THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1935
WORK OF WRIGHT BROTHERS PAVED WAY TO CONQUEST OF AIR
U.S.
ANNIVERSARY
CELEBRATIONS
FIRST POWERED FLIGHT
2
MADE IN 1903
STUPENDOUS STRIDES MADE
THIRTY YEARS
IN
THILE THE THIRTY-FIRST. ANNIVERSARY. IN 1934, OF
W BRU
THERS IS BEING CELEBRATED ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES AVIATION IS FOUND TO BE MAKING EXTRA- ORDINARY STRIDES IN EFFICIENCY AND REFINEMENT AND HAS TURNED EYES DEFINITELY TOWARD THOSE LAST STRETCHES OVER THE OCEANS AND THE STRATOS- THE PHERE BLANKET 10 MILES ABOVE THE EARTH. BLUE REACHES OF THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC AND THE VAST DOME OF THE SKY APPARENTLY ARE SOON TO YIELD THEIR SECRETS.
"Sorry to be so early," is Sir Charles Kingsford - Smith's amusing and graceful excuse for efficiency as early in November he lands at Oakland, California, two hours earlier than he had in tended, inward bound from Honolulu, last leg in a transpacific flight from Brisbane, Australia. Plane and motor join-
On the 31st anniverary of the first acroplane flight by the Wright brothers, Marshall Reld, veteran pilot, took this Wright- designed biplane aloft at Philadelphia. It was first flown there 23 years ago.
FLYING, U.S. NAVY REQUIREMENT
ed hands practically to halve his 1928 record, made on the first MILESTONES IN HISTORY PROPOSAL WILL
-flight across the Pacific, and set the new time of 54 hours and 29
minutes, actually flying time.
STEADY TREND ON WALL STREET
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"Cotton: Light offerings were absorbed by the trade and moderate foreign purchases.
vania Railroad 50 eta.: Phillips
Myers $1.
Racing planes are compelled, too,
to look to their laurels as the dis- tinction between them and commer- cia! design rapidly diminishes. C.
OF FLYING
ACHIEVEMENTS SINCE 1903
Achievements of fliers using heavier-than-air machines since W. A. Scott and Campbell Black, the Wright brothers first attemp led climbing the sky in the year British fliers, in a specially built 1903, may be described, in tabular view, as follows:- racing plane, make the amazing| time of 71 hours competing against Year a crack field of international pilots in the MacRobertson London-to- Melbourne speed and handicap race heid last October.
Fliers
1903-Wright Brothers 1906-Santos-Dumont 1909-Louis Bleriot
1910-Labuleau
1910-Glenn Curtiss
1911-Air mail
1911-C. P. Rodgers
1918-Air mail 1918-Mal, MacLaren- Gen. McEwen 1919 U. S. Navy 1919-Alcock-Brown
1919-Capt. Ross Smith 1920-Licute. Masiero-
Ferrari
1920-U. S. Army
"Rubber: The tone was easier in
Yet Parmentier and Moll, Dutch a quiet market, which held no specu- lative interest. The market in Lon-llers, in an American commercial den was nervous and easy. Cutside transport plane, make the astonish- offerings were light, while little in- ing time of 90 hours, only 20 hours terest was shown by manufacturers, difference, in the same race, carry-
"Sugar: Actuals were firm with ing passengers and mail and taking 1913-Julen Vedrines
the long 10,000- buyers for prompt delivery at 2.80 every airport on
mile route in their stride! And per lb. Stored Phillipines was of
Roscoe fered at 2.82, while refined was un-not far behind them are changed but showing a good demand. Turner and Clyde Pangborn in an- other transport plane, practically Future options were strong.
"Flash: The following extra divi-duplicating the Dutch lers' record dends have been declared:-Pennsyl-in 99 odd hours.
Major "Eddie" Rickenbacker Petroleum 25 ets. and Liggett and dramatically calls attention to the same plane used by the Dutch fliers when he made a new time of 12 As a result of the investigation of
and 4 minutes in a trans- hours the recent short "squeeze" for!
icontinental flight from Los Angeles December, the Board of Managers||
That of the Sugar Exchange suspended to New York in November.
le again very close to the record of 10 hours and 5 minutes made and held by Turner in 1932 in a special racing plane in the Bendix race.
Big And Little Alike.
The following quotations have difference so long as there is good Size, too, apparently makes little been received through Messrs. S. F design. Pan-American Airways' new "Levy and Company and the 38-passenger flying boat flies 1,800 American Oriental Finance Cor miles on a test flight at a speed of poration:
157 miles an hour, and in August Prev. To-day's places New York within six days of Buenos Aires, as it does the long 4.88% 1.887% trek from the Argentine capital te NY. Cotton-May... 12.53 19.55
Miani in five daya.
