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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1934.
HOW THE AIR FORCE MAINTAIN CONTROL IN EMPIRE OUTPOSTS
FLYING TECHNIQUE
IMPROVING
DUMMY PLANE TESTS IN
NEW YORK
MAY AID INVENTIONS
New York.
blunt noted, dummy aeroplane drones in a small room high up in a New York skyscraper, banks right or left, spins, dives and climbs.
Inside is a "pilot". At a nearby desk, an instructor checks the manoeuvres,
Another standing on the base to which the plane
is attached, peers through a tiny spy-glass at the illuminated dials on the instrument board, barking instructions to the "pilot," hidden from view by a dark hood:
The droning mechanism stops, the hood removed, and the "pi- lot" steps out. Instead of a pleasure seeker on an amusement park device, it may be Hugh Herndon, Jr., who flew around the world with Clyde Pangborn; Hubert Julian, the "Black Eagle of Harlem," an army pilot, or any one of a half dozen prominent fliers seeking to improve their flying technique.
BRITAIN LEADS IN AVIATION Praise From Visiting U.S. Expert
EXPECTS TO LEARN MUCH
London.
The course, taught by the veteran Casey Jones or an assist ant, offers training in two of the essentials of navigation — "blind flying" and radio beam navigation. It does not presume to turn out a finished navigator in the whitewashed room, but it' lis said to shorten the necessary
air training time for pilots by 50; per cent.
Good Instrument Board When the student climbs into
MOSCOW
ERIA
VLADIVOSTOK
NORTH POUL
CANA D'A
NEW YORK.
BRITISH
TSHINGTON
CHICAGO UNITED STATES
William Alexander
Carrying a crew of five and a cargo of American-made goods, the giant Sikorsky twin-molored seaplane is being prepared at New York for a round-the-world Eight with Washington as the official starting point. Mr. William Alexander, ex-Navy pilot, is in command. The map shows the planned. route and stopping places.
FLIGHT LIEUTENANT'S
STRIKING ESSAY
BOMBING AT RANDOM
IS ABOLISHED
"AN AVENGING ANGEL”
THE FIRST DETAILED DISCUSSION OF MODERN ME- THODS OF AIR CONTROL IN UNDEVELOPED COUNTRIES, AND OF HOW ITS RESULTS COMPARE WITH THOSE OB- TAINED IN THE GORDON-SHEPHERD MEMORIAL PRIZE ES- SAY, 1933, WHICH WAS PUBLISHED IN THE RAF. QUARTER- LY.
The essay is by Flight Lieutenant E. J. Kingston-McCloughry, and owing to the large, amount of evidence given, it is likely to have an important influence upon future strategy.
"Air control," Flight Lieutenant, McCloughry concludes, "is not merely effective, but merciful. It acts as an avenging angel and not, as a malicious and destructive demon." He defines air control as "the use of aircraft as the primary arm to support the political administration of an undeveloped country for the purpose of creat- ing or restoring law and order within or outside its border."
Air operations, Flight Lieuten-f
ant McCloughry states, are plan-
ned not to spread death and suf- CIVIL AVIATION
fering, but to wear down the tribesman's moral, dislocate his
normal life, and thus make his
IN INDIA
existence wretched and intoler- £675,000 Authorised For
able. Some casualties are bound (to occur to tribesmen and their animals, and some damage to pro-
NEW FLYING “STUNTS” ARE DISPLAYED perty, but the main purpose, is in
LETTERS SENT
BY AIR MAIL
the cockpit of the trainer he finds STILL MORE Mr. Clark Howell; 1'e man ap-jan instrument board as complete pointed by President Roosevelt as that in his regular plane. The to reorganise the aviation indus-bank and turn indicator, air speed try in the United States, arrived meter magnetic compass and rate in London from Paris recently to of climb indicator have been study British aviation methods "doctore" so cleverly that they and administration.
"I have already been to Italy and
simulate actual readings of planes
in flight. Both stick and rudder "feel" like a plane in flight.
