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Sport and Business HPHIS year's National Air Races, to be held at Coventry Airport••• on July 9, 10 and 11, will comprise three championship-class contests and the King's Cup Race. The three class races will befor the Kemsley Trophy, the Osram Cup and the de Havilland Trophy, and each will be flown in three separate rounds, each ofthree or four 11-mile laps. In addition to these trophies, the Air League Challenge Cup, Norton Griffiths Challenge Trophy andGrosvenor Challenge Cup will be awarded for the highest average speed in the three races. The first seven British pilots and aircraft in each of thechampionship class races will be eligible for the King's Cup Race, which consists of four laps of an 18-mile course; the pilot makingthe best speed over this course will be awarded the S.B.A.C Cup. The other main event at Baginton will be the competition for theBritish Lockheed International Aerobatic Trophy. The closing date for entries (forms obtainable from the Royal Aero Club) isJune 8. A BREAKFAST PATROL at Biggin Hill on Sunday, April 12,will be the first flying function to be organized by Surrey and Kent Flying Club since their move from Croydon. Arrival time atBiggin should be between 9 a.m. and 9.30, and the defenders will be patrolling between one and three miles from the airfield,from 500 to 1,000ft above aerodrome height (585ft). PAUL TISSANDIER DIPLOMAS were awarded recently bythe Federation Aeronautique Internationale to the following four men for their various contributions to sporting flying in thiscountry. Cdr. Alan Goodfellow, legal advisor to the Royal Aero Club and a trustee of the Kemsley Flying Trust, for his service toBritish and international aviation; Maurice O. Imray, aviation secretary of the Royal Aero Club, a founder-member of theUltra-light Aircraft Association and secretary of the Popular Flying Association from 1951 until last year, for his workfor the ultra-light aircraft movement; Basil A. G. Meads, secre- tary to the Kemsley Flying Trust and chairman of the Derbyshireand Lancashire Gliding Club, for his work for private aviation; and Andrew J. Thorburn, who has been actively associated withgliding in Scotland for over 23 years. A NEWCOMER to the range of U.S. light twins, the MooneyMark 22, is progressing steadily through its development pro- gramme and should be available for sale next year. The prototype Navigational aid for light-air- craft pilots: a ground identi- fication sign being painted at Wrotham Hill, Kent, as part of an Automobile Association plan to provide national coverage in this manner The cockpit of the Rollason Turbulent built tor A. Cdre. G. J. C. Paul, secretary- general of the Air League, features a floor-mounted compass, and an artificial horizon among the panel instruments 498 FLIGHT 10 April 1959 The annual general meeting of the Royal Aero Club, held on March 25, was followed by the presentation of club awards. These included the club's Silver Medal to Mrs. Ann Welch (left) and a portrait to Col. R. L. Preston (far left), who relinquishes his post of secretary-general of the club on April 30. Lord Brabazo , who made these presentations, himself re- ceived the club's Gold Medal has flown, and static and development tests should be completedin the early part of 1960, by which time a second prototype will be flying. The prototype Mark 22 airframe is basically that of aMark 20A with a new nose and large dorsal fin, and this machine is powered by two 150 h.p. Lycomings. Subsequent aircraft willhave 180 h.p. Lycomings and are expected to cruise at over 210 m.p.h. at a gross weight of 3,250 lb. AN EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS of aeroplanes and sailplanes taken by Charles E. Brown will be held at the Kronfeld Club from April 10 to 17 (excluding April 11 and 12). Admission will cost Is; the exhibition will be open from 6 to 10 p.m. daily. AN AIR DAY is to be held at Merryneld aerodrome, betweenYeovil and Taunton, on Saturday, June 13. Donations to charity, and in particular the Round Table charity of polio research, willbe made from the proceeds of ticket and programme sales. Participating aircraft will include vintage machines from theShuttlcwonh collection. THE USE OF LIGHT AIRCRAFT for topdressing operationsin New Zealand, it is estimated, may be cut by some 50 per cent within the next twelve months. The reason given is the heavyincidence of taxation in the Dominion, which is causing the primary producers to cut the expense of aerial fertilizing of hill-country pastureland. AMONG THE SAILPLANES to be flown by R.A.F. pilots inthis year's national gliding championships at Lasham (Flight, March 27) are the Olympia 419X and Olympia 401 produced byElliotts of Newbury. The "X" designation refers to the short- nosed version of the 419, and the 401 is basically the same modelas the first Series 4 Olympia, which was flown by Geoffrey Stephenson in the world championships of 1954 at Gamphill. Theparticular machine to be entered this year was made up from a set of 415 wings, for which a new Olympia 2 type of fuselage(modified appropriately around the wing roots) was built. This aircraft is owned by Elliotts and is being loaned to theR.A.F.G.S.A. for the championships: the decision whether to put the type into production will depend on the market demand. A NEW VERSION of the 15-metre Skylark 2 sailplane, knownas the Skylark 2B, has been introduced by Slingsby Sailplanes Ltd. The new machine incorporates a revised canopy with improvedvisibility, adjustable seat-back and rudder pedals, redesigned wing-spars and improved control systems. FIRST LOCKHEED JETSTAR PROTOTYPE to be fitted with four Pratt and Whitney JT-12 turbojets in place of two Bristol Orpheus should fly in December this year. Delivery of the first four-engined executive Jetstar, to Continental Can Co., is scheduled for January 1961. PERFORMANCE DATA for the Auster Workmaster, as pub- lished in a recent issue of Auster News and quoted in Flight of March 27, included an incorrect figure for initial rate of climb (flaps up). The company states that this should be 630 ft/min and not 360 ft/min.
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