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AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.
"BUFFETING" OF AIRCRAFT.
DISCOVERY OF A NEW
FLYING PERIL
The report of the Accidents Investigation Sub-Commitice of the Aeronautien Reware Comitice into the Meophan air disaster, states that the most probable plinary wise of the diaster was
BRITISH FLYING NEWS.
LONDON, Feb. 3
THE BRAIN OF THE AIRWAY.
WONDERS OF WIRELESS
A reliability of 91.18 per cent. is now bring malatained by the air- PRAISE FROM BELGIUM.
craft, of Imperial Airways in their The Comte do Broqueville, Bel fights between London and than gian Minister of Defence, paid a continent, and England and India. great-tribute to British-acroplanes Skilled pilotage, together with the THE SCHNEIDER TROPHY in replying to criticisme levelled at standardisation of a fleet of mit
the Belginn Government by a par-engined aircraft, and the existence liamentary deputy who complained of a ground organisation which is because the recent big order for Aghting aeroplanes was placed in Great Britain and not in Belgium.
The Belgian Government ordered from the Fairey Aviation Company forty-five Firefly single-seater fighters and a number of " Fox" two-seater fighters to a total value of more than £300,000,
France and Italy, will endeavour to wrest from Great Britain the trophy won and held in the two previous contests.
TWO
POLITICAL BIOGRAPHIES.
(Continued from. Page 1
"There's a vague popular holiët that lawyers are nocesarily dia honest Lut-no-man, choosing the law for a calling, for a mo- mont yield to the popular belief. Never stir up litigation As * ́s poncemaker, the Inwyer has
supremo, opportunity of being a good man
Lloyd George nemired that mantery It was in his boyhood that Mr. of the language of the Bible from which to derives the forceful ́sim- the fruit of years, of operating explicity of his oratory and his toll- Ing notables and similes. It was perishet, all play their part in then that he acquired his life-long accuring mich a dependability as sympathy for land-workers and his this; while another aid which she became versed in political con- vital is "represented by wireless troversy telegraphy and telephony, as they are now utilised, systematically, in the everyday operation of a modern
nirway.
distrust of land-owners. Then, too,
Already as a young lawyer, fight ing his clients battles in the Courts, he was exercising his disconcert ing gift of repartee. When Samuel Pope, Q.C., presiding on the County Bench, rebuked the assurance of the young advocate- Wo hare do not believe in the infallibility of Mr. Lloyd George "the retort was *** | swift - Neither do wẻ Kin: theke parts believe in the infallibility of The Pape
Many of our present triumphs in commercial flying would, indeed, he impossible were it not for the powers which organised wireless c now provide, ・・・
He said, according to the Brus. sela correspondent of the London 2imes, that he was as anxious as anyone to promote the interests of the national industry, but thought that Belgian aircraft construction The basis of the sylein, ng evolved Revorsing the earlier decision, drug had not yet the necessary ex-for regular airway use, is prore- the Government has now agreed to perience. A technical commission, arnted by a stream of routine provide full official backing for he added. had recognised the messages by wireless telegraphy, in British participation, similar to the superiority in strength, flexibility, which many abbreviations are com- help given in 1927 and 1929, but power and speed of the Britishployed to expedite transmission.
The days of uncertainty, of dis- cussion and counter discussion, of prolonged argument and fin agreement, are apparently ended, and the next contest for the Schneider International Seaplane n phenomenoy described as buffet-Trophy now seems certain to take inga species of irregular oscilla, place, probably over the Solent, at tions which caused a breakage of the end of August or the beginning swiftest the tail unit in the first instance. of September, when the The Aeronautical Research Characing ceroplanes of two nations, milice have endorsed this finding, and the consequential action in volved is now under consideration.