France, and on Sunday I am going The secret is that the ups and
on to Spain." he said. "But it is
downs, left and right movements
here in London that I shall learn of the trainer are actuated by
most.
Further Increase On
Empire Routes APRIL-JUNE FIGURES
One of the features of this sum» ! four cushion-like bellows. Move-mer's flying, which traffic figures You people have done the best in the ment of the stick brings these into are now beginning to reveal, is a world. You had a defialte scheme for play and the ship dives or climbs.
air development in 1918, and you here at the will of the pilot. Another rapid growth in the number of stuck to it. You have readjusted and belows controlled mechanism holiday-makers who, leaving Croy improved, but you have the same fun-i
turns the plane in response to the don by air-liner for Paris and damental basis as in 1938.
rudder.
"While I am in Europe studying the administrative side of aviation the other four members of the Fe- deral Aviation Commission
Lof
That Tricky Spin
other destinations abroad, enjoy aerial tours of Europe lasting for For five hours the student sits days or weeks, and which may in- under the darkened hood, "flying"
NEW ZEALAND TO SPEND MORE ON AIR FORCE Appropriation Of Big Slice Of Budget Surplus
Auckland (New Zealand). The New Zealand Budget re- veals a surplus of £800,000, compared with a deficit of £700,000 in the previous year.
Customa revenue is largely responsible for the surplus,
More money is to be spent on defence. The Estimate has been increased from $250,000 to over £500,000. The Air Force will have a large share of the extra money.
INSPIRATION
GAINED FROM
CIRCUS RING Touring Performers
bring about submission with the minimum of destruction and loss of life.
Warning First Bombardment is invariably pre-
aero-
Developments
BILLS PASSED AT SIMLA
An important Government de cision with regard to the developi ment of civil aviation was an-
nounced in the Assembly at
ceded by a warning. A Political Simla. Officer may be landed in the midst After, two aircraft Bills had been of the culprits; warning notices passed. Sir F. Noyce, a member of the In England may be dropped from the
|Governor-General's Executive Council, planes; warnings may be vocally broadcast from the air by loud-stated that the Government of India had decided on an expenditure of ap WOMAN GLIDER'S "TURN"
speaker or they may be given by proximately £675,000 to be spread over some form of serial demonstra-three years, for the development of London.
tion. Whatever the method, civil aviation In India. The tendency to dissociate fly-
ample warning la always given to Ing displays from the
the villages, concerned so that the The first stage of the scheme, serious aspects
of commercial
women and children may be the speaker explained, would in- aviation seems likely to be en couraged by this year's crop of evacuated to safety. The tribes cluded provision of all require- ments for night flying throughout home air services. Heston air-usually retire to
a ter port, which will serve as
Flight Lieutenant McCloughry the trans-Indian route; lighting minal for three, and possibly declares that indiscriminate bomb-
more
caves.
which Mr. Howell is chairman] are by instrument alone. The in-cude visits to cities as widely-se-/ AIR TRAFFIC IN busy airports may have to follow the technique of causing the route and
on a 12,000 miles' tour from the structor checks each manoeuvre.
When
parated as Copenhagen, Vienna,
GERMANY
four, of the services, is to have no ing was not unknown in the early of the Bombay and Madrac aero- more public displays, and other days of air operations; but that dromes for the Karachi-Colombo additional wireless
дего- this example.
maximum discomfort with the direction-finding stations, Meanwhile the "air, circus," as minimum loss has now been care-dromes, emergency landing the travelling display was rather fully developed.
grounds and hangars for. both arrived, ta endeavouring more Final Opportunity Given routes.
Encouraging Figures Revealed
satirically dubbed when it first
"
Berlin.