Messrs. B. W. Dyer, & Co. for · a period of 18 months."-Reuter.
Latest Quotations
N.Y./London
cross-rate
clase 4lose
NY, Rubber-Mav.. 13.20
13.10- Chicago Wheat-May 97% 97 -Chicago Corn--May 86% 8412
Montreal Silver-Mor. 54,70 64.60 Silver Officin!
543% 54% Dow Jones Averages
To-day's Jan. 22 close Change
*30 Industrials 102.77 102,88 11 up
20 Rails
34.84 34.50 25 off -20 Utilities. 17.41 17.41 unchanged
40-Bonds
06.56 96.01.05 off 11 Commodity 59.04 59.10 .06 up
17 Leading Stocks
....
Amer Can
Amer Smelting
Amer, T. & T
Auburn
-Case
Du Pont
Elee Bond & Share
General Motors
35
24
55
.6%
31%
Stability of design enables serv-] nautical designers to go into the problems of relieving pilots of many weary hours of instrument flying. A noted manufacturer of naviga- tional equipment attacks, the pro- blem and in 1983 an American transcontinental air line instaly robot pilots in its planes, allowing pilots to set their course and fly! "hands off" the controls...! (Continued on: Page 10)
THE VICEROY'S PLANE
9 Small Four-Engined
In T & T
Mcintyre
Montgomery Ward
27
Nat Distiller
26
NY. Central
18
Socony-Vacuum
Union Pacific
U.S, Steel
Westinghouse E &
Business Dona:-620,000 shares.
Liner
The Viceroy's new aeroplane is Jabout to arrive in India. It is s 37% small four-engined liner, with a top speed of 152 miles an hour, which Lerd Willingdon will use during his official journeys.
AIRLINERS ARE ECONOMICAL
India, like Persia, is a country particularly well suited to air travel, and to Lord Willingdon be An airline which recently replaced longs the distinction of finally heavy tri-motored planes with speedy superseding the old methods of monoplanes has found that fast air travel in the luxurious but expensive liners save gasoline as well as time viceregal train.
Flight Kitty Hawk, N.C. Paris, France
Baraques-Dover
Albany-New York Buc, France
Mineola, L. I. New York-Pasadena
Paris-Cairo New York-Washington
London-Calcutta Trepassey, N. F-Lisbon
St. Johns, N, F.-Clifton
Ireland London-Darwin Rome-Tokyo
New York-San
Francisco
1920-Maj, Brent-Capt. Tendon-Cape Town
Rynevald 1922 Capts. Sacdura.
Coutinho 1923-Lieut. Kelly-Mac-
ready 1923-Licut. Alford
Williams 1924-U.S. Army
1926-Com. Byrd-Floyd
Bennett
1927-Charles A. Lind bergh 1927-Lieats, Maitland
Hegenberger 1928-Capt. Charles
Kingsford Smith 1929-Con, Byrd-Bernt
Balchen 1930-Dale Forrest-
Jackson O'Brine. 1981-Wiley Post-
Harold Gatty
1931-Lieut. G. H.
Stanforth
Significance
First powered flight
First European · afro-
plane flight
First English Channel flight in first mono-
plane
Distance record' Nonstop, 382 miles, re-
cord
First air-mail flight First transcontinental
fight across US. Distance record
First regular air mail
flights
First fight to India First
transatlantic
förmation flight First nonstop transat-
Jantic flight.
First flight to Australia First trans-Akkatle fight
First transcontinental
air-mail service First trans-African flight
MAKE ALL OFFICERS
QUALIFIED PILOTS Serious Consideration Given To Scheme
AIR TRANSPORT IN
NEW GUINEA
TO GOLDFIELDS OVER CAUR MOUNTAINS
DISTRICT HITHERTO UNKNOWN
DISCOVERED BY PILOT
THE pioneering operations of Holden's Air Transport Services Ltd. were the work of the late Captain L. H. Holden, M.C., A.F.C., with a D.H.61, which he named "The Camberra." It was in this machine that Captain Holden' made his epic flight which resulted in the rescue of the missing "Southern Cross" and its crew →→→
Mears. Kingsford-Smith, Uhm, Litchfield and McWilliams in north-west Australia in 1929,
Th
Captain Holden subsequently engaged in commercial flying in Australia with "The Canberra but owing to lack of opportunitý on account of the depression he decided to take his machine to the Morobe goldfields district in New Guinea, where opportunities ap- peared better. He shipped "The Canberra" to Port Moresby, and taking off from the beach landed at Logui aerodrome, Salamaus, unannounced, without definite prospects, and entirely dependent on his own initiative to obtain a share of the business then offering.
