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THE CHINA MAT
NEW ERA IN FLYING
THE ANNULAR} MONOPLANE
the succe
aerial crossin; were able follow the flights | NEW of
the Atlantic in both throughout with the greatest case,
AFRICAN directions, which are still being know exactly where the aircraft carried out by Imperial Airways were from hour to hour, as they AIRMAILS and Pan-American Airways, open made their rapid progress across up a new era in long-distance the Atlantic ocean flying
An air service Teaching Southe The expectations of meteorolo ampton from Kisumu the other
making Before the outbreak of the Great These initial survey flights, and gists, who have been
a day brought the first load of mails conditions on the to be flown from Africa to England War in 1914 put a stop to all but others that are to follow, will be study of wind orthodox experiments in aircraft the prelude to a subsequent pre North Atlantic, were fulfilled by under the new all-first-class-mails- design, a number of experimenters liminary phase in which mails only the actual weather experienced by air scheme had been endeavouring to produce will be carried on the North Atlan- during the progress of these first
Reports show that banks, busi a machine in which the ratio of tic route. Then after that the survey fights. The British flying flying speed to stalling speed was stage will be reached when a twice boat Caledonia', after leaving Treness houses, and others are beweekly trans-Atlantic service will land, encountered head winds of to the value of employing - materially higher than could obtained
The Pan weight stationery in com with the commonly be instituted, carrying passengers varying strength.
as well as mails...
American flying-boat, after ascend with the new scheme, thus accepted designs..
Among the most successful of
Apart from being a triumph for ing from Botwood, was assisted by ing full advantage of the such endeavours, were those of the the pilotage and navigation of the following winds. And such, ger rate for half-ounce letters.
The resea late Mr. Cedric Lee and Mr. Caircraft crews, and the speed and lerally speaking, are the prevailing Tilghman Richards, made between reliability of the big flying-boats conditions on the North Atlantic firms have led to the production of 1910 and 1914 on a machine of employed, the first North Atlantic and they mean that commercial air special air-mail types of station- annular wing form based on the flights to be carried out under voyages on this ocean route willery which enable an envelope and original patents of Mr. G. J. A. commercial conditions provided a usually be made in faster time as many as eight sheets of light- Kitchen, of Lancaster.
wonderful example of how modern from west to east than in the weight paper to be kept withîn a
weight of half an ounce. Due to the wing form, the Lee-wireless and meteorology can help reverse direction. Richards machine had no burble" long-distance airmen. From the
point, and was therefore practical moment of their leaving on their
ご
ly immune from the danger of flights one from Foynes on the stalling.
Irish coast and the other from
Moreover, it could be arranged Botwood, Newfoundland the Bri- and American flying-boats to give any degree of inherent tish stability desired, and another ad- were constantly in touch with and vantage was that it had great shore-stations by medium structural strength owing to the short-wave wireless. fact that the ring structure was braced fore and aft by the body acting as a strut: it should also be mentioned that the span was only about half that of a machine of orthodox design having the same
area
Weather reports were passed to them. They themselves sent at
FLYING DOCTORS AND AMBULANCE PLANES
Attention has been called recent-ture of much of the surface trans-
regular intervals messages describly to a valuable aspect of modern port, often render it a difficult pro- blem to bring patients in for hos- ing their progress. These signals air transport. This is the increas came through with such facility ing employment of aircraft by sur- stations.
pital treatment from remote out- that experts in the Operations De- partment of Imperial Airways, geons and doctors when Journeys In Australia, according to London, plotting out the positions have to be undertaken by patients latest reports, more and more out- on a big chart, whose condition readers it doubt-stations are being provided with a of the air-liners
ful whether they can stand the fa- simple form of wireless heats tique of a long journey by surface ting apparatus which enables any transport
unskilled person to send out an The other day reference was S. O. S. for medical aid to the near- made-to a patient who flew 8,000 est hospital centre which may miles from South Africa to Eng-be hundreds of miles distant. On land in order to undergo an urgent receipt of this message a doctor in operation; and a case which was a fast aeroplane flies immediately also referred to was that of a suf- to the point indicated. Large air- ferer from spinal trouble who made craft equipped as ambulances are a trip over to the Continent by air, also employed to bring patients in lying on a special spring-mounted for hospital treatment The latest bed in an aircraft saloon.
forms of equipment include big air- Other recent reports as ransport theatres.
these craft fitted up inside as operating
The top speed obtained in trials carried out by Mr. E. C. Gordon England and the late Mr. Gordon: Bell was 83 mp.h. to 85 m.p.b., and the landing speed was 20 m.p.h. to 22 mph
desirable characteristic was eli- Altogether, some 128 hours of minated, and its final form is flying, equivalent to 10,000 air illustrated by a one-tenth scale miles, were carried out, the ma-model which has recently been chine being reconstructed three added to the national collection of times during the trials.
aircraft in the Science Museum, At each reconstruction some un- South Kensington, London.
aspects of modern air
recently, have stories of the
draw attention to the wonderful From Canada, life-saving work which is being come remarkable accomplished by commercial air mercy flights of pilots in the far- craft in territories such as Ans-northern zones, bringing in sick tralia and Canada, where the im- and injured trappers and Indians mense distances which have to be by air for urgently needed treat- traversed, and the undeveloped na-Iment at the nearest hospitals.
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