IMPERIAL AIRWAYS'
REDUCING DANGERS
MANY FEWER
CASUALTIES
IN AIR FORCE
Increased Squadrons But Less Deaths
ENGINE FAILURE VERY RARE
The year just ended was the safest the Royal Air Force ever experienced. In spite of further increases in strength and in the amount of flying done, the number
of, R. A. F. officers and men ailed
was less than half the average figure for the past eight years, and Tess than one third the figure for 1926, when the toll reached peak with 85 lives lost in 54 fetal .accidenta.
A
In 1934 there were, 19 fatal ac- cidents involving the deaths of 28 members of the R. A. F. In one) accident a civilian pilot was also killed. In addition, there was one accident at a civil flying school involving the deaths of three of ficers of the R. A. F. Reserve.
Saved By Parachutes Twenty members of the R. A. F. saved their lives by using their parachutes.
Sądns. acdts: Deaths,
83
61 54 20 40 57
THE CHINA MAIL," THURSDAY, RCH. 14, 1935
SLOGAN: "EVERY DAY IS AIR-MAIL DAY"
AIR MAILH
GROWTH
DUPLICATION
OF SERVICE ON
MAIN ROUTES
"Traffic Increase To India And Africa
ACCELERATION OF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENCE
A fresh example of the way in which the air-mail is now render- ing out-of-date many of the old |methods" of business correspondence Type of regular passenger and mail plane used on Imperial Airways is to be found in the recent duplica- services to the Continent and on the African and Australian foutes. These tion of the Empire services by Im- are being gradually augmented with machines of a larger and more luxurious express the comforts and conveniences of the most up-to-date railway perial Airways.
AUTOGIROS
CANADIAN AIRWAYS
LEAD IN WEST
Ahead Of U.S. In Express And Freight
SERVICES IN FAR NORTH
TRACING BUMPS
TRACK GANG
OF EXPERTS
IN OPERATION
Meteorology's Help To Fliers
ROUTES TO BE AVOIDED
“Meteorologista" ane
the 'track gang' of the afr, Dr. Ford A. Car- (penter, chief' meteorologist of the weather bureau of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, declared on
Á ̋new type of autogiro," without wings or rudder, manking lis Brai public appearance at Hanworth, Middlesex. The machine has a top speed equiv. his recent trip east on a lecturing nient to thail of
similarly powered seroplane, but the pilot has perfect tour. "Like a track gang on the [contro] at the lowest speeds. Benor de la Cierva is seen landing the "direct It was the old routine of control" autogiro fall first.
railroad which spots out the in- weekly sailings with, sea-borne
|equalities of the · roadbed so that mails which led to a time-hon-
trains may run smoothly, so it is oured custom,
growingby THE AUTOGIRO ADVANCE a meteorologists, job, once a flight
USE IN WAR degrees to an ingrained habit, of
INTRODUCTION
POSSIBILITY
CONSIDERED
setting aside one day a week for preparing and dispatching letters for overseas.
But now such a "one mail LAWRENCE OF ARABIA QUITS week" habit, if persisted in with
ROYAL AIR FORCE
dispatches for India and Africa,
falls to profit by the improved air Leaves For Unknown Destination
Substitute For Kite facilities available, and places those
Balloons
ROYAL AIR FORCE AND ARMY TESTS
who still adhere to it at a disadvan- tage in comparison with rivals who are more progressive.
The position, as it exists at the present time, was explained by an official of Imperial Airways.
Duplicated Services
Calcutta and London and Johannes-
London.
Col. T. E. Lawrence, the officer. celebrated for his activities in Arabia at the end of the World. War, left the Royal Air Force in which he 'enlisted as Aircraftaman Shaw, early this month. He nub- sequently left Ridlington, York. shire, on a bicycle for an unknown destination--Hava.
AMBITIOUS TOKYO AIR PLANS
Y. 200,000,000 TO BE * SPENT ON CIVIL
FACILITIES
MANY EXTENSIONS
STARTLING
NOVEL TYPE
PREDICTED
Cousin of Original Model
PROPELLERLESS MACHINE OF 200 M.P.H, »
has begun, to keep the roadbed' of the air smooth.!!!
