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CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, I CEMBER-14.-19335
BRITISH
SECURITY
California and China were linked in 3 days last month when the China Clipper, giant Martin flying boat of the Pan-American Airways; insegurated the first tražen Pacife passenger and mail air service. Our layout shows the 'Chinz Clipper in fight and at the base and indicates the points she touched at on her 3500-mile air journey, The bare fying boat can carry 43 passengers and a crew of 7 on non-stop fights of 1200 miles and 18 passengers, crew and cargo non-stop for 3.000 miles.
PAN-AMERICAN LINE SEAPLANE OF
STORY OF AMAZING
GROWTH
INITIATIVE AND ENTERPRISE
200 TONS
FORESHADOWED BY RESEARCH
Noise Reduction Also Foreseen
London.
SAVING IN TIME
CALIFORNIA FIVE DAYS FROM MANILA
NEW ERA IN COMMUNICATIONS
The Lunding of were latonHE thousands of milles separating the United
tors weight is predicted the
Research
THE story of the Pan American Airways, under whose wings the first trans-Pacific flight was
States from the Philippines, remotest area achieved last month. is a story of youth, initia-passenger aircraft in 1 in the under the American flag, shrank precepubly last tive and enterprise.
1934-35 report of the Aeronau- month as Pan-American's China Clipper landed Behind the organisation that has accomplished the stupen-tical
Committee in Manila. dous and of the same time glorious undertaking of spanning the issued last month..
By fastest steamer Manila is 20 days from Seattle or San Pacific stands the figure of Juan Trippe, probably the youngest : "A seaplane appears to be in of America's executives of this period. He is the president of many ways more suitable for Francisco. For the last two years the Philippines has been closer the Pan American Airways
this purpose. it is stated, "and to Europe than America from the standpoint of speediest com- the possible development of acial bravel time. By steamer to Singapore and thence to 200-ton fving-boat has been London by trans-Asia aeroplanes requires from 12 to 15 days.
Last month's fight marks the beginning of a new era of) discussed with representatives
No fun-trans-Pacific communication which brings California within four of the leading fixes.
or five days of Manila, which is one third of the way around the damental difficulties of cons-
world from San Francisco and nearly half-way around from New | truction are apparent.
York
It was in the year 1661 when the Trippe family arrived in the United States and settled in what is now Maryland. Genera tion after generation the family' stalwart sons took to seafaring professions.
The Young Pan American executive was born in 1900. Mr. Trippe received his educa-} tion from the Hill school and Yale.
He obtained his first
NEW FIGHTER MODEL
Further progress has been made in the redaction of noise in air-j craft-mainly in connection with exhaust silencers Exhaust noise has been reduce below the level
flying experience during the Plane With Telescopic or the engine cister, making
world war. After his discharge
from the Government service)
he graduated from Yale.
He
found employment in a broker- age concern in New York City after graduation.
Wings
320 MP.EL ENVISAGED
Paris.
very striking-change.
ATLANTIC SERVICE
The coming of the Pan-Ameri- can fliers constitutes the most spectacular aviation event in the history of the Philippines. The islands have occasionally in the past been host to globe- trotting aviators, but no previous flight has approached, the andacity of the recent fight across the Pacific, made în a business-like manner instead of as a glamorous and hazardous London.adventure.
Terminus On Irish Side
MANY RIVAL CLAIMS
Unending Problems. "So far as passengers are con- ceed." it is added. "the noise of Plans are in the hands of the motion through the air may be In this business he spent many French Air Ministry for a new greater than that of an engine fit- unhappy years. He disliked it fighter aeroplane fitted with tele-ted with a silencer. The problems
A representative of the Civil Some of the sensational aerial altogether. The call of the air scopic wings which would give it encountered-it endeavouring to
who seemed strong and in it he visuaa speed in higher altitudes of more silence aeroplanes are unending." Aviation Department, Air Minis trail-blazers
visited the One cause of engine failure lised a great future. He had had than 320 miles an hour. Its land-
Joaquin Loriage and a taste in dying and saw the inx speed would correspond to that the formation of ice in the car is visiting both Southern and Philippines in the last decade in-
burettor has been eliminated by Northern Ireland to examine pos- cluded growing importance of commer- of a small private machine. cial aviation.
