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FLYING DAY BY DAY.
THE AIRSHIP.
DEFENCE BY LORD THOMSON,
Lord Thomsen, Secretary of State for Air and President of the Air Council, 1924, writes to the "Daily Mail":--
OCEAN FLIGHTS.
THE NEXT STEP IS TO MAKE THEM PRACTICAL.
SAFETY FLYING.
COMMENT ON THE NEW NEW DEVICE.
THE CHINA MAIL,
WORLD'S AIR PORT.
AN AIRMAN'S VISION OF LONDON.
FIFTY YEARS HENCE.
The Thames, fifty yesen heece, will be the great airport, of the world.
and!
DESIGNERS PERPLEXED,
The problem of producing an aeroplane which shall be control table at low speeds is one which has long been perplexing designers. To-day London, Liverpool, The risk with the ordinary type Southampton share the bulk of pas- of machine is that if speed is un-neager traffic between the old and London in the Trans-oceanic fights have been duly reduced the hold on the air the new worlds. proved possible-the next step is to is leat and a crash is the result. days to come will be the clearing between make them praetical," is the state-But if Mr. Handley-Page is right, house for passengera
every country in ment of Emory Bronte, navigator of (says the "Daily Mail") the pro-America and the first civilian aeroplane light toblem has now at last been solved. Europe.
It is 10 am. of a summer day in the Hawaiian Islands, in summing The slotted wing, as it is techal- Mr. Edward Spatinor's article in up his idea of the future of avia- cally called automatically comes 1977. The Thames flow past the into action as speed is lowered and County Hall, the Houses of Parlia tion.
ment and Somerset Houso. But "The Daily Mail," "The
Fronte has not only cust his lot gives a grip on the air.
Mr. Hundley-Page's services to net the Thames with which our Against Airships," contains more definitely with commercial aviation
Buch that speciál children will be familiar-a sheet water, the finest natural aero- denunciation than argument, and he has selected the Pacific Coast aviation are
as a logical field for its develop importance attaches to his state-
The new device has drome in the world, without one while making "several sweeping ment, as he has just accepted a ments. statements he does not give the position as special representative already been adopted in various bridge from Blackfriars to Cholsea, on aviation for the Associated Oil Royal Air Force machines and has lined with landing stages and mark- Company.
given excellent results. For navated by buoys.
6,000 H. P. work, if it fulfils the claims mude
facts.
Case
For example, he makes no men- tion of successful airship lights, including three Atlantic crensings and the performance of R33 over the North Sea.
Nor, in his reference to Germany, does he inform his readers that be fore the war the Germans operated passenger airship service the ves- suis of which made 800 fights, covered about 100,000 miles, and curried 17,000 passengers without a single fatal accident. It may or it may not be true that Germany has censed airship 'construction, but it is certain that Germany has less in- ducement to develop this type of aircraft now that she has lost most of her colonies.
Although Mr. Spanner may have given considerable
this study to subject, he can hardly claim to be among the experts, whose amber in this country can in all probability be counted on the fingers of both
hands.
on its behalf, it will be indispen
He goes on to say: he visualized.
"The future of aviation ennast
We find it impos-p sible to picture the airship of the future even ពង the early-day mariner dared not dream of the turbine-driven liners that were des- tined to plough the sens after him.
"The sailor of to-day would not consider navigating the seas in the same type of vessel which safely Carried Magellan through the trea cherona straits which now bear his name. The trans-oceanic aviator of to-morrow will refuse to fly from New York to Paris or from San Francisco to Honolulu in small land planes such as were flown by Lindbergh and several others.
The pioneers have made these hazardous Hights to prove them possible. The next step is to make such voyages by air practical-and they are practical with the right type of plane.