The accident occurred on July 21 last to the Junkers aeroplane G-A.A.Z.K., which was flying from Berek-sur-Mer, near Ln Touquet, to Croytoon. It crashed at: Meopham Green, Kent, and the following six persons in the aeroplane were kill ed:-The Marquis of Dufferin and Ava, Viscountess Ednom, Sir Edward Ward, Mra Loeffler, Lieut. Col. E. F. Henderson (pilot), and non-governmental funds. For a Mr. C. D. Sharing (pilot). The day or two after Mr. Ramsay Mac machine was seen to enter a cloud. Donald's announcement 10 that Almost immediately a loud noise effect British participation seemed witcraft, Logother, with the bodies as far away as ever. The cost in was heard, and fragments of the of the passengers, were seen falling volved in preparing machines and engines, policing the course, enter tainment, and the manifold details of organisation is estimated official ly to be more than £100,000.
from the cloud.
|
with the important difference that the entire cost must be borne by
machines...
These service signals are flashing constantly between our London air terminus at Croydon and stations along the minin air-routes.
The Chart.
The British Air Minister," he went on," was courtemis enough to inform us that he had every cou fidence in the qualities of the nero- planes ordered by the Belgian
The airway traffic Controller, i Ministry. That was an opinion his office in the tower at the London that deserved to be heeded, for no air-station, has a big may before one is unaware of the competence him which he is studying constant-
of the British air services. They. From this certains not experimente with British machines
only the position of aeroplanes had been conclusive.
which have alighted at stations here and there, but also the progress
Spokesman of Wales.
The author makes us aware of the genius with which Mr. Lloyd Georgo made the fullest use of ench slage in which he played a part. The Criccieth Debating Society, the county courts, the county council elections, and the Parliamentary election provided successive oppor¬," unition in whirit to excel, and be excelled. In Parliament he be came, in the nineties, the spokes- man, not merely for the Carnarvon Boroughs, but for Wales. In the controversies of the Boer War, the Education Bill, and the fiscal cam- paign he became in each case, the raingonist of a case: and when
he was in 'offter, it was generally. his job which most attracted th attention of the nation
Sequence of Events, Bofore arriving at their conclu- sion the Sub-Committee had had car- ried out a series of experiments it the National Physical Laboratory. and these, it is stated, have con- phasised the possibility of wit Aero Club, which is the body reDaily Telegraph stated that the from time to time of machines which et on one occasion.
and that the violence of the evilla
1. The port tailplane extension froks upwards as a result of buffeting consequent on high in cidence produced by air bumps and folded backwards on to the 'port olevator.
cannot be broken.
On the other side the Royal The correspondent of the London
A **PROTEUS" AMONG
no less than * seven
Naturally, in the days of Libergl ascendancy, he was hated by the Conservatives. Yet, How patient the Tories have been the remark- **I have utter- ed sentiments which they utterly lontie, and yet ther have anti silence and given me a most respect- ful hearing."
War Feriod,
In dealing with the war period,
buffeting being an importit factor sponsible for sporting flying in this Comte de Broqueville further do-
are in flight. These movements of in the causation of the accident, country, was assured of a ganranslared that the "Firefly" aero- The experiments have shown that
big map, the buffeting of the tail of the tee from the Society of British planes had shown extraordinary machines are represented, on his by a series of small flags the A.A.2.K. occurs at Aircraft Constructors of £10.300, powers of resistance and had which, ne signals are handed angles of incidence near to stalling at that was promised six weeks reached a remarkably, high speed through to him from the wireless 5 Edwards presents the picture tions increases with the air speed. go, when the Government till The British planes attained alti-room, he, is constantly changing-in' as the palilia saw ity of Mr. Lloyd Under corresponding conditions, in seemed likely to beat the major tude very rapidly and possessed all position. So that this tracing of George's unconquerable energy and full scale the amplitude of the part of the cost, namely, the ex- the qualities of good fighting aircraft may be effected systeine resourcefulness. In describing his
oratory, he has not sufficiently di foscillations would become so. Image
as to break the tailplane it-speedsense of machines and engines, and machines. The Rolls-Reyes engitically while machines are in the tinguished between Iris power in within the normal flying range of of Royal Air Force assistance was remarkable.
air, a method is in operation Parliament and his quite different generally the aeroplane. The menu forçon
whereby pilots in flight make use power on a popular platform. He is, always too much content to de- trus produced would tend to pro.
