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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1949:
BRILLIANT FUTURE FOR
BRITISH AVIATION
The star of British avintion is rising, and the next five years will see the United Kingdom jump into world supremacy both in military and commer- cial aircraft design.
During the war Winston Chur- chill agreed with the U.S. not to build transport planes but tol concentrate оп Bombers and Fight . America undertook to supply all the Allies with their needs in transport niteraft.
She kept her word by con= structing 12,000 DC-3 air liners- enrgo-carrying strengthened for contributions to be out known in military parlance
Editor in Chief
By C-374
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FUTURE OF JAPAN
their commercial version and As C (Cargo) 54 Typo as military transports.
France.
дн
By WILLIAM
COURTENAY
(The writer, who in aviation editor of the London "Daily Graphic," has travelled all over the world on-a large variety of plausa. He first learned to fly with the Royal Firing Corp in 1917, and has an intimate knowledge of British military and civit aviation based on 32 years' experiencd.)
Both the
Good Morning
When Japan goes on the ram- page again we won't have far to fook for the scaproat.
•
Helicopter;
Fuirey Co anch the Aviation
Bristol Acroplano Co have built and three/four- promising nown
Our is under weaters. The 18 seater design and the 30-seater-the
Even though the Soviet radio Ideal for short hauls is coming along. In about seven years' uime anys the Council of Europe in of "political half- al! Britain's internat air rodes; composed
there is stil # vltat including corres," runs all short haul
London-Brussels, Spank in 1 a small team of especially on the Atlantic route-London-Parl diverted even
to the study of by 1945, And Boeing-builders of ete, will be by Helicopter. Even design experis
Everything the famed B-29 Superfortress-the. 100 m.p.h. version heals the when ter- post-war air liners. was concentrated on production designed the 'Stratocruiser from 300 m.p.h. sir Uner
is Naken delny this type by joining largely two minala of strategic and tactical planes,
these mighty fuselages to neetunt, inevitably followed that gether in a double bubble' when the war closed Britain was gure eight shope, almost entirely dependent upon for American transport plants
of her com- the rehabilitation, inercial aviation,
hand
or
These three
have nir liners flown their way into the world's
Ideal For HK
linking
into
the
Australian statisties show there are not enough husbands to go
A Juss and a lack!
round.
"Harbor Booms,"
Oh, grille. Maybe my sampan shares will go up.
Thirteen
eriniinally insance conylets singed u mass break..." Pure carelessners. I can think of more than one similar insance.
Issue. "Tibetan
Like Tibelan it?
Not
Much
800
markets and dominate the iklos For Hong Kong it will be an of the commercial, air row'es with i ideal conveyance on the other
the DC-3. They f1 continue to | island with Kowloon, America was in a favourable position to do so until about 1953.
Enginn In the siltury Gold convert hundreds of the C-14k)
ro- do with England maile
was the first of the Allies and Into 'Skymasters' and sell them the work over to hungry airline verted Innensters' into 'Loness- inderst the only one to produce boats: jet fighter's before the close of operators, and recondition the trinns'; converted flying
the war. The twin-englued Clos sande of the C-47's back into and planned the Tudor' based DC-3s for the same purpose. a wartime bomber. Meanwhile, er Aleteor new 470 m.p.. Success.
In 1045 Lord Brabazon of Tarand is now with RAF squadrons headed the Brabazon Committee flyk with tall war load
No to design sime new types which) m phụ
oller country has would place us in the lead by anything to touch it excep
U.S. plane enture that the new the which I saw flying at the National Ar Races at Cleve- last September. touches around 706 marh, with full war- lord,
Little Difference
Without ther we should never
Just have advanced for as we did; they held all the Judging by the reports Pacific island campaign together similar Sebatian way, there and rendered That come our would seem to be growing service in North Africa Italy and anxiety in America, as well as in other parts of the world. about the future of Japan. This in spite of the high pres
and riple causes of the Japanese de- a matter of engines and plush sure ballyhoo which hasection. And we have all seennings, sound proofing ele.
surrounded MacArthur and his administration."
The Nipponese population is now 81,000,000, more than half that of the United States and it is crammed into
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small country, only one-sixth
Conversely was the lack of a galaxy of sultade transport plans which was one if the prin-
plane
The modern fransport does not differ very much from the air liner beenuse it is not arened and conversion in urgely
ONE FLIGHT PUT
1953-55.
