THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1934,
SOUTH AFRICA'S PANORAMA SEEN FROM A CUSHIONED ARMCHAIR
“FERRYBOAT”
AEROPLANES
ARE COMING|
No Wings Or Screw Propellors.
'PADDLE-WHEEL PROPULSION
Berkeley, California. Aeroplanes with neither wings nor screw propellors, but equipped with paddle wheels which would propel them through the air like river or harbour ferry boats, were pictured as the possible aerial craft of to-morrow, to the Amerl- can Association Society Mechanical Engineers.
of
U.S. AWARDS CONTRACTS FOR 81 BOMBING PLANES
$3,195,450 Order Placed With The Glenn L. Martin Company.
Washington.
The War Department has awarited a contract for the pur- chase of 81 bombing planes to
A contract for 280 airplane the Glenn L. Martin Company, Baltimore, for $3,196,450. engines was given the Wright Aeronautical Corporation, Pa terson, N. J for 81,705,738.
GREATEST AIR MAIL SERVICE
Canada's Chain of 130 Aerodromes
LINK WITH FAR EAST
Ottawa,
TRANSVAAL TO CAPE
BY AIR
BUSINESSMAN'S GRAPHIC
1,000
“A
DESCRIPTION
MILES IN NINE HOURS
BUSINESS man in a hurry is an animal not to be thwarted." Somebody at some remote time made this very true remark," writes R.M.M. in the Imperial Airways Gazette.
I like to call myself a business man, and just recently I found myself in the midst of Johannesburg in a great hurry to get to
One of the two planes in which Lord Douglas Hamilton and the Shanghai manager of the Far Eastern Aviation Company, Mr. A. D. Bennett, thrilled Shanghal residents recently, while demonstrating the capabilities of British machines. The demonstration included "crazy" flying, which held the spectators breathless.
U.S. SELLING
AIR ENGINES
IN GERMANY
Sharp Increase In Exports
122 IN THREE MONTHS
Washington..
America has been sending heavy shipments of aeroplane engines to Germany
In recent months, In the first quarter of the year only Soviet Russia took larger quant titles than Germany,
In January, 1983, statos- the Herald Tribute, American exports jof aeroplane engines, parte and accessories to Germany sufficied
PLANES to account for a single large
GREET BRITON
Cape Town. A lot depended on my presence at that spot nearly ley, a town famous for its. diamonds CHILEAN a thousand miles away. There was, of course, the train, and then and its breakfasts and little else, arid again I could make the journey by car, but both of these highly started on the second lap of our commendable Ideas which occurred to me were ruled out by the Journey across Karroo-land. The importance of the time-factor. The fact was I had to be in Cape little Karroo-bush, which is Town within a very few hours-bless the erratic fluctuations of
bunch of dry sticks but on which the stock market!
sheep grow wonderfully fat, was scattered about as the tufts of hair on a native's head.
And all this happened in the early hours of a certain Satur- day morning. Then came the dawn and inspiration.
a
We climbed to 7,000 ft.; the scene)
Mt. Everest Conqueror Crosses Andes
WAR
plane. A year later during last January-37 engines were ship- ped, valued at £87,900, while Febru ary exports numbered 38 engines.
valued at £37,000, and March ex- ports 47 engines, valued at nearly £50,000.
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Flying Facts
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The first woman aeroplane pilot, Mme. De La Roche, made her first Chalons-sur-Marne,
Professor P. K. Kirksten, of the aeronautical engineering depart ment of the University of Wash ington speaking of aerial plans for the future, said that the paddle- wheeled acroplane project is sup- ported by principles of air mechanics already, developed in Germany, France and the United .States, and is of proven practical Good progress is being made
value.
