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2 0 6 FLIGHT. A U G U ST 22, 1935.
(Centre) the simple undercarriage springing;(left) the sprung strut which supports thetrailing edge of the front wing; (right) the
springing and operation of the sternpost withrudder and double tail wheel.
On the left our artist shows a side view ol the cockpit, with the engine controls and fuel supply arran gem ents; on the right is the
roomy cockpit with its instrument lay-out and pilot's seat.
inents. Across the ample-sized da shb oar d, from left toright , I saw an A .S . I . , a var iometer , a revolut ion counter,an al t imeter, and a home-made variometer . Beneath themwen-; dock, compass, and air thermometer .
Then- has, according to reports , been a large number of. rashes in France among the fifty P o u s " w h i c h art-already flying out of the 500 being buil t , and most of these1 r ishi > .in --till to have occurred during the take-off. ItlH-retou wa tche d this initial stage of the flight veryclosely. 1 askeii M. Mignet if then- was any special diffi-cul ty to be ant icipated during tht s tage when the machinewas gathering speed over the ground, but he did not se?mto think that the controls need be touched very mu ch.Certainly his own take-offs showed no signs of any neces-sity for coarse use of the rudder .
T he Pou seemed extremely easy to manage on theground, and the steerable tail wheel turned it in its own
length without difficulty. In flight there was evidence ofadequate control even when doing steep turns close to theground and the specta tors , but somehow the general feel-ing could not have been bet ter summed up t h an by theremarks of a small girl, aged about four years, to herequally small brother when her piping, pedantical ly correctwording announced: It doesn ' t appear to be very safe,Harold ; it looks as if it might slide to one side at anym o m e n t It somehow didn' t look as if the pi lot wasalways cer ta in of w h a t it was going to do. This was prob-ably because lateral s tabi l i ty is dependent upon the largedihedral angle and use of the rudder ; the resul t is a sortof swaying recovery when a wing drops.
The take-off was only a very few yards long, and thelanding equally short ; even a landing from al t i tude with-o u t the engine running was carried out wi thout appare ntdifficulty as the glide was very steep.
" P o u " N e w s in "Flight" A Pou on Show
R l (.1 l.AK readers of h~ t«iit will h ave seen the many ar t icles ' THE Pou-<lu-Ciel which has been bui l t by Air Leaguewlmh have appeared about the I 'ou-du-Ciel ." hut for -L am a teu r s i ro m in s t ru c ti o n s co n t a in ed in the booklmh have appeared about the I 'ou-du-Ciel ," but for
the benetit of those who may havr missed some of the n u m b erswe tabulate helow the date s upon which the m o re im p o r t an ti tems were publ ished: S« pUinlwr m 19.54; Marc h 28. Apri l II.
p r l iS (2V April 25, May 9, Ju ly 11 (2), Ju ly 18, August I,August 15 v
J- amateurs irom instructions contained in the bookThe Flying Fiea is now on exhibition in the basement ofSelfridge's new building. An Aubier et Dunne air-cooledengine is fitted, and the machine is finished in black andwhite. M. Henri Mignet has promised to fly it before heleaves England at the end of his present tour.