SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1927.
FLYING DAY BY DAY
FLYING BOATS.
The Four "Southampton's"
Flight.
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SIR ROSS SMITH,
Memorial To Epic Achievement,
SAFE FLYING.
STRICTER REGULATIONS NECESSARY.
STUNTS CONDEMNED.
THE CHINA MAIL,
con-
That
lighten the public is through "full equipment, flying in a plane of one and frank discussion."
of the four or five first-rate com- Scenes of Disasters.
mercial types, properly inspected "Only one aeroplane has flown
and licensed by the Department of from the North American
Commerce, and with engines, of tinent to the continent of equally high standards, piloted by a Europe without mishap..
licensed transport pilot, the passen- was Lindbergh's. Celi and Nungesger takes no greater risk than he Flying under proper conditions is
ser have never been heard of since does in travelling between New York they started from Paris.
and Chicago by rail-keeping In The as safe as ruilway travel; but only American flew all over western mind the fact that passengers have about one-twelfth of the flying of France, until it was forced down. been killed on the trains. No other the United States fa done under Chamberlin and Levine landed in a kind of flying has any right to be these conditions. This is the con- A memorial to the epic achieve clusion of George Lee Dowd, Jr., The four machines used by the
a German bog. The "American called safe. ment, and world-lamented death of
"The day will come, we believe, R.A.F. in the flight to Karachi and that hero-flier. Capt. Sir Ross stated in an article contributed to Legion," attempting to start for Australia are of the Supermarine Smith, K.B.E., M.C., D.F.C., is to be "The Popular Science Monthly last April, killing Commander Noel plane, and the government's licence Europe, crashed at Langley Field when the government licence on a erected at Adelaide. The artist, (New York), in which he unapar Davis and Stanton Wooster. Paul in the pilot's possession, will mean *Southampton" type, each fitted Mr. F. Brook Hitch, A.R.B.S., of ingly condemns contests and stunt Redfern was lost in an effort to fly that anybody who takes passage in with two Napier “Lion” engines of Queen's Terrace, London, has ex-flying and advocates · stricter
preased with wonderful fidelity in Federal regulation of aviation, sup- Some months earller Fonck's glant taking no undue risk so long as he from Brunswick, Georgia, to Brazil that plane and with that pilot is 450 h.p. The "Flight" will be
bronze, a tribute worthy of a truly plemented by State legislation to under the command of Group Cap great young man, whose courage cover cases not subject to Federal Sikorsky plane, built for a trans- does not fly out of gliding range of tain II. M. Cave-Brown-Cave, ous enterprise helped to establish
the absence of these,
Atlantic flight, crashed at the stafta proper landing-field. It does not those pathways of the air that have control. In D.S.O., D.F.C., with Squadron- drawn together the uttermost parts he asserts, flying, under conditions off, killing two of its crew. mean that to-day. -
"The two Gorman Junkers pinnes "The Department of Commerce, Leader C. E. Livork, D.F.G., second of the Empire. The surpassing usually obtaining, is distinctly, un- which started for America in command. Each will be manned skill of Mr. Hitch's workmanship safe; and to shut our eyes to this forced to turn back because of wea- Air Commerce Act Iberally. The were perhaps wisely, is interpreting the has given permanent eminence to fact is not to promote aviation but ther conditions. by two officers and two mechanica. the honour that South Australia is a distinct disservice to the pro-
regulations should be tightened up. The "Southamptons" used in the desires to pay to one of her most greas of that art. Writes Mr.
brilliant sons. The Betting the Dowd: tour are of the standard RA.F.statue will have in Creswell Gar-, type, but with duralumin instead of dens, close to the main entrance of the Adelaide Oval, will form a fit- the usual wooden hulls, and with ting back ground, throwing into re- modifications in the arrangement of lief the commanding representation the equipment. The use of dura-of Sir Ross Smith and the beauty of the supporting symbolic figures. lumin instead of wood has made The statue is to be unveiled this it possible to give more room for month.
The statue arrived in Adelaide the crew, and it has the advantage recently, and is now being assem- of avoiding water soakage, which bled. The conception and design
by Mr. Hitch must be considered a 'Lindbergh and Byrd—so far. But meriously increases the weight. In really triumphant expression of the when the average person is told that some respects, however, the metal wishes of the South Australian aviation is safe, it means hull is still on trial. With increas-people for a tribute that should do flight compares in safety favourably
justice to the outstanding claims with other transit means. ed tankage for this tour, each flying of the subject. The full figure of boat weighs all on. 20,000 lb, (8%Sir Roas Smith is shown in flying of the safety of flying is shown in "What one group of men thinks kit, standing on a hemisphere, with tons).
