OUT OF THE BLUE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20508, 8 March 1930, Page 8 (Supplement)

OUT OF THE BLUE.

On April 5 the Hawke's Bay Aero Club intend to hold their annual display afc the Hastings aerodrome. The Auckland Aero Club are holding their pageant this year on April 12. There shquld be a record attendance if good weather prevails. The Graf Zeppelin has been temporarily withdrawn from service for overhaul and adjustment. Since it was first launched in September, 1928, the airship has completed 73,116 miles. It is of interest to note that passengers in the French Atlantic liners, s.s. Paris, France, and He de France, may now take their own aeroplanes with them as personal luggage. Two Gipsy-Moths were first and second in the first air race ever held in Mexico, on December 12. The contest took the form of a 30 miles' dash, starting and finishing at Moxico City. As a protest against the failure to withdraw overhead electric cables, carrying 220,000 volts, in the vicinity of Stuttgart aerodrome in Germany, it has been decided to close down the aerodrome at the end of six months. The committee appointed by the Royal Aero Club, London, to decide who was the first Briton to make flight in (be British Isles in a heavier-than-air machine, has chosen Lieut.-Colonel MooreBrabazon. His flight took place at about the end of May, 3909, in the Isle of Sheppev. The first to make a flight at all in the British Isles, however, though not a British subject, was stated to be Mr. F. S. Cody, U.S.A. From the following statistics one can realise how dependent the light aeroplane clubs in England are on tho Government. In New Zealand no club is assisted with a subsidy of more than £SOO. Subsidy.

Names. Fleet. Mem1923 1929 bers. £ £ London .. r> 3S:> 1.SS1 2,000 Midland . . 3 ISO 955 1.S7-! Lancashire . . 4 ISO 1.513 1.055 Yorkshire . . . . 3 159 814 1,18*1 Newcastle .. . . 3 481 1,332 1,273 Hampshire . . .. 4 275 1.150 2.000 Bristol . . . 4 319 910 1.091 Norfolk . . 3 J 02 1.021 738 Nottingham 0 C.l 685 557 Scottish " 4 228' 1,587 774 Cinque Porta . . 3 1 '23 797 Liverpool .. .. 4 119 1,529