WONDERS
. While ships and planes nearched the waters near' Honolulu for the plane, "Star of Australia" and its ¦ crew of three, little hope was held for the safety of the fliers (left to right), G. M. Littlejohn, Capt. Charles T. P. Ulm and J. A. Skil- ling. The map shows the route of the lost fliera and the ares of the Kearch. The possibility that the plane might float for several days spurred on the searchers.
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1935
OF MODERN WIRELESS ACHIEVED IN AEROPLANES
PACIFIC
ULM LAST REPORTED ABOUT 500 MILES FROM HONOLULU AT 11:38 A.M. TUES (PACIFIC TIME) GOING DOWN INTO SEA NOW!
LUFT 3:41 RM. MONDAY
OCEAN
AREA WHERE SEARCH IS
BEING MADE.
AIR DEVELOPMENTS IN ALL COUNTRIES
AIR-MAIL COMPARISONS
OFTEN INCORRECT
SPEED NOT SO IMPORTANT AS
TOTAL TIME
THERE
HERE exista, à curious form of patriotism, which views pro- gress made by foreign countries with envy and uneasiness. The latest example of this point of view. is to be found in the comments on the recent Melbourne Air Race, in which, in spite of the fact that the first prize was carried off by a British-built and British-piloted machine, we are considered to have shown up badly compared with competitors from other countries.
'NEW YORK'S OWN AIRPORT"
An Impossibility For Central Manhattan
MAYOR LA GUARDIA'S VAIN IMAGINING
MRS. ULM LOOKS FOR
LONG-RANGE TALKS BETWEEN PILOTS PICKING UP MESSAGES AT 5.000 MILES
PLANE FLYING OVER ARABIA
PICKS UP DERBY RESULT
SOME
HOME remarkable reports have come to hand recently of long- range wireless reception between British air-liners and ground stations, and also between air-liners in flight.
The other day, for example, an amateur operator residing at Victoria West, Cape Province, South Africa, picked up messages| sent out by the air-liner "Astraea," of Imperial Airways, when that machine was flying between Alox Star and Singapore, in Ma- laya. The distance between the aircraft in flight and the station picking up the message was approximately 5.200 miles. The signals from the air-liner, which were routine messages on a short wave-length, 'transmitted while the machine was making a night flight, were received so well by the amateur at Victoria West that they came through at loud-speaker strength.
BRITISH AIR LINER FOR SPAIN
Highly Economical Type Of Plane
:
Such long-distance reception is all the more remarkable when the fact ia taken into consideration that the air-liner's power-output is only 60 watta.
Not long ago, while one of the aircraft on the Africa air-mail route was flying near Mpika, its; operator got into wireless touch with another aircraft on the same Spain, one of the first countries route which, at the time, was flying to buy British aircraft, recently at a point 2,000 miles distant, ordered a new type of British twin-communication being maintained engined high-speed air-liner which for several minutes without fading HER HUSBAND was due to leave London for Spain or interference.
during December.
Reception At 5,000 Miles Refuses To Abandon
Twenty-five of this type of air- On another occasion, while an craft have already been sold to Imperial Hope That He Lives eight different
Airways machine was countries. The making an aerodrome survey along "Rapide," as the air-liner is called, the route from England to Aus- Sydney, December 17.-Refusing is a 140 miles-an-hour 400 h.p. twin tralla, its operator established com- to abandon hope for her missing engined biplane, and with its munication with the Sydney wire- trana-Pacific aviator husband, Mr. carrying capacity of five to six less station at a time when the air- Charles T. P. Ulm to-day chartered passengers, maile and freight, is craft was in fight at a point over the schooner Lanikai, through the claimed, to be one of the most 5,000 miles from that city. British consul at Honolulu, to make economical air-liners in existence a search of months through the reefs and islands from Honolulu to Midway islands.
Mrs. Ulm is using part of the £5,000 the Australian Governruent voted her last week..
Ulm and two companions have been missing since they were forced to alight at sea somewhere in Hawaiian waters early on the morn
It has also been widely asserted ing of December 4. They were on that the service to the Far East the first stage of a survey flight|
operated by the Dutch lines is faster from Oakland to Sydney-Asso- than that provided by Imperial {ciated Press. Airways.