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"Villages belonging
Provisions will also be made for night flying and wirelesä direction-finding for the line from Bombay to Calcutta.
he switches off the Marseilles, Madrid, and Rome. Atlantic to the Pacific going into Suddenly
raises the hood, and "Some very interesting facts." other phases of the industry. We motor,
explained an official of Imperial shall reassemble at Washington on says:-
fully to deserve its title. "If you tried to pull out of a Airways, "are emerging from
to the The second stage will comprise September 15, and we hope to ham-
Last year two companies of leaders, to their main adherents, full ground facilities for the fol- mer qut a plan to re-organise and spin that way in actual fight the many tours of this kind which
performing aircraft and pilots or to those giving shelter to trou-lowing new routes: Bombay to re-establish the whole industry in you'd be spread all over the land-we arrange for those who have
The Luft Hansa, the great Gar toured the country. A third has bleacme outlaws are selected for Calcutta: Calcutta to Madras; scape now. Try it again and do it made up their minds to enjoy a the United States.
right."
flying holiday.
man air concern, gives an encourag-just completed a series of per this purpose. If desirable, small and Karachi to Lahore. "Nowadays, we find people wanting account of progress during the formances in India. One of these practice bombs are "The President's idea is that
the training period is
firat dropped when the Commission has done its over, the student is ready for to go as far as they can in any first six months this year.
companies is about to take the to give a final opportunity of The number of passengers carried road again and is preparing to work the next five years will see, in actual flying. If he wishes to given trip, and to have a maximum
escape to safety. America, the most remarkable desolve the mystories of Radio beam of time for sightseeing at the cities was 49,971, against in the first six add to its programme items bor-
"Bombing is then regulated ac velopments in transportation that navigation he spends an addi-where they are scheduled to make months of last year; the weight of rowed directly from the circus
cording to requirements to keep tional 10 hours under the hood, halts. And it is in just these goods carried was about 230,000lb.
ring..
the villages empty and the tribes- earphones clamped to his head,
respects that an air holiday is more; and the increase in letters
Two Variations
men from attending to their crops, ideal.
and postal packets was 70 per cent.
of There are two variations
cattle and daily wants: often no "One of the best ways of Illus- The combined distances flown by
aerobatic feats often performed more than an occasional light trating this is to take one or two the company's machines were 28 per typical tours, such as
in the past. A pilot loops the bomb or a few shots are needed are being cent. more than in the first six loop through a hoop sat on a in the villages, near the flocke, in made at the present time, and to months of last year.
standard on the aerodrome. He the fields, or on the camp fires at show the saving of time, in actual
also picks up a handkerchief. from
night time. transport from point to point, which is now possible if one flies,
the ground with his wing-tip. Week's Holiday Tour
the world has ever known."
BRITISH PLANES IN DENMARK
Annex All Interest At Exhibition
Copenhagen.
SINGAPORE CEYLON FLIGHT
2,000 Mile Journey Next Year
MERCHANTS AIR TRIUMPH
With Plane Bought From Amy
"Here, for example, is a week's The British section was quite the The glant new lying boats from tour during which the holiday! dominant one at the International the R. A. F. base will make a flight makers from London travels to Aeroplane Exhibition which opened early next year from Singapore to Paris, Basle, Zurich, Milan, Genoa, and Rome, returning via Nice and in Copenhagen recently, Most Con-Ceylon across the Indian Ocean.
Mr. Lawrence Lipton, a thirty This has never before been at- Marseilles. By boat and train tinental firms have been content to send a collection of models, and tempted and the planes will. make such a trip necessitates just on ED seven-year-old scrap metal
at Nicobar Islands hours of actual travel. By air it chant, of London, won the 264-mite these are totally eclipsed by the col. only one stop
(Continued on Page 11). lection of full-sized aeroplanes and where they will refuel. The dis motors sent by 27 British firms.
$
tance covered will be nearly 2,000 miles.
Benides a new British autogyro,
The course of the return journey
in which several Danish firma are has not yet been decided but will
mer-
non-stop air handicap from Brook- lands to Newcastle.on-Tyne..
Jan hour.
GRAF ZEPPELIN'S RECORD His average speed was 125 miles His airplane was the Jason IV
In her 63 fights acros the Atlan- which used to belong to Mrs. Molli-
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"The tribesman, driven from his
The second item is closely allied with crazy Bring, which is always carried village which contains all his
out close to the ground. The sight of needs, finds the burden of his
CHANNEL CROSSED FOR 1/3d.