one foot in England and the other a resolution. recently adopted by the The four "Southamptona" ' will in Australle. The characteristics of American Bar Association. It urges make a complete tour of the Indian the strong, young face have been Congress to empower government splendidly portrayed and the whole officials to regulate ocean flights Konst, and will travel by Rangoon poise of the body is full of con- and curb 'stunt flying." and Singapore to Australia, cruis-quering determination. The statue
"On transoceanic flights,' says ing round the continent by Fre- much larger than life size, and C. W. Cuthell, general counsel of will be supported on the fine pedes- the National Air Transport Com- mantle and Melbourne to Port tal of Murray Bridge granite by
"Intre-pany, approximately twenty-five Darwin, and then back to Singa-the figures of "Flight and.
pidity"-two symbolic studies lives have been lost during the pre- which contribute to such 'a rangni- Scent ensemble as to awaken feel ings of wonder and praise for what a gifted artist can accomplish in bronze.
pore.
"Colonel Lindbergh, Commander Byrd, and other popular heroes of aviation, have recently been quoted as complaining of the difficulties of convincing the public that flying is safe.
Giving those gentlemen all due credit there is a growing con viction that the public should not be convinced the air to-day is enfe.
"Flying is not yet safe. Safe for
that
sent year. Most of the flights are not of a directly commercial nature. They are what we of the profession call stunt flights.
GERMANS PROFICIENT IN GLIDING Poppenhausen, the German air gliding expert, taking off on an experimental fight from the side of one of the German mountains, The gilder I pulled down the hill by hen and after getting a. start, the pulling rope is dropped, allowing the glider to continue its journey.
They expect to reach Bombay in
"Two of the diera on the Pan- January: Calcutta in February; and
American good-will flight were kill- ed. These pilots were the pick' of Singapore at the end of that month;
"The Australian Government has the Army Air Corps. Commander Batavia in May: Fremantle, Ade- There are four frieze panels to announced that stunt flying will be Rodgers, hew of the first Hawaiian
be placed around the pedestal de laide, and Melbourne in June, Syd-picting the route of the great air prohibited. Similar curbing is pro-flight, crashed and was killed land ney in August; and back at Singa- exploit. The Arst shows the de- parture from London, with St. pore in January,
Faul's Cathedral in the background as the gfunt plant lifts into space. The next illustrates the landing in India, having. a typical Eastern setting; the third links up India in the route, and the last one is fit tingly reserved for a scene in relief of the arrival in Adelaide.
"Unfortunately, the Government has no control whatever over private planes and private pilots. It is time for the States to set up a few re strictions of their own, as New York and one or two others have jected in Canada. Distinguished ing at Philadelphia. From July 1, done. Pending such restrictions, It publicista in Germany and England 1922, to May 1, 1927, seventy-one is up to the man on the ground to have urged an end of spectacular navy planes crashed, killing, 116 stay on the ground if he values his flying.
aviators. The Army Air Corps, life, except under the ideal condi- from July, 1926, to May, 1927, had tions-such-as-the-Air-Mall-services 158 crashes with twenty-five deaths. offer."
"Obvloudy, military-aviation is not safe. To be sure, safety is not the main consideration In military
Two "Southampton" flying koats ordered by the Commonwealth Gov. ernment will meet them in Aus- tralian. waters, and probably back to Singapore with them.
BATAVIA TO AMSTERDAM.
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Herole Pioneers. · "To-day aviation is about where railroading was before Georgs Westinghouse invented the air
"What sort of flying isante, then? Civil aviation?
overywhere
STOPS CROUP.
Pro brake. Heroic pioneers are strive flying, but does the public know the minent in this plaque are the fami-ing at the risk of their lives and difference between the risks which keep Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in It stops croup. That's why mothers liar twin towers of the General Post Office and Town Hall, above which money to make aviation safer and the military aviator must take and the house. It contains no narcotics the Vickers Vimy is sailing in the more practical. But no good pur those which the civilian pilot should and is best for the children. For sale resplendent sun light...
pose can be served by closing our avoid at any cost? There is also a portrait panel cm-dyes to the developments necessary bodying the heads of Sir Keith before real safety can be achieved. Smith and Lieuts. Shiers and "Unfortunately, however, there Lieutenant Koppen arrived at Bennett, and below the inscription seems to be
"In the six years, including 1921 Amsterdum on October 28 on his on the statue will appear a badge, among people Interested in aviation 849 civilian aeroplane accidents, re- a tacit agreement and 1926, incomplete recorda show return flight from Batavia, bring in the form of the spreading wings not to discuss the dangers of flying sulting in 458 deaths and 598 per-
of an Australian eagle, beneath ing mails from the Dutch East which are shown the medals and That last sentence is not mine. It sons seriously injured. Last year Indies to Holland. As on the out-decorations won by Sir Ross Smith. is a direct quotation from a recent the deaths were seventy-five. And ward fight, he accomplished the
utterance by Harry F. Guggenheim, the number of accidents in 1926 was President of the Daniel Guggen-greater than in any preceding journey'in nine dying days.
heim Fund for the Promotion of
year."
