SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1927.
FLYING DAY BY DAY.
NEW TERROR.
NOVEL ADVENTURES FOR SIR ALAN COBHAMA
'COMPANIES AT VARIANCE.
Mr. T. Stanhope Sprigg, Editor of "Airways," writes to the "Sin- gapore Free Press":-
"
Where is M. Schneider?
AIRMAN MYSTERY.
CAPT. L. HAMILTON NOT "OFFICIALLY DEAD."
THE OCEAN WIDE!
THE CHINA MAIL,
NEARLY FINISHED.
FIRST, LINER OF THE AIR
INTERESTING NARRATIVE.
AIR SUPREMACY.
MUS. MUST WORK HARD TO
KEEP UP
PUSHING AHEAD.
Paris, December 7. While America has cornered all the glory of trans-Atlantic flying| She lies now and has the speediest plane, Europe
has not slept.
London, Nov, B. The first real air liner of the The President, Lord Merrivale, world is approaching the day of in the Prebate Division yesterday declined to presume the death of her launching. Captain Leslie Hamilton, who with already a wonder ship, and far Lieut.-Colonel F. F. Minchin and
ed.
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new machines on this service. Os the top of this we have got the French company making drastic cuts in freight rates and Imperial Airways, trying a pre-emptive bid
Major Lester D: Gardner, who with a special freight service with
has just returned to Paris from a promise of improved facilities. Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim, left nearer complotion than was gen-
Rome where he attended the In- Meanwhile we are warned by ex- Upavon on an attempt to cross the erally known-in a perts that "France and Germany Atlantic in August and disappear- hangar on the Howdenshire flats, ternational Aviation Congress
BAYE writer in the "Daily official representative of the U.S. continue to increase their influence
"The ocean is wide," said Lord
Department of Commerce, watch- in the air all over Europe and Merrivale, "and there are many Express."
I saw the air mammoth under ing Europe quietly at work in her North Africa. The German Air contingencies which may arise." line Luft Hansa send aeroplanes The matter came before the court the guidance of Commander C. D. aircraft factories, has seen:
Italy building a 12-motored At the time of writing one of daily into England, Holland, as an application by Captain Hamil Burney, M.P. whase scheme for
airship construction was accepted plane to carry 100, soldiers. the principal topics of conversation France, Denmark, Sweden, Russia, ton's wife.j
Germany building a giant Zep- Mr. C. E. Rochford, for Mrs, by the Government.
but among airmen is Sir Alan Cobham's Austria, and Switzerland. Great
Three hundred men and fifty pelin which carries no fuel great 20,000 miles' trip round the Britain has already allowed Ger-Hamilton, said that Captain Hamil-
Somehow the many to operate the London-Ams-ton, in Company with others, left girls are engaged in building the burns the gas which fills its bags. African Continent,
Upavon Aerodrome at 7.30 a.m. on ship. Between them they bring a
Britain making aeroplanes so project seems
can learn to fly to have attracted terdam route on which it was once August 31 with the intention of fly-weekly wage, bill of more than public attention to a degree few supreme, and the only British lines ing across the Atlantic to Ottawa, £1,000 to this lonely corner of safe that anyone
Yorkshire. The greater number of within an hour. outsiders could have expected. At now in function are London-Paris, Canada.
France building a "hush-hush" the moment a kind of--Rider Hag- London-Cologne, and Southampton- It was said that the aeroplane the craftsmen have been trained by gard air of adventure seems to Guernsey and a British route be- was Been flying over Galway, and Commander Burney and his en- monoplane with everything, en- at 9.40 a.m. it was seen over the gineers. The girls, too, had to be gines, fuel, mail, passengers car- bang its glamour over the enter-
tween Cairo and Basra,"
Atlantic. Although the widest taught their work, and yet this ried inside its wings. prise. Nobody expects, perhaps,
"America will have to work fast publicity had been given to the works complement of 350 have that our greatest and busiest pro-
Many of my fellow members or event nothing had since been seen built nearly twice as fast as the 700 to maintain its supremacy in the tagonist of commercial aviation will
its yard at Cardington, near Bedford.