LADY. HOUSTON'S. OFFER.
of their wireless telephones to scribe Mr. Lloyd George as a char duce an upward fracture such as
AEROPLANES. that observed." The sub-committee The gap was large, but an offer
broadcast, frequently, frict mes acter in the public eye, and so gives no adequate idea of the more in- state that the suggested sequence of by Lady Houston, widow of the
Among the aircraft exhibita in ages indicating when they are timate personality of the man in evente was as follows:-
millionaire ship-owner, to guarau-the. Government Pavilion at the passing some city or familiar land which lies half the secret of his tee, if necessary, all the roady British Empire Trade Exhibition in flight from Paris to London, for him to win to his side Lord Bal mark, along main-air-lince On-power the power which enabled required solved the problem. Sho has promised to supply the Govern Buenos Aires next month the dis example, a pilot reports his posi four, Lord Birkenhead M. Briand. ment with a bankers guarantee for play of the adaptability of the new tion several times while flying be Michael Collins, and embittered the amount, and all that now ro Avro Type 020" training biplane tween the French capital and the trade unionists whom he met in mains is to rendi a financial settle is likely to attract insch attention."
een-coast. Then he will wireless the conference 2. The elevators were forced | ment, including a 'survey of money
exist moment of passing out across Nor has the biographer made This machine, a direct deseen- down, and in spite of any efforts available which will delimit the dant of the ever famous Avro 504, course he is steering towards the undiscriminating rhetoric, or to the Channel, indicating also the any attempt to put aside his own by the pilot the aeroplane dived, extent to which Lady Houston's has a fuselage designed to enable English Count; after which, as he analyse, to reconcile or dispassion- sufficiently to reach a speed in help will be called upon. excores of the 135 m.p.h. below Again this year, as in 1928, the the same acroplane to be used for flies on towards the Metropolis, he ately to estimate the infinitely which the wings of this neroplane racing seaplanes will fly over Bri- branches of advanced flying train- until the moment comes when the George's character which have made
different will continue to report his progress various elements in Mr. Lloyd fish waters. Last time Flight Lieutebant H. R. D. Waghorn woning. The makers have accordingly outlook man on the lower at Croy-him admired, loved, bated, distrust- the contest at the astonishing aver. arranged, for a display on their don catches sight of the machine ed, but to all worker of miracles, age, speed of 328,03 miles an hour, and of six skeleton fuselages, and informs the Controller that the who at any moment might begin Second to finish was Maresciallo cach equipped completely with the incoming aeroplane is now within moving another mountain r
armament and apparatus needed visual range.
George is an ideal subject for an dal Molin, the Italian pilot of an for one of six distinct duties;
Yoggy Weather.
ideal biography. The present author: old Macchi 52 monoplane, who averaged 294 miles an hour. One namely, offensive gunnery (fixed
In misty or foggy woather the has contented himmelf with writing s. The tail unit, now damaged British entrant, Flying Ofest gun in the pilots, cockpit), defen-
a warm, lively and interesting book. and bent, would probably dutter. Atcherley, was disqualified for fall. sive gunnery (using gun-ring in experts in the Control Tower are This would give rise to large ing to round one of the pylons at roar cockpit), bombing, photo exceptionally busy supplying pilots forces, and thus bring about the separation of the tail and the the turning points, but succeeded graphy, wireless telegraphy and who are in fight with wireless bear- Fisclage. On the other hand, it in establishing new world speed flying training (including night andings which toll them, when land- might have been twisted off due records ever distances of 80 and 100" blind" flying), Training in the marks are temporarily invisible, to previous damage at a relative ilometres. Lieutenants Monti and seventh branch--navigation-will be their, positions from moment to In late stage rizing the final dive. Cadringher in new Macchi 67 sea illustrated by a display of instru-moment in relation to the carth
ments and equipment placed on a
One of the most interesting nu- The scropians, moving at a high planes failed to complete the course table alongside the fuselages, sprod, mast have reached a stall. fumes and oil and Flight Lieuten three cockpits, the rear cockpit confers upon those in the control-
-they were blinded by exhaust
pects of airway traffic control is,ASSEMBLY The fuselage of Type 626 has indeed, the poster which wireleasENTERS, THE PER ing attitude, thus stressing the wing structure beyond ita Irakant D'Arcy Greig, was third on the being provided with a turret to tower of informing, some at SONALITY OF ing limit, and fractare occurred. Supermarine as monoplane which a rotating gun-ring may be gilet where he is, ven if at the SMARTLY DRESS D fitted. Either the middle or the time mist or fog should prevent MAN, 18 FELT AND In putting forsiard buffeting pe THE GLORY OF SPEED rear cockpit is occupied by the him, as he looks down from his pupil, according to the kind of cockpit, from eatching sight of any the primary cause, the. Sub-Com
None who saw the race can ever leason he is learning. In this way telltale landmark. This wireless mittoo had taken into consideration the fact that no previous accident forget the stupendous speed of the the one acroplane may be employ position-finding, as it is called, has had been attributed to this cause, blue and silver British S3 meno ed for the training from start to been so expedited that, in s than "In spite of this they are un planes as they turn by overbend at finish of a war pilot, in place of
a ininute after he has called up the DRESSED IS A SCUTAL Quimously of the opinion that this a speed on the straights of six miles the two or three mukh more costly control tower, a pilot dying DUTY AND THIS explanation is the only one yet puta minute. The perfect weather machines generally employed.
