, and Mr. Murphy took off. Maurice Hurel displayed his Hurel-Dubois in a fashion calculated to allay the fears that its fantastically slim wing aroused in beholders, but no one feared for the Fouga Cyclone which, with its Turbomeca Pimene turbojet giving 242 lb of thrust, whistled sweetly about in a most entranc- ing manner. We envied M. Leon Bourrieau his aircraft. It was too windy for the really ancient types to fly, but the 1912 Blackburn monoplane did a short run from the leeward boundary back to its parking place, and then, as the parthian effort M. Charles Dollfus, together with Mrs. Pritchard, Peter Masefield and Charles Brown, went ballooning. After a flight of some 20 miles, the intrepid aeronauts were restored to Mother Earth in a crop-sown field not far from Reading. Left : The Fouga Cy,clone on its way out to the take-off point. Below : M. Marmol on his Lunak sailplane being towed to height. ~ ..
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