THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1936
ARMCHAIR COMFORT FOR PASSENGERS BY AIR
AUTOGYROS FOR ALL "FAMILY USE” PLANE
Prediction Made By Engineer
LECTURE ON FLIGHT ON ROTATING WINGS”
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The ordinary air vehicle of the American family will just as cer- tainly have rotating wings as the j same family's road vehicle to-day has an internal combustion engine. made- This prediction was **with every confidence," he said by W. Laurence Le Page, consult ing aeronautical engineer, in a lec-
Rotating "Flight on ture од Wings," before members of the Franklin Institute recently.
Mr. Le Pare, who has done much experimental work with autogyro companies in Philadelphia, and with the design of streamline traits. is at present
associated firm in the
with an engineering same city. He also conducts weekly aviation question and an- a Philadelphia swer column in newspaper.
Fixed-Wing Planes
Just as the railroad must have a permanent way and large ter-! minal facilities for bandling mass transportation on the surface of the earth, so, he declared, must the fixed-wing aeroplane. develop ed to its logical size tor transportation, have a "permanent| way" and extensive terminal facili- ties, for safe and efficient opera- .tion.
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The modern airliner, he pointed out, is dependent on radio beams, beacon lights and other features of
This is the first picture out of Germany of the Deutschland, the "G-38" type which can be run economically with crude oil, through the use of Diesel motors. Although the Versailles Treaty placed a taboo on war planes, the clause is circumvented by the use of three "convertible" `pas- inte redoub- senger liners. The Nazi-emblemed super plancs, however, may be easily changed table air giants, according to observers. Germany's civilian air eorpe is rated second only to that of France, and the potential sky strength of the Nazis in time of war is said to be a source of anxiety in many parts of Europe. Another feature of this plane is the passenger compartment arrangement in the base wings.
840,000 -PASSENGERS IN A YEAR
KARACHI AIR PORT
Further Improvements To
Be Carried Out
A further scheme to improve the Karachi air-station is now in the hands of the authorities.
It
to
is proposed to level the whole surface of the aerodrome, to up-
and bushes, and root trees provide trenches which will drain rain-water off the surface of the aerodrome into a low-lying mallah nearby.
LIVESTOCK BY AIR
New Traffic Forms Evolved
CARGOES OF FRUIT
In addition to speeding up many
FINE
RECORD BY AIR LINES
MODERN LUXURY EVERY DETAIL STUDIED
Imperial Airways Policy
SPECIAL RESEARCH OVER
MANY YEARS
Passengers travel by air to save time, but the insistence on huorury in modern transport-whether by fair, sea, or land-makes it impera- tive to study every detail in the equipment of an air-liner that will contribute real comfort.
It has been the Imperial Airways policy, from the inception of its services, to spare no effort to make aying the most luxurious, as well as the most rapid, method of travelling from point to point. The
Company have
pieneered in the
of large luxury air liners. They have devoted constant attention to the silencing of air
U.S. saloons, and to questions of ven-
tilating and heating. They have jalso carried out special research, jover a number of years, into the
MANY TRANS-CONTINENTAL TRIPS problem of providing passengers
URING 1935 rapid progress was made in the United States
with the most luxurious types of adjustable armchair seats.
In this respect, from
Din the development on great are transport, and a complete re- countless teste pe experiments by
covery was effected from the difficulties which arose in the pre- the Company's experts, the views vious year through the termination of the air mail contracts,
Some 840,000 passengers were down over a total of 350.000.000 This compares passenger miles. with 540,000 passengers fring 220,000,000
passenger miles 1934.
The freight totals went up from 3.000.000 lb. in 1934 to over 5,000,- 1000 in 1935. Air mail totalled about 14,000,000 lb., or double that of 1934. Postage rates re- duced from 2 to 6 cents (4d to 3d per ounce) assisted this rise.
The British plan of carrying all Jair mails free of surcharge has
not yet been copied.
