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1959 - 1867.PDF
50 Demonstrated at this year's Hanover Air Show was the Putzer SR.57 Bussard two-seater, constructed by the Technical College of Aachen. Its 95 h.p. Continental engine is buried in the nose and power transmission is via a shaft to the tail propeller Sport and Business THE DAY after the national air races is traditionally a club day,and the most popular rendezvous this year was Sywell, where the Tiger Club held an exercise in voltige for the Esso TigerTrophy and cash prizes. On this occasion, voltige consisted of taking off, climbing straight ahead to 500ft, completing a 180 degclimbing turn to 1,000ft, looping, rolling off the top of a loop, one stall turn and slow roll and a spiral gliding descent to land on amarked spot. All the competitors flew either the Bishop or Arch- bishop Tiger Moth, and marks were awarded for each manoeuvre,for distance from the landing spot, accurate timing and for air- manship. The 11 entries were judged by a panel consisting ofA. Cdre. Chris Paul, Norman Jones and John Blake and the winners were declared to be John Severne, John Ayres andC Nepean Bishop. A TEA PATROL will be held at Elstree Flying Club on Sunday next, August 23, from 3.45 to 4.30 pjn. (assuming v.m.c. weather).The defended zone will be between 1,500 and 2,500ft above aerodrome height (311ft a.m.s.l.). AT A GARDEN PARTY and At Home organized by LancashireAero Club at Barton on August 9, Percy Henry Richmond was killed when the Prentice which he was demonstrating crashed,reportedly during a slow roll near the ground. A FLYING SCHOLARSHIP is being offered by the Air Schoolsgroup of companies to mark their 21st anniversary as a flying training organization. Worth £150, the scholarship is tenableeither at Elstree Flying Club or Derby Air Centre; further details are obtainable from the Elstree Club. FOLLOWING THE RETURN of the R.A.F. to West Mailing(recorded in Flight last week, page 25), a "special rules" zone has been established for flights in the vicinity of the airfield. Detailswere given in a recent Notam (373). The zone extends from 51° 24' 30" N and 00° 26' 40" E in the North to 51° 05' 45" Nand 00° 14' 30" E in the South, and from 51° 14' 30" N and 00° 03' 48" E in the West to 51° 15' 30" N and 00° 36' 35" Ein the East. This is now a controlled airspace up to 2,000ft in its southern sector (including the airfield) and up to 3,000ft inits northern sector, to points 51° 19' 30" N 00° 15' 15" E and 51" 15' 55" N 00" 36' 10" E. Aircraft must inform West MailingA.T.C. ("Mailing Approach," 118.7 mc/s) of their intention to fly through it, keep a continuous watch and comply with instructions.For machines without radio, a corridor is provided through the zone, within half a nautical mile on either side of the Redhill-Tonbridge - Ashford railway (avoiding the town of Tonbridge) and not above 600ft a.g.l. At its western end the corridor fol-lows the Oxted - Edenbridge railway line between the northern boundary of the Gatwick control zone and the point where thatrailway line crosses the Redhill - Tonbridge - Ashford line. Air- craft using the corridor must remain clear of cloud and in sightof the ground. . THE NEW POTEZ 4E 90 h.p. engine, first exhibited at theParis Salon, passed an I.C.A.O. 150 hr type test in June and was installed in a Normande Ambassadeur three-seater which wasflown south to take part in the International Aerial Tour of Sicily. The formula race was won at almost 190 m.p.h. by an AviamilanoNibbio and the Ambassadeur came sixth in the first leg and ninth in the final classification out of more than 100 competitors. Itbeat all other French entries. By the end of June the Potez engine had flown for more than 70 hr without giving any trouble.Ambassadeurs will have 100 h.p. Continental engines from October onwards and Potez 4Es when they become available. Both the Normande Ambassadeur and the four-seat Mousquet-aire have now received their full certificates and a Mousquetaire recently made a remarkable flight. Carrying two people, it wasflown non-stop from Paris to Athens in 10 hr 7 min and thence non-stop to Tel Aviv. The aircraft returned to Orly in one day, stopping only at Brindisi and taking a total of 21 hr 10 min.Petrol for the return journey cost less than 20,000 Frs (£15 8s), . LOCKHEED JETSTAR production models will achieve animproved short field performance compared with the prototypes. Improvements include the addition of thrust reversers and high-lift leading edges to the wings, and the installation of dual-wheel : main and nose landing gear. Powered by four Pratt & WhitneyJT12 turbojets, the production Jetstar will have an increased gross landing weight of 28,000 1b. HERR WOLF HIRTH, the German gliding pioneer, was killedin a glider accident at Teck, near Stuttgart, on July 25. Born in 1900, Hirth learned to glide in 1920 and continued to fly after amotor-cycle accident in 1925 in which he lost a leg. In 1930, while visiting the U.S.A., he introduced the light-circling tech-nique of ihermal soaring, and the following year he helped to design the Grunau Baby glider. While at the Grunau glidingschool, in 1933, he pioneered the technique of soaring in lee waves; he subsequently returned to his home town of Stuttgartand founded a soaring school and glider factory. Since the war he had become a familiar figure at world gliding championshipsand OSTIV congresses. Products of the Hirth glider factory include the LO-100, LO-150, Goevier and Kria. TOP SIX PILOTS in the British Gliding Association's seededlist for the British team in next year's world championships are (in alphabetical order) Anthony Deane-Drummond, AnthonyGoodhart, Nicholas Goodhart, David Ince, Geoffrey Stephenson and John Williamson. These pilots are followed in seeded orderon the list by A. Gough, G. Burton, A. D. Piggott, J. M. Kaye, L. Welch, D. Martlew and Mrs. Ann Burns. SETTING A DETERMINED example, the gliding club atR.A.F. station Briiggen in West Germany has replaced its premises and equipment after everything was destroyed by fire in Augustlast year. Now calling itself (appropriately) the Phoenix Gliding Club, it resumed operations this summer with a Kranich two-seater, two Grunau single-seaters and a Weihe. In 62 flying days 200 hr were logged, 1,763 launches made and nine pupils trainedto solo standard. Six gained C certificates and one a Silver C. A NEW British gliding distance record was set up on June 12by Lt-Cdr. Anthony Goodhart in a Breguet 905 Fauvette. A member of the Aircent Gliding Club at NATO Headquarters,Fontainebleau, Cdr. Goodhart released from a Stampe aero-tow at 2,000ft over Moret-Episy, and achieved a distance of 391 miles -before landing at Pau. The previous distance record was 359 miles by his brother, Cdr. Nicholas Goodhart, from La sham to PortMoak during this year's British national championships. WEATHER AND FLIGHT is the subject of a one-week resi-dential course organized by the University of Birmingham, which will be held from September 19-26 at Preston Montford FieldCentre, near Shrewsbury. Under the direction of Dr. R. S. Scorer of Imperial College, the course will include lectures by J. Findlaterand W. G. Harper of the Meteorological Office, J. L. Stollery of Imperial College, G. L. Stollery of the Royal Photographic Society ~and R. C. Rainey of the Anti-Locust Research Unit. The pro-, gramme includes a visit to the Midland Gliding Club, Long Mynd. RETROSPECT From "Flight" of August 21,1909 Roe has a Slight Mishap: During the last fortnight Mr. A. V. Roe hasbeen out several times in his little aeroplane, and on Monday and Tues- day last he made one or two short flights. Unfortunately a sudden .landing on Tuesday morning threw the aviator through the left-hand' main middle plane, which will entail a few days' work before flyingwill be possible again.
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