The Howden airship, R. 100, as air," was the conclusion of Major discover diamond mountains, inex- the Royal Aero Club heard with or heard of the aeroplane or
occupanta. haustible mines of radium or num-something like a shock while in
Lord Merrivale said that the she is already named, will also cost Gardner.
"But I have confidence in Amer- berless streams a-glitter with gold. Venice the other day the rumour flight was only ten weeks ago. In the Government less than half the
He contract fca; the public is becoming air but most of us do regard it as a that M. Schneider, the donor of those circumstances he thought Cardington ship.
minded. Lindbergh waked up the very sensible and noteworthy effort the famous trophy in 1913, is now that the application ought to stand price is £850,000.
country, eltles are building air- Beasurements. to open up air transport through-living in great poverty in a small over until next term." out Africa on reasonable and prac
Here are some interesting figures ports and the Federal government ticul lines. And naturally we hope
which give an idea of the mammoth is mapping and lighting airwaya." Major Gardner is one of a very all the big men
Leize of the Howden ship: Length in the districts traversed will co-operate.
English origin have been writing 700 feet, height 180 feet, displace-fow people who have peeped behind to the Press about their experi- ment 166 tons, passenger accom-the scenes of the Zeppelin factory During the last few days I have
ences. Most of us, it is true. modation 100, crew 85, fuel capa- at Frederichsafen, on the Lake of had several long conservations with At one time he was connected would not mind if they confined elty 30 tons, engines,-six-of-700 Constance, and seen the newest of Sir Alan about this, his fourth, with the great French armament themselves to the facts about their horse-power each, maximum speed D Hugo Eckner's dirigibles. It great trang-ocean flight. We live firm bearing his name, and, as a trips. These might be interesting, 81 miles an hour, cruising speed need carry no gasoline, its engines
burning the gas from the ba nt such a pace nowadays that prob
if not particularly valuable. It is 75 miles an hour, ably wo can hardly expect the
when they come to describe actual She will have sufficient fuel in This will give it four times the public to remember that in 1024-5
passengers in the air whom they her tanks for a journey at moder-cruising range of the oil-burning he went by air to Rangoon and
are paid to serve that we rub ourate speed of 5,000 miles.
As she lies the hull of the air type of airship. Next spring, Dr. Eckner expects to fly from Berlin back, that the following year he
eyes and wonder whether we ought flow to Capetown and back, and
really to welcome this new kind of liner is all but complete.. that in July-October, 1926, he pilot-
Jeames Yellowplush. It might be gineers are adding her stream-lined to Los Angeles without a stop.
tail and her rounded nose, and. Italy's monster seaplane is being ed a machine to Australia and back.
like Bernard Shaw or J. M. Barrie, then, from bow to stern, the hull built in secret in Switzerland and But all of us in the world of avia-
but really are we old stagers in air will be ready for the rigging of Major Gardner believes that in caso tion are proud of his record, and
travel only like what one aerial the fifteen balloons which will lift of war it will be Italy's most valu- in protecting her I like many others, said to him
walter describes-"a few weary- the ship and the covering of her able weapon quite openly the other afternoon
looking men?"
outer skin. More than four and a sphere of influence in the. Mediter- "Well, this is to be the biggest
This bold scribe, however, does half acres of this covering fabric, thing you've ever done." He look-
not scruple to paint a most lurid which girls are now preparing, will The plane's twelve engines would and you
hum smoothly although carrying ed away for a moment,
picture of a typical air trip:-"At be used.
An extraordinary impression of The hum of immensity is given by the air liner one hundred armed men.
