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THE CONQUEST OF THE AIR.

MONTHLY RECORD OF PROGRESS, (special to The Hongkong Telegraph.)

Successful

Some

Aeroplanes.

Light number of new "stunts" which

have not been seen in public. bér: foro, such as upward spins and On August 1st, 2nd and 3rd, the

terrific upside-down sideslips. Royal Aero Club held Race Mr. Courtney also climbed the Meating at Lympe in which no machine steeply until it was less than twenty-five machines hanging vertically on the competed There were all sorts airacrew. Finally, he provided a of aeroplanes thoro, ranging from thrill of such, a nature as has the Bristol Bloodhound with 400 never previously been soon, at horse power Bristol Jupiter en any rate in England. At the gine to the de Havilland 53 with South end of the aerodrome there 6 horse power Blackburno en-is a bolt of trees and behind this gine. Some racos were open to the cliff goes shoer down for 400 all types of machines and some feet to the level of Dungeness. were only for light acroplanes. Mr. Courtney went up to 1,000 A noteworthy fact was, the way feet and then with the aid of his machines built by clubs form at altitudo control made the engino R.A.F stations scored successes, pop and bang until it sounded as Out of seven events four were won if it had cut out altogether. Ho by private clubmachines. The most then dived the machine down and successful was the Royal Aircraft disappeared still in a vertical Establishment Aero Club Hurri- cane Monoplane with a Bristol all the spectators thought that position behind the trees so that Cherub engine. This machine won the Light Aeroplane Holiday bulance was

he must have crashed. The am- Handicap, the Grosvenor Cup and everybody rushed over towards started up and the Private Owners Race. The the trees and after a pause of winning of the Grosvenor Cup is about three minutes Mr. Courtney somothing of an achivement as this is the only classic race which from a totally different direction. suddenly appeared up again is being run in England "this Those who knew the lie of the land and also those who know A very interesting little na Mr. Courtney's love of leg-pulling chine was the Cranwell Mono-realised what had happened, but plane. In last year's trials the even they were quite glad when Cranwell Light Aeroplane Clubho reappeared safely, OS built a very slow biplane which whole thing was such a realistic won the prize for reliability. Out 'death' dive","

year,

of the proceeds of this prize und

out of the proceeds of the sale of A New Commercial Plane. the machine to the Air Ministry

the

the Club built a little fast Mono- Captain Geoffrey de Havilland's plane of the parasol type, that is new commercial design, the D.H. to say, one with the plane raised 54., was brought to Lympne by above the fuselage. Driven by a Mr. H. S. Broad for demonstra- Bristol Cherub engine and flown tions during the Meeting. The by Flight Lieutentant Comper it machine carries fourteen pas- proved to be the fastest machino in sengers and "has a Rolls-Royce the Meeting and won the Scratch" Condor" engine of 600 horse Speed Race..

power. It has a top speed of 120 One of the light aeroplanes, the miles an hour and with the aid Avro Avis, flown by Mr Bert Hin- of the de Havilland automatic kler, arrived by air from Sout-wing flaps is enabled to land at hampton. When about five miles loss than 50 miles an hour. Dur- from the aerodrome it ran out of ing the Meeting I had the plea- petrol and had to land in a field. sure of a flight in the machine.; Mr Hinkler wont off to The cabin is beautifully light and garage, bought two gallon there is a heat regulator for mak- | tin of petrol, filled the ing the temperature what you machine up and flew on to Lymp. will The engine is 80 well! no. During the whole of the Sun-silenced that the passengers are day he spent his time carrying enabled to talk in ordinary voices passengers, as there was already a and there is a noticeable absence queue of people to fly in this little of the rattle which is so annoying machine.

in all other commercial machines] in which the writer has travelled. The slow take-off and slow land-

Reliability of Small Engines.

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The Interional Handicap Race ing and the high speed of the was quite a thrilling affair. It machine in the air certainly make was run off in two heats and the it the best commercial air liner final was won by the Hawker that has yet been produced, Cygnet flown by Flight Lieuten: Schneider Cup Entrants, ant Bulman. This machine was flown last year by squadron Load-

Owing to the work in the ox- er Longton and the sister machine perimental shop on the machine to it came within an ace of win for the Schneidor Trophy the ningthewholecompotition. Itenys Gloucestershire Aircraft Com- something for the reliability of pany wore unable to take part in the ongines of little machines this the Lynipne Meeting. In order, year that this machine did two however, to help on the aviation hundred miles without any trou-meeting the directors of the Com ble whatevor and that the Bris-pany subscribed £100 to the tol Cherubin Mr Uwin'e machine Royal Aero Club Racing Fund. did three hundred miles in the It is hoped that other firms will day without trouble. Very fow follow this excellent example. of the engines last year were able Meanwhile, work is steadily pro- to do one hundred miles straight grossing on the new Gloucester off without trouble.

racing seaplane with a 650 horse

Aviation

The Beardmore Wee Bee which power Napier "Lion" engine. won the big prize for the com- The machine will be flown in its petition last year distinguished tests by Mr. H. 8. Broad and if itself ugain this year by winning its trials are satisfactory he will the International Scratch Speed also fly it in the Schneider Race for two-seators. This year Trophy Raco at Baltimore. it was piloted by Mr. Kingwill The Supermarine and in addition to the above Works are working hard on their success it also, in the perform- monoplane for the Schneider ance tests, climbed to the greatest Trophy Race. They are pinning height in thirty minutes and their hopes on this machine to: made the best altitude flight with bring the Trophy back to England. a passongor. The Beardmore Captain Leigh Mossloy, one of Company are producing a num-the directors of the Supermarine ber of new all-metal niachines Company, tells me that it should which are likely to prove very have every chanco of success. It interesting.

is being flown by Mr. H. C.Biard: Tho de Havilland Moths with who has already flown in two the Aircraft Disposal Company Schneider Trophy Races, one of Cirrus engine in them performed which he has won. Therofore extremely well as practical run-Britain's chances of regaining the abouts. Thoy, flow down to Trophy. seem to be better than Lympne from Stag-Lane, a dis-they have been for some time. tance of nearly 100 miles, and Mr. Frank Courtney has been from the time they arrived to the carrying out interesting tests at time they left they wore in the Norwich on the two new. Boulton air prastically continuously. In & Paul machines, the Bodmin all the races in which they took and the Napler Bugle. Both part the two Moths went 'round machines are entirely made of the course lapping with scarcely steel. The Bugle is a high speed: a second's difference between fighting day bombor which is able them. One was flown by Mr. to carry a heavy load of bombs Broad and the other by Mr. and at the same time to mano- Cobham, and the only untoward ouvre in the air as if it were a incident was a forced landing by single-soated fighter. The Bod- Mr. Cobham in the last lap of min is an experiment of gearing. the International Handicap final Two Napler engines are placed

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