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BRITISH FLYING NEWS.
EXHIBITS AT BUENOS AIRES.
LONDON, Feb, 17. After many months of careful preparation events are converging this year's supreme swiftly on effort overseas of the British air craft industry. For weeks past consignments of aeroplanes, nero engines and accessory equipment have left Britain at intervals for Buenos Aires, the son of the great British Empire Trade Exhibi- tion which the Prince of Wales, now touring Latin Amerien by rail, road and air, will declare open on March 14.
TORPEDOPLANÈS AND TRAINERS.
Altogether the factory construct- ed under the old contract forty-six
THE AIR "WAR" IN 1931.
MADRID & CANARY THE NAVY OF TOMORROW:
ISLANDS.
LINKED BY FORD AIR SERVICE.
Oversea air mail service between Madrid, the capital of Spain, and the Canary Islands, Spanish posses- sions in the South Atlantic, has just
now aeroplanes, comprising "Velos". BRITAIN'S DEFENCES TO BE been successfully inaugurated with n
Avro torpedoplanes,
training "Atlas"general maching and purpose craft. Wood hand - metal- floats were made for the torpedo- droppers and the training nero planes. It was responsible for the reconditioning of fifty-one service machines. During the past two years the factory has done the repairs needed by the British, Italian and French air liners which pass through Athens
TEMPTED.
Ford tri-motor transport land plane, according to reports received by the Ford Motor Company"
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Tho Navy should be planned, constructed, and trained as a balanced whole to render it an in- strument which can obtain decisive and overwhelming victory over the enemy's main fleet when the fleets engage, the decisive point being in the future, an in the past, opposite the guns of the enemy's battle. fleet."
"Naval strategy should consist of a single-minded determination ultimately to force action on the. opponent, whether he wish it or not, and to make such action, when joined, decisive,"
The render may ask whether the existing Navy has been planned and constructed as n balanced whole.
The advent of the now service was hailed by Spanish newspapers as an outstanding event in Spanish aviation, reducing as it does the travel time between the Spanish Peninsula and the Canary Islands by many hours and closely linking
As is well known, the number. the island possession to the king- dom. The route of the Ford tran- and size of the battleships was sport on its flight to and from the dealt with at Washington without islands carried the plane over the regard to the decisive battle they broiling Spanish Sahara, with might have to fight, but purely to long jump over water to Las Palmaa and Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The outbound flight with stops for fuel at Casablanca and Cabo Juby, required 14 hours.
Again this year: the Royal Air Force will engage in mimic war, devised to test the home defence system. For a number of days and nights in July the fighters and bombers of the R.A.F. squadrons. divided into opposing forces, will dispute again the age-old battle of defence and attack in an affort to The gaining of the new contract get further data about the many followed a probationary period of problems of "efficiently defending six months, ending on December 31 Britain from possible future air last year, enjoined by Mr. Venize-raide, and to exercise machines and los, the first Minister for Air, to men in war-like operations.
Last the-" opposing forces, In addition to occupying the determine whether the Blackburn
was found possible either at Wash- greater, part of the British Govern firm could operate the inctory with fighting for mythical lands entitled ment Pavilion in the Exhibition equal efficiency in the building and respectively Red Colony and Blue
ington or later nt Geneva. Neither Colony, worked out campaigns grounds the British aircraft con reconditioning of all-metal aircraft, structors are sending some of the recent and complex development which threw considerable light on
On its return flight, the party of side understood that war at sex cannot be divided into compart- air tactics that might be necessary, officials who inaugurated the ser lateat light aeroplanes and service in aeroplane design.
considered as a' whole. Neither training machines built in this
Mr. Robert Blackburn, who perin certain circumstances, in some vice, including 'Cesar Gomez, direements in this way, but must be side realised that the security of country for a special flying demon-sonally conducted negotiations with parts of the Empire. Incidentally, tor of Classa Air Lines, which stration at El Palomar nerodrome, the Greck Government was con- the 250 aeroplanes employed during oporates the services
the sea-going trade depends not on near Buenos Aires. There, thanks siderably helped sy n lotter, signed the 033 hours of the "war" demon- Canarios as well
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to the co-operation of the Argen tino military air chiels, these new
weeks of next month.
Before he left London the Prince of Wales caused a telegram lo he sont to the British Ambassador in Buenos Aires asking that one day, should be set aside during his stay
year
Search for Lost Fliers.
to the 18 between
parity with the navy of the United States, with whom war was de dared to be unthinkable. No agree- · ment on the strength in cruisers
Voys.
