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SHIP AND THE SEAPLANE.
Lessons Learnt from Early Experiments.
LANDINGS ON DECK.
Installation and pair of Dist Engines Motor for Mario Bad BalloonT = speciality.
Rough Weather.
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20042
Passenger Freight
craft was flown off like a land machine. As soon as it was in So long as the aircraft has con the air the pilot pulled a quick siderable way on.. It is not diff- releasing device, which allowed' cult to keep it straight, and the the axle and wheels to drop off. modern addition of independently Later an improvement was de operated brakes hos increased vised and used in the Furious, directional control,
There are, The seaplane rested on a trolley however, occasions such 25 in which ran down a slotted rail fix-rough weather, when the aircraft ed to the deck. On reaching the will swing so that some meana end of the deck the trolley was have had to be devised to stop the The Increasing use of zero-
arrested by two arms fitted with | aircraft "going overboard without planes in conjunction with the pas-shock absorbers. Thla method of curtailing the amount of deck senger liners, and their extended flying seaplanes off got over the space available for alighting on. uso in the Navy, lent special in difficulty of getting aircraft into This has been done by the pro- terest to a lecture at the Royal the air on a day when it would vision of sloped palisades fitted to Aeronautical Society by Squadron not have been possible to fly from the edge of the deck at its for- Leader W. R. D. Acland, D.F.C. the water, but it did not solve the ward end. These palisades con- A.F.C., on "Deck Flying." in problem of their return to the sist of stanchions spaced about the course of his remarke Squad- ship. The few land types carried eight feet apart, with wires strung ron-Leader Acland said:
in carriers and other ships had as between them, and they extond The design of the ship has yet no alternative but to alight on for about 150 feet on both sides design of the aircraft until to-day of land.
an laland (in the island type. the a stage has been reached which, within certain limita, enables the were
During the war single-scaters taiand itself forms part of a
carried
successfully palisade) on one side. and
They are fleets to use aeroplanes which are flown from very short decks, and sioped up at an angle of about no longer hampered by extra in heavy ships both single and 30 degrees from the horizontal, strong under-carriages and ap two-seators were flown from turhus forming a fence which pre- pliances for picking up wires usedrei platforms. In the case of the vents machines running over the with the original arresting gear, two-seater an extra long run was side. They do to some extent res- detalls of which 1 will describe provided by placing boards across trict the width of the deck avail- later. Before the war there ware
the guns, but all these platforma able for landing upon, since It is few aircraft with the ficét.
nd have of course the seaplane was the only pesolete owing to
now become ob- quite possible for an aircraft to the development land successfully with one wing used in fleet manoeuvres. As a of the catapult.
tip over the slide. type. It was inefficient. It had to The possibility of landing on Aircraft under these conditions operate from shore bases, and the ship under way had, however, can alight on the deck quite auc- sea was frequently too rough for
been demonstrated, and it was due cessfully in rough weather when machines to get off and alight
to the lessons then learn that by the ship le rolling and pitching! upon.
1920 landing on the deck was talk to a considerable extent. Extra The possibility of using landed of as an every-day occurrence. core has, however, to be exercía. machines was, however, realisad, The Furious was sent in toed, and the pilot `must not only and in 1911-1912 the battleship dock to be fitted with a landing aim at landing about the centre Hibernia was fitted with a launch-deck aft, and experiments were of the ship, where the motion will Ing deck.
carried out at the Isle of Grain be least, but he must also so time wonden superstructure built out with an arresting gear. This gear his landing that the aeroplane from the bridge to the bows. consisted of a number of fore and touches the deck when the ship is Several flights were made from aft wires a few inches apart. At approximately on an even kneel. this, and a similar deck construct the forward and they ran over a
Whereas a few years ago there| ed on the London, All thead sloping ramp. When landing was flights
a considerable number of were of an experimental in progress the wires nature only.
were sup-accidents of one sort or another, The Arst carrier ported five or six inches off the I think It is a fair statement to proper was the Hermes, commis- deck by
small wooden blocks, say that to-day under all condi- sioned in 1918. The idea of fly- thus creuring that horns or hooks tions about 99 per cent. of the ing off the deck was apparently on the under-carriage engaged in landings are not continued until 1915, and in these fore and aft wires. Stretch-With the number of carriersnow- quite successful. the early stages of the war sea ed transversely across these wires in commission and the number of planes and airshipa were the only at about 30 feet Intervals were types of aircraft in use with the aircraft available.
throughout directly influenced, the the ses after a flight out of reach of the deck in's carrier without WORLD'S GREATEST TRAVEL
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SAILING DATES FOR FEB./MAR., 1931 (Subject to change). DEPARTURE HOURS,: Hong Kong 5.30 p.m., Wuchow 2 p.m.