Santiago Thus in the first three months in Canada with the carrying out oUGH TO RING THE IMPERIAL AIRWAYS' OFFICE, AND IN A TRICE beneath turned to an even greyneas aerial conqueror of Mount Everest, American engines-more than the
IN SPITE OF THE HOUR, 5.15 A.M. IN FACT, I WAS BOLD EN-
Col. Percy Etherton, British of Better Performance
1034 Germany bought 122 of the scheme for the great air MY SEAT WAS BOOKED ON THE AEROPLANE WHICH WAS TO and 1 grew sleepy after my very who visited the country on a lecture United States shipped to all the Dealing with the characteris-mail service which is designed LEAVE FOR CAPE TOWN AT 7 O'CLOCK THAT SAME MORNING. good meal. I felt that I could safe- tour, ties of eyeloidal aircraft and their ultimately to secure the delivery
I anatched an hour's much-was no longer blurred, and each ly close my eyea for a few moments Chilean welcome. A squadron of Russia, which took 146 engines,
accorded an Imposing reat stability in of letters between London, Mon needed sleep, bathed and dressed, small tuft performance and
of the world, excepting flight, Professor Kirksten said: treal and New York in three and and at 6.55 found myself com-bold relief in the clear early morn was awakened by a slight folt as to the Andean Mountain Range to
of grass stood out in without missing much-and then army planes flew from Santiago In-Reuter. "Idling, eyeloidal propellers a half days, and to provide the fortably ensconced in a cushioning air. The trail of dust in our we touched ground. On the side of greet him as he crossed over from should be superior to fixed wings fastest mail service to the Far ed armchair, gazing at fast re-wake hung motionless; we circled the hill, which I could see through Argentins, in standard gliders of acroplane East. The project is described volving airscrews and at certain over form. Cycloidal aircraft offer ad-as being "one of the greatest exciting activities on the part of minute, and then get our course for white letters
the hangar, which looked the window, was inscribed in huge The Chilean planes hovered to vantages for military duty in that steps ever taken in the history uniformed officials at the Rand Cape Town.
the name 'Victoria salute the Colonel's plane through there are no wings to obstruct the of mails transport.”.
West,' which meant 'lunch.' Air Port. I had been gently de-
the Uspallata Pass, 10,000 feet high. WOMEN PILOTS WHO view or to interfere with machine) The Canadian, authorities
The mine dumps, bleak effigies of Once again the meal was excellent There was also a Chilean aerial guns. The cycloidal propellor has
believe that it will be practical.
prived of my luggage some time great Industry, looked for all the and ance again I felt a certain demonstration In the foreground the important advantage of being
MADE HISTORY. to start the quick mail ser-
ago, but felt assured that the world like the cooled and wrinkled drowsiness as we got up into the air of Mount nuiseless. There seems to be no
agile young man whom I had seen craters of
Aconcagua. Colonel vice from London hy the
an extinct volcanic re-at 1.20 or thereabouts.
Etherton said the crossing of the reason why this type cannot excel
Dr. Bessica Reiche was the first spring,
prancing towards the air liner gion. I thought of the photographs So far the flying had been won Andes was a most Impressive ex-woman to fly in the United States. Malls brought by the aeroplane in
liners would be picked up by
with it knew what he was doing:1 had looked at of the moon's sur-derfully smooth and free from perience. any manoeuvre now performed."-Router.
acroplanes off the south-eas-
No Excitement
face, and saw a striking resembl-bumps, but the weather did not tern coast of Newfoundland in
Fassengers were entering the ance to ite serrated outline In the appear to be as placid ahead, for I spring and summer, while in
cabin door and unconcernedly tak scene below.
could see a bank of very heavy the sun behind, while small beads of fight at ing their seats and settling them- winter they would be trans
But we passed over Johannes-wind-driven cloud. The Artemis at moisture formed on the cabin win-France, in 1910. ferred at Halifax. Nova
selves down for the journey. There burg's industry and out into the once started to climb, and we reach-dows. Scotia, taking half a day lon-
was none of the excitement which I brown country beyond-those un-ed 9,000 ft. simultaneously with our felt the occasion seemed to demand; productive tracts of land which go arrival at
And just as suddenly as we had A flight through a heavy rain by ger,
the edge of the cloud entered those clouds did we burst a plane equipped with a wooden but, then, I was being initiated towards the make-up of the Trans-layer, which we cleared by about from them again over a dark-look-propeller will eat away several in- A chain of 130 aerodromes, Into the mysteries of air travel, and vaal and which, according to those 600 ft. And we flew above solid ing sea broken by small white-ches of the propeller. Another home-made aeroplane has antic to the Pacific and providing all probability well acquainted with size.
