SCHNEIDER CEP.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 17 August 1929, Page 8

SCHNEIDER CEP.

TTSTS OF BRITISH MACHINE. RESULTS BELIEVED SATISFACTORY. (Brilish 02icial WirelessJ RUGBY, Aug. 14. Tar Gbiof Manshal Sir John Salmon spent to-day at Caltjhoh amongst the members of the high speed light who are concerned with the race for tho Schneider Cup. He embarked in a Southampton flying boat and went round the course over which the Schneider Cup race is to be flown. Squadron-Leader Orleibar took up the new SO machine built by Great Britain for the Schneider Cu{p race and. flying at great speed, completed its tests. Tile SO lulls been flown only twice before, and on each occasion it was handled very gently. To-day the full power of its engine was; tested, and the results are believed to have been satisfactory in every way.

In taxiing across tlie water the SO evidently struck a email piece of driftwood or some other obstacle. One of the; floats was dented and the machine was taken to Woolston for repair. The damage is in no way serious. There is a very distinct medical pro Idem involved in high speed “cornering-’ which is it feature of such a raw ;is that for the Sdhneider Clip, whic/b will be flown over a quadra nguku course. Group-Captain Flack, of flu medical rosea roll section of the Air Ministry, who has specialised on the forces inup-osed on the luniuaii frame in hying, discussed the subject at GaiLsihot today. He said that more than is realised may depend on the pilot’s rounding the corners with the leafs b loss of speed. If a turn is taken too wide full speed can be maintained hut many more miles xvill be flown.

On the other hand, too sharp a turn will slow down the machine and-, what is equally important, impose terrific acceleration loads oil pilot and aircraft. These .loads as the pilot swings round the corner tend to unrest the normal bow of blood to the brain and eyes, so that if the turn is over-sharp everything tends to go black before the pilot’s eyes and, in extreme causes, momentary unconsciousness ensues. How sharply these turns cam be made with safety depends, therefore, on the strength both of the aircraft and the human physique, and the object of much of this present practice is to establish limiting factors.