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TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1933.
Aviation, Engineering & Building |
1933 ENGINEERING EXHIBITION.
To Be Held At Olympia In September.
The date of the twelfth Ship- ping, Engineering and Machinery Exhibition has been fixed for Sep. tember 7 to 23, 1933, at Olympia. London. The original event of the series was held in 1906.
This Exhibition has always at
Man
Birds
THE CHINA MAIL.
Now Supreme In The Air
From
Flying Learn
'Planes?
MACHINES COMING
TAILLESS
(By Major C. C. Turner.)
J.
be possible to-day to create a new world speed record with a biplane, and that the fact that monoplanes have of late years made the pace' circum- is a purely adventitious jatance.
NEW BUILDINGS AMONG OLD.
Many Changes In Vatican City.
Many changes have been taking place in the tiniest State in the' Besides the need for stressing aeroplanes for very much greater world, the Vatican City, since the speeds than the fastest birds at-Papal State was brought into be tain, the designers of aircraft have ing in its present form four years to provide for heavy loads of fuel.
jago. The load put upon a square foot | of the area of the heaviest bird's
Though the area of the Vatican
tracted engineering interests in in a million years or so, through, fighting it hinders the view and Wing is only a fraction of that sas-City is just about one-quarter of
over
the
tained by a square foot of the wing a square mile, new buildings of of almost any aeroplane. This is modern design have been built another reason for man's departure among the Barouque and Renaie- from Nature's aircraft design.
But in one detail man is now imi-sance
sea.
T
architecture of the old
many countries, and important re-
the selective, imitative and other restricts the field of fire,
Improving On Nature. presentatives from all
a species And Nature seems to be in two world have had frequent oppor-evolutionary processes, tunities of attending and address of "biplane" bird may appear on minds, for the swift, despite its ing distinguished technical gather the earth; also a tailless species! very small tail, is a fine flyer, tating Nature. The bird tucks Its Vatican. The little State is well ings at Olympia.
The scientist, whilst willing to whereas the peacock, the rooster: legs up under its body in flight, exon the way to earning the reputa-j tending them aaing for alighting. tion of being the best equipped The usual number of official
tail development, are indifferent! This method was adopted, but for State in the world. visits-about 63 in all-will take observe Nature's methods and the and the ostrich, with redundant On the Members of all results due to them, finds them too performers on the wngl.
a different reason, long ago, for the place, and the
Behind the dome of St. Peter's] hand, some good flying those Societies and Institutions slow. In the field of aviation, by other
of aerodynamic research, /birds have quite respectable tails, amphibian class of aircraft, the modern reinforced concrete build-| wheels being retracted so that the inga in gleaming white stone have who are habitually entertained at
although the fastest bird has no boat hull could safelf alight on the been built. the Exhibition will receive invita-means
other mathematics, statics, and
There are the towering masts of tions through their secretaries.
Now for land aircraft the
(one of the best-equipped short- The Exhibition promises to be of sciences, he is able to take short more than the speed of a slow aero-
comprehensive cuts to results. Even a "trial and plane.
Nature has chosen the monoplane tractable wheel undercarriage is
wave wireless stations. In the a more novel and
world, an ornate railway station character than ever, the imposition error" detail, which may take Na-
ject of reducing air resistance in of the tariff having stimulated ture 20,000 years, is for the scien- principle both for flapping wing used in several types, with the ob-
a short with
stretch of rail- had not to solve the problem of cop-
a new British invention and manufacture tiat and engineer no more than a and for soaring flight, but Nature
struction materials; the quills and fight, and thus increasing the
On one of the Swiss air way line, public offices,
art gallery, an automatic telephone in many fields so that all the Intest few months.
the The flying machine beats
proof speed.
lines an American type of marine and general engineering i
Оп bird; and more, the thinking pilot's muscles of the bird are products will be displayed.
Applications for copies of
As the "capital city of the the dying is superior to natural flying against collapse in the air.
335,000,000 Roman Catholica in the of materials, woods and metals, and ed, and this service, like several newspaper. official bulletin, giving advance It is sometimes claimed that birds the other hand, maan, using dead plane with this contrivance is us-system, and the offices of a daily
the neighbourhood particulars of the principal ex-living in
world" is built on hilly ground, the Steering A Course.
engineers who constructed the hibits, and published in English, nerodromes improve their style by compelled to keep the weight down, in the United States, is much fas-
ing plenty of wing-surface and
A notable new British aeroplane,short railway line that connects French and Spanish, should be watching those strange monsters was faced by the problem of secur-ter than any British air line. made to the Organisera, F. W. that have invaded their domain.
much lateral span in proportion to Bridges and Sons, Ltd., Buildings, Trafalgar Square, Lon-
mail these free of charge.