S.S: "TAI HING"
S.S. "TAI MING [1,068 tons-Capt. Trott.}
[649 tons-Capt. W. H. Lawton.] THURS. 26th FEBRUARY. MARCH. 4th SAT. 21st TUES. 10th THURS. 26th MON. 16th
Regular Service of Fast, High. Glass River Steamers. Having Good Accommodation for First Class Passengers, Electrle Light and Fans In Staterooms and Saloon, The .. Tal Hing" is fitted with Wireless. There vessels laavo Hong Kong for Wuchow (via Sanshuf, Shio- hing, Takhing & Dosing) and return to Hong Kong (via same Ports) every five or six days.
Fores for round trip (not including meals) $20. Moals & Wines ere to be obtained on board.
Hong Kong Arrivals and Departures from Tai Hing Wharf. For informatiur apply to
-29 Connaught Rond, West,
Phone 20893.
DEPARTURES.
The seaplane carried did not attached a bag of sand. The in-nust be done every year, and this
ropes, to each end of which was fleet, some thousands of landings PASSENGER LISTS. adequately meet the requirements.tention was that the pilot should high percentage of successful Very often conditions of the sea let down a hook which would pick landings may be reasonably inter- were such that it was impossible up successivo transverse repes as preted to prove that with modern to get a seaplane into the air, and the aircraft ran down the deck, aircraft to fly and modern carriers Francisco and Honolulu via ports Per 8.8. President Grant to San in any sea at all the carrier al; thus progressively Increasing the to alight upon, landing on the deck ways had to atop or steam dead drag and arresting. the aircraft.is now, under favourable condon February 24:~~ alow to pick up by means of The books or horas on the under- tions, comparable with the sim crane or derrick. Special atten- carriage engaging in the fore and plicity of landing on a given mark tion has been devoted to consider aft future developments on bigger
wires kept the aircraft on an aerodrome, lines, as experiments bad shown
In practice our hopes that aircraft had taken a definite
were not realised. place in naval warfare, and that aeroplanes, apart from seaplanes, could be operated from ships at sea, a very important factor in viow of the much better perform ance of aeroplanes.
The Campania.
atraight.
Air Disturbance. There were only three success- ful landings on this deck, but looking back the reason is not far to seek.
WARSHIPS IN PORT.
The following British warships were in harbour to-day;—
Bridgewater-South wail. ↓ Bruce No. 8 buoy Cumberland-West wall dock. Herald-East wall. Hermes-No. 1 buoy, Iroquois East wall Kent--Nerth arm Marazion-No. 4 buoy, Medway-No. 2 buoy,
Odin--No, 2 buoy, Osiris-In dock Oswald-In dock, Otus No. 2 buoy, Petersfield-North BrEL. Sundwich-No. 18 buoy. Sepoy-No. 11 buoy. Seraph No. 12 busy. Sirdar South wall. Stormcloud-No. 11 Suns Sterling-In dock, Suffolk-North wall. Tamiar. Basin. Tarantula-South wall. Thracian No.: 12 buoy.
SANG WO
Co.,
Johnson, Miss Fay Johnson, Miss M. G. Collina, Mrs. F. D. Felicia Johnson, Mrs. A. Sartor, Rev. R. E. Wood, J. M. Woolworth, Zolton Cser, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Hall, F. Lafeuille, Mrs. Petra V. Ligot, Roy C. Bennett, Mr., and Mrs. Geo. C. Bump, Miss Bonnie Dump, Miss Betty Bump, Mrs. Ida M. Crombie, Geo. L. Dobbs, Jose Ibarrola, Mr. and Mrs. V. S. McKenny, Paul Watt, Mrs. E. I. F. Wieser, Mr. and Mra. George B White, Mr. and Mrs. Sam E. Allen, {* Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Barth, Mies Marie Barth, Foster Blodgett, Fred W. Boaler, Mrs. Maybell Bruskevith, Comdr. and Mrs. R. W. Dempwolf, Mra. Ina Duncan,
Ltd.,
Yamaguchi, S. Ozawa, J. Arnold, R. W. Smith, E. J. McConnville, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Walker, Count de Festi Stephanti.
Manila on February 24:-
Per Empresa of Russia for
Mias E. J. Altiris, Mr. and Mrs. Thwaites, Geo. E. Costello, Mr. M. de Inchauati, C. W. Jones, C. and Mrs. G. R. Razavet, Leung Chak-fong, Lee Shee, Chan Ting, Leong Shi,
ARRIVALS OF SIEPS.
Monday, Feb.23. Dozan Maru, Japanese str., 978 tons, Capt. Y. Nishima," from Haiphong, buoy No. B25,—— Wada Jimusho & Co.
Tonjer, Norwegian str., 1,948 tons,
Capt. H. Rasmussen, from Chiawangtae, buoy No. B29.
Dodwell & Co.
Tuesday, Feb. 24.
Mrs. H. H. A. Hastings, Mrs. Coorne, Norwegian str., 1,958 tons,
L. E. Hartnal, Mr. and Mrs. H. A.
Nightlinger, F. O. Pessell, Mrs.
D. H. Traphagen, Charles Jr.
+
Capt. O. Klette, from Canton, Wanchal Anchorage.-Dodwell
& Co.