De Havilland's apart from this, tesigned the little twin engined Dove a small economical eight to 12 sealer air liner suitable for
executives or
private owners.
An
tax
in it. Ilo
rebalo ho
received A correspandent of
envelope from the income office
with nothing thinks it must be the applied for.
Europe's prolite birth rate has already made up 50 per cent of the! i lhe the 15,000,000 who
Give us another four years we'll be all set to go again....
war. Britain's new swept-back wing
by 1052/3 when in server our jet Fighters will exeved this and
aricepler Squattrons flying it. Fust as the
will be speed of
sound which is 740 m.ph. at sen
level and 68 in..h. at 38,000 ft. They will be designed for nights at high attitiale,
how these transport planes won
Moreover the Douglas Corporu-| he battle of the "Berlin Airlifti
tion was able to design the UC-owners and commerc against the Russian plot to starve 200,000 Germons in West Ber- from the DC-4, and by 1848 It They sold more than 300, worth Ha into seeeptance of Communstered the world markets. The £6,000,000 to date and this w
Lockheed Corporation had de- the beginning of Britain's march in return for Russian rations.
signed the Constellation in 1940 back. Vickers designed the twin
engined
Viking-100 tr.p.. Acecles thus kept her word to und work proceeded 011 England, England on the other through 1941 awards so that it faster than the DC-3 and holding a few more people. British Euro- of which is arable. By 1970 band did the same, She never was ready for airline operators--
pean Airways use them un alt European routes and more dinn there may be nearly 100,000,-
200 were sold in world markets.
We have also built an all-j 000-a figure which may de.
flying bont 9gh'er which passed light the militarists who are
But for the Atlantic and Em- all its test two years ago. hart getler buen for production planning anew for world do-
pire routes we concentrated on mination, but stands as e
thee promising types, Most am- given to Saunders-Roe than Hung
possessed bitious of all was the De finvil- Kong would have danger signal to everyone
land Come! which is the world's else.
Arst Jet air Ilner. Designed to
36 passengers at 500 mah. thing carry at 40,000 st it will cross the At-Against her. It would have solved Inalie in seven hours of nonstop her problem of lack of airstrips. ph. light between London and New flies at more than 500 m.ph. York. To the Westbound travel- aud designed
froza harbours und ler it will seem like a two hour the war for jungle warfare for trip because he gains five hours operating
river estuaries
the Pacifc in the clock over Greenwich!
campaigns.
MacArthur himself accepts the view that population than any pressure,
more
other cause, impelled Japan
scen
HIM ON THE MAP
By J.D.S. ALAN
He will be able to fransact business at his London Office In
fleet of these operating from her - waters; able to intercept any-
fly which might
towards
at
over
close of
In the bomber field we live
The body of a Hebrew patriot who died 50 years ago is to bu brought to Jenualon. Well, it was dew to him,
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"Glimpses of rare birds," Must have been watching pas- tremburk Iratt tho pengers Wusuch.
So the KMT has finally aban doned Its Igen of nikhit the Big Three for US$10,000,000,000 to help the war effort No one can >
After all, it was be surprised.
the Pearl to subsidise other like asking River pirates local shipping companies.
in
the
Doctors says a dog's capacity for bundling alcohol is about the same as that of a man,
Oh, well, there's something in a hair of the dog. - -
rapidly to clear At dawn, 40 years ago to off, elirubing
Then he eased to aggression. Now the coun-morrow, a 37-year-old French- telegraph wires. try is in a much more difficult man with a heavy, dark mou- back the engine and set course Pronomic position than it stache, who had limped to his for Englines,
aeroplane with the aid of a "The moment is supreme," he was in pre-war years. Some nich, ascended from Sangatte, Inter told the "Weekly Dispatch.”
the Calais. Americans have
Ile passed over the destroyer, the morning: fly at 1 pm, to New Wisely marked time; making do Exactly 37 reintiles Jater he only hope in the spread of
bpard; and ar- with Lancasters and Lincolns and organising a undercarriage landing then for 10 minutes was out of York: lunch on birth control. and have of broke his
sight of ships or land. "I am
of The piston steep slope acur
tive there at 3 p.m. (local Ume Musquitos-lust Course been denounced by
alone," he recalled, "Isolated, lost New York) ready to keep busi-engined strategle weapons of the In the middle of an immense the Vatican.
ness appointments there during sea."
the afternoon. He would be able to fly back through the night anul be at his office desk again 9 u.m. next morning as if he had mere-, taken an afternoon off for golf 20 miles away.!