Cheap Insurance
WILD ANIMALS "AIR-MINDED”
All Except The Lion
CONTINUED DISTRUST OF MACHINES
Pilots now report that even wild animals in the heart of Africa are becoming accustomed to the pass-!
land opinions of passengers have
been
analysed. The carefully latest result of this research, as now seen in air-liners operating on the Empire routes, is a new type of chair which has already won golden opinions from passengers, who declare that not only is it the most comfortable they have ever sat in, but that when travelling in hot weather areas--and this is an important point on many sections of the Empire routes-it is also proving the coolest type of chair they have so far occupied, either in the air or on land or sea.
Unique Adaptation
This new air-chair is unique notj
its particular type of "per- manent way" and it must have great landing fields. It can no more land safely away from its re- gular "ports of call" than can an ocean liner pull up safely on the coast anywhere away from expen- sive docking facilities.
For this type of service, Mr. Le forms of ordinary traffic, the Ex-Air travellers using the air age to and fro of the Cairo-Cape only in its lightness and strength, Page admitted. the fixed-wingpire air routes are developing new lines are now covered at the same mail-planes. At first, when air but also in the way in which-al- plane of great size and speed is forms of traffic of their own-insurance rates as those using craft began flying over Africa, the most like a conjuring trick--it can ideal just as the heavy electrical-Grown at various points along the trains and other surface transport big-game stampeded as 18 be adapted instantly to different ly-hauled railroad train seers Empire routes are rapidly-ripen- This works out at about 52 pre-the sound of engines was heard angles and positions.
Taking your place in one of above. ideal for mass transportation onling tropical fruit which, prior mium for £2,000 cover.
chairs--which .the surface.
to the coming of air transport Some air lines found that
Already, however, the animals these wonderful and owing to the time taken by men travellers constitute 35 per are growing wiser. The appearare, it should be mentioned, to be surface travel, have never reach-cent, of their trafic, and there
ance of a flying machine now installed in the new giant flying-į
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PORTSMOUTH AS
AIR HUB
Possibilities Of Future
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soun
ed London in a suitable condition. was a marked increase in the num ceases, as a rule, to frighten them boats of imperial Airways-you Now. however, consignments ber of ordinary working folk who As one of the air-liners flies over-can sit upright to enjoy a meal placed in homeward-bound mail-chose air travel on their holiday head they just stand still and just as you would in any ordinary to reach beauty spots stare up at it. There is no chair. Then, without rising from planes are on sale in London in in order prime condition within a few days thousands. of miles from home longer any mad dash for shelter. your seat, and merely by the move- of their dispatch.
which would otherwise be inacces- This, however, does not apply ment of a small lever at the aide Coffee-planters send crop sam-sible.
to the lion. The king of beasts of the chair, you can change from ples from Kenya to England by The air journey from Atlantic air.
Samples of the Egyptian to Pacific for a holiday is equiva still distrusts flying machines, and an upright position into the com coffee-crops also come through by lent in length to flying the Atlan-as soon as he hears one coming fortable lounging angle-a posi be continues to retire into the tion eminently suitable for read- way of the air. The speed of tie. It is now being done regular-deepest parts of the neighbouring ing, or for leaning back while one chats with fellow-passengers. the air-mail is, in addition, being ly by travellers.
(bush Langstone Harbour,
(Continued On Fage 11)· invoked for sending chrysan-! Travel from Atlantic to Pacific mouth, would, become an empire themum plants from England to and from the Great Lakes to the The chief thrills of a fight! base, and before long Portsmouth; is going to be the "air hub" of Egypt and strawberry plants
ATTRACTIONS STRESSED.
Portsmouth
Forts-
the world, said Admiral Sir Bo- ger Keyes speaking here recently. Whatever the size of the air-
India.
Penguin's Eggs
to
Passengers Thrills
to warm Florida shores or even
Canada and Mexico is now easy; across Africa still continue to be and any of these journeys can be the wonderful bird's-eye views accomplished within the time it one obtains of big-game in their} The Africa air-mail has brought takes the best trains to cover the natural surroundings-lions, ele- craft, Portsmouth would be able to London special consignments]500 odd miles between New York Phants, and other animals. Travel-[
to supply them with docking faci-
of the eggs of the Cape penguin; and Chicago. lities and all that they needed while hatching eggs from English American machines in the future) would have to come here, as well poultry-farms are air-borne to Kenya, Tanganyika, and Australia. as those of Imperial Airways, Sir Roger declared.
