THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBERY 16, 1935
CHEAP AND ECONOMICAL PLANES FOR
WORLD AIR RACE
ITINERARY OF
THE PROJECTED
EVENT IN 1937 *£10,000* FOR WINNER
OTHER SUBSTANTIAL
PRIZES OFFERED
Paris.
The itinerary of the first round-the-world air race, which is to be held in connection with the International Exhibition in Paris in 1937, has now provisionally fixed
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been
The start and finish will be in "Paris and the route ost PTO- bably will be to Caire, then by the regular air-route to the Far East) via India and Japan, across the! Pacific to California, New York, Dublin, and back to Paris.
The crossing from Japan to the United States most probably will be, by way of the Aleutian Islands
The prize-money is expected to be £40,000 for the winner. $20,000 for the second 13,330 for: the third, and £6,666 to the next three to finish
DORADO ARRIVES
·AT KAI TAK
Last Experimental Flight
COMPLETE SUCCESS
Making the last of four experi-
His plane was wrecked in a forced landing at Ballinrobe, Ire -land, but Lieut. Feliz Waitkus (top with policeman) was happy to be alive after his storimy flight from New York. The ex-United States Army pilot was attempting a non-stop solo fight to Lithu-
axia, kis parents" native_Imol.“
TRANS-AFRICAN LINE
SUBSIDIARY AIR
ROUTES PLANNED
TO INLAND TOWNS
Linking Khartoum And Nigeria
mental flights between Penang and NEW NETWORK OF SERVICES
Hong Kong under service candi-
tions, the Imperial Airway plane Dorado arrived at Kai Tak aero-
London.
Imperial Airways, develop drome at 4.40 p.m. yesterday. ments are to include a trans-
The Dorado left Penang at the normal schedule time on Thurs day at 10 am after making con- nection with the main service....
African line connecting Khar- toum, a station on the England- Cape route, with Central and West Africa. Several sub- Crossing the Malay Peninsula sidiary lines and auxiliary ser the weather was quite good, but vices are projected by French, the ship ran into very heavy Belgian and British operators monsoonal rain-storms the whole in these regions. way across the Gulf of Siem, a A survey for the torrential downpour for the great-organising supplies and servicing of aircraft is about to be carried er part of the Gulf crossing.
purpose of
IMPERIAL AIRWAYS RECORD PROFIT -
Dividend And Bangs On Ordinary Shares
The preliminary statement of Imperial Airways for the past year shows an increase in Det prost of $55,198 over the pre- vious twelve months at £133,769. This constitutes a new high re- cord
:
A dividend of six per cent, and is pro- bors a one per centi posed on the Ordinary. For the previous year the dividend wAS six per cent, but no bonus BTES distributed.
After payment of the divi- dend and bouze zad mäking spe- dial appropriations and provi- xions, the balance to go forward is 15,257 her at $84,503.
INDIAN GIRL FLIERS
Selected Candidate To Be Trained
Rain
was met again in the out by Mr. W. K. Brett for the southern part of Indo-China, but Shell Company. Saigon was reached without trou-
will fly a Percival Mr. Brett ble at 2.40 p.m. -
“Gull” monoplane. He will start The Dorado stayed overnight at from Cairo, and will carry out an Saigon, leaving there at 7 am inspection tour, of about 15,000 yesterday. A stop was made a miles
After reaching Khartoum, he
Calcutta. The fliers then experienced goodwill travel by the intended Im weather, making an excellent flight perial Airways route, taking in
"Another step has been taken in to Hong Kong.
El Obeid, El Fasher, Abeshe, Fort
The the emancipation of Indian wo- The Dorado will leave on Tues-Lay and Maidugari. day, morning on her retum fight journey will include calls at men. They are to learn to fly.
to Penang.
"
"Highly Satisfactory"
(about 40 aerodromes, where of
acials will be interviewed and
Nigerian Terminus
""Our landing here today is the reports prepared.
6th we have made in the Colony
A committee in Calcutta, it is learned, has decided to finance the training of a selected Bengali
ALL
KLM
FLYING FLEA" SEEN
AS ANSWER
EVOLVED AFTER MUCH EXPERIMENT
GREAT ENTHUSIASM AROUSED BY FIRST DEMONSTRATION
London
THE ambition of many a young man and woman likely and to do so without spending much money, seems likely to be gratified by the advent of Mr. Heuri Mignet's "Pou du Ciel' which has been translated into the English "Flying Fiet.” M. Mignet has arrived in England to demonstrate what his little machine can do He built it himself for about $70 after four years' hard work. In a radio talk he told how he and his wife lived alone in the middle of a wood in France for two years trying out his little plane, altering, learning by minor crashes, altering and trying again. Till at last came the great day when he went up 1000 feet and essayed his first turn, and found that his "Pou" turned and banked to perfec- tion. There are now some 400 of them built or being built-in "France and a number in Great Britain.