Mr. Carpenter has been flying for nearly 20 years and has been "bal- looning" since 1921 tot he holds No. 1 balloonists' license. He was for a number of years meteo rologiat at the University of Call- |fornia and then went to his pre- sent berth at Los Angeles. In this capacity he has also been consulté ! ing meteorologist to TWA, Inc., and American Airlines, transcon- tinental lines out of Los Angeles."
The early arrival of "a wholly new type of aeroplane - B speedy cousin of the autogiro was predicted by Mr. W. Lau- Bad Piece Of Ronte“ · rence Lepage of Philadelphia at At one point on its transcontin the annual meeting of the Institu-ental route, Mr. Carpenter sald, tion of Aeronautical Sciences in American Airlines pilots were fly New York.
ing over a stretch of airway which His predictions, he explained, are had a peculiar bumpiness which based on conservative testa in pilots were unable to account for several wind tunnels and laborsa.. which annoyed passengers to Stories.
This new fast autogiro will have
the extent of the airline lo
ao propeller. It will tilt its present business. Mr. Carpenter was call windmill, gear it to the engine and ed in. After riding with the pl-
Though Canada has no regularly In 1983 there were 38 fatul ́acci-
The investigation which is be. dents and 3 deaths. The Air scheduled air transport lines like the Miniatry does not publish the fly United States, its planes are carrying conducted by the Army and
"At the beginning of this year" ing hours of the service, but 1
Air Force authorities into the he said, "traffic progress enabled us ing more express und freight than understand that in 1934 there was only one death in every 12,000 any other airway in the western military value of the autogire or to duplicate our weekly services in rotating 'wing aircraft, is in two each direction between London and flying hours, wherens in 1921 there hemisphere and nearly twice да was one death in every 2,238 fly-much freight and express poundage
parts that which seeks to esburg. This means that in addition Ing hours.
{timate the scope of this type of to the previous dispatch each Satur- carried by United For nine years the R. A. F. fa- has been
machine for certain kinds · of day to India, there is an additional States foreign and domestic linea.; tal accidents figures were
Fabel In 1938 American domestic and for. Army co-operation work and that dispatch from London every Tues- day, while on the Africa route, in| eign air lines carried express to the which seeks to estimate its addition to the previous Wednesday total of nearly 2,500,000 pounds.. scope for aerial fighting.
dispatch, there is now spother de- Canadian airways, according to
The major testa in the Army co-parture each Sunday. But though | 69 50 76 Government figures, carried 4,206 operation work will be made during traffic by these new duplicated ser-
Canada's largest air operator car-the next training season, in the passengers, it is clear from a study An ambitious scheme for the ex-so get its lift and forward drive. lots for a number of months Mr.
vices is already heavy-in respect to ried 2,539,000 pounds for the first summer of this year, when R.A.F. of the mall figures that there is pansion of the existing civil air It is expected to ascend and descend Carpenter discovered) that the six months of this year as compared aquadrons will take part in special stila paychological difficulty to be facilities within the next few years nearly vertically. to: 1,578,000 pounds carried by
overcome, and that the old habit off
"bumpa" were due to the peculiars Its indicated speed is around 200 relation of the winds which flowed, American air lines for the same manoeuvres; while the 28
having only one mall-day a week at the cost of Y.200,000,000 was period.
tests will be begun with existing for overseas correspondence is pre-disclosed in the House of Peers re-miles an hour. This tremendous bulk of freight types of machine and may lead to venting full advantage being taken cently by Mr. T. Tokonami, Minis, The causes of this marked im is moved by the air lines which serve the ordering by the Air Ministry of of the duplicated services now ses of Communications.
be the northern areas of Canada far an experimental military autogiro of operating.” (d) provement are probably to found mainly in the improved beyond the rail ends and river traffic, novel design. trustworthiness in the aeroplanes Regions in northern Canada which and engines. Engine failure is a formerly awaited the semiannual rarity in service machines to-day, dog team or boat now are served and breakage of any part of the monthly by aeroplane. air-frame structure is almost un-- known with British machines, ・・ ̧
1026
1927
1928
1929
73
31. 42
000 pounds that year. This year
1930
85
45 65
1981
86 45
75
1932
B8 32
48
1933
1934
00 38 53 93 19
Improved Engines
Flying discipline has also been YENCHI AERODROME
'improved, and there is less un- authorised low flying and aero- batics. Ultra close formation fly-
PROJECTED.
ing has in the past been reapon- Military Significance
Of Position
sible for a number of accidents, and there is usually an outbreak of this kind of casualty, just be- fore the R.A.F. annuál display.
