the light, swift Plane is mainly due to the former's immunity from
pitch.
Collison's forward-socketed Air Van renders it impossible for any plane
to pitch. The C. F. S. is automatic, simple as a shutter, certain as a
power hammer, safe as oxygen. Fitted to any make of plane.
COLLISON
186 Brompton Road
_Workshops_, _Chiswick_
LUNDIE & MATHERS
Sole Agts for East'n Hemisphere
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Starters and Guides
Hotel, club, and private house plane-starters, slips and guides affixed
by skilled workmen in accordance with local building laws.
Rackstraw's forty-foot collapsible steel starters with automatic release
at end of travel--prices per foot run, clamps and crampons included. The
safest on the market.
_Weaver & Denison
Middleboro_
AIR PLANES AND DIRIGIBLE GOODS
_=Remember=_
=Planes are swift--so is Death=
=Planes are cheap--so is Life=
_Why_ does the 'plane builder insist on the safety of his machines?
Methinks the gentleman protests too much.
The Standard Dig Construction Company do not build kites.
They build, equip and guarantee dirigibles.
=_Standard Dig Construction Co._=
Millwall _and_ Buenos Ayres
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Remember
We shall always be pleased to see you.
We build and test and guarantee our dirigibles for all purposes. They go
up when you please and they do not come down till you please.
You can please yourself, but--you might as well choose a dirigible.
=STANDARD DIRIGIBLE CONSTRUCTION CO.=
Millwall _and_ Buenos Ayres
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HOVERS
POWELL'S
Wind Hovers
for 'planes tying-to in heavy weather, save the motor and strain on the
forebody. Will not send to leeward. "Albatross" wind-hovers,
rigid-ribbed; according to h. p. and weight.
_We fit and test free to 40 deg. east of Greenwich_
L. & W. POWELL
196 Victoria Street, W
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Gayer & Hutt
Birmingham AND Birmingham
Eng. Ala.
Towers, Landing Stages,
Slips and Lifts
public and private
Contractors to the A. B. C., South-Western European Postal Construction
Dept.
Sole patentees and owners of the Collison anti-quake diagonal tower-tie.
Only gold medal Kyoto Exhibition of Aerial Appliances, 1997.
AIR PLANES AND DIRIGIBLES
C. M. C.
Our Synthetical Mineral
BEARINGS
are chemically and crystallogically identical with the minerals whose
names they bear. Any size, any surface. Diamond, Rock-Crystal, Agate and
Ruby Bearings--cups, caps and collars for the higher speeds.
For tractor bearings and spindles--Imperative.
For rear propellers--Indispensable.
For all working parts--Advisable.
Commercial Minerals Co.
107 Minories
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Resurgam!
IF YOU HAVE NOT CLOTHED YOURSELF IN A
Normandie
Resurgam
YOU WILL PROBABLY NOT BE INTERESTED IN OUR NEXT WEEK'S LIST OF AIR-KIT.
Resurgam Air-Kit Emporium
HYMANS & GRAHAM
1198
Lower Broadway, New York
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Remember!
¶ It is now nearly a century since the Plane was to supersede the
Dirigible for all purposes.
¶ TO-DAY _none_ of the Planet's freight is carried _en plane_.
¶ Less than two per cent. of the Planet's passengers are carried _en
plane_.
_We design, equip and guarantee Dirigibles for all purposes._
Standard Dig Construction Company
MILLWALL and BUENOS AYRES
BAT-BOATS
[Illustration]
Flint & Mantel
Southampton
FOR SALE
at the end of Season the following Bat-Boats:
=GRISELDA=, 65 knt., 42 ft., 430 (nom.) Maginnis Motor, under-rake rudder.
=MABELLE=, 50 knt., 40 ft., 310 Hargreaves Motor, Douglas' lock-steering
gear.
=IVEMONA=, 50 knt., 35 ft., 300 Hargreaves (Radium accelerator), Miller
keel and rudder.
