FAMOUS
U.S. PARACHUTE
JUMPER TRIES
NEW INVENTI ON
Bat-Wings Of Canvas Slow Down Fall
EXHIBITION OF GLIDING AND LOOPING
•
Clem Sohn the parachute jumper, tried out a little invention of his own at Daytona Beach recently. He stepped out of an aeroplane 12,000 feet up, left his parachute unopened and tested a set of “bat wings."
The wings were of canvas and He were attached to his arms.
а
also had a canvas web sewed be- Thus tween his overall logs. attired, he did three loops, several sharp banks, and some| gliding. It was all over in minute and a quarter while he slowly counted. 75-and then he opened his parachute, some 10:000 feet lower than the alti- tude from which he jumped, and landed safely.
Mr. Sohn, a Lansing (Mich.) parachute jumper, who specialises in delayed drops, snld that without the "bat wings" It would have taken him: only 80 seconds to fall the 10,0000 feet..
."I am sure that I could have glid- ed a mile or more laterally if I had -concentrated my efforts on that," he said but "it was cold and I was in
a hurry to get to the ground.”
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FLIERS AMONG
These are the wings with. which Clem Sohn, parachutes jumper, opened a new era in aviation. With the winge and webbing of his own de vising, he soared up and down over Daytona Beach Florida, at a height of 6,000 feet, before opening his parachute and dropping gently to earth.
BRITISH FLYING CLUBS'
RECORD IN 1934
Over 3,000,000 Miles Flown
In 1934
Members of British flying clubs flew more than three mlion miles in 1934 in. 75,000 fights..
Nearly 100 neroplanes were used by twenty-six subsidised clubs, which trained 486 "A" pilote.and ́fifty "B" or professional pilots....
AMBITIOUS PLAN
SUB-STRATOSPHERE ATLANTIC FLIGHT
New York-Dublin And Back In 60 Hours
YOUNG IRISH INVENTOR'S SECRET PLANE
7
Details of a plan to fly through the sub-stratosphere from New, York to Dublin and back, within |60 hours, have been disclosed by an ambitious 24-year-old pilot, Mr. Charles L Foley, an Irishman.
THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, APRIL 4 1935
THE MILLION MILE MEN
MEN OF
OF THE
FRENCH PLAN
UNDERGROUND:
PLANE WORKS
To Defeat Surprise
Enemy Attacks
SCHEME TO BE ACTED UPON AT ONCE
AVIATION EXPERT
FIRST WORLD
FLIGHT SPONSOR
ON CHINA VISIT
MAJOR DICHMAN,
PLANE BUILDER
TO STUDY CONDITIONS IN ORIENT
Problems of military and com- mercial aviation in China will be studied during the next several monthe by Major "Ernest W. Dich- man, assistant to the president of United Aircraft Exports, Inc., and former Chief of the Aeroplane Sec tion of the United States Army Air Corps, who is now in Shanghal.
Trained as an electrical engineer, Major Dichman became Interested in tying during the Great War and enlisted as a flying cadet in the then Aviation Section of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, completed a special course and was sent to France in 1918, shortly before the Armistice.
Prepared World Flight
For Beveral years after the war he was Chief of the Aeroplane Section of the Army Air Corps and was thus responsible for the de- velopment of heavier-than-air craft of the Army. He planned and on-
gineered the Brat non-stop trans-
continental flight across the United States from New York to San! Diego (Kelly and McReady). He was also responsible for the selec tion and development of the U.S. Army round-the-world cruisera which were the first planes to circle! the globe.
To guard vital warplane worke
Civil Aviation Work from lightning enemy attacks, which would be the first act in any war the Army in 1929 to become chief Major Dichman resigned from the French technical air magazine engineer of the American Airplane Les. Ailes, suggests that such face and Engine Corporation, where he tories abould be isolated, and when designed and developed the "Pi ever possible situated underground grim 100 transport lagle An example of an isolated sea engined, high-wing externally plane factory is that of Caudebec-braced monoplane of exceptional en-Caux on the River Seine. The chief engineer of this factory is now!
aerodynamic efficiency.
