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FLYING DAY BY DAY
FLIGHT TO INDIA.
BOOKS BY SIR SAMUEL HOARE.
Four Air Lessons,
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London, Oct. 19.
Mr. T. Stanhope Sprigg (Editor supervised much of the lay-out 'of its ground organisation puta into of Airways) writes to the "Singa practice an ideal which interna-pore Free Press":-
serious Most of us who take a tional law governing flight of mili- tary aircraft will make it difficult Interest in aviation were, 1 fancy, Burprised at some statements about to repeat.
the business which Sir Alfred Yarrow made the other day in an article that he contributed to the "London Press." Sir Alfred, of course, is the famous shipbuilder whose mama and products are known to retire from all over the Seven Seas. He has just consented
Of the nir lessons to be drawn
AN ABLE REVIEW..
"India By Air." By Sir Samuel
Hoare (Longmarts, Ga. Gd.) Sir Frederick Sykes writes in four: "The Observer" :---
Air travel provides a degree of monotony undqualled by any other form of transport. It lacks both the petty discomforts and the minor distructions of ground travel.
So the air traveller who records his impressions must either give an under prominence to the abnormal Incidents of lying or he must ac quire exceptional gifts of observa tion and descriptive genius and ap ply them to the occasions upon which he comes to ground.
The Secretary of State for Air has overcome this difficulty and has produced a book of travel which will be of interest far beyond air circles.
from the book there are, I think,
First, that the military control
district by
Bir force is a of a means and not an end. In assist ing to suppress warlike practices it Yet, just as the does useful work, civilising effect of the Roman road in this country survived the with- drawal of Roman military force, so Sir Samuel Hoare finds the making of the NW, frontier roads to be removing the incentive to rebellion and crime. Where peace is held from the air the foundation of pro- gress must be laid on the ground.
Second, that while the De Havil laid "Hercules," with an ability to maintain flight on any two of its three engines, marka a considerable advance towards safety, there re- mains room for a reduction in de- pendence upon human skill in pilot- age and navigation; for the flight clearly tested the great skill and
Aided By Poetry, Allod by the poetry in the very place-names of his tour and with a wise restraint on the air enthuexperience of its pilots, Captains „šiņšt's natural temptation to pro- phesy, he achieves a graphic con- trast between West and East and between civilisation's latest means of transport and its oldest relics.
So, alas for the League of N-proving its transport; an opportun
tions, we are given the unconscious humour of the chieftain who ex- cuses his inability to meet the ol eint representative of modern civili- sation, on the grom that "he had
Sir S, Hoare.
.:
Barnard and Woolley Dod, und Its navigator, Captain Johnston.
Thirdly, that to India the air offers a special opportunity for im-
ity long urged, not yet grasped, but which the experiences related in this book rentfrm with a strength that should be productive.
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Miss Frances Grayson, one of America's ciri fiers. Miss Grayson recently planted a trans-Atlantic light from Maine to Copenhagen, but the trip has been postponed to u later date.
active business at the mature age of 86, but he does not say to the youth of his generation: "Look at met Go thou and do likewige." Much on the contrary, in fact.
Finally situation robbing the | flight of much of its motive and value the present inability to put into operation a regular service of which this was to have been the in- augural flight. For reasons not yet made public, the Persian Govern- ment has not seen fit to maintain its permission for such a service over its territory.. So, for the social uses of the air, as indeed for military uses für which in any war like event no such permission could His advice to the bright boys of be given, we must turn to our na- to-day is to try to associate them- tural island element and give selves "with some rising firm in a primary consideration to the deveriaing industry in a rising country." lopment of the marine vessel that In other words, it is no good for Alles.
them to go out and look inside a dustbin and mann over the broken)
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it was quite right-as events proved favourably on the sale of British
aircraft.
most important trans-Indian air station" as the "Pioneer" states, and I wish very much that we could hear further and better particulara from other centres affected..
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1927.
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clear. It is this. Sailors, as Sir Alan told ine at a recent DODWELL & CO. LTD. Colonel Le Blanc, head of the oured old man, "is the industry of this victory. In this case. a foreign sailors, will have to be consulted dinner we attended to celebrate The
to
conditions
and
between Hanoi Bangkok, with only one stop, on the turn in the round trip.