"Perhaps the greatest advance. in the engine develops into a muffled as she stretches her bulk the length roar. Lips become firmly com-of the shed, but to see her at the making flying safe, is the British pressed. Hand grips hand or best you must climb, as I did with invention of the safety slot," Major "In a plane fitted with this de- clutches the arm of the seat. We Commander Burney, to a dizzy Gardner declared.
cat-walk 150 feet above ground and move. We skip along the ground look down on the ship. Then she vice we climbed to 1800 feet and with gathering speed in a kind of is beautiful as well as immense. there put the plane into a stalling! hopping progresalon. Legs are "We have employed a form of position. rigidly stretched. Clenched teeth tubular girder construction," said have fallen into a tail-spin and display the outline of jawbone or Commander Burney, which fol- crashed. But we merely dropped cheekbone through the skin. There lows the same principles as the 1200 feet under full control and is not a sound save a sharp word Forth Bridge. Our strength is
could see he was thinking out the suggestion in that curious Scottish way he has when aviation, the
thing dearest in his heart, ia touch- ed. "I do believe it will be," he said, and there was the genuine belief of a really great man in his accents.
New Air Routes.
People who do not understand the funny fussy little ways of our own Air Ministry should not under- estimate the significance of their loan to Sir Alan Cobham of that new Short "Singapore" flying-boat driven by two 700 h.p. Rolls Royce "Condor" engines. The Ministry does not easily suffer foole at all events, outside its own ranks. The methods of refusal to help ay be always urbane but they are also effective. And I don't blame them..
cottage in the South of France. Like other folks I, of course, at one time thought he must be dead so ershrouded in mystery has been his carcer since the Great War,
UNEGRWOOD & UNDERI
Young Frank C. Bell, of Los Angeles, was awarded a boy Scout Merit Badge for the invention and denign of this new type of pusher plane model, which outclassed all others in a junior aviation meet spent six months during his spare time in perfecting his invention.
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FLYING BLUES "?
AIR SQUADRON BEING FORMED.
This
Some months ago, when an avia- Washington, Nov. 15.
tor visited Oxford to give the citi The huge electrically-driven now and again from the party of more than double the maximum without the least danger and then
turn in a complete American aircraft-carrier "Sara- zens the opportunity of experienc
toga" is to be commissioned to-day ing the thrills of the air, under: are settling them-strength figure given by the Gov- made a lat regulars who selves down to a game of cards in ernment Airship Panel. This ship circle.
"I was the first American per-nt the shipyard at New Jersey, graduates were forbidden to take is entirely different from the typa the corner."
He then proceeds: "The plane of construction used the Zeppelin mitted to fly in this new plane, and where the keel was laid late in 1920, flights in his aeroplane, and the I am convinced that every modern She will carry eighty-three aero- Proctora were busy preventing now takes the air.. There is a side-ships."
Every scrap of metal used in plane will be fitted with this new planes and have a crew of 1,865 en- members of the University from en ways rolling much like a ship at the hull framework is duralumin. automatic slot within five years, listed men, exclusive of 450 avia-tering the field where the aviator began his trips. There is now sea-long and smooth. Each of It comes to Howden, from Birming-That will take all the fear out of tion ratings.
The "Saratoga" is the largest ship every possibility of undergraduates Hethe new passengers beconies akam in sheets, and here in
of her type in the world, besides separate problem. One looks out engineering shops is turned into flying for even a fool pilot_cannot and gives a frightened sob, and hollowed tubes and stamped into crash such a plane in a tallspin.
"Last year I flew 21,000 miles being the most remarkable to look being awarded Blues for flying, either closes his eyes or looks wild-lattices.