Common
Grand
Tailless 'Planes.
other.
There are designers who prefer the monoplane; but no longer is it urged, as a reason, that we ought
to follow Nature. The monoplane bird.
zero-
According to one school of air-fore and aft breadth, and he soly.the "Air Speed Courier," has this the Vatican City with the Italian may soon be heard of in connection tunnel and a cutting some 40 L don, W.C.2, England, who will craft design, the tail is a clumsy ed it by fixing one wing over an-feature, and the first of its class State Railways had to build a large
high-speed long distance
deep, as well as a viaduct. and unnecessary encumbrance.
with a
The population of the Vatican From the earliest flying days tail-
In air navigation man beats the City is now more than 520. After! less aeroplanes have been made
flight project.
By means of instruments in Great Britain, for example, the
enter the State will have to pro- Dunne V-shaped, tailless, inherent
even v. biplane controversy began in the and calculations he can steer a true to-day "foreigners" who wish to duce passports or identity cards ly stable machine.
his path The first machines of Wilbur earliest years of flying, and has course over great distance,
Difficult of though the wind across continued ever since. were tailless, and Orville Wright
settlement by reasoning and mathe-compels him to head the machine and state their business. but for balance were dependent
The French maties, it is now the subject of an on a line at an angle with his tra-system does not apply to tourists, on the pilot's skill, school of aeroplane design in the Air Ministry test of two machines, vel path. early years,
by contrast, relied one a monoplane, the other
and plane, but in other respects simi-pends upon sight and in long flights makes errors, repeatedly going off tail and its fixed upon the
lar. movable control surfaces..
Conversion
Factor
Inch Equals 25.4
Millimeters.
The "inch is safe for posterity. To-day
four tons.
of 'a
German
a bl-
a rea-
The Bird cannot do this; it de- Artistic
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Mar. 27, June
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BUTCHER MEAT.
fb.
$4 24
POULTRY.
30
42
Chicken Capons, Small
Duck
Th
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Large
Doves
Beef Sirloin
Prime Cat Corned Roast
Bullock's Brains
Head
corned
each
46
40
Eggs, Hen (cooking), per dos. 18 Eggs, Ren (fresh)
Fowls, Hainan ...
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Turkeys, Cock Turkeys, Hen
Snipe.... Pheasant Quail- Partridges
pair 2.60 2.50 anch 35
This
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Sopp Steak
Steak Sirloin Sausages...
per
Tongue, fresh
each
2.05
Canton
Heart Hump, Salt
15.
"
Geese
Feet
10
Kidneys
15
"
Tall Liver
lb.
Tripe Calves' Head & Feet set Mutton Chip
$1.50 $1.00
b.
Saddle
Shoulder
"
11
FRUITS.
"
Chitlings
r2
Brains
per
Almonds
Ib. 1.00
Fect
Fry Head Heart
Liver
Kidneys
Apples (Califorála) Bananas (bride's) Carambola Coconuta Lamons,
H
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China
water
to the source
private dwellings.
Castries is the chief city of the which is situated 21 miles north
The port picturesque island of Saint Lucia,
Pork Chop
Loin
#
60
Leg
Oranges Oranges
Shop's Head & Feet per set 90
Pours (Canton)
Heart
each
But we know beforehand the re-the course and then heading anew the tailless aeroplane
sult. Choice of one or the other for the goal, thus describing a of surviving The agitation which has been shows more promise
duties needed of the machine. And in progress for years looking to as a class than it ever did before, will depend upon the operational wavy travel path. abandonment of the English sys-Herr. A. Lippisch, the tem of measurement based upon scientist, who has succeeded with this can be said, wherever that unit, in favour of the metric small tailless machines, now claims sonably long landing apeed is need-
claims to consideration. And as a that the time has arrived for the ed the biplane will have strong system, is at an end.
Castries, St. Lucia, B.W.1. five-engined
After nearly consequence, the billions of dol construction
Speed Records.
