206

FLIGHT.

AUGUST 22,

1935.

(Centre) the simple undercarriage springing; (left) the sprung strut which supports the trailing edge of the front wing; (right) the springing and operation of the sternpost with rudder and double tail wheel.

On the left our artist shows a side view ol the cockpit, with the engine controls and fuel supply arrangements; on the right is the roomy cockpit with its instrument lay-out and pilot's seat. inents. Across the ample-sized dashboard, from left to length without difficulty. In flight there was evidence of adequate control even when doing steep turns close to the right, I saw an A.S.I., a variometer, a revolution counter, ground and the spectators, but somehow the general feelan altimeter, and a home-made variometer. Beneath them ing could not have been better summed up than by the wen-; dock, compass, and air thermometer. remarks of a small girl, aged about four years, to her Then- has, according to reports, been a large number of .rashes in France among the fifty " P o u s " which art- equally small brother when her piping, pedantically correct wording announced: " It doesn't appear to be very safe, already flying out of the 500 being built, and most of these 1 r ishi > .in --till to have occurred during the take-off. I Harold ; it looks as if it might slide to one side at any moment! " It somehow didn't look as if the pilot was tlH-retou watched this initial stage of the flight very always certain of what it was going to do. This was probclosely. 1 askeii M. Mignet if then- was any special difficulty to be anticipated during tht stage when the machine ably because lateral stability is dependent upon the large dihedral angle and use of the rudder ; the result is a sort was gathering speed over the ground, but he did not se?m of swaying recovery when a wing drops. to think that the controls need be touched very much. The take-off was only a very few yards long, and the Certainly his own take-offs showed no signs of any neceslanding equally short; even a landing from altitude withsity for coarse use of the rudder. The " Pou " seemed extremely easy to manage on the out the engine running was carried out without apparent difficulty as the glide was very steep. ground, and the steerable tail wheel turned it in its own

"Pou" News in

"Flight"

A " P o u " on Show

'"THE " Pou-<lu-Ciel " which has been built by Air League -L J- amateurs irom instructions contained in the book The Flying Fiea, is now on exhibition in the basement of Selfridge's new building. An Aubier et Dunne air-cooled engine is fitted, and the machine is finished in black and white. M. Henri Mignet has promised to fly it before he leaves England at the end of his present tour.

l (.1 l.AK readers of h~!tiit will have seen the many articles wlmh have appeared about the " I'ou-du-Ciel," I'ou-du-Ciel." but hut for the benetit of those who may havr missed some of the numbers we tabulate helow the dates upon which the more important items were published: S pUinlwr m, 19.54; March 28. April II. April iS (2V April 25, May 9, July 11 (2), July 18, August I, August 15 v