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1958
1958 - 0334.PDF
350 FLIGHT Aerotows for the Kent Gliding Club at Detling have recently been provided by the Tiger Club. Here pictured on a recent visit is Tiger G-AOXS. AMBITIOUS plans are being made**- by Exeter Aero Club for a flying display at Exeter Airport on June 28.It is hoped that the R.A.F. and Fleet Air Arm will participate; the U.S.A.F.has promised to take part; provisional acceptances have been received from thePatrouille d'Etampes and the Zlin- mounted Chechoslovakian aerobaticteam; the Tiger Club is putting on a show; the parachute section of PlymouthAero Club are to do single and forma- tion drops; and the Exeter Club's ownstaff will be giving pleasure flights dur- ing the day in Gemini, Messengers and Auster aircraft. Therewill be a dance that evening at the club-house. A NEW French gain-of-height gliding record was set up by a-ri- woman pilot, Mile. M. Dupuy de Mery, at the St. Auban national centre on February 22. Flying a Breguet 901, she reachedan absolute altitude of 29,350ft with a gain of 26,750ft. On the same day at the centre 18 flights were made above 23,000ft. Theprevious gain-of-height record for single-seaters—25,400ft—was set up by Mme. Gaudry in 1951. result of the recent increase in the cost of poweredlight-aircraft flying in Australia has been an increasing interest in gliding and soaring. One recently formed club, the NewEngland Soaring Club, is an offshoot of the Armidale Aero Club, New South Wales, and shares the same hangar and clubrooms.At present the soaring club operates a Schneider ES-52 Kooka- burra, a staggered two-seater which is used both for training and(carrying ballast) for solo cross-countries. The club intends to purchase a second machine, a single-seater, later this year. Most launches are by auto-tow (1937 Buick and 1,500ft ofdrogue cable); aero-tows have often proved difficult on hot, still days, with the aerodrome at 3,500ft above sea-level. A new glidingclub at Inverell has also been formed and, prior to delivery of their first ES-52, members of this club have been making the225-mile trip to fly at Armidale at week-ends. An even longer trip was made last month by four membersof the New England club, who journeyed 700 miles in the course of a visit to the Dubbo club. A correspondent reports: "Condi-tions at Dubbo are fantastic, to say the least. Thousands upon thousands of acres of ploughed wheat paddocks which, under thehot sun, give rise to quantities of thermals which send the green ball of the variometer out of sight. Upon occasions it is verydifficult to find enough sink to get the glider down. Many Sydney Air Marshal Sir Theodore N. Mc- Evoy receives his gliding "C" from Col. M. W. J. M. Broekmijer (right), president of the Aircent Gliding Club at Fontainebleau. The occasion was the first annual dinner of this all- ranks NATO club. CLUB AND GLIDING NEWS clubs spend Christmas at Narromine, 25 miles from Dubbo, takingadvantage of the conditions to obtain as many Silver Cs as possible." The 40 members of the New England club have been flyingintensively during the last three months and have been assisted on several occasions by Fred Frisk, an experienced sailplane pilotfrom Malaya. A VARIETY of subjects of technical and general interest is to **• be covered in the papers presented at the seventh OSTIV Congress at Leszno, Poland, from June 12 to June 20. Technical papers will include discussions of profile drag, boundary layer control and new wing sections; structural methods in metal and plastics; airworthiness requirements in various countries; new developments in sailplane instruments; launching equipment; training methods; muscle-powered flight; bird flight; air medi- cine; speed flying and dynamic soaring. In addition, there will be descriptions by designers of sailplanes entered in the new standard class of the world charnpionships, and papers on new designs. In the meteorological sessions the following topics are antici- pated : vertical motions in the stratosphere; structure and theory of thermal convection; and wave motions of the atmosphere. There will also be discussions of squall lines and jet streams, and one or two joint discussion sessions with experienced glider pilots. The congress is open to all interested in the science ofsoaring flight, and those wishing to present papers should apply to Mr. K. G. Wilkinson, Clonard Way, Hatch End, Middlesex(aerodynamics, design and construction); Mr. Alan Yates, Bath Technical College, Bath, Somerset (general technical); Mr. FrankIrving, Imperial College, London, S.W.7 (airworthiness); Mr. B. V. Shenstone, B.E.A. Engineering Base, London Airport (muscle-powered flight); or Dr. Joachim Kuettner, 985 Metropolitan Avenue, Hyde Park, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (meteorology). Shortsummaries of the proposed papers should be received before May 1. TWO courses of aviation interest are being run this year bythe University of Birmingham Department of Extra-Mural Studies at the Field Studies Centre, Preston Montford, near Shrewsbury. One is a week-end course (July 4-6), in collaboration with the Shropshire Flying Club, on Archaology from the Air. It deals with aerial observation and photography of ancient sites, and includes lectures and demonstrations on the origin of crop marks and on flying and photographic techniques. The second is a week's course (September 20-27) on Weather and Flight. Organized in collaboration with the Field Studies Council, it is designed for airmen, meteorologists, physicists and mathemati- cians interested in the practical aspects of aeronautics. A leaflet giving details of both courses is available from the Department of Extra-Mural Studies, The University, Edmund Street, Birm- ingham, 3. AVON ON CELLULOID recently had an opportunity of seeing the film The AvonTurbo Jet Engine, made by R.H.R. Productions, Ltd., in association with the Film Producers Guild for the Rolls-Royceaero-engine school in Derby. Originally produced in 1954, it was security-classified until the beginning of this year. It gives a lucidexposition of the principles of jet propulsion, of the major com- ponents and functions of a turbojet, and finally of the Rolls-RoyceAvon itself (100-series only) dealing with the mechanical design, systems, manufacture and operation of the unit. The film takesapproximately 20 minutes to run and is available in 35 and 16 mm sizes from the Sound Services Library, 269 Kingston Road,Wimbledon, London, S.W.19. COLLECTORS' PRIZES AIRCRAFT photographs are nowadays, it seems, as big a prizek for collectors as cigarette-cards once were; at least such is the change of social habit observed by the Real Photograph Co., Ltd.,which has had nearly forty years' experience of supplying the public with ship, railway and aeroplane photographs. Thecompany—which has its head office at Victoria House, Southport, and branches at Cooper's Buildings, Liverpool, and WestcliffeArcade, Ramsgate—is particularly proud of its photographs of First World War types of aircraft (List 26W: Warplanes of the1914-18 War), which is said to be the most comprehensive pub- lished in any country; but its 5,000-odd titles in stock includeaircraft of many vintages, both British and American.
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