The above are well known on the South Coast as sound, wholesome
knockabout boats, with ample cruising accommodation. _Griselda_ carries
spare set of Hofman racing vans and can be lifted three foot clear in
smooth water with ballast-tank swung aft. The others do not lift clear
of water, and are recommended for beginners.
Also, by private treaty, racing B. B. _Tarpon_ (76 winning flags) 137
knt., 60 ft.; Long-Davidson double under-rake rudder, new this season
and unstrained. 850 nom. Maginnis motor, Radium relays and Pond
generator. Bronze breakwater forward, and treble reinforced forefoot and
entry. Talfourd rockered keel. Triple set of Hofman vans, giving maximum
lifting surface of 5327 sq. ft.
_Tarpon_ has been lifted _and held_ seven feet for two miles between
touch and touch.
_Our Autumn List of racing and family Bats ready on the 9th January._
AIR PLANES AND STARTERS
Hinks's Moderator
¶ Monorail overhead starter for family and private planes up to
twenty-five foot over all
Absolutely Safe
_Hinks & Co., Birmingham_
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J. D. ARDAGH
I AM NOT CONCERNED WITH YOUR 'PLANE AFTER IT LEAVES MY GUIDES, BUT _TILL
THEN_ I HOLD MYSELF PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR LIFE, SAFETY, AND
COMFORT. MY HYDRAULIC BUFFER-STOP _CANNOT_ RELEASE TILL THE MOTORS ARE
WORKING UP TO BEARING SPEED, THUS SECURING A SAFE AND GRACEFUL FLIGHT
WITHOUT PITCHING.
Remember our motto, "_Upward and Outward_," and do not trust yourself to
so-called "rigid" guide bars
J. D. ARDAGH, BELFAST AND TURIN
ACCESSORIES AND SPARES
CHRISTIAN WRIGHT & OLDIS
ESTABLISHED 1924
Accessories and Spares
Hooded Binnacles with dip-dials automatically recording change of level
(illuminated face).
All heights from 50 to 15,000 feet L2 10 0
With Aerial Board of Control certificate L3 11 0
Foot and Hand Foghorns; Sirens toned to any club note;
with air-chest belt-driven from motor L6 8 0
Wireless installations syntonised to A. B. C.
requirements, in neat mahogany case, hundred mile range L3 3 0
Grapnels, mushroom anchors, pithing-irons, winches, hawsers, snaps,
shackles and mooring ropes, for lawn, city, and public installations.
Detachable under-cars, aluminum or stamped steel.
Keeled under-cars for planes: single-action detaching-gear, turning car
into boat with one motion of the wrist. Invaluable for sea trips.
Head, side, and riding lights (by size) Nos. 00 to 20 A. B. C. Standard.
Rockets and fog-bombs in colours and tones of the principal clubs
(boxed).
A selection of twenty L2 17 6
International night-signals (boxed) L1 11 6
Spare generators guaranteed to lifting power marked on cover (prices
according to power).
Wind-noses for dirigibles--Pegamoid, cane-stiffened, lacquered cane or
aluminum and flux for winter work.
Smoke-ring cannon for hail storms, swivel mounted, bow or stern.
Propeller blades: metal, tungsten backed; papier-mache; wire stiffened;
ribbed Xylonite (Nickson's patent); all razor-edged (price by pitch and
diameter).
Compressed steel bow-screws for winter work.
Fused Ruby or Commercial Mineral Co. bearings and collars. Agate-mounted
thrust-blocks up to 4 inch.
Magniac's bow-rudders--(Lavalle's patent grooving).
Wove steel beltings for outboard motors (non-magnetic).
Radium batteries, all powers to 150 h. p. (in pairs).
Helium batteries, all powers to 300 h. p. (tandem).
Stun'sle brakes worked from upper or lower platform.
Direct plunge-brakes worked from lower platform only, loaded silk or
fibre, wind-tight.
_Catalogues free throughout the Planet_
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