South African Plans.
here remarks:---
that the
-for him and for others to start out as a shipbuilder. Now, how-
Indeed, an air correspondent tells ever, things have totally changed. "Aeroplane construction," remarks me that "One large order has this clear-minded, gifted and hon-materialised as the direct result of and if I trade mission was wavering be- of the immediate future,
French, American, and military aeronautical service
more and more about the chances Schneider Trophy victory, that his company (Alan Cobham Aviation Indo-China, and the sub-lieutenant could slip back the years I should tween
on this who was hia pilot, reported that, associate myself with some branch British type of craft. The order and the dangers of these cross-
has now been placed with a British ocean flights. I do not write this Ltd.), has been working
for nearly twelve months. Mon- of aeroplane building.". after leaving Bangkok last
Really, these are very brave and firm and in explanation of the de- because in the days of my youth route day; at 9 o'clock on the ueroplane
They deserve ciston the buyers state that when happened to be a saller and travers-They hope by means of this flight
two British Supermarine-Napier od most of the Seven Seas, or to stimulate interest so had to go off to fight a war;" we "Pitez" with a Lorraine motor of noteworthy words.
most.careful consideration for they have the record, almost indelicate 450 horse-power, he returned in its contrast, of viewing, from a Hanoi on the same day, arriving at do not come from a man who has monoplanes can alone complete such because one of my proudest posses "Through route" will be running by war ended then be but seven days from 1.500 horsepower aeroplane, Pro-3.15 p.m. after a flight of 1,100 ever cared one snap of the fingers an arduous course there is definite sions is still the mate's ticket the end of next year. Kenya will from a reluctant examiner of the England, instead of a month as at about popularity but from one who superiority over machines of other wrung just after the fessor Woolley's laying bare of the kilometres without a stop.
Board of Trade. I have just been present, Rhodesia nine days, and remains of a city, unclent even in This tour has developed a new has stuck steadily to his life's task countries."
it. whole. We who
reading, what a navigator on the South Africa ten days, Such a the days of Abraham; and we are type in the aviation service of Indo- and has seen
adopted aviation as a profession are
have Cunard liner "Coronis has been flight has never been undertaken faced with the problem of whether China, and will affect
Oa previous occasions I the higher civilisation is represent preparatory to regularity and pre-all a little too much inclined to
he were future Imperial air communications, ed by the sheik who blows his toes cision, as shown by the fixed-time- apologise for the absorbing faith in chronicled in this column the grow saying about trans-Atlantic flying, before and is of great importance to all-metal aircraft preaching to the already converted, having for its objects the ultimate of a trans-African off by accidental gun fire in the table of the two aviators who have which we are risking our lives, our preference that experts are and even if in my case morning, yet, with the aid of car- just returned. This has enabled money, our whole future careers in exhibiting for
the flying world. It can only steel and within the last few months I find his views deserve respect and establishment
air service from Cape Town to pet slippers, attends an official re- for the first time the realisation of
a survey of the possi- ception in the afternoon,
or by the practicality of regular aerial our nerve to read Sir Alfred's calm advances have been effected in the consideration from all who care
bland prediction "In a few years material and equipment of these about the good name of flying. He Cairo, and
bilities for a flying-boat route, link- those who are subjected to "a fear connection
Manufacturers machines.
"Knowledge which wasallormen ing all the territories on the West time we shall be flying from town that even an unromantic cold in
to town as we now go by train, were, therefore, not all at surprised the head" may bring to naught the
to hear that a proposition has been have always at our fingertips, Coast.
Alan Cobham Aviation Limited is the South African without which indeed, we should placed before The returned aviators mentioned car or ship." As the poet sald, elaborate preparations made for a
"The sunset of life gives us Government for the erection of a neither think of attempting or working in close co-operation with 10.000 mile journey,
that they met with a warm recep-
mystical lore Less obvious. perhaps, though tion in the capital of Siam, both
factory in South Africa to turn out being allowed to attempt the taking the North Sea Aerial and General And coming events cast their all-metal aircraft and
all-metal of a vessel from one port to another, Transport Company, the moving significant, is the contrast in the from members of the Government
shadows before." status of long-distance flight now and from their Siamese aviator
goods of various descriptions. In- let alone trans-ocean trip, these spirits in which are Mr. Robert a decade ago. Then Mac- comrades.
Happily, there is no question that deed, I am assured that there was fliers appear to try to crush into a Blackburn and Captain Gladstone. and
weeks, while making The latter have already arranged Laren's flight to India and that of In a special audience of His here in England, at all events, no difficulty at all ear-making the few days or Ross Smith through India to Aus- Majesty the King of Siam, Colonel there is considerable activity just £200,000 required for the project, other preparations for their flights. to run that section of the Cape-to- "I suggest that it would be a Cairo Air Route from Cairo to tralia were great adventures. But Le Blanc mentioned that he was the now in aircraft circles. The men for the arm belief is held that where they led so many have now bearer of a message on behalf of in the trade whom you chance to South Africa has a very big part to useful and inexpensive plan to Kisumu and it will be the object no longer about the play in the near future in the utilise the regular liners crossing the of the Company, tot to Capetown followed that a meeting at Alexan- the Governor-General of Indo-China meat talk.
