THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, APRIL IT, 1935
SOME STRIKING FACTS AND FIGURES OF THE FLYING AIR MAIL
AMERICAN PACIFIC
AIR ROUTE
WAKE ISLAND
ISLAND PROVES IDEAL SEA BASE PROTECTED LAGOON WITH
DEEP WATER
THE American aviation industry, donning its 700-league boots for gigantic strides across the Pacific, has discovered that Wake island, for- gotten since the Spanish-American war, is ideally located for a seaplane base, and swift steps have been taken to reclaim it and convert it to com- mercial uses for air-lines reaching out to the Orient.
The island was recently transferred to the U.S. Navy De partment for administrative purposes and a naval squadron will use it as à control point on the prospective summer, flight of 24 planes from Honolulu to Manila.
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET
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Lying about half way between these two points, the U-shaped coral reef, with an obstruction across the mouth of the U. forms an ideal deep-water lagoon to [break the long jumps from Hawaii'
to the Philippines.
Some thousand miles northwest 'the terminal markets. The Winni-of Honolulu lle the Midway Is- peg market was strong. An im-lands, first stop for the Pan proved milling demand for cash American planes soon to fly to the wheat was reported.
Orient. From there to Guarn is a
"Colton: There was a moderate jump of 2,700 milės, Ideally broken amount of Trade buying to fix about midway by Wake Island, prices. Buying was less aggressive where an American colony will be than formerly and there was
established on its now uninhabited disposition to sell at the market 266 acres. baals of 11 cenila for October. “
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The lagoon is one and one-half "Rubber: The market was steady, miles long, Its closed end facing with dealers the principal buyers, the prevailing trade wind, and its The steadiness was due to the firm-shores protected by a 25-foot high
was unchanged,
SOUTH
WORTH
(HATAL
AMERICA
RIO DE JANEIRO
QVENOS AIRES
DAKAR,
ERI
OUTH
In their unsuccessful attempt to better the world non-stop fight-record of 6,652 miles "made" by them in 1989, Maurice Rom! (left) and Paul Codos, France's famous flying team, brav- ed the South Atlantic for a second time in their old plane, the Joseph LeBrix.
the route they planned to follow on a fight of more than 6,000 miles.
AIR LINE
・TO LONDON
FROM NORTH
·COMPETITION WITH EXPRESS TRAIN
FEEDER SERVICES FROM YORKSHIRE TOWNS
A new air line between Croydon
Crilly Air Services, was inaugur
ness of other markets. There was coral sea wall that leaves it quiet NEW some factory interest. Marth con-as a mill pond. The only present sumption of rubber is estimated at life there is scrub vegetation and 41.000 tons. Shipments from the thousands of large sea birds, so East are light.
long unmolested they show no "Sugar: The market was quiet. fear of man May and June shipments of Philip
A Lucky Accident pine sugars were sold to Gulf Ports Its existence under the Ameri- at 3.24 cents. Prompt sugara were can flag came wholly by accident offered at 3.20 cents. Refined sugar during the Spanish-American war, Capt. E. De Taussig taking an "Flashies: Average daily petroleum army transport to the Philippines production for the week ended April in 1898, saw the island and sent a 6 was estimated at 2,656,000 bar-boat ashore to hoist the American rela, compared with 2,563,000 bar flag and lay claim to it for the and Yorkshire, to be operated by rels the previous week: Weakly United States." electricity production totalled 1,700,- The navy forgot, the island until ated last month at Doncaster Mu-], 000,000 k.w.h., an increase of 5.21924 it was decided to survey and nicipal Airport by the Mayor who per cent. from the corresponding plot all such islands held by the named one machine "Spirit of Don- period of last year.
United States in Mid-Pacific. caster." ~.
A daily service in each direction rubber industry as the United States reported it was ideally situated Government takes a hand. The Laand designed for a seaplane base, equipped with wireless, are used. Dragon eight-seater air liners, bour Department will confer with This information, gathering 10 The machine to London leaves at the Labour unions to-day in a move years of dust in naval department 8.55 a.m., and the journey takes 'to avert a walk-out. The Americanes, proved vital when commer one hour 40 minutes. Passenger's Federation of Labour is now an- cial air companies began scanning are then taken to Waterloo-place, xious for accord with the rubber their maps to chart the route to arriving at 11.5 a.m. companies.
·
"The Journal of Commerce says, Lt. Com. Samuel W. King, was that a compromise is likely in the charge of the survey expedition, is being operated. MAN
Manila from Los Angeles and. San
"The Government estimate of Francisco. -435,000,000 bushels of Winter wheat
compares with private estimate AUSTRALIAN PLANE averaging 490,000,000 bushels,
"The Government, cstimate la con- strued as bullieb and reflects the unfavourable conditions existing in the South-West..
