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TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1933.
Aviation, Engineering & Building
AIR LINERS OF
THE FUTURE.
Question Of Altitude Discussed.
NO LIMIT TO SPEED.
London,
A vision of the aircraft of the future flying at a great height with the crew peering out from their electrically warmed and her metically sealed cabin is called up
by a paper read to the Royal Aero- nautical Society by Wing-Com-
England-Australia Air Route
Allocation Of The Subsidy
SERVICE IN
ther the limit of human endurance Air said: has been reached,
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Before this year is over people Modernity in the interior design will be flying from London to land in Attlogs is the keynote f Berlin in 3 hours, according to the reconstructed west wing of the Herr Scharlach, a director of a German air line. At present the Prudential Assurance. Company's journey takes 7 hours by air. great building in Holborn, London, New fast aeroplanes, which which was opened recently. From have just been completed in Ger the beautifully appointed private many, he said, would result in
speeding up commercial aviation, theatre on the sixth floor to the With these machines, which wonderful strong room, with its have a cruising speed of 156 mfles thirty-ton docr in the basement,
mander G. S. Marshall. Great Bri Replying to a question by should exist on that account, an hour, it will be possible, he the latest Ideas in construction and tain has won the world's records Captain Peter Macdonald in the since a through route is a very said, to reach Vienna or Munich *ppearance have been utilised. for air speed and for altitude in House of Commons recently, different matter from local ser- within two hours of leaving Berthe strongest on this side of the The strong room, claimed to ba the air and Wing-Commander Mar-with regard to the air route to vices as has been shown in East lin.
Australia, Sir Philip Sassoon, Africa. A through route neces- Describing 1938 as a decisive Atlantic, has a steel door seven shrli dealt with the question whethe Under Secretary of State for sarily involves high overhead year for German aviation, Herr feet high and three feet thick. It expenses, walle local services Scharlach mentioned that for can be moved easily by one hand. "At this stage I can only need small capital and close touch the first time this summer the Only when it is fully open does the
whole distance from Berlin to drawbridge within fall into posi say that this route will be in-with changing local needs. augurated at the earliest pos-
Buenos Aires would be connected tion, so that the room can be enter
ed. A feeling is growing that in by a regular service of aeroplanes. sible date and that, in the ab- is
All round the chamber are the sence of unforeseen delays, I view of the immense extension The line of passage would be should hope that the regular of the activities of Imperial Air-crossed in mid-Atlantic by the will be kept £260,000,000 worth of]
steel, glass-fronted cases in which service will be in eperation by ways that sooner or later this former Lloyd steamer Westfalen, securities. The floor beneath is of rly Company will have to become which would act as a petrol-filling reinforced concrete, five feet thick,
"Imperial" in the real sense of station for the flying boats.
Wing-Commander Marshall held that the safe limit of height for a person breathing pure oxygen 42,000 feet if he is to take moder- ate exercise and 44,000 feet if he is merely to go up and come down again almost immediately.
As re- gards speed he said there was no physiological limit to the speed at:
and in straight line.
the Inte summer autumn."
ment.
Imperial,"
There
the word. Obviously, if the share Those would be restarted by cata-and the walls and ceiling, of the Apparently the delay is in no capital were held not only in this pult in the direction of the South same material, are three feet which man may travel uniformly way due to Imperial Airways country but in Canada Austra-American coast, where the Con- thick, and the walls and ceiling, of who, I understand, are ready to lia, South Africa, East Africa, dor Syndicate would take over the same material, are three foot | The lesson of his statements is operate their part of the service India and Malaya and Burma, the conveyance of mail..
through. that where man strives for great almost immediately. The delay the feeling would exist in these was also a possibility of lighting and heating or cooling Spacious rooms, with modern height or great speed he must pro- arises through the fact that so parts of the Empire that Imperial operation between this flying devices, and comfortable hygienic tect himself against the rarefied many Governments have to be Airways did to some extent be-boat service and the Graf Zep-desks and chairs, are provided for air and the forces caused by consulted and because the service speeds of 400 miles an hour and cannot be run without a subsidy long to them and was not solely pelin.