Rector of Exeter Collage. An Ox- The main object of the flight is,
us 1916 as a battle cruiser. ly around. Another, looking down, engine-rooms-there will be three over every airline in Europe and at. She was authorised with her under the command of Wing-Com- of course, to survey the various
look of of them, two engines apiece-and this year 1 flew from Venice over sister, the "Lexington": as far back mander Humphrey Raikes, sub-
cabins on the the Alps to Berlin in nine
Built by the New York Shipbuild- ford University Air Squadron · lá possible air routes between Eng man who knew him has stated, in seems entranced, and a and and all parts of Africa, but print, "He must have been an ex-frozen horror crosses his face and the passenger
where the riggers and Attera a trip by train. of 64 hours.
launched over two years ago, and pilots and four aeroplanes. other considerations now seem at traordinarily wealthy man at one he is unable to move. The lips of ground alongside the main ship, and from Berlin to London in seven, ing Company, the "Saratoga" was being formed with seventy-five cramble to breathless pinnacle "Last year every country was is now a ship of some 38,000 tons, has followed the decision of the Uni- the eleventh hour to be interven-time. It was rumoured in Venice an elderly grey-haired woman seem
prayer. A young points among the girders.
aircraft-carrier graduates to take up flying during ing. True, Sir Alan is trying no among those who had gathered to to mutter, a stunts of any kind, and more than watch the race that Schneider was fashionably-dressed girl grips both cabins, once Anished, with their jealously guarding its air rights as compared with the 28,000 tons versity authorities to permit under two-thirds of his time will be oc- in an extremely bad way, but he arms of her chair and from time to little observation balconies and This year I find them opening the of the British
cally; and by next year, when eight 8-inch guns and twelve 5-inch cupied in writing reports as to the seems to have kept remarkably time utters moans or shrill shrieks. promenade decks, will be raised skies to friendly nations recipe "Furious." She is armed with term time, but only with the feasibility of particular air routes quiet about it, for no one semeed A portly, rubicund gentleman sinks into the ship and made secure.
the floor-and stays We went over the passenger Sunday and night dying will be anti-aircraft guns, has four torpedo written consent of a man's parents and air stations, but there are to know any details or even exact-slowly to
accommodation and the quarters regularly established, Europe will tubes, and can ateam at 83% knots. and the head of his college. The There are three at last have a complete aerial The original battle cruiser design air aquadron has been in unofficial: aeroplane engines at the other things that also clamour forly where in the South of France there."
Really what nonsense about fly for the crew.
nels. There have been combined are sometimes into tiers of Uving-rooms in the ship. transport system."Ralph Heinzen, provided for no less than seven fun-existence for two years, and there
enormous into one his notice the behaviour of his the cottage wds.
smokestack, squadron's headquarters in Holy- I was shown, the deck floors United Press" Corr. "He must at one time have been ing finds its way
placed upon the starboard sides well, Oxford, where training has machine in high tropical altitudes over African lakes and rivers, and a millionaire, but he was always some quite Intelligent newspapera! made out of specially light wood which has been polished for
flying deck, runs the been carried on. The new machines The flushy the ship and is will be kept at the Royal Air Force the like. Indeed it looks before the very generous and must have given! trip is over that the. Air Ministry away a small fortune. In addition
dancing.
about 870 ft. long. A catapult is station at Upper Bayford, and their dances aboard," said Commander Burney.
fitted for launching aircraft. will get a lot of useful data for since the war most armament firms have been anything but prosperous,
On the third tier is a reading nothing.
and Imagine that he must have acroplane engines are subjected in suffered some diminution of in- the workshops? I am driven to lounge with other sleeping cabins,
Washington, Nov. 18. ask this question by the fact that each as large as the average cabin come."