Southampton was spoken of put on board
Shipments of day-old · chicks, an early-morning
AEROPLANE FUEL EXEMPT FROM CUSTOMS DUTIES
lers who have good eyesight, peer- ing down, can often glimpse the black back of a hippopotamus on a river surface, or crocodiles on one of the river-banks.
Then there are the elephants.j
LONG-RANGE WIRELESS
Service On Empire Routes
GOOD COMMUNICATIONS
In the operation of the Empire | Geneva-An agreement has re-when as air-liner is flying fairly airways remarkable examples are short while ago as a possible base air-liner at Croydon, arrive the cently been drawn up here exempt-low those in its saloons often sometimes forthcoming under fav- obtain fine views of elephant ourable conditions of long-range air-linera in for the big flying-boats now being same evening at destinations far ing liquid fuel used in air traffic
herds beneath. Naturalists mak-wireless between built for Imperial Airways, but across Europe. The speed of the from Customs duties. the Portsmouth authorities arefairway, with its absence of trans-
ing flights across Africa obtain flight, and also between air-liners actively forwarding what they be shipments, long waits or bumping a journey, and experience proves splendid photographs of animals and ground-stations.
Not long ago Cairo received lieve to be the superior attractions and jolting, save livestock the dis-that livestock arrive at their de from the air. of their part.
tress that may be experienced by stinations in far better condition
There is one thing, particularly, short-wave signals from an zir- surface transport. The air staffs and health, when travelling by air, which strikes experts when they liner which was flying more than also see to the food, drink, and then when consigned by and other are flying over the game-lands. It 1,000 miles away along the route general comfort of animals during) means. ¿
METEOROLOGICAL
SERVICES
Improved System In What Duplicated Service
South Africa
Means To Australasia
is this. Nature has camouflaged to Cape Town. On another occa- animals, with their speckled and sion two aircraft in flight on the daz-coloured costs, so as to make Africa route were in wireless them hard to detect when viewed touch with each other white still from ground level. But they approximately 2,000 miles apart. have no such immunity from those in yet another instance a machine who come on them by way of the flying across Africa established air. When you are flying above communication with a wireless the bush, any object that moves station in England over a distance
of roughly 4,000 miles..
Examples of an even longer [range communication are times forthcoming. An amateur ins Cape Province, South Africa, suc» cooded in picking up short-wave The reports from these stations travellers in Australia: Residents weeks.
[5,000 miles away betwe are, in the first instance, com in Westem Queensland towns can, The increased passenger accom Paris-Officials at Le Bourget sages from an air-liner ty municated to main transmitting for example, travel by air to Bris-modation available, as a result of serodrome have begun to force star and Singapore; while points at Germiston and Salisbury, baze, spend a day and a half in the duplicated services, has strictly the standing Instructions machine on the Australia Here, after they have been analys-that city, and then return home, abled air-fares to be reduced that passengers learing the cons ed, they are re-histed in the form all in the space of three day From Brisbane to Shampore for try hall make a declaration of established comm
Prior to the advent of the air serfistance; the fare has been re-the amount of money they are wice, Darwin's sole link with the duced from 150 to 665,
An improved system of wireless weather reporting has been estab- The duplication by Qantas Ex-south was by a monthly steamer lished in South Africa. Twice a pire Airways of the Erisbane-service. day the chief air-ports are fur-Singapore sections of the Austra- Australian business men can below can be detected easily. nished with reports from 15 meteo-lia-England air route-two ser- now fly to Singapore, spend 61⁄2 rological stations located at vices, each way weekly now being days there, and return to Brisbane specially-selected points through-down between London and Bris--all in less than a fortnight. By out the Union.
bane comes as a great boon to air sea a similar trip would take six
of
comprthensive twice-dai
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