Atlantic for the purpose of fixing tually from Kisumu to arin with an unnamed French pilot, not only as one of congratulation difficulties of the Spanish and the development of civil aviation.
In fact an amalgamation of the two who was passing through Egypt on on the occasion of His Majesty's South American markets, the steady
The air situation in India is the positions of aircraft.
"It has been found that the two Companies appears to be inevitable. a return flight from Madagascar to birthday, but as a proof that a pressure of the Scandinavian coun- nothing like so satisfactory, I fear. France. is recorded in these pages direct line of air service had be-tries, the dark and sinister building Our flights thither have done a lit-leading Atlantic liner companies without further comment; while the come possible between the respec- of acroplanes by Soviet Russia. tle to key things up, but folks at have a vessel in about every 10 degree zone of longitude. It flights of Mesara. Stack and Lecto tive capitals of their two friendly They have discovered that the Bri- home are frankly disappointed more
а simple mattor to India in little De Havilland countries.
tish victory in the Schneider Trophy has not been accomplished by India would be
in each "Moths," at a cost which make the
generally as an Empire. Is this, for one of these vessels mileage cost of Morris car ap-
however, to be changed soon? For zone to be the 'master ship' and pear extravagant, are remarked on
example, I read the other day that to receive reports from other ships chiefly for the conquest of the lug-
the Allahabad "Pioneer" states au- in its zone, clock these, and trans- mit positions to all concerned,. thoritatively that steps are being gage problem.:
including air-crait,” taken to encourage, and provide facilities for civil aviation through- out India. The importance of future cross-Atlantic flights we Lindbergh here Allahabad geographically as a junc-shall have to remember that even tion for sir services has long been our anilors can sometimes contribute urged, and it has been decided to little helpful knowledge as those reconstruct the old aerodrome of who have been forced to descend to Bamrauli, seven miles away, and to the water, such as Miss Ruth Elder, bulld hangars and bungalow ac- commodation. Allahabad will thus
New Air Line. One cannot omit this week to become the most important trans- Indian air station in a chain of offer a word of hearty congratula- proposed aerodromes on the tion to my old friend Sir Alan Calcutta-Allahabad route. Aero-Cobham on his project for an air dromes will be constructed at line through Africa. In the organ- Benares, Gaya, Asansole, and Dum leation of such a task he is exactly. Dum, and also a Cawnpore. The the right man in the right place Lucknow Government intend build a thing I did not feel so confident ing landing grounds at all canton-about when I saw him on the films ments."
In the screen drama "The Flight bully or Leutenant”. reconstructed
Special Distinctions. None the less, the flight, which is the subject of the book has distinc- tions of its own, and Sir Samuel Hoare'a impressions as he
Ap- proaches Karachi are understand- able: "A woman had for the first time made the journey, a Minister of the Crown had for the first time flown to a distant part of the Em- pire, and an Air Marshal had' for the first time taken over his com- mand from an aeroplane."
Of these, Lady Maud Hoare has the satisfaction of establishing a claim to sex equality in the face of a special susceptibility to discom- fort in air travel; Bir Samuel Hoare sets a precedent that, with the calls on the time of Cabinet Ministers, must. Inevitably become a practice for both Home and Over- sea Mintators of the Crown; and Sir Geoffrey, Salmon, who had flown the routs before and had, Indood;
Loening amphibian with a colissible landing gear operated by
the turning of a cranke in the cockpit. The craft carries a 'pliot," "a
gianng and a camera man, and its wingspread is 25 fest.
That of course, Allahabad--but
"old aerodroma and
all, seven miles dists calculated to
LINDBERGH.
Science Degree With Prelates" Ald.
Philadelphia, Nov. 13, An honorary degree of master la science
aeronautica Was conferred upon. Charles A. to-day by St.
of Anyway, it is obvious that in
have
It appears that Bir Alan hopes to start in November on what he tarms a utility fight of survey. His routes to be right round
Joseph's College. The honour was the first of its kind the aviator has received since his trans-Atlantic night.
The degree was conferred in the presence of diplomats of 14 coun- tries, churchmen and Knights of Cardinal Dougherty Columbus, took a prominent part in the cere mony-Associated Press.
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