The "Flying Flea" is not, meant as a cheap substitute for
a. fast aeroplane. It is meant "FLYING FLEA"
to give the joy of flying to many who could not otherwise hope to fly their own machines.
So, as M. Miguet said, he made up his mind to break away from many preconceived - ideax. He wanted something safe that would be unable to get intó a spin So] he did away with ailerons, bent the ends of the wings upwards, { and, for slow flying with safety, The gave it a very large radder.
Specifications
EXHIBITED AT
ALBERT HALL
DURING FORD" SHOW
CONSIDERABLE PUBLIC INTEREST SHOWN:
Though built as a biplane the For the fifth year the Ford lower wing is close to the upper Motor Company held an exhibi- Jene and its leading edge under- tion of its own, running con- laps the rear edge of the upper by currently with the Motor Show a few inches only. Immediately at Olympia- Nearly 100 exhi behind the lower wing is the rnd-bitors, headed by the Ford Company, Ltd, packed the hall der. so that there is no tail
With a 20 hp engine the Fles with a variety of exhibits desi- can fly at 60 mph and dimb to ing with motoring, commercial €,000 feet and, as it weighs only transport, dying, motor-boa 250 pounds, one man can push it ing, mechanised farming, and atout on the ground, with ease. industrial power.
In the display were examples
If the engine stops it can be brought down Be a parachute of machines and instruments at M. Mignet's first demonstration tended by men from the factory who explained them to visitors. aroused great enthusias
One instrument can measure a two-millionth part of an ich.
ALL-METAL PLANE IN AUSTRALIA
Successful Tests At Melbourne
Melbou.me.
With Ford Engine
A continuous free film pro- gramme was given; and one film was for "learner" motorists. “A
typical examination was "showa in progress, and Sir Malcolm Campbell, the famous racer, con- tributed a running commentary.
Suspended from the roof of The first aeroplane to be made the hall and giving the impres- in the Government factory st Melbourne has been successfully son of being in fight was a “Fly- tested at Parkhill zerodrome, Iting Flex" aeroplane built to the designa of M. Henni Mignet, and is an all-metal seroplane, equip fitted with a Ford 10-hp, engine. ped with an English engine.
The value of such seroplanes for defence, as well as commercial- purposes, is being stressed here.
PASSENGER RECORD
AIR'S FIRST HEROES
A new record for passenger May Meet At Scene Of
girl candidate in aviation. She traffic was set by airlines operat and this is the final of the series Maidagari, in the north-east will receive instruction at the ing in the United States in July, of experimental flights arranged corner of Nigeria, will probably Bengal Flying School at the Dum when 35,183 passengers were caref
zied by my company to explore the be a British main route terminas. Dum aerodrome. possibilities of an air service be Within the next two years a net- tween Penang and Hong Kong to work of subsidiary lines, operat connect with our main trunk line ed independently, will cover between England and Australia great part of what used, within and Singapore," said Capt. Arm- living memory, to be known as strong of Imperial Airways, in an "darkest Africa." intier yesterday.
A French line has already
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between
The route begins at Penarg on started operations the west coast of Malaya, crosses Flamer and the coast of Dahomey the Malayan peninsula, and at Kotonu.
the · Gulf of Siam, and Mr. Brett will meet Mr. Vaille- continues through Indo-China min, who has extensive experi- by way of Saigon and Hurence of African travel, at Gao, on then across the China Sex, skirt the southern edge of the Sahara. ing the island of Hainan, to Hong Mr. Vuillemin is in charge of the Konga total distance of 1,600 third annual expedition which
miles.
has been set to overhaul existing
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art, rugintzined in both directions
exactly as plained.
"The scheme of our present aircraft service stations and to fights provided for two return set up new mes. He will accom survey flights to be made in easy pany Mr. Brett on his tour. stages, taking 21⁄2 days. direction, and then for four flights to a 11⁄2 days which appeared to be a one under actual service and was in fact connections with services and to within 92 days of results have been
"No particularly favourable
was chosen for the contrary, weather are probably at their
across the Ando: China, wh
heavy món
perienced con
First Flight
London
A project is being considered by air organisation in this and other countries for a reunion of the surviving pioneers of avis- tion, but airmen in the United States propose a meeting rat Kitty Hawk Carolina, on the actual spot where the world's first seroplane fight was made in 1903.2
Many famous air pioneers s Ivive. They include Orville | Wright, the world's " first pilot in { America, Bleriot and FarmRE. İn France, and Sir Alliott Verdon Boe, Lt. Col. J. T. C. Moore-Baa- bazón, M.P., and Mr. Claudi hame-White in this country. The have seen the seroplane
& trail m only one which
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