foggy weather, many miles away, 18 EASILY CARRIED forward which is consistent with the glanjerous sunshine and blife cy
can be informed of his position ships,
above the temporarily obscured OUT AT face of the earth below,
3. The damaged port tailplane extension produced failures in the elevator, and both parts broke away from the arropiane and fell considerably to the east of the main masses of wreckage ·
"Bumpiness."
which won af Venice în 1927.
+
the time on the Trench Coast, and also in the Channel and for a cor. lain distance inland on this side, and surface transport was being muta delayed. The pilot of the Prince's machine, for leaving Le Bourget, ascended high into the
the following recommendations: hunting at anchor in the Solent, 1. That the phenomenon des the background of the Inle of Wight cribed as buffeting" should be and the mainland black with on investigated.
·lockers beneath the trees and build inga, and over these the racing seaplanes moving faster than any to pildes the measuremont of tur other vehicles made by man theas bulence in the air dried gecomposed a picture of unforgettabis Lions air above the fog tone, and crally by pilota na bumping, magnificence,
2. That steps should be taken
This wonder of wireless is as simple as are many other of these parent miracles. Upon the sign: als from the distant aeroplane,
pilot sprake, wireless Leavinga. are takon by several ground afations, all some distance apart, few towards London without any but all working in conjunction. on a definito scientific basis by tho All thoughts are now directed to need to slackon the normal speed. These bearings, showing from what carrying of accelerometers or by the next contest, Fortunately, as of the machine. Frequently, the coting, so far as badh listening while point in the sky the pilota masa is other mans. Such mearmente long ago as February last year the in flight, he was in touch will help to define the size, dis firms concerned in the building of tower at Croydon, being informed station is concerned, are plotted out tribution, and sharpness of the the So monoplanes and their en by the traffic Controller that, though on one big map at the content con- boundaries of up-and-down cur cines the Supermarine Aviation there was si obstinate layer of fog trol tower, and the point where they rents. The knowledge is needed Works and Rolls-Royce been over the metropolis, it was quite to determine the load factors to technical investigation of the prob clear enough for a sate landing at which aeroplanes should he deems involved in preparing for the Croydon. The pilot was given signed
next contest. This essential work wireless bearing promptly, when has continued ever since. The two ever he asked for one, and; com- firms have maintained constant pleted his Paris London journey communications on the subiect with without difficulty or delay, although each other and with the Alt Minisit the time surface transport being try, is because these steps were uncle, as was the aeroplanes to aken that it is how possible for ascend above the hampering area of Great Britain to consider.participa- fog was auffering muddis
3. That the removal of parts from wrecked aircraft by souvenir tranters should be discouraged in every way possible, and that the public be informed that damage, reaulting in this way may destroy valuable evidence that might help in making aircraft, safer
tion at all.
organisation:
all converge and meet on the map is the point where the aeroplane is Bying at the moment.
The Prince's Experience, An excellent extrple of what
wireles can do, when visibility is bad, was provided in the conf one of the flights in a large, multi- engined Imperial Airways machine, made by the Prince of Walk from Paris to London. There was four at (Continued on presious column)
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