The new design is the work of adding a small quantity of alcool sible intermediate calling places Eduardo Gonzales Gallarza, who a Russian, M. Ivan Mackhonine, to the petrol. An apparatus has an air service between Great few from Spain; Fernando Rein who bas long
been testing now been devised which detects Britain and Newfoundland, or Loring, who dew from Spalu
Canada, MA
twice; Captain Wolfgang von He, therefore, approached three variable-surface wings. A trial the onset of freezing and supplies Representatives of the Airt Grunow and his companions whol
Ministry have just returned from stopped on an around-the-world of his friends. Cornelius Vander-machine which has been flying for alcohol only until the ice has been bil Whitney, William Vander-five years with a low-powered ex-
The report predicts that in the visit to Newfoundland, and it is flight; F. C. Chichester, who Bew bilt and Percy Rockefeller, for the xine has so impressed the French necessary financial backing. He air authorities that he was asked future engines for commercial air-understood that Port Botwood has here from Australia en route to faid out before then hi
his plan to to present plans and models of a craft will weigh not more than one tentatively been approved as in Japan; and British Boyal Air air service terminus în that Domi-Force aviators and Dutch naval pound per horse power.
form a
Powerful Packing
commercial airline. Helister
was not to de- begrudged or dis The underlying idea is that with| appointed. They understood him the wings at full span the ma-
chine can take off and land easily right away.
with a heavy load. By shortening Tous was the United States Air-the span a greater speed is obtain- mail Route No. 1-Colonial Airwas able at high altitudes. (Boston to New York) organised
£13,000 Bonus
in 1926. The following year the M. Makhonine has received a company started business as the £13,000 bonus from the Govern- first international airline operat-ment for his experiments. ing out of the United States ander
"I anticipate that the fighter
the name of Pan American Airshould be able to reach a speed of Ways.
90-Mile Service
over 320 miles an hour," he said, “and land at somewhere round 60 miles an hour. That is an import-
It covered a 90-mile-zerizi serant point Fice
and between Key West
"Another is that this speed can Havane This was really the bebe reached with an engine of ginning of the service that now lower power than that required by cores some 50,000 miles of air-present models to approach sach lines, Herding the new trial speed. blazed la month to Manila. Thus The new fighter is designed to the 99-mile aerial ferry service carry two machine-guns mounted begun in 1927 has now become the in casings under the wings into largest in the world, with only which the wheels of the under- British Imperial Airways-as its carriage can be partially retract nearest competitor
Led. I claim that in this way air
In 1932 Pan American started resistance is lessened and a land- purchasing airlines and routes ing with retracted wheels could outside of the North-South Ameri-easily be made with very little can regular lanes: The Alaskan damage" Airways and the Pacife Interna- tional Airways were among those
acquired A year later Fan
American joined with the “Chin- ese National Government to form
DIVISION OF LABOUR
Three-fourths
the
the Chinese National Aviation Army's total squadrons are 25 Corporation. Shortly after steps signed to pursuit attack, and were taken to secure a franchise bombardment; while the navy as from the Philippine Government signs less than one-third of which granted it only this year
Pacific Boute
extension of
ities to
total on those services, over thirds being engaged on patrol scouting, and observation."
ZEPPELIN'S FIRST FLIGHT IN BALLOON
dispersed.
