DETAILS OF -
Machines That Challenge The Best Foreign Planes
FASTEST BOMBERS IN THE WORLD
THE BRITISH AIR MINIS- TRY HAS GRANTED PERMIS- SION. FOR THE PUBLICATION OF
DIMEN- THE SPEEDS, SIONS AND ARMAMENT OF THE FIVE NEW BOMBERS WHICH ARE NOW IN SERIES OF PRODUCTION IN ENG- LAND, AND ARE ALREADY BEGINNING TO REACH THE SQUADRONS OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE.
These aeroplanes are the:
Fairey Battle, medium bomber; Bristol Blenheim, medium
ber;
Handley Page
bomber;
.bom-
Harrow, heavy
Armstrong Whitworth Whitley, heavy bomber.
Vickers Wellesley, general pur- pose machine and long range bom- ber.
This group of aeroplanes would form the spear head of any large- scale bombing attack which the Royal Air Force was called on to make. The machines are the most advanced military types yet put into
Machines such as these, the fastest fighting planes in the world,
are being turned out by British aircraft factories working at high pressure. The above picture was taken in recent manoeuvres over Salisbury Plain.
ENGLISHMAN'S GIFT TO
GERMAN NAVY
London, To-day.
Mr. John Howse, former non- commissioned officer
the
the
Royal Marines Light Infantry, came to Plymouth when Graf Spee lay at anchor there. He brought a lifebuoy belonging to the battleship Kaiserin which he had picked up on June 21, .1919, at Scapa Flow.
This life-buoy had hung above his front door until he heard of the visit to England of the Graf Spee and `decided to return it.—Trans-Ocean.
YOUNG GIRL LEADS GROUP OF FANATICS
Manila, July 1. Rural inhabitants in the neigh- is being built I noticed that provi-into the leading edge of the wings.bourhood of Guimbal, on the island seeking sion was made for an exceptionally When the machine is about to land of Panay, are hastily production by the British aircraft big bomb load for a single-engined these lights can be adjusted to security in the larger towns follow-
that
industry, and statistics show they challenge comparison with the aircraft of any other country.
279 M.P.H.
machine.
The engine is the Rolls-Royce Mer- lin which delivers 1,050 brake horse power. Its dry weight, without the Fastest of the group is the twin-cooling liquid, is 1,318lb. engined Bistol Blenheim which ac- Examination of these types of cording to the official figures ob-new British bombing aeroplane leads tained at the Royal Air Force Aero-me to conclude that the Battle is plane Experimental Station at Mar- likely to be adopted in the largest tlesham Heath, has a top speed of quantity for the R.A.F. 279 miles an hour at a height of 14,000ft.
point out and down, and the mo- ing reports that a secret society of touches the “fanatics," led by a young girl aged ment the machine ground they point forward again 13, is planning an uprising against like the headlamps of a motor-car, the authorities. giving the pilot a view of the run in front of him.
ZIG-ZAG DANCE
IS THE NEXT!
The rage of London, New York and Paris ballrooms in a few months will be the Tamborito something new in dancing, from Costa Rica.
Demonstrated before a gathering
sists of a steady zig-zag walk, changing direction every three
steps.
Members of the society,
Cruz” (Knights of the Cross), were formerly followers of Florencio In- trechera, self-styled "Emperor of |Iloilo,” who died recently in Manila
in a fit of insanity.
themselves "Caballeros de callin
the
Supernatural Powers! The young leader of Caballeros," whose name nobody have seems to know, is stated to supernatural powers. Her followers claim that when their revolt is started, she will be able to turn pieces of wood and bamboo, already piled high in their private chapel into guns and swords.
RAPID PRODUCTION Another point about the Battle is Next in speed is the Fairey Battle, that it is economical in man-hours a single-engined machine having for production. special qualities which I shall dis- It could, indeed, be poured out motor- cuss later. Its top speed is 257 miles like the mass production an hour at 15,000ft. The Vickers car in time of need and in fact the Wellesley, which is also a single Air Ministry has now decided that engined machine and is build on the Austin Company's shadow fac- the geodetic system of construction, tory will be devoted to the produc-of dancing teachers in Paris, it con- has a top speed of 202.5 miles an tion of this aeroplane.
The chief of police at Güimbal hour at 8,000ft., and is capable of Consequently it may be expected
has been warned by the provincial that the new Royal Air Force, when 191.3 miles an hour at 20,000ft.-
After four changes the dancing authorities to keep a way Both the heavy bombers approach it is completely equipped, will have takes on a rumba rhythm, with re- the society's activities, but he does
hour under suitable as the m
mainstay of its 200 miles
bombing gulated tapping on the floor and not intend to take action for the and, with full military equipment the Fairey Battle.
slight swaying of hips and should-time being in the hope that the the long range work the Vickers Wel-ers; then, in the third steps, be- young girl and her followers will load at a height of 8,000 ft.,
the come to their senses. Handley Page Harrow does 190 miles lesley has many special features, comes a series of tapping on
It is understood the society
is an hour and the Armstrong Whit- and therefore, it is likely to be the floor, scarcely moving from the
position.
not connected with any religious worth Whitley 192 miles an hour, chief general purpose machine.
To end the movement, the dan-sect, and rumour has it that the 13- They weigh over ten tons each when The new day bombers have speeds
about as high as those of the fastest cers tap first one side and then the year-old leader and her officers are fully loaded.
fighters.. at present in the service. other several times, and again fleecing the other "Caballeros" of But new fighters are in production break into a zig-zag walk.
their life's savings. which will re-establish a margin be-
and tween fighter speed
bomber
conditions an
HEAVILY ARMED The most heavily armed of the group is the Handley Page Harrow, which carries four guns.
For
Two mechanically operated tur- speed. rets are fitted each with two guns. The performance figures of these One is in the extreme nose and the other is in the tail behind the twin rudders.
BOMB-LOAD SECRECY
new fighters are still secrét; but I may say that they are capable of exceeding by a substantial margin An a speed of 300 miles an hour.
Both the Blenheim and the Battle American aviation paper has stated have two guns each, and a special that one of them not the fastest
THE GLOUCESTER
eye on:
mounting designed by the Fairey is capable of 325 miles an hour. THE GLOUCESTER HOTEL
Company is used in the Battle. When
com-
DIMENSIONS
closed the gunner's cockpit
The dimensions of the new bom- pletes the streamline of the top of bers show that the Vickers Welles- the fuselage. The Blenheim has a ley has the largest span of the sing- cap type of turret just aft the le-engined machines with 73 feet 6
inches. wings.
The bomb loads of these aero- The Fairey Battle has a span of planes are still being kept secret; 54 feet and an overall length with but on a recent visit to the Stock-the tail up of 42 feet 14 inches. port works where the Fairey Battle It carries night landing lights fitted
DINNER DANCE
EVERY NIGHT (EXCEPT SUNDAY)
MUSIC BY
ANDRE & HIS ENSEMBLE.