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1957 - 1088.PDF
178 One of the Paul Aubert Super Cigales of the Air France Aero Club, seen at Le Bourget. The club also has Jurca Tempetes on order. THE first two midget-aircraft racemeetings of the season in the U.S.A.are to be held on August 10-11 at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and on August 31-September 1 at Fort Wayne, Indiana. The Professional Race Pilots' Associationreports that further meetings are expected to be organized this year, and that the U.S.National Air Races should be resumed in 1959. Over 100,000 people attended thethree regional air-race meetings last year, when every national speed record for raceaircraft in the 190-cubic-inch class was broken. .. • ANNUAL general meeting of the Aus-**• tralian Women Pilots' Association will be held during the weekend of October4-6, following the finish of the 1957 Women's Air Reliability Trial at ParaneldAerodrome, South Australia. The week- end events will include a handicap flyingcompetition using the Tiger Moths of the Royal Aero Club of South Australia. "C LSTREE Flying Club have introduced new maintenance faci--*—' lities at their home aerodrome. Since the club began opera- tions five years ago, routine servicing has been carried out undercontract by Light Plane Maintenance Services (operated by Mr. E. E. Chick) and major work has been undertaken at the mainbase of Derby Aviation (operators of the club) at Derby. A separate engineering section, under chief engineer C. E. Goodall,has now been established at Elstree; it is thus hoped to improve utilization and to save the time, trouble and expense of frequentferry flights to and from Derby. First solos have recently been achieved by three pupils trained ab initio on the Elstree Chipmunk—R. Amos, D. Langley and P. Laffy. A TOTAL of 67 aircraft from 12 European countries attended•**• the third International Air Rally of the Swiss Watch at Bienne last month. Seventeen of the machines were from thiscountry. Winner of the rally was veteran pilot Wolf Hirth of Germany with 1,094 pts, with M. Meers of Belgium secondand M. Zurkinden of Switzerland third. Of die British pilots, A. Linnell was ninth and G. Linell tenth. The former was theonly entrant to be awarded 1,000 pts for arriving exactly on E.T.A. FLIGHT, 2 August 1057 CLUB AND GLIDING NEWS The rally was organized by the Bienne Flying Club, under thepatronage of the town council of Bienne, l'Association Cantonak Bernoise des Fabricants d'Horlogerie and the Swiss Aero Club. AMONG the many club events foUowing the Coventry air races**• was Wolverhampton Aero Club's At Home on July 7. This took the form of a luncheon invitation and an arrival competitionwhich was won by Mr. G. H. Davies flying the Sparrowjet. AT last month's first general meeting of the Kent Gliding Club,-**• the following committee was elected for the coming year: Ian Abel, chairman; Eric Clegg, treasurer; Mrs. Joy Gardiner,secretary; Ken O'Riley, C.F.I.; Peter Crabtree, assistant C.F.L; Margaret Crabtree, social secretary; Edward Day; Roy Hubble;Dennis Monckton; and Colin Moore. B AMONG a number of notable gliding flights from Lasham in-**• recent weeks were two "Gold C" heights—by John NeUan on July 14 in a Slingsby T.42B Eagle (12,950ft) and H. A. PitrRoche on July 21 in a Sky (12,000ft). Sicilian scenes at the island's recent Ninth International Aerial Tour, in which 89 aircraft participated: (clockwise from upper left) two attractions from France, one of which is a Jodel-Wassmer D.120; an Italian Falco F.8L, four of which took part; pilot H. Burgerhout and navigator H. Kruthoffer of Holland, who came third in their Swiss Bonanza; and two Italian pilots, seen getting their feet up and heads down in an Alaparma Baldo 75, a twin-boomed machine powered by a 75 h.p. Praga engine driving a pusher propeller. As reported in "Flight" of July 5, the Aerial Tour was won by Robert Goemans of Belgium in a Piper Apache; runner-up was Comptess Carina Negrone in a Piaggio P-136
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