Tientsin.. when practice in air drill is con- Plans are on foot for the con- ducted. There has been less em-struction of a new aerodrome at phasis upon this ultra-close formd tion work in 1984.
PALTRY INCREASE IN WAR PLANES
Neglect Of British Air Security
COMPARISON WITH SOVIET ARMAMENT
12 months by only 28 machines.
Yenchi and construction work is scheduled to be started early in May, according to a message re- ceived here from Changchun to- day.
Fighter Or Observer
fighting
Insurance Companies
As Barometer
NO BETTER PROOF OF CONFIDENCE
:
across the range of hills that caused the unsettled condition of the air, whic ́had troubled the air
company, were advised to depart from their compass courses. .at this point and the airline exper lenced no further trouble.
"It is clear, for example, that far tensions planned by the Ministry
The most important air route ex- SAFER AIR TRAVEL line. Forthwith pilota of the air too large a proportion of letters would, according to Mr. Tokonami, continue to be sent by our Saturday link Japan with Singapore, Kem It is not permissible to give de- dispatch to India, which has come chatka, Saghallen and the Palau tails of the kind of machine visual-to be recognised as air mail day, Islands in the South Seas, held by ised by Air Force officers as aand far too small a proportion by Japan under mandate from the
Mr. Carpenter claims to have rotating wing fighter; but it may the new Tuesday dispatch..
the highest readings ever taken be mentioned that Senor de Is
League of Nations.. Cierva, the inventor of the autogiro, route, the bulk of letters still 'con- "It is the same on" the Africa
by meteorological balloons. In The plans provide or the follow-
his office is a barograph recovered worked out many years ago a design tinuing by the Wednesday mail, and ing lines:
No barometer can tell of the from a free balloon which reached for an autogiro with a maximum too few by the duplicated service in north Japan. }
1-Tokyo to Baghalien via Suppore growing confidence in air travel so 108,000 feet, or nearly 20 miles (Continued on Page 10} leaving on. Sunday.
much as its Insurance rates. The above the earth! 2-Hokkaido, in north Japan, to All Air-Mail Days
Kamchatka.
news that 14 British insurance 3-The extension of the line-be- companies are forming a new power- "What is now wanted. is some tween Fukuoks and Formoss, which ful group to cover aviation risks em- slogan to the effect that every day will be inaaguarated next, January, to phasises this confidence. is an air-mail day. In this con- Singapore, r
Osaka to
Already passengers flying, with north Korea, vis noction it may be remembered that the Under-Secretary of State for rokys to Falas in the South same rates as surface transport.
Matene
Imperial Airways are covered at the Air, when discussing -- further in- Seas via the. Hachijyojima and Ogasa-
AIR SICKNESS CAN BE UNPLEASANT
Varying Complexions
Of Passengers - `-
CONTROLLED BY THE PILOT
...: 14
creases of frequency Just recently, wara Islander
- But in other cases men have had foreshadowed four or five air ser Osaka and Tokyo,
GA sumber of local, lines around to look over their personal insurance ༄༅། ༦་མ། policies before flying as, passengers vices a week on such a route as 7-Local lines in the Chugoku and in case there was a prohibitive Yenchi is an important city in
duplication of the Empire services, that to India. As it is, since the Kynske districts. eastern Kirin, near the Russian
Mr. Tokonami's statement was clause, border. It is believed that the It is very instructive to watch have to deal with either an incom-Baron Ryoltau Asada,"
the officials" at the London air-ports made in reply to a question put by new aerodrome when completed the arrival of two or three machines ing or outgoing Empire service will be of considerable military at Croydon at about the same time every day of the week while on eignificance.(Chekjab Agency). on a gasty day, says a writer. In Sundays two Empire services are
and
URGENTLY-CONSIGNED
GOOD BY AIR-MAIL
"Flight" Certain seroplanes dell now scheduled at Croydon one FLYING HOTELS ON ver up their passengers pink and outward to Africa and one inward smiling, and all say they have enjoy- along the same route.