Finally, he said, there was the will start working in the new wing]
the hundreds of girl clerks who over. He must move in a room in of
a perquisite of Great Britain. some kind. Delicate ques- which temperature, air and
It should be quite possible to scheme for an air connection be- the tions naturally arise as to the arrange for shares to be held by tween Germany and the Far
next week. Bupply of oxygen are constant. allocation of this subsidy. Every the Governments of these coun-East, which was likely to become is interesting to note, is panelled The directors' common room, it Wing-Commander Marshall also indication exists, however, that dealt with the phenomenon exper- there is goodwill all round and tries and for Directors to be ap-/4 reality in 1933, and by which with panelling taken from the ienced by the Schneider Trophy that a workable formula will be pointed as by the British Govern-it would be possible to travel directors room take the original [distance of more than 7,000 building of the company on Lud pilots known as "blacking out," a found. There is a tendency inj form of temporary blindness that some quarters to draw an analogy ments were already in operation,
Obviously, if such arrange-miles in 5 days-Reuter.
Įgate-hill. occurs when a pilot turns at high with the Empire Broadcasting there would have been none of speed. It is caused by the terrific Service and to suggest that in this delay in commencing the strains temporarily placed on the the first place the British Trea- body by the turning movement but sury, like the B.B.C., should bear England-Australia air route since, strangely enough it does not the entire brunt of the develop-on the route would have felt that all the Governments concerned diminish the pilot's contro!
over ment and that Burma, Malaya Imperial Airways partly belong his other faculties. A pilot can ete, should only be expected to deliberately "black out" and retain contribute after the service hased to them and that they need full control over
his aeroplane becs properly and satisfactorily indignity in allowing it to control been advanced to a remarkable erection of which an average of
have no hesitation or suffer any Knowledge of the atom has throughout the wing, spon until he recovers his sight. Wing lestablished. Commander Marshall believes that
Everything seems to point, extent by work at Cambridge 650 workmen have been employed. It is suggested that only
which is causing a scientific limited sum in the region of difficulties are really coming to sensation. £50,000 a year as a subsidy will an end, that goodwill and pro- chialini have produced before the
Dr. Blackett and Mr. be necessary to enable the ser- Empire feeling is triumphing Royal Society photographs
to be operated as far as over minor jealousies and that disintegrated atoms that de- Malaya. As soon as suitable ar-the route may be in operation Nearing Completion In rangements can be made for the even before Sir Phili) Sassoon monstrate the quite new dis-
A form of belt would mitigate
CHINA'S TALLEST
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Shanghai.
22 STOREYS
Vice
£50,000 Subsidy.
alloention of this
the route.
al however, to the 'fact that the
sum between has suggested. the Governments concerned, the service will be started immediate-
y. Naturally, in these times of ROCHELLE SALTS MICROPHONE. Thirteen storeys in the air and onomy there tends to be some
hesitation in promising such
nine more to go.
And then
the
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It has been found that a piece
PHOTOGRAPHING THE ATOM.
Discovery Of A Positive Electron.
Now that the wing is completed, the whole building provides ample accommodation for the headquar- (ter staff of 4,500, nearly 3,500 of an up-to-date restaurant has been them women and girls, for whom
arranged in the basement of the new building.
British material has been used
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THE
the
Oc-BAN ON PUSS MOTH
of
covery of a positive electron.
This discovery is extraordin- arily interesting. It opens fresh possibilities, but I do not think it will invalidate the main con- clusions that have been formed
פי
AEROPLANES.
Commercial Purposes Subject Of Enquiry.
tallest structure, the first approxi-um, but the feeling is growing of Rochelle salts will act as anthe atom. The experiments imposed on the use of all Puss
com-
FATALITY SEQUEL..
Johannesburg, the structure of A total prohibition has been mation to & Chicago or New York that any further delay is unfor- amplifier when an electric cur- that have been made will have Moth aeroplanes .for
far as the Empire is rent is run through it and that a far-reaching theoretical impli-mercial passenger carrying in skyscraper in China, will bave been lunate as
concerned, and to commence the microphone made of a series of completed.
The building referred to in their route immediately would be the salts will receive and amplify cations, and they will cause much South Africa, pending an inquiry excitement in the scientific in Australia and the Union re- Joint Savings Society edifice, now amply repaid in the long run. sounds coming from all direc-
Obviously the service will have tions.
world.
garding certain structural fac- under construction Bubbling
This is said to be an im- the site to be regular and thoroughly safe provement over the ordinary type been detected as
Never before has anything tors. Well Road, Shanghai, on
This action follows a recent must therefore
positive elec- adjoining the Foreign Y.M.C.A. and
be under of "mike" and to have particu-tricity divorced from matter, fatality in Australia very much formerly occupied by Honigsberg unified control but there seems no lar applicability in the motion-and that is why this work is so on the lines of the South African and Sons, automahise dealers. reason why any petty jealousy picture studio.
ing structure on Road,
LA
Electrification Of Railways
Progressive Action In
Most Countries.
RECEIPTS IMPROVE.
+
important.
JAPAN'S £700,000 MUSEUM.
