With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D.
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The new weighted Flicker with tweed or cheviot surface cannot be distinguished from the ordinary suit till inflated.
Flickers! Flickers! Flickers!
APPLIANCES FOR AIR PLANES
What
"SKID"
was to our forefathers on the ground,
"PITCH"
is to their sons in the air.
The popularity of the large, unwieldy, slow, expensive Dirigible overthe light, swift Plane is mainly due to the former's immunity frompitch.
Collison's forward-socketed Air Van renders it impossible for any planeto pitch. The C. F. S. is automatic, simple as a shutter, certain as apower 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 affixedby skilled workmen in accordance with local building laws.
Rackstraw's forty-foot collapsible steel starters with automatic releaseat end of travel--prices per foot run, clamps and crampons included. Thesafest 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 goup 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 theforebody. 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 ConstructionDept.
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 whosenames they bear. Any size, any surface. Diamond, Rock-Crystal, Agate andRuby 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 theDirigible 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 _enplane_.
_We design, equip and guarantee Dirigibles for all purposes._
Standard Dig Construction Company
MILLWALL and BUENOS AYRES
BAT-BOATS
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-steeringgear.
=IVEMONA=, 50 knt., 35 ft., 300 Hargreaves (Radium accelerator), Millerkeel and rudder.
The above are well known on the South Coast as sound, wholesomeknockabout boats, with ample cruising accommodation. _Griselda_ carriesspare set of Hofman racing vans and can be lifted three foot clear insmooth water with ballast-tank swung aft. The others do not lift clearof water, and are recommended for beginners.
Also, by private treaty, racing B. B. _Tarpon_ (76 winning flags) 137knt., 60 ft.; Long-Davidson double under-rake rudder, new this seasonand unstrained. 850 nom. Maginnis motor, Radium relays and Pondgenerator. Bronze breakwater forward, and treble reinforced forefoot andentry. Talfourd rockered keel. Triple set of Hofman vans, giving maximumlifting surface of 5327 sq. ft.
_Tarpon_ has been lifted _and held_ seven feet for two miles betweentouch 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 totwenty-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 _TILLTHEN_ I HOLD MYSELF PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR LIFE, SAFETY, ANDCOMFORT. MY HYDRAULIC BUFFER-STOP _CANNOT_ RELEASE TILL THE MOTORS AREWORKING UP TO BEARING SPEED, THUS SECURING A SAFE AND GRACEFUL FLIGHTWITHOUT PITCHING.
Remember our motto, "_Upward and Outward_," and do not trust yourself toso-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 carinto 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 (pricesaccording to power).
Wind-noses for dirigibles--Pegamoid, cane-stiffened, lacquered cane oraluminum and flux for winter work.
Smoke-ring cannon for hail storms, swivel mou
nted, bow or stern.
Propeller blades: metal, tungsten backed; papier-mache; wire stiffened;ribbed Xylonite (Nickson's patent); all razor-edged (price by pitch anddiameter).
Compressed steel bow-screws for winter work.
Fused Ruby or Commercial Mineral Co. bearings and collars. Agate-mountedthrust-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 orfibre, wind-tight.
_Catalogues free throughout the Planet_
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