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THE CHINA MAN, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1936:
NEW FLIGHT PIONEER AIRCRAFT
RECORD
SET UP BY US.
FLIERS
1,425 Miles Without
Re-Fuelling
AMPHIBION PLANE'S FEAT
BUILDER
Secures Coveted.
Award
COLLIER TROPHY FOR D. W. DOUGLAS
One of the most coveted awards in aviation, the Collier Trophy, given each year for the outstand- ing achievement în American aero- nautics, will be presented to Mr. Donald Wills Douglas from the Flying 1,425 miles without re-hands of President Roosevelt. fuelling from San Juan, Puerto
Newport News, Va.
an
tion should be:
This years's Committee record- Rico, to Langley Field, Va.. ad for aeronautical history their army air corps amphibion piloted decision that the current presenta by Maj. Gen. Frank M. Andrews, commanding general of the G H Q, air force, set a world's distance and straight-line record for am- phibions last month.
The big army craft at Langley Field at 4.29
landed
11 hours and 9 minutes after the take-off at 5.20 am.
"To Donald W. Douglas, for the outstanding twin-engined commer (cial transport aeroplane:
This aeroplane, by reasoL af) its high speed, economy and quiet} passenger comfort, has been gen- erally adopted by transport linesi throughout the United States. Its merit has been further recognised
It bettered by more than 600 by its adoption abroad, and its miles the previous record set last influence on foreign design is al- winter in a flight from Puerto ready apparent
Rico to Miami. The terms of the record require the fight be made Aition is without landing or refuelling.
ÉIGHT NATIONS IN ONE AIR-LINER
The cosmopolitan mature of air travel was illustrated the other day, when
an air-liner of In- perial Airways landed at Cairo. As many as eight countries--- Britain, Germany, Italy, Holland,
"In making this award recog- given to the technical and production personnel of the Douglas organisation_"
Other Winners
Since 1911, when Robert J.
Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney are in the Paramount production, "Trail
of the Lonesome Pine," now being shown at the Queen's and -Alhambra Theatres.
NEW ZEALAND
AIR MAIL
Collier, son of the founder of Reliability Appeals To
Businessmen
H.K. VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS
ORDERS FOR THE COMING WEEK
Parades Members of "B" Company attending the AALM Collier's Weekly, donated this
G. Course at Lyemun will parade` famous air trophy "for the
Hong Kong Volunteer Defence at Headquarters on Tuesday, 24th. greatest achievement in aviation
Corps, Orders by Lieut-Colonel August and Friday 28th. August Figures to hand show that a in America, the value of which
is being RC. B. Anderson, M.C. Comman- for Special Instructions. | steadily-growing use has been thoroughly demonstrat-made of the airmail services which dant. Hong Kong Volunteer De- ed by actual use during the pre-have become available in New fence Corps. ceding year" there have been re-Zealand.
One of the inland
Belgium, Sweden, South Africa.cognised with the trophy for their services, carries letters between
and America-were represented by the nationalities of the travel- lers who stepped from its saloons.
STRANGE FREIGHT ON PLANES
Act Of Parliament, Eggs & Diving Suit
B
The variety in the loads now carried on long-distance air lines is indicated by lists which have been compiled recently of freight
passing to and fro along the Qantas Empire Airways. sections,
achievements: Lawrance, Reed. Palmerston-
North; Blenheim, Hoffman, Sperry, Loening, Bur-Christchurch, and Dunedin. An- gess, Wright, Curtiss, and the per-other operates between Welling- sonnel of the various Govern-ton, Blenheim, and Nelson. [ment air branches, Army, air-mail |
and commerce.
Hong Kong Friday, 21st August, 1936.
APPOINTMENT.
Sir
Air Arm Parade. Tuesday 25th. August at Kal Tak for a lecture.
Hi
ANTI-GAS COURSE The undermentioned has been of
His Excellency Andrew selected to undergo a course Caldecott C.M.G., C.B.E., has been Anti-Gas Training in addition to pleased to accept the position of those published in Corps Orders The reliability of the services Honorary Colonel of the Hango. 21/36 para. 1 (v) dated
22/5/36. In the last six years the Collier has made a favourable impres-Kong Volunteer Defence Corps
sion on business men, and by} (10,836). Trophy has been earned by:
its Diesel aircraft engineer. 1943: Glen L Martin, for
bomber.
20-
M
MMG. Section -- Pte. E L Curtis. practically every dispatch, at the His Excellency the Governor 1931: Harold Pitesira for his
SERVICE DRESS CAP present time, the weight of letter- has been pleased to approve of the togyro work.
Os. C. Companies will please to Mr. 1932: The Packard Motor Car Co. for mails is increasing.
grant of a Commission Thomas Riddle Parsons as Lien- render a return to the Quarter- tenant in the Hong Kong Volua-master by the 26th. instant show. teer Defence Corps, with effecting the size and number of ser- 1934: Frank Caldwell, for the con-exactly on the back of the passing from the 1st. August, 1936.
vice dress caps required by their - trollable pitch propeller.
This was the 1935: Albert F. Hegenberger, for his Admiral's head.
