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834 FLIGHT, 15 June . •'51 Sport and Business EVERY PRIVATE AND BUSINESS AIRCRAFT OWNER inBritain has been invited to attend the annual pilots' rally at Elstree Aerodrome on Sunday next, June 18. The London School ofFlying, operator of Elstree Flying Club and Elstree Air Centre, reports that the main purpose will be for people interested in lightaviation to meet, talk shop and mix among plenty of aeroplanes. Several manufacturers will be represented, and there will be a shortflying display beginning at 3 p.m. The meeting is not open to the general public this year—except to purchasers of pleasure-flighttickets at 15s. Elstree's breakfast patrol on Sunday, May 28, was successful, with only two aircraft—Magister G-APAS from Biggin Hill and Turbulent G-APTZ from Redhill—penetrating the local defences. A pint tankard for a sealed landing time went to James Baring, pilot of a Turbulent. SECOND LIGHT AIRCRAFT to be produced by Malmo Flyg-industri is the MFI-10 Vipan (Lapwing), a high-wing four-seater designed by Ernst Wohlberg, a former Focke-Wulf designer andtest pilot. Design features include aluminium-alloy sandwich construction for fuselage, wings and control surfaces, and a fixedlanding gear of glass-fibre reinforced plastics. The aircraft is reported to have been developed in close collaboration with theSwedish military authorities and with Saab. It is primarily intended for reconnaissance, aerial photography, ambulance work, lighttransport, towing and flight training, and is also said to be suitable for use as a general-purpose aircraft in industry and for the trans-port of work crews to remote locations. Maximum speed of the Vipan is quoted as 150 m.p.h. The prototype machine was publiclyshown for the first time recently. LANCASHIRE AERO CLUB have appointed Charles Rollo aschief flying instructor, and are to operate two Piper Colts for train- ing, following the success of the Tri-Pacer which they already have.The flying and social sides of the club's operations are to be separated. CHRISTCHURCH AERO CLUB is now operating for instru-ment-rating training and practice and advanced multi-engine training the fleet of Airspeed Oxford aircraft previously belongingto the College of Air Training. Flying rate for the type is £16 per hour, with special contract rates for 20 or more hours. INTERNATIONAL RALLY of the Popular Flying Associationwill be held this year at the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield, during September 8-10. PFA rally executive Neil Harrison reports:"Believing this event to be the only truly international rally for sporting pilots on the British calendar, special efforts are beingmade to attract Continental visitors, and in particular those flying Utility version of the Fletcher FU-24 is designed for general "workh: duties with good STOL performance. It has a gross weight of 3,5 can carry six persons, and is powered by a 260 h.p. Continental ei, with fuel injection. The European distributors, Over-Seas Equipr Co, 48 Albemarle Street, London Wl, are hoping to appoint a 6r.-. agent soon and to demonstrate the type at the international light-air^ exhibition at Luton during August 29-September 2 the many interesting one-off designs." Flying and technical c?-,n-petitions will be included in the programme, and further devils are obtainable from the Association at Londonderry House, iyPark Lane, London Wl. SOUTH AFRICA'S first President, S. A. Swart, is to donate a -upto the Aero Club of South Africa to replace the Governor-GeneriS's Cup, the last race for which was held on May 26-27 prior to SouthAfrica becoming a republic. The Governor-General's Cup was presented by Sir Patrick Duncan in 1937. The race was to have beenan annual event, but has in fact been held on only seven occasions —in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1954, 1957, 1959 and 1961. This year's racewas won by a Pretoria pilot, A. P. Nieman, flying a Fairchild 24. WORK HAS BEGUN on the first production model of the FBA-2A utility aircraft designed by Found Bros Aviation of Malton, Ontario. The prototype of the STOL machine has undergone tests in floatplane form in Toronto Harbour, and is now reverting to wheels for continued flight testing. The company reports that several orders have been received for the aircraft, although Department of Transport certification of the type is not expected until late autumn. THE PLANNED PRODUCTION RATE of the Morane-SaulnierRallye is to be doubled from 30 to 60 aircraft per month. The rate of 30 per month should be reached in July, and 60 per month byMarch 1962. First flights of the third prototype, the 145 h.p. MS.885, began during April and this machine is being shippedas a demonstrator to the USA. The United Kingdom distri- butors for the type, London Aeroplane Club, Panshanger, expectto receive their first Rallye late this month. This will be a 100 h.p. MS.880 Rallye-Club which will sell in this country at £2,450. Mr Rex Smith (left), a director of Oxford Aviation Co Ltd, takes delivery of the company's new 1961 Piper Apache G from veteran ferry pilot Max Conrad. This was Conrad's 81st transatlantic crossing in a light aircraft. The Apache is joining Oxford's fleet for executive travel work ORGANIZED BY the Derbyshire and Lancashire Gliding Club, the Northern Gliding Contest will take place at the club's Camphill, Great Hucklow site, beginning on July 30 and continuing until August Bank Holiday Monday, August 7. D.H. DOVE G-AOFI, operated by the Pressed Steel Company,has recently been equipped with a comprehensive radio installation by A. J. Whittemore (Aeradio) Ltd. of Biggin Hill. The equipmentcomprises a Collins transmitter type 17L7A, receiver type 51X2B, VHF No 2 transmitter-receiver 618F-1, VOR receiver 51X3 withindicator 331H, and Marconi ADF type AD7092D. The removal of the radio equipment previously installed resulted in a weightsaving of 2501b and the aircraft payload was increased to 1.0 Hb. The brand new Scintex ML. 145 Rubis, which made its first flight o:: the Paris Salon began and appeared at Le Bourget with less than uute hours' flight time. Claimed to be the fastest French four-seat execu- tive aircraft, it has a 180 h.p. Lycoming engine, sliding canopy, re 'ac- table mainwheels and rearward-extending flaps
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