The success of the first air mail
hetween Batavia and Amsterdam, which happened as the result of our a distance of 8.750 miles, has ingular Instinct for pulling our aroused great enthusiasm in Hol- selves out of a mess.
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Aeronautics. Listen to him fur. What sort of flying is safe, then, ther: I can conceive of no more if any? The answer is close at stupid policy than continuing this hand. traditional silence which has left Last year, planes carrying the land. According to the "Daily "The writer describes in detail, the public se completely ignorant of United States mail on government Maila" correspondent at The and with the moat careful docu- the cause of aviation that it grossly routes few 2,292,278 miles. In the Hague the fact that the first aero-mentation, the stages-Committee, exaggerates these dangers and plane in the service arrived
same period. planes on contract hout ahead of scheduled time was Boards, Ministry-by which air ignores the elements of safety in routes flew 2,086,395 miles and car- in itself a matter for congratula- power came to be organised in this flying.... This misapprehension ried several thousand passengers. on the part of the public can not In 4,378,668 miles of flying, there tlan, MM. Koppen, Fryns, and country in the Great War." Elleman, who comprised the erew Those who are opposed to the use
be overcome by any amount of was not a single fatal accident. In of the machine, ali received knight- of aircraft in war on humanitarian shouting that aviation is "perfectly Germany, in the same year, 56,268 hood in the Order of Orange-grounds and those who are keen on safe""; it must be overcome by giv passengers were flown 3,814,000 Nassau. Bands have played in the Britain maintaining its supremacying the public the knowledge of miles with only one fatal accident; streets of Amsterdam, there have in the air will find this record of aviation which they.to-day so in Great Britain planes" "of the been torchlight processions, and interest on historical grounds. woefully lack. And ore way to en Imperial Airways flew 791,000 miles
songs of welcome have been sung
by schoolchildren.
Among the letters carried on the new air service was one to the "Daily Mail" from its Batavia cor respondent. This left the Dutch
East Indies on October 17 zad reached the office on October 31, having come by ordinary post from Amsterdam. The time thus taken in transit was fifteen days. The journey by the fastest cuples a month.
bout OC-
THE HISTORY OF AIR POWER.
iks
"Whether the criterion of any administrative machine be smooth and harmonious working or the results which it gives, the air organisation which Britain es- tablished must be considered to have proved itself to be a better war machine than that devised by any sther country.., Her claim to be regarded as the founder of air power cannot be questioned; it has titles manifold."
"This is the main conclusion.* states the. "Morning Post," "of. Mr.. J. M: Spaight, the author of several book on aircraft and air power, in a. book which was published in! October, "The Beginnings of. Or-i ganised Air Power" (Longmans, | 178. 6d. net). The book is pecu- liarly interesting, because It is not a history of air warfare, but is that rare thing, an attempt to analyse historically the reasons for this country's superior position at 'the end of the war, instead of tak
Ing it for granted something
UNDLICH IN A UNICTWOPE, IL W
Ruth Elder, attractive 23-year-old filer of Florica, who with her co-pilot, George Haldeman, broke the record for continuous - travel over water when their, plane was forced down after going 3000 miles on luf 3800-mile journey over tlip' Atlantic from New York to Paris.“ The pale were rescued by the tanker Barendrecht, but the plane, The American Girl, was Cestroyed by fire while attempts were made 10
without a single fatality; in Aus- tralía more than a million milea were flown over regular routes with- vut a death. Mr. Dowd goes on therefore to draw this conclusion:
"It seems, then, that there are conditions under which flying is reasonably safe. But to declare that flying is safe without pointing oat that only one-twelfth of all the flying done in the United States in a year la done under conditions which make for safety, is to limpose upon the credulity of the publie.
"Commander Byrd, Clarence D. Chamberlin, and many other leader. in aviation and aerodynamics, have declared against general air rates and stunt flying.
"The responsible heads of the growing aviation Industry also re- cognise that such contests as tho Hawall air race are a menace to the advancement of their cause.
"Stunt flying has noticeably ptunted passenger-carrying aviation In the United States,' gays Col. Paut Henderson, President of the Aero- nautical Chamber of Commerce. "Stunt Aylag le spectacular, and dan- gerous. Hence, confidence la re- gular passenger service on establish- ed routes has been to a degree lack- ing, and unjustifiably."
-- "It` simmers down to this," the question of whether, flying is safe.
Condition for Safety...
"Over regular routes, such as. those flown by the Air Mall, ade- quately lighted all the way, with Wighted emergency landing fielder so close togetlier that a forced landing can be made with safety at any time and with radio-direction
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