NEW ROUTE
Zurich-London Line
Opens Next Month
Those days are now ending. Travel in British, air liners is as "safe as: houses.”
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA'S AIR TERMINAL
HIGH SPEED EMPIRE PLANES
Negotiation Between Governments
IMPERIAL AIRWAYS PLAN
Sir Philip Bassoon, was recently asked in the House of Commons, [what steps had been taken towards the construction of new types of high-speed civil aircraft for use on Empire-routes under the Govern ment's revised policy,
ed the trip. Other machines dis-"It can be seen, therefore, that gorge travellers not so pink and by the time has already arrived when
It was inconceivable that the
Bir Philip Sassoon: As I in- formed the House just before Britain has increased its home)
In addition to night passenger no means smiling,
there is no need for Empire corres
City of Sydney should not directly first-line air strength in the last off from Croydon during the hours ties of the seroplane and, above all, delayed by waiting for any parti planes, powerful air-freighters fir It is a matter of the flying quali-pondence to accumulate, or to be
benefit by a full participation in Christmas, details of the type of new air mail link between Aus aircraft to be employed in con- This tragic and staggering re- of darkness for destinations far perhaps, of the way they are flown cular day in the week Letters distance between Zurich and Lon fore gratifying, both from the
A new air service covering the tralia and England, and it is there nection with the new scheme for the further development of Empire cord of official neglect of the na-across the continent, carrying malls and at what height. Several com passing by air between England, don in three hours will be opened on point of view of Bydney Interest air mail communications cannet be 'tiqn's air security was revealed to
urgently-consigned goods. panies make a very great point of Egypt, and India, and between April 1 jointly by a Swiss company and for the successful operation of
finally settled until negotiations the House of Commons by Sir This means that letters and parcels the way the pilots fly in bad wes London and destinations along the and Imperial Airways. The planes Australia's national air service in with the other Governments con- Philip Sasapon, Under-Secretary posted in London after business ther, and explanations are required Africa route to Johannesburg, can destined to carry passengers along the future, that the Government cerned, have been completed. for Air.
houses close, are delivered early of pilots whose passengers Buffer now be dealt with in a regular flow, the new line will be flying hotels has announced the future exten am, however, imformed that On January 1, 1934, he said, next morning at cities hundreds of It is considered better to have a late just as is inland correspondenes be fitted with automatic steering, dosions of the service from Brisbane the Board of Imperial Airways there were 426 first-line aircraft miles across Europe.
arrival due to flying high against tween London and the big Provin stationed in Britain, and on Janu-
a head wind than to make a swift cial centres. ary 1 this year there were: 458.
passage flying low.... This figure was exclusive of air; craft of the Fleet air arm in home waters, numbering 108. There were availabla 127 aircraft of the Brat-line establishment of non-re gular squadrons,
FRANCE TO ORGANISE
BIG AIR RACE:
France intends to organise a big grand international air race on the lines
A moment later Sir Philip ad- of the England-Australia race. mitted that there had undoubtedly This was announced by General been substantial increase in Denain, French Air Minister, whe the first-line strength of Soviet says that it is necessary for France military warplane compared with to face courageouslythe
the number of be
which the
1 insuficiency
Night
(Continued on Page 103
Scenes At Croydon
darkness begins,to;
one,
me, one of the routes passing via
vices. The Hae will be a double to Sydney.
Lille and Basis, and the other via Paris and Basle
LONDON TO AUSTRALIA WITHIN THREE DAYS
The glant
GERMANY!
Each night at London's air-port, saloons It costly by shaded lights, NO IRISH AIR BASES FOR
alsh, Into the darkness en route dining, in
Parla Rumours that they would would concede to Germany,
moves
Poller wind
switc
have been
have under consideration the order of certain prototype aircraft which will be capable of use under the new scheme.
In a further statement on the developmer of Empire air ser vices Sir Philip said that [facilitate