However, before the pose of the penitent is adopted it might be well
to make certain of the facts. Ac- cording to a statement made by Lord Londonderry in the House of Lords on Wednesday, November 21, it is untrue to say that the Dutch service to Batavia is some days Mayor Florello La Guardia's faster than our own. Actually, it is claim that, by leasing the North half a day faster in the summer and Beach airport of the Curtiss Wright half a day slower in the winter Air Terminal Company on Old than the 82-day schedule to Singa- Bowery Bay, he has at last got pore, which is maintained all the New York an airport of its own, ia year round by Imperial Airways. not so imposing as it seems.
It is rather as if, for reasons of
Speed Not So Important
MAPS TO GUIDE SPEED FLIERS
America's Greatest Air Survey
PLOTTING ENTIRE COUNTRY 16 MILES TO THE INCH:
AIR HISTORY IN
THE MAKING
London To Australia
PARIS TO BRINDISI SECTION STILL SERVED BY TRAIN
While the first regular direct air mail, inaugurated on 'Satur day, December 8, was on. Its way from London to Australia, the first "plane in the opposite direction took off from Sydney, The outgoing liner, the Hengist, carried Christmas parcela for the Duke of Gloucester from the King, the Queen and the Duke and Duchess of Kent. In the plane from Australia, were letters from Sir Isaac Isaacs, the Governor-General, to the King, the Viceroy of India jand the Governor of the Straits
Bettlements.
Fliers crossing the continent in The service from Australia was
Another similar instance occurred while tests were being made with an improved type of short-range
Wearing a weird flying outfit, electrically lined for warmth and with oxygen equipment, Wiley Post, famed Bier, ela mbers into his plane at Bartlesville, Oklahoma, for kia record-breaking afti tude fight.
MONOPLANES FOR R.A.F.
BRITISH DEVELOPING HUGE
AIRPORT IN PALESTINE
Major Cambley In Charge
Jerusalem. Believed to be launching a new British policy to make the Holy Land the aviation key to India and the Far East, a Bri- tish officer, Major Cumbley, ar- rived hore on December 30 to assume the newly created post of government director of civil aviation,
A site for a huge airport in- Palestine is said already to have.. been selected.--Associated Press.
UNDERCARRIAGE THAT WILL BE
RETRACTABLE
Most Efficient Fighters
Yet Produced
COMPLETED AT BRISTOL
The R.A.F. is to be, equipped with some of the most efficient Aghting aeroplanes ever produced. The first of these, just completed at Bristol, embodies ideas and de- Jsigns never before seen in Britiah
warcraft.
The aeroplane to a single-seat day-and-night fighter, well armed. It is a monoplane-one of the first built for British military nee since the war
ying above the white Nile, between wireless apparatus, a machine, while THIRTY TIMES ROUND The retractable undercarriage is
Juba and Kampala, managing to establish communication over a dis
THE WORLD.
tance of 4,000 miles with a station Mediterranean Flying Jin England. During the same triala one of the operators, while over Central Africa, picked up and
Boats Record
used for the first time on RAF, craft the wheels draw up into the body when the aeroplane is flying. creasing speed. reducing wind resistance and go in-
In appearance the machine la: similar to the latest American war- planes, which are said to have a
could hear quite plainly a news Imperial Airways report that the speed of nearly 300 m.p.h. broadcast from a station at Miami, Scipio flying-boats used on the Florida. Long-range contacts were Mediterranean section of the Africa also established with stations in route and India and Eastern route,
(Continued on Page 11).
SINO-JAPANESE AIR SERVICE
Tokyo Projects Link With Shanghai“
HONG KONG ALSO UNDER CONSIDERATION
Tokyo, Dec. 20. Linking of Japan with Europe 10 hours will soon have at their inaugurated with the despatch of by air-mail routes looms as a pos elvic pride, the Croydon aerodrome Even so, he went on, speed in the disposal a new series of depart-25,000 Jetters to
Cootamundra (sibility for the not-distant future, ment of commerce maps designed (N.S.W.), the centre at which all in connection with a projected were to be shifted a few miles air was not so important as the
especially for high speed flying. the Australian air mail is being Japan-China line. It was learned nearer to London inside the L.C.C. total time taken to convey passen- boundary
gers, maila and goods from one The new "millionth-scale" mapa collected, to be there transferred here to-day. It is no more possible to provide point to another, while safety, are drawn to a scale of about 16 to a plane for despatch through Central Manhattan with an airport factors that must be taken into them will cover the entire country.