For the last three years Major
BURBANK
-------35,000 FEET ---
STRATOSPHERE
NEW
YORK
STATES
*** Captain Wiley Post's trancominental night in a queer airtight
eult resembling a diving costume, was a test of the clentific bellef that by rising 35,000, feet to the stratosphere, planes with super- charged' engines can make 400 m.ph, and thus cross America” in seven hours. The map shows his route and the photograph shows the helmet designed to protect him from the subzero temperatures of the stratosphere.
NEW HEAVY-OIL AERO-ENGINES
FOR AIR FORCE Fuel Economy Gives Greater Radius
GOVERNMENT PLACES ORDER
NEW STRATOSPHERE FLIGHT
PLANNED FOR JUNE
Balloon Of 3,700,000 Cubic Feet Capacity To Be Used
The National Geographic Society. of America is sponsoring another stratosphere flight in June with "a" *balloon of record dimensionsive?
The next venture will be in a
preparing plans by which the work- Dichman has been consulting acro- It was reveal at the annual shops would be shifted from their nautical engineer for the Chance meeting of D. Napier and Son Ltd. balloon of 8,790,000 cubic feet. huge excavation dug in the hill im-with-the corporation's relations with a number of "Culverin" heavy-oll, Vought Corporation, dealing chiefly that the Air Ministry had ordered
present position and placed ain
mediately behind.
AIR RACERS REACH. DARWIN
Just 108 Days After
The Winners
the U.S. Army and Navy. He is compression-dgnition engines. This
capacity,
AIR
FEW HAVE YET
ACHIEVED THE
MILLION MARK
What Such
Means In Time
ABOUT 20 YEARS REGULARS FLYING
(By WILLIAM COURTENARY) There are now a number of
tish airmen who have flown 1,000,000 miles. S
If you work this out at m.ph for it is on an ave
of that speed that their ma have flown this 10.000 hours of flying.
To pass the million mile
a hall-mark on a man's fiving
There are not many pilots who
have achieved 10,000
assume that a pilot
employed puts in 500 houra
the
al a year we should.not. wrong. At this rate it will be seen that it takes 20 years of hard flying
to do those million miles,
On Regular Flights
And as a rule it is only pilots who have been engaged in regular air line work, flying between London and Paris or other centres, who have achieved anything like one million milen,
F
We must expect to find our 10.000 hour airmen in the ranks of Im Derial Airways. And so they are.
First there is Captain F. Dismore who completed 21 years as a pilo some time lest August. He took his ticket before the war and has been
·ever since.s
[dying
Famous Bearded Pilot
Others are Captain O. P. Jones, the famous bearded pilot of Im perial Airways Captain G. P Olley, who now runs his own alr line but who was the special char ter plot of Imperial Airways form many years; Captain Yuill, Captain Wilcockson and Captain Rogers.
All except Olley are still flying for Imperial Airways. To these namen I would add those of Captain Neville, Stack, who in addition to air line work and air taxi flighta has carried out many special charter fights. India and Africa
Record Breakers Neither the Mollisons nor who have many recorda hames, have completed 10,
The Australia flig
Smiles representa
actual flying time at
the inventor of a device for intro-engine is a development of the U.S. AERIAL that record flights do not pile up
ducing automatic lateral stability in Junkers, manufacturing rights in aeroplanes,
HILLMAN'S AIRWAYS
Famous Pilot Named As Manager
CAPT. NEVILLE STACK
which were acquired by the Nap'er Company.GEN
The heavy-all engines, affords
DERBY
fuel economy sufficient to offset Its POSTPONED FOR lightly greater weight, so that LACK OF FUNDS
$10,000 More Needed To Cover Cost
TOTAL AMOUNT REQUIRED
2515 £40,000,
boura very much.