Commencing operations in April]
1931, Captain Holden by initiative
subsequently purchased a
very WHEN WALLER
and perseverance built up a successful commercial service, and second aeroplane, a Waco of American manufacture, to cope with the
ROTATING DUTY ASSIGNMENTS Government contract which he suc ceeded in securing for the trans
A plan whereby eventually every port of malls, passengers and officer of the Navy would be a freight to the Morobe goldfields.
At that time competition was ex- qualified flyer is being considered at the United States Navy Depart-ceedingly keen, there being two other aviation companies operating|
ment.
NEARLY ASKED
FOR PLANE CRASH
STRAIN OF AIR RACING
PERILOUS PERSIAN LANDING
Under a proposal submitted to in New Guinea, one of them of In his vivid book, Aviation considerable financial standing. Memories, Mr. Owen Cathcart- the bureau of navigation, and now
attention However, by keen
"to Jones reveals that at one stage of. being studied, ever candidate for
to his recent wonderful flight from the Naval Academy would be re-business and a determination quired to be qualified physically give good service to the miners Mildenhall to Australia and, back and residents of the goldfields, his companion, Mr. Ken Waller, for aviation training and would be taught to fly as a midshipman. Ad-
who were absolutely dependent on was on the point of asking him to ditional fight training would be air transport, he firmly establish-jerash the machine deliberately and given after graduation from the ed himself. in the good will of the "get it all over."
The airmen were ́ flying at night. Academy to young officers detailed people there.
and were hopelessly lost. Below. to duty involving flying, but of
Holiday Setback
them stretched mile upon mile of ficers receiving such specialised "He visited Sydney for
desert, out of touch with civilian- training would have diversified bollday after 18 months of streng-tion and without a single house or duty assignments, rotating be-lous work, with the idea of taking hut. tween ses and air details.
u short
30 tainly crashed the machine and
back another machine as the busi-"Little did I know that Ken. Was Oficials state that the plan to ness was still growing. During on the point of asking me to dive require every midshipman to be this visit Captain Holden was kill the machine into the ground, and Lisbon-Rio de Janeiro First south Atlantic physically capable for Rying, ified, while flying as a passenger, get it all over, rather than face
Light
deemed feasible, would solve and it became necessary for the the possibility of running out of New York-San Diego
Firat transcontinental
number of problems which have executor of his estate to decide petrol and a forced landing on the Bonstop fight United States
Speed record of 266.34 been troublesome ever since avia- what future action should
be sand, where we should have.cer- miles an hour.
tion became an important arm of taken to carry on the service Seattle - Alaska - Asia - First round-the-world the sea forces. In the present or successfully established,
Europe Newfound - formation fight
ganisation of the Fleet there are It was soon apparent that land-New York
few berths for bigh ranking avia- local reafdents would be prepared had made up my own mind, tors wro, have not had extensive to take shares in any company however, to fly for another half- all-around_naval training. This that might be Aldated to continue hour." situation is often embarrassing to the work, and
a company was!
A Perilous Landing naval aviators when they come up therefore formed with a fully-paid
Suddenly they saw lights. ahead for selection and also when they capital of £25,000. The new. con- become physically incapable of ex-cern took over the whole of the and landed-not 50 yards from a tended flying.
assets of the estate, and has con-wide ditch, some bushes, and
Kings Bay, Spitzbergen. First flight to North
to North Pole and re- turn
New York-Paris Oakland-Honolulu
Oakland to Sydney. Little America to South
Pole and return
St. Louis, Mo.
Pole
First solo nonstop trans-
atlantic Bight
First Bight to Hawallan
Iolanda
First transpacific fight
toʻAustralia
First fight to South
Pole.. Refuelling endurance re-
cord of 647 hours
New York-Moscow-Sibe- Set round-the-world re- cord of 8 days, '15 houra
ria - Alaska - Canada - United States Isle of Wight
1932 Capt. James A. Cleveland, Ohio
Boolittle
..
England
1932-Capt. Cyril
Unwins 1982-Imperial Always London-Cape Town 1933--Lieut. Francesco Italy
Agello
1933-Wiley Post
1933-Codos-Rossi
1933-U.8. Navy
New
York - Berlin Siberia Canada United States
Set seaplane and world speed record of 406 miles an hour... Set land plane speed re- cord of 309 miles an hoor
Set altitude record of
49,978 feet Inaugurated......... 'regulaz Sights to South Africa Set world #peed record for seaplanes of 423.7 miles an hour Bet new round-the-world record of 7 dayu: 18. 24 Monta
New York-Rayak, Syria Set nomatop distance re cord of 6,900 miles. Norfolk-Panama Canal Set formation fight non-
Zone
stop record of 1,738 milles
Los Angeles-New York Set transcontinental re-
1933-Roscoe Tarner
1933-Eastern ́Air ́ ́ New York-Atlaats:
Transport 1933-Wing Commander London-Australia"
Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith
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cord of 10 hrs. 5 min. First flying sleeper plane
placed in service
FLYING BOATS FOR EAST
Tentative Plans For Service
TWO DISTRICT TYPES
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the
lain there slowly dying without means of help.
