OCTOBER 20,

1938.

FLIGHT.

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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.

Twentj'five

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."

Years Ago

(From

"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