Winders, John A. HB, Mr. and Deli Maru. Japanese str., 1,298
tons, Capt. R. Sanada, from Canton. O.S.K. Wharf.-O.S.K. KKronviken. Norwegian str.; 1,519'
The air disturbances caused by the mast, bridge and funnel, all of which were directly The old Cunard liner Campania in the line of fight, made it so was therefore fitted with a deck "bump" that the pilot had to fly nearly 250 feet long, and seaplanes faster than would ordinarily have were successfully launched from been necessary. Further, half- this dock in conditions underway down the deck the natural which it would have been imprac wind was so blanketed by the ticable to take off from the sur. superstructure that it ceased to face of the sea. An axle and have any effect on the aircraft, wheels were attached to the un-which was thus deprived of a very derside of the floats, and the air large proportion of the relative wind. For instance, assume the aircraft la landing into a relative wind of 80 knots composed of a ship's speed T5, and natural wind 18. Half-way up the deck the natural wind was almost complete ly blanketed by the funnel, mast and bridge, so that the relative. wind at this point suddenly, drop ped by as much as 10-15 knots, a serious matter when the aircraft lind to be brought in rather fast because of the bumps caused by the superstructure Fortunately for the pilots, a strong rope net tandem was fixed to the forward end. of The P. & O an. Malwa; left Mrs. Stanley Cooks, Miss I. M. the landing deck, so that no one Shanghai for this port on Febru-Watkins, Mr. and Mrs. H. R. hit the funnel, although many ary 24 at 830 pm, and le due Aaron and infant, Mr. and Mrs. made determined attempts to here on February 27 at about 6 P. E. Morze, C. E. Phipps, Mrs. break through the net.
Hamilton Wright, J. M. Goodeno."
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The lessons deduced from these early, attempts were 203
(1) The aircraft must have a clear run so that if the pilot
STEAMERS' MOVEMENTS. ̧
Mrs. J. E. Rainais, R. E. O’Bolger, Mrs. Victor Keen, R. Millar, H. A.. McCoomb, Mr. and Mrs. Butterfield, L A. da Costa, Mrs. T. W. Spofford, Dr. F. W. Bible, Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Parker, Mr. and. Mrs. F, R. Pratt, Miss M. Moor, Mr. and Mrs. Paul
| Dummant, J. P. Bourne, Wm. Gray, Ellia T. Baega, Mrs. J. F. Rhame, A. Edgar, Mrs. J.Rosenberg, Miss H. Rosenberg, J. F. Jovino, R. Koch, Dougles Smart, Dr. F. M. Dodd, O. R.. Hegness, Mr. and
The CPS RMS. Empress of Australia (R/W Cruise) arrived at Chinwangtao on February 24 Per mo. Helan Maru for Vic- (Tues) at 11 am leaves Chin-toria and Seattle on February * found he wasjalikely to touch wangtao on March 1 (Sun) at 8 24:—
The Shanghal Interport Foot the deck until, too far up he pm, and is due at Beppu on can put on his engine and go March 4 (Wed) at 8 a.m. She ball team (Messrs. E. Munro, round for a second try leaves Beppu on March 5 (Thurs.) Marim, Costa, Goob, Elliott,
tons, Capt. T. Kramme, from Swatow, Kailan Wharf Wallem & Co.
Kwong Sang. British str., 1,428
tons, Capt. H. R. Dobson, from Swatow, West Point Wharf.-J. M. & Co. Linan, British str. 1,856 tons,
Capt. J. Layton, from Canton, Taikoo Dock-B. & S.. Lashan Maru, Japanese str., 1,507 tons, Capt. R. Nagayama, from Oldekerk, Dutch str., 4.568 tons,
Canton, buoy, No CL-N.Y.K.”
Capt. Lenies, from Shanghai, buoy No. AT-JOJ.L Utrecht, Dutch str., 709 tons, Capt. J. H. Kop, from Takão, Yatsning, British st., 1,424 tons,
North Point Wharf.-A.P.C.
Capt. C. Alexandre; from Can- ton, buoy No. 81 J. M. &
Co.
(2) It was far easier to approach at 6S Top Sinclair,Widmore, Grahsin..
from right astern in spite of The C.PS, R.M.S., Empress of Jones, Cutlerros, Murphy, Campos), The B. C. Telephone Co. has an bad bumps that to have to Anis arrived at Kobe on February H. Standring, Miss P. R. Johnston,nounced the beginning of construcy drift round the bridge and 24 (Tues.) at 8 am, left Kobe on Hideshima, R. Hashiba, Mz. tion of British Columbia's link in a mland Storward..
*** February 24 (Tues.) "at 4 pm., and Mra, James A., McPheeter, S. complete trans-Carada i telephone que at Yokohama on Kybyosul; Frank__ P. Raymond, system. The provincial link will
(Wed.) at 1pm.” She
G. H. Trepper, Mrs. C. J. Patrne, cost:$1,250,000. All Canadian tele- Yokohama on February 28 Lantenbach, Mr K. S. Potrúa, phone companies are co-dparating in
Minis G. E. M Luckham, 8. this natiopal undertaking.
(8) That Upite of the many and