OCTOBER 20,

1938.

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THE FOUR WINDS

ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL QUARTERS

THE COMPOSITE INFLUENCEor just a photographic coincidence. Two Short boats, Qantas Empire Airways' Coogee and Imperial Airways' Corsair, riding at anchor in choppy water in Rose Bay, Sydney. TRAIN of no fewer than nine A gliders was, it is reported, towed by an aeroplane at an " Aviation Day " display at the Tushino Aerodrome, Moscow. In addition to the $18,000,000 order for 200 aircraft for the British Government, the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation has just contracted for a further order to supply spare parts valued at $3,900,000. Weather, coupled with difficulties concerning the C. of A. of his Mew Gull, have combined to delay the departure of Alex. Henshaw on his attempt on the London-Cape Town record. He must now wait until the next full moon. The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester are due back in London on November 10 or 11, on their return from Kenya. The Duke and Duchess will fly from Uganda to Cairo, before catching a liner to Marseilles. From there they will fly back to England in the Air Council's De Havilland D.H.86B. The Royal Aeronautical Society's gold medal was presented by Sir Nevile Henderson to Dr. Eckener, of Zeppelin fame. Mr. A. H. R. Fedden, designer of the Bristol Perseus engine, has been awarded the Lilienthal Ring. Both presentations were made during the Lilienthal Congress at Potsdam. Losses of 95,000 in 1937 and over 74,000 for the first half of 1938 on the Pan-American trans-Pacific mail and passenger service were revealed at a New York inquiry last week. Last Saturday, Captain Alexander Papana, of the Rumanian Air Force, flew from New York to Miami on the first stage of his flight to Bucharest, via Brazil and Dakar, Africa. The machine he is using is probably a Barkley-Grow twin-engined, low-wing monoplane. A memorial window to the Duchess of Bedford was unveiled at Woburn Church last Sunday. The ceremony was performed in the presence of a large attendance by the Archdeacon of Bedford. C a p t a i n D . O. Lumley, O.B.E., is to deliver the Brancker Memorial Lecture of the Institute of Transport, at 6 p.m. on November 29, at the Institution ol Electrical Engineers, Victoria Embankment, London, W.C.2. His subject will be " The Development of Air Mail."

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Years Ago

"Flight" of October 11, 1913) '' Experiments have recently been carried out a t Rheims with a quick-firing gun mounted on an aeroplane. The target consisted of the wings and fuselage of an old aeroplane, which was, at the conclusion of the test, riddled with bullets. The trials are to be continued, probably with a moving target."

MARSHAL OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE SIR JOHN SALMOND inspecting cadets at the opening of new local headquarters of the Air Defence Cadet Corps at Watford last Saturday