"The North America Company has earned $1,04 per share during 1984."-Reuter.
keta:
HAS STIFF TEST
Quantas-Empire Tries
Out New DH-86
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HUSH-HUSH PLANE
SECRET MACHINE FOR US. ARMY
!:
GIANT: FRENCH FLYING BOAT
Successful Preliminary Trials
Near Bordeaux
The French scaplane "Lieu tenant de Vaisseau, Paris," claimed to be the biggest in the world, made a successful trial. flight recently over the Lake of Biscarasse, to the south-east of Bordeaux.
This "flying liner,” which weighs 37 tons, will carry 70 passengers. It has six engines of 850 h.p. each, and its petrol tanka hold aboistTM 6,000 gallons.
TRAIN OF GLIDERS INTERESTING
The map shown
NEW AIRCRAFT
CARRIER TO BE
MERSEY BUILT BIRKENHEAD GIVEN HUGE CONTRACT
FIRST SHIP OF ITS TYPE STARTED SINCE WAR
AMAZING PROGRESS
Mo
IN 25 YEARS COMPARISON OF 1911 WITH 1935
20,000 MILES OF ROUTES
COVERED TO-DAY
ORE than 2,500,000 miles were flown by the air-liners of Imperial Airways during 1984 This figure, which has just become available, com pares with approximately 2,300,000 miles for 1933 The progress of air transport is illustrated, strikingly, one contrasts the statistics of our present-day air-mails, those of the first officially-sanctioned aeroplane malt to be in England, the twenty-fifth anniversary of which is to be cele brated this summer.
That pioneer Hendon-Windsor service of 1911 operated over a distance of only 20 miles, compared with the 20,000 miles route down over by Imperial Airways and its associated cont panies at the present time. The planes in use on that first ser vice were driven by single engines of 50 hp, and had a wing span of not more than 28 or 30 feet. To-day our big mail-planes are driven by four engines developing a total of more than 2,000 hip, and have a wing-span of 130 feet.
As for a comparison of the loads
carried by air than and now,
the
monoplane which actually MAGNIFICENT -
Inaugurated the Hendon-Wind- sor air-mail of 1911 carried just its pilot, Mr. Gustav Hamel, and a bag of letters weigh- ing 234 lbs, whereas one of our big 4-motored air-liners of to-day will lift Into the air a useful load of just over three tons.
F
RECORD OF
RAF. FLYING
47,000,000 MILES
IN 1934
Aa for the vital aspect of speed, BOTH FRENCH AND ITALIAN whereas those first mall-carrying FIGURES BEATEN planes-lewat from 40 to 50 miles an hour, we have 4-engined Reports on the flying in the aircraft at the present time which, Royal Italian Air Force in 1994 even when carrying considerable and a comparison with the re mail-loads, can attain dapsed of ports on that of the British ser 175 miles an hour.
Growth In Freight
vice, show that the British, though numerically weaker, flew more than twice as many "hours"
A study of the latest air traffle as the Italian. fgures show an increase of more The Italian forcë flow an agr than 20 per cent recently in gate of 185.176 hours, covering freight dispatched by air from more than 20,000,000 miles, London to the Continent. And average speed of 109 miles this augments the general story of hours
progress, as revealed: by current The British R A. F. flew about statistica for passengers and mails 400,000 hours, a computed dis
Three of the main air routes to tance of 47,000,000 miles, at and Subject to the settlement of the Continent London-Paris, average speed of about 116 m.p.h minor points of detail, the Ad. London-Brussels, and London-Ger- miralty has decided to entrust the many are all showing a substan construction of the aircraft-tial freight growth as compared carrier Ark Royal, of the 1934 pro with previous figures.
gramme, to Cammell Laird and Co "On our, line to Paris,” sald
an
Although the figures for France have not yet been published, thers reason to believe that they would show approximately the same proportions as those for Italy, On an average the Royal
Ltd.,of, Birkenhead. With the Imperial Airways official, "we have Air Force pilot files annually in as award of this contract orders for/been having exceptionally large year more than twice as many
the entire 1934 programme haye been placed.
consignments of wireless appai atus recently, while on the service As H.MS Ark Royal is by far lately has been a continued in- to Brussels a traffic feature fust the largest ship of the programme
-nnder. London Treaty rules she is bound to exceed 10,000 tons the contract is a valuable one, and will provide employment for hun (Continued on Page 11)
EXPERIMENT
TO BE TRIEDA
PLANE TO TOW NINE MACHINES
3,000-MILE FLIGHT TO BE UNDERTAKEN AS TEST:
Preparations are being made in
Moscow for an
ental Hair
than
Mesara, E. A. Pierce & Company's Empire Airways submitted their
For some weeks the Quantas ROBOT CONTROL IN report of the opening of the mar new DH-86 air-mail, plane to a
TEST FLIGHT The opening on Wall Street was four-motored passenger machine series of rigaratis tests, and the
Irtutak active, with numerous
blocks" of
Wtih the greatest secrecy a new 3,000 miles, by an aerop towing Bhares changing hands at even, or It was found that with a readjust "Robot-controlled, and carrying if this le successful regular
has come through satisfactorily, type of army plane, described as nine, gliders slightly higher prices..