For trans-nceanic lying, a large hydro-seroplane with boat hull and at least three motors will be em-
forced to the surface) ployed. of the sea it will navigate to the nearest port, propelled by a small auxiliary engine, as any surface craft would do, Powerful radio sets will keep it in constant com- munication, with ship and shore The decision to build air-wireless stations and with other planes. ships was reached after hearing the opinion of the best-known experts, and the present policy has the sup. port of many competent authorities who have no axes to grind,
Broadly speaking, this policy is based on the principle that Great Britain cannot afford to neglect any
DENNY MILLER, WALK, SA CA
Lieut. Arthur Cavin, who has Wob the Herbert Schiff Memoriat Trophy, having a record of BGS hours in the air during the scal year of 1926-27 without serious ac eldoat to personnel or materias, Lieut. Gavin is the third Naval aviator to win the trophy. He do A native of Ashland, Wisconsin.
A fleet of forty great air liners rests on the water, moored to the buoys, each capable of carrying 100 Although passengers or more. each machine in fitted with engines capable of developing the strength}
THE HELICOGYRE.
AIR MINISTRY SECURES SPANISH INVENTION.
AIR-COOLED MOTORS.
London, Nov. 25. The Air Ministry has acquired the plans of the "Helicogyre,” which combines the features of the Autogiro and the Helicopter, with a view, to building others. It na- unds and descends vertically and hovers indefinitely even in complete calm..
The inventor, Vittario Isacco, was the collaborator of the Spanish inventor of the Helicopter, Senor
Pescara.
Four planes, revolving in a ver- teal column from the fuselage and driven by air cooled motors which aatuate the propellers, lift the "Helicogyre," which has a separate engine and propeller, to move hori- zontally.
The Air Ministry is
also con-
structing a flying boat, Clerva, on the Autogiro principle.
of six thousand horses, the thun- FLIER OF TSINGTAO. der of machinery is muffled down to a throbbing he
A cluster of mea and women are passing through the Customs at the head of one landing stage. The walls of the office bears posters advertising "To New York in Twenty-four hours." The people file down the gangway below the Savoy Hotel to a waiting tug which will carry them Across the 100 Yards of open water to the plage where the blue and gold seaplane. its six propellers revolving, slow Is. waits, eager to start on the | 3,000-mile journey.
CAPTAIN PLUESCHOW'S LATEST ADVENTURE.
Berlin, Nov. 27. Captain Plueschow who became well-known in the Far East and at home during the war as "the flier of Taingtao" having successfully withstood all attacks by the Japan- ese fliera and then saved himself, his machine and the Colours of the German Marines from being cap- tured by the Japanese, has embark- Passengers file on board and seeked at Buesum with his wife and a their berths Just as they did, fifty crew of six on a very small ship, years before, in the Atlantic ocean named "Fauerland," for a tour of liners.
adventures and exploration to South America.
are
The upper deck of the seaplane fa a promenade, enclosed in glass, stretching from end to end of the ship. Here, as everywhere, air pressure and heating
so re-! gulated that, at whatever altitude The machine may be. passengers suffer no discomfort either from the rarity of the atmosphere or the bitter cold of the upper air.
Open Country.
NEW FRENCH AERODROME.
Thousand Acres Near Rheims.
A military aerodrome covering "On land. cities will be linked
an area of over 1,000 acres is in Gone are fur-lined helmet and process of completion at Rheims. from coast to coast and border to
goggies, the cumbersome suit with Situated on a plain about a mile border by numerous commercial air lines operating large powerful
furlined boots; the pilot now wears and a half from the town, it will freight mail and passenger planes
the same uniform as a liner cap- comprise thirty hangars of rein- on regular schedules, and at low
tain. The chief engineer is respon- forced concrete, each 150ft. square, sible for and tending the engines; These hangars, which will be freight and passenger rates. How enormotis these planes will be is
the navigator afleves him of the erected in groups of two, will house shown by the fact that in Europe sable, as one of the greatest diffi- necessity of constantly plotting his the aeroplanes, motors, propellers, today there is being built one cap-culties in naval flying is that of chart, he keeps in touch with the petrol stores, and the office and able of developing 1,000 horse- landing upon an aircraft carrier, engine-room by means of a tele- working staffs. new form of transportation, and power and with cabins for 100 pus-which cannot be effected with rea-Bhone from the vantage point ini nire especially one posscussing far sengers. greater speed that occu-going ships and a longer range of flight
thun aeroplanes,
The most practical way of testing possibilities was to build new air- ships, not for war purposes, as in 1 the past when performance and prompt delivery were the first core aiderations, but slowly and deliber- ately, design and construction being subordinated to ensuring "safety first."