It is the steady jogging along da by day on routine work that does it
Perhaps the pilots whose dail
known, and unnamed ones who
mileage the highest are the un-
dertake joy riding tours in the summer. They often fly from a.m. till dusk day after day with. out a break, and put in 1,000 hours or more in a short season of five months. But during the
the winter they may not be so busy, and their annual average comes down
Thrills
for flights exceeding about four Mr. R. Farer and Mr. G. Has
hours' duration it is advantageous, Mr. Foley has invented several worth, two of the contestants in the
while the economy in weight in- devices
designed. to increase England-Australia air race which
creases with increase of duration: safety, weight lifting capacity and was won by Messrs. Scott and
Sir Horace Snagge, the chair speed of aeroplanes, and is anxious Black in just under three days,
man, also announced that the Air to test and demonstrate their reached Darwin on February 8,
Ministry has ordered engines of efficiency by a return Atlantic They left Mildenhall on October 20 Hillman's Airways announced re- the "Dagger" type for a squadron flight. His machine is now being last year, and thus took 111 days. cently that Capt. T. Neville Stack of aeroplanes, constructed in New York secretly. Mr. Farer attributes most of his has been appointed air superinten The "Dagger" is a notable de- It is learned that the proposed 10.91 He is anxious to conceal the novel delays to radiator and engine trou-dent and manager of the company, parture in air-cooled engines since "Air Derby from Washington tjob may be these days, can fly for
features of the 'plans from pos-bles. He was held up at Paris on and had begun his duties at the it substitutes for the usual radial South America and back, has, been sible competitors.
a million miles without his share of the first day of the flight. He had aerodrome at Abridge
arrangement the in-line form. It is postponed until April 1936. excitement. Take the case of May 27 is the date provisionally similar difficulties at Pisa and Capt. Stack, who is 88, began his 2: £4-cylinder engine in four banks Rumours that dificulties in obtain Olle fixed for his departure, because Athens, and a whole series of pass-fying career, during the war. He of six, and for its 650 hp. t offers taining the prize-money may lead the moan will then be full, and port inconveniences in Persia, Fe has many pioneer, Bights to his comparatively little resistance to to the cancellation of the whole the war he once landed the conditions most favourable for After leaving Singapore he fre- credit, and recently set up several the air... is probable that the scheme, have been denied by Mratorm, in a monastery, flying at a great height
Apr. 2. Apr. 3. Closing Closing
10,96 11.02 10.97 10.41-10.51
At 30,000 Feet
No pilot, however humdrum the
In his early civil nying
quently went off his course, as his records for return flights from Lon-engines are required, for a day. Billett Roosevelt, a son of the Pre- Belgium. compass was inaccurate. •
don tô various European capitala bomber, type... "Even if I am a bit late, he Capt. Stack was a competitor in
sident, the organiser of the race, had to who states that he has promises of cells contribution mcompanies and lind dyin
0.0002
tant
“I intend to fly at 80,000 ft most of the way," Mr. Foley stated. aaid, with a smile, "what does it the Melbourne air race last October, THE PADDLE WHEEL individus shall have a two-way telephone matter? I am going to Melbourne, but after having some trouble with apparatus with which I hope to and will then fly to New Guinen, the electric circuit on his machine where this machine will be used by and, landing in France, he withdrew Ja mining company.
He flew on as a non-competitor.
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10.42 10.52 10.42- 10:54 10.44
10.59
Spot
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FLYING MACHINE
Type That Demands More Attention
By train and boat the Journey to British exports of aircraft any of the Channel Islands takes at material show a big increase for least 12 hours, including what is 1984 over the previous year, regarded as the worst of all Chan- Exporte for the month of Decem, nel Crossings: The new fleet of bor exceeded those for the corres- seroplanes, enables the company to ponding month of 1988 by nearly improve on previous time schedules Old New Old New 175 per cent. The total for the and to auffer even less in rruption 2.26 2.24 2.80 2:27 year was £1.922,814, an increase of thro
2.52 2.30-2.36 2.38 81 per cent,
2.36 2.84 2.41 2.89
2.48 2.40 2.46 2.44
2.842.85 2.88 2.85
1,201 1.80
1.29
1.28
6170
New
Forê
her than t
Stratosphere Bid
learned that an attem
ROUND TABLE OF THE AIR
ntion
tion Made By London Airman
A LEAGUE FOR PEACE
Secret
oubt
He and his
Continued
AMERICA'S NEWEST WAR PLANE
For Every Military
10,000
nired total of 240,000.
AS FIGHTER OR BOMBER OR FOR RECONN SANCE:
Radio Becomes
For Pilots