The cotton market at the opening
ment of the rudder the tendency several officers, took off at dawn lines may be established. met with selling at the 11-cent level yaw has been eliminated, one day last month for a three- for October, temporarily checking
These tests followed the disaster hour flight over the Pacific Ocean, ferent levels, in order to avoid the The gliders will be towed at dif the advance. There was a good which overtook a sister plane near As the plane, heavily laden with risk of mid-air collisions. undertone and demand was more Longreach, Queensland, on its way 1,600 gallons of petrol, was wheel Any one of them map be dropped from England to Brisbane,ed out to a special starting ramp at a given spot at will, and brought
It is expected that the DH-88 patrols kept away sightseers. The to earth by its own pilot machines will be put into service machine's windows were nted ["em.
"The Fregular įservice” of fair train If it is developed, will be the panel used mainly for fast freight and
parcele post,
:general,
Latest Quotations ⠀⠀
The following quotations, have between Singapore and Brisbane black to prevent been received by Reuter.
4,84
N.Y./London NY Cotton July 11.34
Oct.
aloso aloan.
this month.
Prev. To-day's
"GRAF ZEPPELINE CARRIES
#10,000 PASSENGERS
4.85 6.84% 11.89 11.38
10.98-31.04 11.03
NY Rubber July 11,48
Sept.
11.32 11.32
11.01 11.45 11.50
C. Wheat May 95%
(July) tor
C. Corn May 87345 W. Wheat May 88 STOCKS
Dow Jones
Amer Smelting Con Gas-N.Y.E DuPont "Eles Bond & Sh
General Motora
Tol & Tel
Montgomery W
Nat Dlitillers NYCentralt Standard 01 N. 909 US Steel
96%
88%
201
Ten thousand passengers, exclu sive of ita crew, have been carried by the Graf Zeppelin during the four years it, has been flying be tween Germany, and South America.
the instruments board.
minatio
Capt Albert Hegenberger, who flew the Pacific in 1927, and Capt. Clayton Biss I were the co-pilota LITTLE DANGER TO AIRCRAFT
FROM LIGHTNING
·Army@headquarters refused all!
Autogiros Increase.
out the flig wh
In Britain
FRENCH A FRENCH GIANT WORLD'S LARGEST FLYING BOAT
CAN IT BE MADE TO PAY?
crease in the quantity of wireless Valves consigned by air. For deli cate articles like these the advan tages of air transport, with its absence of jolting or vibration,
are so great that the bulk of auch goods are now being sent by air, special nacking, but travelling quite safe ly in ordinary cardboard contain- era.
the valves requiring no
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SOLVING A
hours as the French or the Italians Continued on Page 101
PLANE ADVENTURE OF LADY YOUNG Faulty Compass Was
The Cause
MISTOOK ZAMBESI RIVER FOR KAFUE
A faulty compass was the cause, anys, Lady Young, of her air crash
A GLIDING and adventure in the bush which
PROBLEM
How One Machine Was
Turned Into Two
COSTS £100 AN HOUR SOLD TO FLY
A little while ago several of the France's £100,000 dying boat,members of the Norfolk (England) pleted its trial the Normandle of the air, has com- Gliding Club, &st down to work out a knotty problem. They had only one glider and they needed another. Their total assets were their one plane, a few pounds tions and, a large
Paris, as it has been named,
The Lieutenant de be the largest, commercial plane, yet bulls bes
Aviation experts doubt there will be enough pass make it, a paying proposit tony on the South Atlantic route to Buenos Aires.
The liner can carry seventy pas
A
Itish comm
sm. They F-“pitch”?!
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INCREASED BUILDING OF AIRCRAFT IN 1934
Of
W
led to a search by plane rail and on foot last month.
After reaching elvilisation;; with. Dr Kerby, after a week of anxiety, she was greeted at Lusaka by her husband, the Governor
Lady Young stated that she felt quite all right but "a little tired" (Continued on Page 10 RESPIRATORS IN AIR RAIDS Britain Fully Alive To Danger
PROVISION MADE IN THIS LES YEAR'S ESTIMATES
An estimate of £92,000 for penses connected with
revea