Beautiful Buildings.
for
machines, Union Airways have recently re- placed a Puss-Moth on the Dur- ban-Johannesburg service with a Junkers' plane - Reuter.
ROMANS AND REAL ESTATE.
mishap when Commander. Glen Plans cail for a structure of 22
Dr Blackett and Mr. Oc-Kidston was killed in Natal and storeya, a height of 270 feet. A
chialini, for the purpose of their Captain Davenport in the Cape. #appie 30 feet high, will extend
experiments, relied on cosmic It is estimated that about 18 Puss that to 300 feet. One of the fea-
radiations, which have much Moths in the Union are affected tures will be a fire lookout on top
greater energy than any particle and that several light plane clubs of the building, to be occupied by!
we can produce in the laboratory, owning these machines will be a single lookout-man.
but cosmic rays present dit placed in difficulties, Construction work on the Joint
60 per cent of the railways of culties
The Puss Moth costs about Savings Society building was start-
that country will have been "The actual photography is a £1,850 to land in South Africa, ed approximately nine months ago
changed over.
aimple process, but the skill and There are indications that the when the task of driving the piling) was commenced. This preliminary
In Germany, the Munich-Ulm patience required in detecting ban on Puss Moths will encour section of the line from Munich the present remarkable effects age aircraft produced by foreign foundation work was not complet
Those who advocate electri- to Stuttgart will be ready for have been of a very high order, countries to the dieadvantage of ed until September when the work! of steel construction, was started, fication as a means whereby rail- electrical operation by May and Much more will be heard of it." British-made
Since the commencement of the ways may, escape from the diffi-the conversion of the line from
beset them, Berlin to Munich is being con steel work, the new structure has culties which now risen steadily into the air until have some justification for being sidered. now, it stands above the Foreign pleased at the progress that has Hungary is also undertaking the Y.M.C.A. building, the most impos recently been made in convert electrification of the main line One Of World's Most
Bubbling Welling their ideas into practice, and between Budapest. and Hegyesha- still more for being satiefied at lom on the Austrian frontier, a the results which have thus been section over which, though short, Jachieved.
the traffic is heavy and im
The Imperial museum at Ueno All over the world, lines of portant.
which was destroyed by the earth- longer or shorter mileage are In Austria, 628 miles, or 14.8 quake in 1929, is to be rebuilt being changed from steam to per cent, of the whole ayatem, is electric traction, the outcome, al- now being worked electrically, £700,000 at par).
at a cost of 7,000,000 yen (about)
most without exception, being while Switzerland has, of course, It will be a three-storeyed struc- Real estate advertisements : mot that both traffic and receipts are long been the outstanding exam-ture about 60 feet high and covering totally unlike our modern publicity experiencing a tonic influence.ple of wholesale conversion. In over 120,000 square feet. The Jap in phraseology, but painted con Buccessful testa have just been
In Sweden, where by any Bri- all these countries the fuel posi-anese hope to make it one of the epicuously in red and black letters completed at Bardwell Manor tish standard the traffic is light, tion has been the determining most beautiful buildings in the on the sides of buildinga, were in (East Angila) with a gigantic 565 route miles have recently factor.
world, we provoque in Herculaneum and Fompel, transplanting machine which, if been converted, 6535 are under-In France, Russia, the United The exterior will be of conven-buried in 79 A.D.A adopted on a largo scale, will, it going electrification and, accord-States and the Argentine, Asitional Japanese design, but the in- One such advertisement is said is claimed, revolutionise farming ing to Mr. L Ofverholm, before well as in India and South Africa, terior will be decorated and lighted to have been translated as fol activities and reduce the labour very long the total mileage comparable progress is being in the latest western styles. The town that required to an absolute minimum operated in that way will be in-made. The lines affected in the museum should be completed in five"On the estate of Julla Faliz,
The machine, drawn by a tractor creased to 1,680, or 40 per cent. two latter countries include yen
vaka dva dy daughter of Spurius Felix, are to and worked by four boys during of the State Railway system, mountain sections on which elec- Meanwhile, the flow of Japanese lat from the Brat to the sixth of the tests planted 6,000 cabbages In Italy projects for: the contricity has brought about a con-art treasures to foreign countries is the ideas of August, on a lease of Der hour,
version of a further 2,700 route siderable speeding up of the to be checked by extemalve purchase five years, a bath, a vanereum, and It is understood to be the inven- miles have been worked out, the traffic and, ita haulage under from local dealers and connoia-ninety shops, bowers and upper Hon of Russian.
Iden being that within 12 years mere pleasant conditionsseurs,
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