Cool consideration of the problem is difficult because of illusions about the effects of the occupation. Some Americans are apt to believe that modern Japanese history the arrival of hegan with
Caslie. And
Dover
Louis Bleriot, Brst cross-
Channel pilot, became the best- known man in aviation.
tell
He was better known than the Best man to fly at all in a heavier- than-air machine, for not one
100 can In person
the Wright Brothers which of took this honour.
He was better known than as
you
their troops. The institution the over-publicised Lindergh,
of the MacArthur regime be-whose Atlantic flight was not the gan a new era of "democratis- first.
Itred
insularity. Five weeks cartier Bandley Frederick) had Page (now Slr formed the first British company
Edward VII. was, on the throne ed Japan. But the extent when Bleriot shattered our is- of the change is not as great or as deep as some Americans suppose. A comparative study of effects of occupation in Japan and Germany would be instructive.
up
exclusively for making planes.
Lord Tedder, now Chilet of the Air Staff, was 10 and rendy to Irave Whitgift Grammar School, Croydon, for Cambridge,
Had Scalded Foot
Latifall was made at St. Mar-
Bay, He garet's
swung West gap In and slipped through a
On Dover cliffs, near the castle. the ground M. Fontaine, editor of "Le Matin," violently waved the Tricolour.
The
Bleriot crunched to earth. men embraced,
. be
Ends Maiden Flight
This is the certain promise for 1052/3 by which time the 'Comet will be in regular service, The Up came PC. Stanford,
first 'Comet has just completed shaken warmly by the hand and its maiden flight and has prove! greeted by the words: "You are
and
the first Englishmen I have had capable of rising to 30,000
of Dying for in excess of 450 the pleasure to meet on my arn.p.h. without effort. rival on the English side."
Customs officials certified that
lamps.
Tests will
vccupy * year or
RAF.
Jet Bombers
Designs for the
Jet-engined bomber went forward more than two years ago; larger ones are on the way and by 1955 the RAF should possess a fleet of all jel bombers capable of flying 4,000 miles nonstop with useful loads and at speeds in the 800 to 050 m.ph. class.
arc
Range Is the big problem for the jet engine and we are quietly experimenting with it. By the
bombers time our big jeh ready range will give the RAF the 2,000 miles eruising radius which it operationally requires
into oll fights
Eastern Europe from British airficies.
fot
the monoplane did not appear to more; the 'Comet' will be tried fuel have any infectious disease on on Empire routes to lest
Jot board, and war free to proceed. range the big problem for
Bleriot mad, his money hy planes and Hong Kong could be acetylene car lamps and search-reached in 17 or 18 hours from
Thus between 1953/55 the long London
опе Including
fuelling by carly lights, the first
electric halt. In fact by 1951 you will seement and present one in London unge plans of the War Govern- nine yours of the century he spent £20,000 this attempted.
will mature; and by this wise on his aircraft.
Britain's lead in jet engines—a foresight and long-range planning The Channel type
we shall see England firmly in three years DVET all keteri nt £400. It had a three-lead of
this maching ira the lead, for where jet engines cylinder, 25
h.p.. ulr-cooled rivals-places
the you and American airline iure concerned we shall be able Anzaal engine, and a top speed
to maintain our lead over all of 45 m.p.h.
operators will be purchasing t
other countries. by 1952.
Was mar-
The famous fight, which end ed at 5.12 a.m., was at an aver- age speed of 38.2 m.p.h. Total with ptiol, was only weight, 71516.
It is true that in Japan there have been radical re- forms, but it is hard to dis- cover any fundamental dif- ferences from the old days Lord (Boom) Trenchard, bater to be known as Father of the that cannot be attributed to impoverishment and weak- Royal Air Force, was 36 und a soldier who had been dangerous- ness. If the nation does buildy wounded in the Boer War. In economic strength three years' time he would be its again, will it act differently an instructor at the Central Fly-
School. ing from the way it acted in the
A youth of 17 was at All Hal- past? The general's oft-re-lows, Honiton. He was to be. peated belief in the nation's come Sir Arthur (Butch) Harris, spiritual metamorphosis murt Bumber chief and the scourge of
Germany. make many Japanese laugh.
The problem is made more complicated by the interest the Chinese Communists are showing in it. Mao Tse-tung demands an early treaty with Japan, and the ending of the Allled occupation. Reds in named Amy Johnson gave little possess a single specimen."