stretching 2,800 miles from the At-these other people about me were in who know, are been completed by the Aeronautic safe landing-places every tweny- the experience. Quite frankly, 1
ever increasing in woolly looking cloud until three crested waves. We circled, and Works of the Aviation Administra-jfive miles across Canada, will pro- had looked upon air travel as a sort barren and dying for want of ruin, the snow-capped Hex River moun-line, and towering above It Table accomplish in a few days what o'clock, when through a break there straight ahead of us lay the] Aeroplanes are now being used tion. The plane will be Java, as donations from overseas months,
named bably be completed within twelve. Chinese in Java were devoted to its
of luxurious and mythical Idea en- and if you are losing heart in your tains. Gone were those arid plains Mountain shrouded in rain-laden formerly required' months of hard Stx thousand men have been
tertained only by. the wealthy and efforts to revive your withering and heat-distorted hills. Beneath clouds. construction: The total cost is working for a year in felling tim-might be able to say to their try, and you will return to your small streams rushing down the Wingfield Aerodrome, but the Im seated, aeroplanes have been re- demonstrative classes, so that they plants, fly as I have over the coun-us there was water in a thousand about $50,000.
It was raining when we landed at
Bids for 25 inexpensive, two friends:
garden and gaze with pride upon its steep mountain sides in plumes of perial. Airways passenger car wasquested by the Department of 'I made the journey by air, my comparative lush abundance! D. M. Suther-
white foam. There were green drawn up under the shelter of the Commerce for use by aeronautical Ubiquitous Stewardı
valleys of moist earth, and there wing of the Artemis, and we clam closed cockpit. The Artemis, for
A voice at my elbow diverted the were brilliant white patches which bereit in.
inspectors of that department. · I saw our pilot climb into the en-trend of my thoughts into other were flowers. that was the name of the great ten-
Within 15 minutes we were in This was perfect, but the clouds the heart of Cape Town. I looked channels..
Jean Pierre Blanchard, a French- seater monoplane in which I reclia-
Is there anything you want, sir? obscured the view once again and at my watch-it was 4.40; we had
man, together with an American ed, roared, the four airscrews re-ed apologetic, but I was pleased of
The young man in uniform look-we continued on our way in bril-covered the
distance between the first air crossing of the Eng
companion, Dr. Jeffries, completed volving faster and faster until they his presence, and asked him to ex- were quite invisible, and made no plain the exact functions of the in-
liant sunshine above an earth in Johannesburg and Cape Town inish Channel in a balloon in 1875.
just nine hours! impression on the blue of the early struments fixed to the panel at the leash. The chocks were deftly re-continued his rounds Inquiring as to meet us. morning sky beyond. She seemed forward end of the cabin. He did the altimeter needle started to drop thought of what I had to do thers During 1988 the average dis journey came to me with a sud AVERAGE DISTANCE FLOWN It was just after 4 o'clock when denness which was distressing. I to be straining tentatively at her
80 with brief assurance, and then and the clouds seemed to be rising was ample time to do it in-and Itance flown for every plane owned moved from the wheels and we to the welfare of the other passe plunged into their depths, leaving word "anti-climax." moved slowly forward, the great
With a rush we knew then the true meaning of the by a transport line exceeded. 100,- tyres trundling over the hard veld gere.
CHINA BUILDS ANOTHER AEROPLANE
Nanking.
GRAF ZEPPELIN AT BUENOS AIRES.