Handsome and substantial build- belief years of construction activity, Cal- lars which the changeover would freighter of an all-dp weight of
There is a widespread have cost will now be saved.
In England the tailless "Ptero-that the monoplane can be given gary's new G$4,000,000 waterworks ings in concrete and masonry have! Pig All this results from the recent adoption almost universally of a dactyl," well known to those who superior speed qualities, but this system has been completed, thus replaced the ruins of this capital conversion factor be-attend the annual R. A. F. Display impression is chiefly due to the fact affording the city a plentiful sup-city, a large part of which was Im that some fast machines are mono-ply of filtered water from a system burned in 1927. Much of the ruin- planes, and that, speaking general-ranking as the most modern and fed town has been rebulit, and tween the English inch and the is being developed in highly metric millimeter. Hereafter, soportant directions.
The aircraft designer has in, ly, low landing speed is not de-complete of any in operation be- many of the new structures are
tween Toronto and Vancouver. far as the industries of the Unit-
its new In deciding on in practice that ed States. Great Britain and fact, proved
Recent Schneider Trophy win- France, Germany and other coun- tail is not necessary for fight, and tries were the metric system is that stability and balance can beners and the Speed Record machine works Calgary changed the without it. In con-are monoplanes, but it is claimed of supply from the Bow official, the inch equals 25.4 mil- maintained
struction it is a complication. In by eminent designers that it would Elbow River. limeters.
common
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east of Saint Vincent. of Castries is one of the best har bours in the West Indies, and the varled craft which frequent the depart loaded landlocked haven with sugar, copra, cocoa and limes, which are the chief products of the isle. Increased attention is now being given to fruit growing, in- |cluding oranges, graperfruit, man- goes, avocadoes and pineapples for the Bermuda, Canadian and British markets.
These facts are revealed in the annual report on the' social and
Kidneys Liver
order Sucking Pigs, to
Bret, Beef Buel, Beef
Veal
Mutton
Sausages 11
+
Barbel
No. 1
FISH.
Bream...es Canton Fresh
Water Fish
Crabs Codish
economic progress of the people Crabs of Saint Lucia, issued in London Cuttle Fish under the category of Colonial Re-Dace porta. Statistics show that the Ecle, Conger
Fresh island's population is 58,494, of which nearly one-tenth reside in capital.
Model Cottages.
Plans are being made in Castries
1/
Yellow
Frogs
Garoupa Gudgeon
Halibut
Herring
to house some of the inhabitants Lobsters
in model cottages. Cottages are
Mackerel Mallet
also bullt at Soufriere, the town Oysters of next importance to the capital. Perch In the rural districts housing is of Pike
a primitive character, but climatic Plaice
Pomfret, White conditions do not call for anything: Pomfret, Black elaborate in the way of homes.
Prawne Children attend 50 primary Roach schools in the colony.
None of Salmon
Bhark the schools are conducted by the skate Government, the organisation of Shrimps education being on a denomina- Snapper
two Bolec tional basis. There ATO
Turbot secondary schools. The Govern- Turtles, small fresh ment, however, fixes the salarica
of head teachers, based on quali- fications and attendance of the school.
During 1981, 1,068 ships cleared at Castries, of which 532 were sailing vessels. In addition, -112)
the American seaplanes visited. colony.
Government of the fala is con- ducted by an Adininistrator, who is subordinate to the Governor of the Windward Lélands, aided by an executive council. A partly elactive legislative connċil font- tions. The British acquired· Sainti Lucia in 1808.
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Persimmons, Large
Pumelo, Slam Walnuts
Grapes
VEGETABLES, ETC.
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Beans, Sprous
LODE Beet Boot Brinjals, Green
Red
Cabbage, Chinese
(Shanghai)
Cauliflower (Large
Carrota
-
(Medium)
each 10
Ib.
sach
(Small)
Celerity, Chinese Chillies, Dried
Bed
Green
Curry Star, English
Cucumbers
Garlic Ginger,
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Onions, Bombay
Okeves
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Japanese
American
Rhubarb (Fresh)..
Spinach
Tomatoes
Turnips, Panti
(Long) Vegetable Marrow- Water Dress. Water Lily Root.
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HONG KONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. The Committee of the shove Society would be most grateful if those interested in its work would kindly send In their donations or subscriptions.
Money is, urgently needed and funds are very low. No amount is too small and will be most thankfully received by the Hon. Treasurer.
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161, The Peak.