the nose of the machine. sonable safety unless the machine "Aviation is not, however, some is travelling slowly. It has already
London passes swiftly bonoath as thing which is part of the future. beer veieu for wival work and has we climb up towards the west; the
is here with us to-day develop-given great satisfaction.
sun behind us throws the shadow ing rapidly that we can scarcely keep pace with it. Our important mail is flown to the most distant Force aeroplanes are being filed
NEW SERVICES.
FOR TRANS-ATLANTIC POSTS AND PASSENGERS.
Paris, Nov. 22,
Already a number of Royal Air
with the automatic safety "alots."
Three groups of hangars have already been built, and the sero- drome is expected to be finished in: June next. Its first occupants will be the 12th Aviation Regiment, at of the seaplane racing across the present in garrison at Neustadt, in
below. We pass over Ealing, the Bavarian Palatinate. and reach the open country.
Windsor, a cluster of buildings
Thames at last.
Tower,
is 7"
"Sky-scrapers!" New York!
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1927.
LORD LYTTON'S famous story of a doomed city as a magnificent film production-
THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII.
This wonderful film cost £100,000 to make, employed 45,000 people and required a year to complete. When shown in London it was acclaimed on all sides as the greatest picture of the kind ever produced.
See the volcano belching forth its lava and red-hot stones, buildings and pillars crash- ing down, people stampeding în panic-see one of the greatest cataclysms of nature depicted with a breathless realism that will keep you leaning forward in your seat!
A PICTURE YOU WILL NEVER FORGET!
Coming to the
WORLD
TUESDAY to SATURDAY, December 20th to 24th.
CHURCH NOTICES.
A CHARGE OF ONE DOLLAR IS MADE FOR ALL NOTICES UNDER THIS HEADING
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL, HONG KONG.
December 18th 1927. 4th Sunday in Advent, Holy Communion (8 a.m.) Children's Service (10 a.m.) Matins (11 B.m.) Preacher: Rev. W. R. Cannell. Holy Communion (12 noon). Evensong (6 p.m.). Preacher: Rev, H. Copley Moyle. Wednesday, December 21, St. Thomas, Holy Communion at 7.45 CHRISTMAS DAY, Dec. 25th. Holy Communion 7 a.m.
8 a.m. (Choraf) and 12 noon. 11 a.m. Matias and Sermon. 6 p.m. Evensong, Carols and
To-morrow's Air Liners. That is the journey which our Sermon. children, and, maybe, some of their fathers, will make. It is no wild figment, of the imagination, no world-shaking discovery. It is merely the development of what is being done.
WESLEYAN METHODIST
CHURCH.
If as the result of experiment and research it is found possible to parts of the nation in less than two perfected after eight years re-surmounted by the great build reliable lighter-than-air ves- days. Passengers and express are sels, this country aliould not be left also carried on schedules as fre- search by Mr. F. Handley Page shows as a child's fort to the left; lies below when the first of Colum- managing director of Handley then on over the Downs, leaving the bus descendants cries "There it and swift 25 mail, behind in a development with such quent
Page, Ltd. the and with utmost safety. We have incalculable possibilities; o11
The apparatus cures the most Galway, the first stop, is reach- A cluster of pointed fingers a.. contrary, it should lead the way, found it a necessary part of our fatal of air perils-as uncontrolledled at tea-time. Here we wait half shows through the mist ahead and}
modern civilisation."
spin following a loss of flying an hour to re-fuel and pick up pas below. speed. It is understood that, after sengers for America from Scotland official experiments, the perfected and Scandinavia, who have taken device will become a standard fit the local aeroplane which connects ting in aeroplanes ordered by the with the Atlantic air liners.