(Government Gazette No. 44 lunits. blind flying.
first Douglas plane to receive dated 14th. August, 1936). Donald W. Douglas for his naval recognition.
his
1936:
twin-engined commercial tran- sport aeroplane,
Douglas D.C. 2
Douglas resigned and went to a college, the Massachusetts
In-
of the England-Australia route be The commercial transport plane stitute of Technology in Boston,Į tween Brisbane and Singapore. for which Douglas One item was
PARADES
Corps Engineers Monday, 24th. August - Parade earned the and just before the war he took at Miniature Range, Volunteer an Act of Parlia-trophy is the DC 2, used by al-up work with Glenn L. Martin, Headquarters at 5.50 p. ment which was being forwarded most any transport company in who was then in the throes of his
Corps Bignals to England for Royal signature the USA and by the Royal Dutch own romantic beginnings. Donald Parade at Corps Headquarters Yet another was a diving-suit sent Airlines (KL.M), the CL.S. engineered busily in Martin's at 5.30 p.m., on Tuesday, 25th. Au- urgently to Darwin for use in (Czecho-Slovakia) and the Swiss little plant in Los Angeles, until rust pearl-fishing. Another was a con- Air. These DC
Troop 2 planes are the outbreak of the war; then he
PROMOTIONS
No. 1324 B.Q.MS. E. Moses, Corps 1st. Battery, is appointed Company Sergeant Major, L Sec- ton, Corps 1st. Battery, with ef- feet from 21.3.36.
LEAVE
Lieut. H. J. Silva, Corps Infan- try, is granted leave from 14th. August, to 31st. August, 1936.
No. 1232 Sergt. F. V. V. Ribeiro. Corps Infantry, No. 12 PL, is granted one month's leave from
signment containing a number of equipped with Wright Cyclone became a civilian seronautical Parade on Tuesday, 25th Ap-1.9.36 to 319.36.
models of theatrical scenery. ·A] Summary of some other items yields the following list:-
Radítka
Electric razOTS. Gas Mantles.
Medicines.
Fruit.
Microscope parts.
Garden plants.
Natural history specimens.
Dental goode
Shark skins.
Films.
Radio spares.
Silk samples.
Photographic materials.
motors of 700 hp, and have a engineer for the Army, and later gust at 5.30 pm at Causeway Bay cruising speed of 270-300 kph rejoined Martin as chief engineer for Riding School. They have a passenger capacity in Cleveland.
STRUCK OFF STRENGTH Permitted To Resign
The undermentioned are per- mitted to resign from the AS.C. Cadre with effect from 21.836.
No. 2010 L. Officer J. H. Jessen.
-2011
W. H. Lebert. 2028 Private A. Witkamp.
20
of 14 on the European service of the KLM and six on its Indian service.
First Machine
A Popular Story
M.G.Bu. Signals Wednesday, 26th August. In 1921, having saved up $600, There will be no parade for A, B he folded up his tents on the and C.
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In American aviation the story away to Los Angeles to be a Renks are reminded that regular is very popular about Douglas, builder in his own right. Douglas parades commence from Septem- Subsection that, when a young and prosper called his first ship the "Cloud-ber 15th. ous midshipman, he smacked his ster"-and it did rise to almost Admiral on the head. He was 20,000 feet in its tests; moreover, building toy aeroplanes and sail- it was the first plane ever built day 28th. August at Headquarters.
Corps Infantry One interesting item, recently, ing them from the dormitory win-that lifted from the ground was a setting of eggs which went dows not childish things of useful load equal to its own dead right through from London to Syd-folded paper, but extraordinarily weight. ney, being consigned to a poultry-forward contraptions with ribs While all this was going on, toons will parade at Headquarters fancier in that city.
of stick and wire and paste and Douglas read in the papers the at 5.30 p.m. for Summer Training
FLYING PUPIL HURT
rabber bands His
2
(a) Summer Training Class N.C.O.'s. of Nos. 11 and 12 Pla-
O. Schroeter.
H. Arias.
K. Gerloft.
V. Singer.
H. Liermann
F.D.E. Beck. H Lange.
G. S. Frizelle, Captain.
Adjutant, HKV.D. Corps. AFFILIATED UNITS
pianes, announcement of a Navy competi- Class on the following dates:-
August 24th. Map Reading — launched unexpectedly became a tion for a "torpedo" aeroplane. Bearing &c. menace to the eyes of the Corps. Douglas's blue prints won favour,|
August 25th-Section Leading. Nursing Detachment, "HKY.D.C. "The case of the Admiral whose and all evidently was forgiven (b) A.AL.M.G. Course at Lyema
Corps Cyril Gordon, aged 20, a flying
head tarned out to be the first about hitting the Admiral on the Members of "B" Company at The next meeting will be held pupil, was lying seriously injured aircraft-carrier in naval history head, and Douglas secured an extending the above course will fall on Monday, 24th. August at the Last month in Maidenhead hospital became celebrated. For once one perimental contract for thre in at Kéadquarters › on Sunday, P.W.D. Ofices at 5:30 p.m. as the result of his plane crash-of the toy-planes made a forced torpedo planes at a total price of 30th August, at 8.15 am. sharp. ing into a hay field at Winkfield, landing, unexpectedly and to the $119,500, This was Douglas's Dress: Uniform. Helmet, Tunic,| Berks
horror of the young. Douglas, start în aircraft building..
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