'in Tokyo and elsewhere are sug her global gesting to businessmen that they can arrange an economic accommodation with that in dispensable partner, China. of There has been a wave
one does not strikes, and have to look far for the in- stigators. Russia still holds a large number of Japanese prisoners, and is sending back gradually those on whom it feels it can rely.
The Bristol 'Brabazon; a giant weighing more than 300,000 lbs; with a wing span of 230 ft and with eight propiat engines, and Albert Ball, V.C., who became Alerio! monoplanes were soon able to fy at 350 m.p.h.
WITH the great individualist fighter in stepped up in powe, and speed. 5,000 miles fuel range
carrying was not
long before Pierre 83 to 100 passengere will be fly the Kalser war, was a Notting- It wa ham schoolboy, aged 13.
Prier flew from London to Paris
inf
before the
and. I have In three hours 50 minutes in a Johnny Johnson, our top-sepr-
watched it grow and am certain
ten year ng fighter in the Hitler war, was 50 h.p.
h.p. model,
"of
ere it is a winner. The first one not to be born for seven years.
marked the "Dally which," rea severe-
be used purely as a flying A Kix-year-old Hull toddler ty, "the War Office does not
laboratory using 'Centaurus en- gines and cruising at 250 m.p.h. Bleriot became a manufacturer Fourteen 'Comets sign that
young womanhood
are on order fights would make
sente, and in the Kaiser for BOAC, and on a
three ог four nched a production of J8 'Brabazons are being built.
her un international heroine.
Air Vice-Marshal Don Bennett,
a dipy. be He survived many accidents in. those early days, and had some safety advice to offer.
the Palhinder, was not to born for another year. But back to Blorlot. On the fateful Thing he roRe
"I feel," he said, "that I must from his bed at the
Terminus not try to save the machine as Hotel, Calals, at 2.30 and gave well as myself. I always throw the signal for the destroyer Es-myself upon one of the wings it erpette to proceed nerose Chan-1 have a mishap." - nel, "pointing the way to Dover."
will
The Empire routes will be specially interested in the 300,- 000 lbs 'Princess' class flying boat which Saunders-Rou sure con- Ru!- dance of Sir Arthur Gouge, structing under the able designed the 'Short' Empire other boats. First hull has been launched; this 10-engined prop-
dar
who
"and"
He was
was driven by his friend High-Speed Landing jel dying boat will also fly 5,000
M. Le Blane to the aeroplane. and at 4 a.m. made a flight of 10 minutes. All was well.
Bleriot neither ate nor drank
miles nonstop at 350 m.p.h, with up to 100 passengers,
the route to Hong Kong and
Ho died in 1938 at the age of 84, having suffered from heart The question of a peace
trouble for a couple of years. By 1053 these should be rendy treaty scems as far away as that morning.
Today Britain awalts comple- and up to 10 may be ordered for His foot had not recovered tion of two monoplanes, the 130-the South Atlantic route alone. ever, in view of all the dife from severe scalding in an acton Brabazon and the 140-ton BOAC are certain to use them on ficulties. To whom, for excident some weeks previously. Saunders Roe flyingboat. ample, should Taiwan be He was wearing a khakl jacket- On this 40th anniversary It Australia and by 1955 at Intest made over? In A treaty, lined with wool and had a skull worth taking stock of one serious all those three types should be deterioration In flying. In in full service dominating the America would presumably cap with car-laps.
Impatient to go, he was ro Bleriot's plow days, blanes skies on the world's air routes. demand bases from Japan. It buked by M. Le Blanc, who landed at 25 and 30 mles an -would be interesting to Beo warned him of the rules of the hour. That hap doubled and fact by 1948 it all goes well they should commenco. · regular whether this would exacer Daily Mail prize of £1,000 for trebled Planes land at 100 operations. bate Nipponese nationalism the crossing The fight mph and may soon land even
had to be between sunrise and faster, all very fine when the and will not run a new and tilt its sympatliles to rusel. wards Russia, or whether Japan is so much afraid of Moscow as to welcome facitly the continuation of a U.S.
See You At Dover
Finally the". Tim of the "min", Sp
BOAC are wisely conservative *This is sky is clear, the long runway is into service however promising In low, and there is no mishap, however, urgent the need; and -one--may-mig::sometimes however tempting. Esch type will
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