AIR TROPHY FOR CAPT. PERCIVAL
Africa And Back In A. Day
The Johnson Memorial Trophy for the best feat of air navigation in 12 months has been awarded by the Guild of Air Pilots to Capt. E. W. Percival, the area de- signer, for his fight to Africa. and back in a day. He was the first man to accomplish this feat. In June Capt. Percival left Gravesend at 130 am and ar- rived at Oran, Morocco, at £40. He was back at Croydon by 6.30 p.m., having down 2.300 miles in 17 hours.
SUDAN AIR LINE REPORT
FOUR ENGINES Every air liner of these great com panies employed, on the main routes has four engines" "RIGOROUS FLYING TESTS are applied to every type ́of air liner of these companies, not only by them but by the
Air Ministry as well -
AFTER EACH FLIGHT every air liner has its engines and its whole structure meticulously examined in strict accordance with Air Ministry rules.
“AN OFFICIAL LICENSED BY THE ÄIR-MINISTRY. satisfies himself that each of these air liners is absolutely fit for duty before it is allowed to start on any journey in any part of the world.
AFTER A SPECIFIED NUMBER OF WORKING HOURS all the engines, în every air liner are stripped, re-built and -tested, and this, applies to every part of the route throughout Europe and the British Empire THE CAPTAINS of the airliners of Imperial Airways and its associated companies are the most experienced body of pilots employed by any air transport company in the world NO OVERWEIGHT is ever carried by these zir liners Every gallon of petrol, oil and water, every passenger and all mail and luggage is weighed before leaving the gro
IMPERIAL AIRWAYS
AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES Booking Agents:-Butterfield & Swire, The Bank Line ((China)` Ltd., Trading & Transport Co., Hong Kong.
KLM
nion. It would connect with the tiers who few respectively from HONGKONG
get trans-Canada air route Singapore and Java. Vancouver, and on across the
Que Tragedy Pacífic
The Osaka Mainichi and Tokyo The surveys now in progress are Nicki Nichi recently sent an zero- being made with a view to the in-plane to the inauguration of the evitable developments referred to commonwealth, marking the first last month by Sir Eric: Geddes, zeroplane fight direct to the chairman of Imperial Airways. Philippines from Japan. One The first step will be an expert-tragedy was recorded when Glenn mental service of #ying-boats be-Brophy was lost at sea attempting tween Burmuda and New York, in to fly to the Philippines from Ma- Iconjunction with Fan-American can.
Airways. Meanwhile, the greates In addition to the foregoing. British enterprise is in prepara-Pan-American fliers made a trial flight to the Philippines from Hong Kong in 1995. — On that trip
tion
Flying-Boat Harbour
It is understood that in the H M Bizby, Pan-America's Far South of Ireland, there are two Eastern Representative, and Pilots possible alternative intermediate W. B. Crooch and William Elmer, stations on an air service which flew from Shanghai' down the coast may have Southampton for its of China and then across the South English terminus. One is near China Sea to the Philippines. Cork, the other is Bantry Bay. At that time Bixby sought to Bantry Bay is one of the finest obtain a franchise from the Philip- natural harbours in the world, and pine legislature, but was unsucces- is suitable for flying-boat opera fal Bixby "asked the“ privilege tions. It is farther west than of carrying": "passengers inter- Cork It has not the business and island as well as between the industrial importance of Belfast Philippines and China, to which
No decision as to the choice of local aviation interests, objected intermediate station has yet Local companies claimed they had invested beavily, had beer pioneer- ing at a loss, and should not be forced to share the insular feid. Matter Dropped
Concession Granted By Negus?
Addis Ababa. There is an unconfirmed report here that the Emperor has granted been made. a concession to a French group to run anəzir service between, Addis Ahava and the Sudanese frontier.
plan is to connect up with the Airways" at. Malakal
The consent of the British Gov
of course, have to the machines Súdanese territory.
obtained
PURSUITSTAND BOMPING: TYPE PLANES
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Montreal Included In Plans
CANADA'S SAGA OF AIR DEVELOPMENT-
The
With the inauguration of a ser- Vice at that time stil indefinite, the matter was dropped, and Ban-
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