.
tinued to operate successfully ever numerous poles!
since...
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No Subsidy Required: The late Captain Holden com- menced operations without finan
"I am certan," writes: Mr. Cath- cart-Jones, "that I could never have done the same landing by daylight. To attempt it would have been sa
cial assistance from any public absolute nightmare, and in my own body, and the new company, since estimation almost impossible.» taking over the assets and contin- They had landed near Dizful, to
Persia. uing operations, has never received jany subsidy payment.
Christmas Delivery
Twelve British airmen apert Christmas Day in the air, flying to
The service between Salamaua BRITISH PLANES FOR Imperial Airways are considering and Wau is practically continuous
SPANISH ARMY the greater use of the flying boat on throughout the year. Wau is ap Empire routes to the East in addi-proached by way of two moun tion to the development of the flying tains of over 10,000 feet, and it is [boat for the coming Atlantic, ser- necessary to pass through a gap Ivice
Best note, lak ans [7,000 feet high descending to 2, The aircraft constructors have for 800 feet at Waua teker some time been aware of their re- Although the distance between Spain to deliver 12 Moth Major quirements. The boats used in the Wau and Salamaua is about 37 training aeroplanes, ordered: by the miles, the route flown is longer on Spanish Government, to the military Eccount of the detour
Sur that has to aerodrome at Madrid: be made. The average time taken The order was placed for delivery. with the DH.61 is twenty-fivo before the end of 1984. The twelfth minutes, although the fight has machine was only completed when been done with a fair wind in the De Havilland factory closed for. fifteen minutes.
the Christmas holidays on the Satur Flying, conditions are generally day, and it was only by delivering godd for eight months of the year, them by air that the contract could except that there is always a ten- he fulfilled, E. 1891 dedey for heavy eloud banks to come up very quickly in the mountains. For four months of Dana Maya Moda the year, from July until the end
1863 FRENCH BALLOON
The French balloon "Giant." Beta record of 7 days 41803, made the first commercial
hours
air flight, carrying
Beng
do passengers from Paris to
CRUISER AEROPLANE CARRIER
A new cruiser-neroplane carrier. In one of the most, modern, compact speed of 27.5 knuts. It has an overall of October, flying conditions Bre claimed to be the fil Bghting hip and effelent product of 20th century length of 122 feet displacement of anything but pleasant, as it of its kind in the world, has bee ivan naval shipbuilding geninn. The new seroplane has room for its first tests and will become a part The vessel kus the distinction, The new ships go 30 to 50 miles a ten passengers and a crew of four of the Swedish coast defence hour faster than the old planes and Normally, however, it will never The Gothland, as the new ship
this year. travel' 1,000 miles on 360 gallons, an against 675 gallons for the older carry more than eight passengers called, is bulled by military exp planes.
12,000,000 TRAVEL BY DIRIGIBLES
Since the dirigible was:
15pin 1911
FIRST SHIP LANDING “
F
The first chip landing made seroplane took pla
1911
used
close of 5.000 tons, and has been built at a cost of approximately $4,000,000, then the rainy season, and opera other things of being the first
Through careful conservation or tions are greatly restricted' in con to carry more than two aeroplanes, in space it will be possible to carry (Continue on Page 117) addition to anti-aircraft guns, torpedo crew of 455 men, including 57 pilotage tubes and minelaying equipment and seroplase, merkap
| In.fall fighting" trím " the Gothland
Iwill carry eight aeroplanes on. AIRWAY
catapults," with provisió;
654 MPH. POSSIBLE?
ational Ad on a typical aeroplane
BRITISH AIRCRAFT FOR BELGIUM
Type Used Many Years
Capt.-Nyssets of the Belgian
Jon of Major-Gen
ary, and Air, Attache Embassy arrived in month from Brussels on Manchester to take deli military Avro machi the Belgian Air,.
nes are Avra trainers,
used
A
to the
CHLIG
GRAF ZEPPELIN ON TIME
In her 58 fights across the
the Graf Zeppe #has never
Londo his wa
years past
many Force:
Mcon has a celll}
of about
Graf Zeppelin now klider for emergenc