Half hour later we are flying Royal Air Force.
A fruitful cause of accident is into the eye of the sun over the an error of judgment by a pilot waves of the Atlantic, climbing whan faced with such an emerever higher to the thinner air geney as a forced landing. His where we can speed at 160 miles an A definite trans-Atlantic aerial preoccupation in finding a suitable hour as the darkness gathers. postal and passenger service was alighting point may cause him to A dial the wall of the saloon announced here by Louis Bleriot,lose flying speed at a low altitude keeps the passengers informed of planes of to-day are the forerun- the first man to fly across the Eng-and get into a-spin from which he the progress of the voyage. lish Channel and now one of cannot extricate his muchine before Europe's leading aircraft builders. it crashes. The automatic "slots";
Bleriot declared that an experi- will obviate such a risk.
Sunday, December 18th, 1927. Light neroplanes of the type mental service will be inaugurated
A red star on a chart of the At- All the principal cities of the Morning Service, 10.15 o'clock. used by air-clubs or in private islantic shows the position of the world are built on rivers or har- Preacher: Rev. J. H. Johnston, within a year.
"The fights made during the jing are being equipped with the liner, moving almost imperceptibly bours; London,, Berlin, Paris, B.A. Afternoon 3 o'clock: Sunday
Tike the hour-hand of a watch, Vienna, New York, Capetown, School. past summer seem to prove that "slots." flying west from Europe is more
away from the Irish coast.
Sydney. Each one is a natural air. Evening Service, 6 o'clock. difficult than flying east from the
We go to bed after dinner to port.
Subject: "What does 'Faith' real- United States," Bleriot said.
awake at dawn. It is breakfast Passenger seaplanes have ally mean? time in England, but only 6 a.m. ready landed on the Thames.
Preacher: Rev. J. C. Knight People will not travel from Lon- Anstey. don to Croydon and from Le Bour- Sailors & Soldiers' Home, Ar- get to Paris for such a short-dis-senal Street.
For this purpose a sum of under £1,500,000 was allotted, the expen diture to be spread over a period of several years. Admittedly this
in is a large amount view of straitened national finances; but its expenditure was considered justified on experimental work of such im
portance.
Mr. Spanner may condemn this policy as a "gamle" and "a plece of stupidity." but he will not con- vince informed and fair-minded people by mere abuse, nor will be persuade them to suspend the air- ship programme by describing it as a monumentul piece of folly." He should take to heart his own mis- quotation that "a little knowledge Is a dangerous thing."
JUNKERS PLANE HELD UP.
Horta, Azores, Nov. 28, The Junkers plane had made a third unsuccessful attempt to start for America.
"I expect to overcome this diffi culty by choosing route by way of the Azores islands which will be a regular topping place,
OFF FOR NICARAGUA.
Altitude: 21,500 ft.
Air speed: 147 m.p.h. Time: 6:15 G.M.T.
The passenger-carrying aero-
ners of the Atlantic air liners of the to-morrow just as surely as "Rocket" was the progenitor of the express locomotive of 1927.
Queen's Road East, Wanchai (near Royal Naval Hospital)
Miami, Florida, Dec. 3. A tri-motored Fokker plane here. piloted by Major E. D. Brainard departed to-day from Hialeah Field on a non-stop flight to Nicaragua. ever, cloak the coast of Newfound- tance trip as that from Paris to Sunday: 3 p.m. Mr. May's Bible
The distance to be covered is
"In the service we shall use multi-motored land planes, relying upon mechanical perfection rather 1085 miles. than floaters. My first plane will Perfect weather is reported all have motors capable of developing the way along the route.; 1,000 horse power. It will weigh Upon arrival in Nicaragua, the eight tons and carry one ton of plane will be put into service as mall from Parls to New York in 38 an ambulance for use of the U.3. hours.
marines in occupancy.