Greater sympathy and spirit of Nobody I fancy was very sur- Still, there is a profound differ- an officially observed non-stop tun on board a Channel steamer,
recently been main stairway connects the three prised to hear that a sharp fare etice between "great poverty and of 100 hours has cutting war between the companies "some, diminution of income and completed with a Jupiter engine of storeys of accommodation, and co-operation between North and using Croydon as an airport had I hope some of the authoritative British design constructed under there is a service Mit for carrying South America will be brought Cooking, system of aerial communication. suddenly broken out. most will take care now to hunt out the licence in Italy by the firm of food and drink up and down from about through establishment of a electricity generated by two member of the House Ways and folks, the conflict was only a ques- real facts. We owe M. Schneider Nicola. Romeo and Company. This the central kitchen. tion of time, and probably the much to take his plight in so engine was selected by the Italian heating and lighting will be by Representative Henry W. Watson, news that the French Air. Unlong hearted a fashion as this! Royal Aviation Service for the test dynamos in the engine cars.
group of production en Allowance has been made in the Means Committee, told President have introduced a second class. Why shouldn't the Royal Aero Club from a single ticket from London to Paris, move in the matter? I see that gines: The petrol used was the baggage room of the air liner for Coolidge as a result of the trip
Cutting Fares,
Testing Engines. How many people pause to reflect on the terrific tests to which.most
we intend to have AIR CO-OPERATION.
A
FLYING WILL PROMOTE GOOD WILL.
EMPTY PLANE FLIES ON..
Two Leaps: One Fatal
East Grinstead, Nov.10.-
equipment will include parachutes."
The largest and most powerful passenger air liner in the world is shortly to be tested at the Air Minister's experimental station at Martlesham Heath (Suffolk). The machine is an all-metal cantilever: monoplane with a wing span of 140 feet, and has three big air screws driven by independent Rolls-Royce engines, developing a total of 2,100 horse-power. Its weight when fully loaded is nearly 20 tons, and it has
or vice versa, at £3 108, and that Commander Ferrín, Ita" secretary, aviation type of 710 density and each passenger to take 112lbs. of through Latin America from which After the two occupants had a weight lifting capacity equal to of mails can be carried. Watson urged the President to leapt from an R.A.F. plane, the 30 passengers. The plane was con- Imperial Airways have responded told a press representative: castor oil was used of 95 density luggage, and in addition ten tons he has just returned with a second class fare at 23 159 had heard he was lying in com- at 15 degreen.
It is understand that both the plane flew on, and up to a late hour for its trial flights it had to bo Is only the first short in this new parative poverty, but I have not Before the engine was placed Questions have been raieca," consider the wisdom of alding fin- pilot being killed, near East Grinstructed in Scotland, but as there aerial battle. May it not prove a been able to confirm the rumour, upon the best bed for the hundred said Commander Burney," whether ancially in this scheme. stead, this evening, the empty was no aerodrome there big enough They could be made to pay President and Commerce Secretary it had not been located, transported in sections to Martles case of this bad begins, but worst nor have I found anybody who could hours test it had carried out the these airships have real commer- remains behind."Personally, Tas
me definite Information. He ordinary tests called for in Halycial possibilities. They have.
ave faded out of the L. five continuous hours of which handsomely on the North Atlantic Herbert Hoover look with favour. It is stated to have crashed, but ham Heath for re-election and test-
completely the first hour was run at 420 h.p. route. On any other route an air upon the Watson ides, which con- how far away has not yet been dis- Ing. * who appear to have at 1,700 rpm. and the remaining ship service would require a Gov-templates establishment of a postal covered.
four hours at 880 h.p. at 1,640 ernment subsidy. Between the air service between New York and but I knew ive when we discuss rp.zo. The engine was then dis- United States, and England there Valparaiso, Chile, across the Ander angements, for mounted and inspected and after are always travellers who will pay to Buenos Aires and thence to Bio Whether he is remounting carried out an accept for a quick journey de Janeiro. Co
to charge £120 berth for the in part by the United States Con- of poverty ance test of half an hour at 420 h.p. estimate that we should have This project should be financed
tion.
time
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I have found at 1,760 rpm. During the whole Atlantic service. With passengers
ry much in period of 100 hours the running and mail an airship service to gress, Representative. Watson told was entirely normal, and everything America would earn dividends, We the United Press after his inter- went perfectly. The engine was have gone carefölly into finances, view with the President beef then dismounted for
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