Thousands Crowd Roofs To Cheer
EXPERIMENTAL VISIT
Buenos Aires.
The Graf Zeppelin paid this city a 75-minute call June 30, its first visit to Buenos Aires, and after loading mail, turned northward again. Thousands of persons crowded the flat roofs of the city
ber and draining and levelling land for the trans-Canada project. According to Col. land, the Minister of National De fence, this work will be completed; by the autumn, while by next spring the fields will be equipped with apparatus second to anywhere.
none
PLANE BUILDER IN DIFFICULTY
French Air Minister May Give Aid
dear,'
But these people were different.
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If you think your little garden is caught a glimpse of the majesty of sweep of the Cape Peninsula coast to round up Alaskan reindeer and
Paris, August 5. M. Crouzinet, builder of the without conveying more than a A fine array of leather-bound to cheer is arrival and wavo fare world-famed aeroplane Rainbow, in tremor to our well-sprung chairatable, and I was about to open the periodicals lay before. me on the well, hoping is fortnightly trips to which the crack pilot Meomoz re- We taxted slowly away from the first of them when the reflection of South America will be extended peatedly crossed the Atlantic, an-hanger until we had reached the far next year to included Argentina. nouned to-day that he is forced to edge of the landing ground, faced the aun on water caught my eye,
The visit, in the nature of an close down his factory.
about into the wind, and hesitated of the Vaal River winding its way and I saw the dun-coloured ribbon experiment, marked identification of the South Altanile air-mall Minister, M. Denain, will personally ines roared; we moved forward, at Its course was clearly marked by
It is reported that French Air for a second. Once again the on-
through a 'drough-stricken country, rivalry between Air France Steam check the causes of the threatening first slowly, but with ever-increas stunted trees, but the water-level *Packet and airplane combined bankruptcy of the Crouzinet works ashing past the cabin windows was low, and there, were times when
ing speed, until the ground was
services, and the German all-air in the attempt to provide, if neces- and Graf service.
sary. Government aid to enable the and the veld became an even har. the river developed into a series of
AIR TRAFFIC IN U. S.
The German Deutsche-Luft-continuation of production. Hansa recently beat the record by delivering mall here four days after postage in Berlin. Air France, however, has attempted all-air service, and delivered mail in Rio de Janeiro two days after leaving Paris.
mony of brown and gold.
potholes which seemed to have no Bird's Eye View Of Earth
connection. Little farms were dot- ted along the river banks, and I Suddenly the Artemis ceased to admired and pitled their courageous tremble, and I knew then that her jowners,
In 1938 American airlines carried wheels had left the ground, and that about 2 per cent. of the long-haul the four giant engines, still roaring, uniformed friend had to audge me Then I must have slept, for my traffic (trips of over 100 miles) of were dragging us up into the very gently to tell me that we were over American railroads.
blue sky. The ground beneath us Kimberley and directly over the 'big
hole. I gazed into its open depths, felt a slight buzzing in my ears and saw the needle of the altimeter dropping steadily away from the 6,000 ft. mark at which we had been fying. Our Captain throttled down bla engines and we glided into an effortless landing on the Kimberley Aerodrome.
It was exactly 9.45 as I sat down to an excellent and quickly served breakfast with my eight fellow Passengers.
Ito
In The Diamond Town
I had an opportunity of talking of discussing with rtance of food, He agreement, and stoc
shadow..
Flying Through Rain
***work.
Then it was that the object of my
FAIRBANKS
000 miles.
WHITE
HORSE
JUNEAU
ETCHIKAN
PR.RUPERT
GEORGE
ANADA
VANCOUVER
LEDMONTON
SEATTLE REGINA,
PORTLAND
WINNIPEG
ARMY
MINNEAPOLIS
UNITED
STATES
WASHINGTON
The giant Graf Zeppe for South America, carrying satibe of freight wud maila mann being a charge of the
which despite heavy rainstor many notable: passengers
famous command-
since
we left Kimb