'Doesn't Make It. Managua, Nicaragua, Dec. 3. The United States Marine Fokkeri
From the promenade the sea is invisible, hidden by the foga that
land. By 9 m. we are over land, speeding down the Canadian coast, heading south. ...
made in the elties, as are the great Hour. London. The at-ports must be Class. 8.15 p.m. Service Men's
railway terminl of to-day.
Monday: 8 p.m. Ladies' Church Lunch time, and it is as well to The rivers are the natural land-Aid Meeting, bave your kit ready, for soon after- fng-grounds, either by roofing over wards the dials in the saloon show to make a vast open space or by that we are coming earthwards, the removal of bridges.
The wind has been favourable, Between Putney and Hammer-
"Later I plan to use planes weighing 24 tons with four 650 horse power motors. Each plane will require two pilots and one plane flying here in an attempted Air liners which have met strong have ploured: by clearing away non-stop fight, from Miami has easterly winds land here to re-fuel. such bridges as Westminster and landed at Tela, Honduras, because Every one crowds to the pro- Charing Cross and substituting We are flying at turnels for traffic.-"Sunday Ex- It will resume its flight to-only 3,000ft. now. Open country press." morrow.-United Press.
so the machins did not land at smith the river forms already a the great emergency air-port, built natural aerodrome, but I believe ten years before, in Newfoundland. the problem, will be solved 28
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of stormy weather.
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UNION CHURCH.
Kennedy Road.
Sunday Services, December 18th. Morning 10:30,
General Service and KOS.B. Parade.
Hymns 255, 412, 490, 554.
Preacher: Rov, F. F. W. Alexan- der, C.F.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST.
(Branch of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scient. ist, in Boston, Mass, U.S.A.]
Macdonnell Road, below Bowen Road Tram Station.
Sunday Service 11.15 a.m. Subject: Is The Universe. In cluding fan, Evolved By Atomic: Force?"
Wednesday Evening Meeting at 6.30 o'clock.
Reading Room at above address, open:-
Tuesday and Friday 10 a.m. to 12 Noon.
Monday and Thursday 5 to 7 p.m. The Public la cordially invited' to attend the service and visit the Reading Room.
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December 15, 1927.
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SUNRISE AND SUNSET.
Sunrise. Sunset. pata.m,p.m.
Evening Service at 6.45.
Music led by K.O.S.B. Band.by
kind permission of Lt. Col. Comyn
and. Officers.
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Clarence Chamberlin, who made a trans-Atlantic flight, and’Moni „Frances Grayson, who has given up her attempt to By: from 014 Orchard, Me., to Europe until next year, meet and greet in Boston.,,
mechanic and one wireless opera-
tor.
"Fuel will be carried in the wings, leaving ample space in the fuselage for mail and passengers," Bleriot said.*
Tho manufacturer declared that he will not attempt au: extensive passenger service until after the aeroplane has been operating · for three or four years. I belleve that within that time knowledge of conditions over the route and mechanical' improvements will per- mit of an extensive service under regular schedules."
Bleriot, whose planes have been usually successful in both military and commercial service, has had his plans under development for some time he said. Ample financial support has been provided for the trans-Atlantic, project, he declared. United Press VENDO
mall service between the 400 pounds of
ane carries
Hymns: 177, 167, 60, 671.
Band Selections: "Polonaise in A flat," Chopin; "Intermezzo,” Mascagni; "Demand et Reponse," Coleridge Taylor; "March from Tannhauser," Wagner.
"Messiah Solos by Mrs. Bowes Smith, Mrs. G. Watt and Mr. H. Glover: "O Thou That Tellest," "But Who May Abide?" "He Shall Feed His Flock" and "Come Unto Me
Organ: Mr. G. H. Longyear.. Preacher Rev. J. Kirk Macona-
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