Remarkable Economy Of "Baby" Plane
An aeroplane with the smallest
an aeroplane staggering about the field, existence increasing daily; he de engine which has ever crossed the often with one wing tip apparently deprived of his normal shelter; Channel flew from Heston to Ger touching the grass, in familiar.
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can be accomplished in 20 hours. This means that those who fly save approximately 2 days compared with surface transport; a very important (Continued on Page 10)
IRRITABILITY IN AIR
quar
Drawnainess, excltab/d
can bo
It was a low-wing monoplane sin gle-seater with a motorcar engine that develops 19.8 horse-power,
stripped of his usual amenities; many recently. interrupted in his sleep: his flocks are scattered and he is harrassed at every turn. The fighting me away with the lashkars have an additional worry anxiety for their families and many of them desert."
Interested, there was an Armstrong probably be via Madras, Calcutta jtic, the Graf Zeppelin has never son, and which he bought from her rel-someness, or other symptomatrol Flight Lieutenant McCloughry consumes two gallons of petrol an
Whitworth chaser which during a and Rangoon
demonstration above the aerodrome
of Kastrop had already proved ita pre-eminent flying qualities. A third British 'plane was a new Avro-Armstrong, with a Siddeley Lynx motor.
POSTMEN TO TAKE TO AIR
Mr. Herbert Bohme, the pilot, flew to England to stay with a Bri- tish gilding pilot. He returned in his "baby monoplane. Old Punitive Work
The machine. ia marketed in Ger Against this picture of air con-many at £290. It weighs 40715.,
been more than an hour behind her last year.
suggesting intoxication schedule and in many cases she has
He uses the machine for business caused by flying at exceptional al contrasts the picture of the puni-hour, carries three hours supply,
tive expedition by ground troops, and cruises at 62 m.p.h.
The Channel was crossed in less titudes. fights to the Continent.
"History shows," he says, "that than half an hour against a head been several hours ahead.
army campaigns in undeveloped wind. It cost 1s, 3d.
often involved countries have stacles, rather than against British Critics
Criticism of the conditions of the would not furnish, the demonstration ponsible recognized that their work foe....The Punitive Column slow-
· NIGHT FLIGHTS OVER Britain's postmen took to the air England-Australia air race and of its which was essential to prove whether would be severely ericised and dis-ly struggles over burning desert, or winds its way wearily through aviation could solve Australia's time sected. EDILAR. efficacy "Es a practical means Tur when the first internal air-mail serthering the development of civil avia Paying a tribute to
and distance problem. An experienced body such SHANGHAI
Experts in Royal Aero Clab in London, the world's hazardous defiles and over a few vices linking up the principal cities tion have now been replied to by Sir Australia who had, framed the condi- premier aeronautical body, could, how existing paths and unknown coun Plans are now being made for of this country was inaugurated. Macpherana, Robertsonho, In rivjag tions, Sir Macpherson pointed out that aver, find no fault, and to thin body try, picketing every height befors advancing, and taking with it an the first night fights over Shang-The drone of the air-mail plane £15,0006 a prize money, mude the race there had been no precedent for an they were all tremendously Indebt
Pacrom the world: race. It had been for accepting the responsibilit hai_in_the_glant Junkera Ju69 overhead is becoming as familiar a possible
Bir Macpherson, according to Austral described in Europe and America: in the starlings and controlling the race be unbelievable amount of a which arrived from Berlin after sound to a million of Britons as the said that, he wished everyone to atest aerial event of all time to tween Londas shattering Europe-Orient airline postman's knock on their front
appreciate that contert for purely raft regula freak machines of no commercial utility
Idoors
Linking Up Chief MELBOURNE E AIR RACE CRITICISED waging war against natural ob
"The apocene.
sured, ke'dee
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FIRST PLANE LANDING. ON SHIP IN 1911
The first ship landing made by
1911 The plane was piloted by E.
.aeroplane took place on January Ely, who flew from a San Francisco flying Leld to the United Stater ivania anchored In cruiser fean
San Francfico bay,