Ireliability, and comfort were also miles to the inch. Seventeen of Darwin.
than it is Central London. The only open space in really Central
Jaccount.
reduced
"
They will contain nearly six times
Letters Put On Train
The Japanese Chamber of Com merce and Industry is considering the promotion of air-mail service from here to Shanghal. At the lat
He emphasised this sound argu-148 much territory as the present When the Hengist arrived in ter port, it la planned, the route Park, which would be like making ment by pointing out that though sectional maps, which are drawn to Paris from Croydon the whole of would connect with the projected an aerodrome out of Hyde Park. Air France had
However, Mayor La Guardia is schedule time of 24 hours from one to 600,000.
the a scale of eight miles to the inch, or the Australian mail was transferr-British and French air-mail ser- ed to the train for Brindisi, Thence, vices from Europe to China, a master of advertisement. A fort: Croydon to Le Bourget by 35 min. Since the sectional maps cover it went on by flying boat for Singa-through India and Singapore. night age he was landed at utes, imperia Airways had carried a territory, about 325 miles east pore.
Members of the Chamber pointed Newark, New Jersey, which is now three times as many passengers as and west by 150 miles from north
Instead of returning from Le out that the combination of "air- the New York air terminus. He their competitors of this route dur-to south, a pilot in a speed plane Bourget to England, as is usual, mail routes should reduce the tran- refused to get out. His ticket Ing the past four months has been able to cross in two hours the Hengist continued her journey sit time for mails between Europe
for less the country included, in one to Marseilles, carrying only the air and Japan by one-half, ·
mail for India. She had received Some of the members, however, map.
special permission to fly across advocate connecting the Japan- Work of compiling the sectional France, because she is intended to Ching Hine, with the European ser- from New York City as Newark, INTERNATIONAL AIR 25 of the 87 contemplated sec for the duplication of services be better service for Formosa, as maps started three years ago, and, reinforce the fleet in the Near East Vice at Hong Kong, thus providing tions have been completed.
said to New York, and inside the
State boundary he would go.
So he was flown on to the Floyd
Benett field. It is nearly as far
but is inside the boundary.
AVRO “CADETS” POPULAR
Some 300. Avro machines
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SALON
Germany Shows Some Fine Craft
tween London and Karachi..
Super-Bombers
For U.S.
Cadet At the International Air Salon, have been order held last month at the Grand construction of a fleet of Transatlantic they resemble somewhat the Comet De New York Simultaneously with the Excepting the position of the wings, ed by the Afr Ministry from Palais. Paris, Germany showed eroplanes for Pan-American Airways Havilland machine nied by Scott and Messrs. A. V. Roo & Co. for some wonderfully fast light air-the Glenn L. Martin factory at Ball Black in the Australian race. our training stations. Over 200 craft, particularly those built by more la developing for the military ser-They are being constructed have now been delivered the Heinket firm,
Orders for machines for Chile, tional skill is most impr Belgium, Argentine, China, The Junkers me Estonia, the Irish Free State, and bled a huge, three-en other lands are being completed: boat which wall Our export is aircraft là thus exhibits in the s
rowing very steadik
able
vices of the United States super-bom- mero than a ton of bombs and bers which are described as "excelling equipment. They will anything hitherto produced in this coun- me
forraldable
miles an hour
well as for Japan. United Press ATLANTIC SERVICE NEXT YEAR
Fan-American Always, in
with Imperial Airways, the Atlantic service next
Fatag
Plished:
ever will
that is between Brindisi and Cairo, Satyrus and the Sylvanus, They completed at the end of October have accommodation for sixteen 750,000 miles flying, or roughly 90 passengers and a crew of four, a times round the world.
Captain, a First, Officer, a Wireless There are three flying boats in Operator and a Steward. Meals are this class, namely, the Scipio, the served on board.
CATHCART-JONES' RECORD
WRITES AND
FINISHES BOOK
IN SEVEN DAYS
Aviation Memoirs Of Record-Breaker
CHINA COAST MEMORIES.
Lieut. Owen Cathcart-Jones, the airman, has just produced a beod," "Aviation Memoirs" (Hutchinson, 12s. 6d.) He has many claims to fame, chief among them being his record-smashing performance with Ken Waller In the fight to Mel- bourne and back
****
He was the first pilot to make a deck landing on an aircraft carrier at night, a feat that requires the highest degree of Judgment
He broke the record for a flight
to the Cape with the late Cominan- der Glen Kidston, R.N., to whom the book is dedicated.
And here is another high-speed performance. He wrote his 90,000 word book in seven days. It was commissioned on November 19, and was in the hands of the printers an the 25th.
The Captain's Misadventera
Here is an amusing incident of life aboard the aircraft carrier Hermes on her way Chinne
custom
the Navy
Gashore, in
away with
and to pipe him back on
sion the captain went
Tanda,