Was not the failure to agree at
fact that France and Italy had the the London Conference due to the decisive battle in their minds, whereas Great Britain and the
Behind" United States had noti
by the Chairman of the Society ofstrated beyond dispute the trust Madrid, Seville and. Barcelona, the futile system of patrolling trade British Aircraft Constructors, which worthiness of British aeroplanes and Ernesto Navarro, technical routes, but on the results of the between raiders and escorts to cou- British 'plunes will show their pacea promised the hearty co-operation of and engines. They, flew an aggre. advisor of the National Aero. decisive battle, and of the combats. during the first, second and third other British aircraft firms if a gate of 2,008 hours, much of it by nauticnt Bureau, participated for British company, should be award-night and sometimes in conditions three days in the search of the ed the contract.
of poor visibility during the day, Sahara for the Spanish military covering, a distance equivalent to pilots Burguete and Nunez, who more than twelve times round the had been forced down in the desert. Equator. Yet not a single serious During this soarch, the party in incident marred the "war." Not the Ford plane combed the Sahara
machine was seriously damaged from the air over a strip of territory these conferences was no sound sca
300 kilometres inland from the Coast. The search ended when the lost fliers found their way to an outpost and reported themselves safe,
BRITAIN AND THE. SCHNEIDER.
British preparation
for
the
in Buenos Aires for a visit to El Palomar to inspect the British air-Schneider Trophy contest, sche craft assembled there. Before heduled to be held over British leaves El Palomar the Prince also waters in September, proceeds proposes to visit the Argentine air service headquarters, to inspect the Argentine sir fleet, and to talk with the men who control the air
forces.
rapidly and smoothly..
which
or a man hurt.
doctrine, and no recognition of the principle that the navy required by each nation is an absolute quantity: based on its own particular strate gic concepts, providing for its own security and not menacing, but mindful of, the security of others.
Need Numbers.
This year the exercises, reverting to the practice of earlier years, are likely to be concerned more direct ly with the actual defence system
Throughout the difficult flights of London, the capital and heart over the desert and despite the of the country. Air and ground terrific heat the plane's three
Capt. Acworth's conception of the Nar required to win the defences will be tested; not only Wright J-a motore functioned per the defending fighters but the net foetly, the pilots Ansaldo and bal is based on the lessonsive work of listening and observation Soriano, reported following the re-the war. His fighting fleet includes because our strategy, demquds num- posts, searchlights, and, perhaps, turn of the party to Madrid. The battleships of moderate dimensions, guns, are likely to be called into plane, being equipped with radio,
action.
The speed of present day aero-
The constructers of the racing seaplanes and engines on Britain will rely again this year to defend the Trophy against foreign Housed at El Palomar the Prince challengers, have begun intensive is likely to find his own private work based on detailed technical light aeroplane, brought specially investigation begun as far back as to South America in the aircraft. Inst February. At Felixstowe three carrier Eagle. Accompanied by his officers who may form the nucleus personal pilot, Mr. E. H. Fielden, of the Schneider team-Flight- the Prince plans to make several Lieutenants Hope,, Bootman and air journeys into the province of Long-ure in readiness for the in-planes means that raiders which Argentina north of the capital, em- tensive training period when the cross the English coust can be over phasising after a tour in which he reconditioned racing planes are London in less than twenty-five even in still air; the has alrendy covered many hundreds delivered from the manufacturers. minutes of tiles by aerophine his enthuThese men have been engaged for magnitude of the job before, the siasm for air travel and his position several months past on high-speed defenders may be ganged from the as the world's most illustrious pri- flying designed to elucidate prob. brevity of this interval in which all Jems met by the neroplane designer the organisation of defence must vate aeroplane owner.
in constructing acroplanes able to be thrown into gear, The task in- BRITAIN AND GREEK AIR
move at speeds of five milea n valves a most highly efficient system of intelligence and requires defend SERVICES.
minute or more.
The zone of speeds extending up-ing fighters which can reach opera wards from about 250 miles an hour tional heights of, perhaps, 20,000 is largely unknown. It has not yet feet or more above the ground in been explored and charted satis a very few minutes after leaving factorily in the elaborate formulae the aerodrome, and astonishing graphs beloved of the aircraft designer, and the fly.
1.
was in constant communication with the Spanish military base at Cabo
return to Madrid, Pilot Ansaldo Juby during the flights. Upon his reported that in the round trip flight between Madrid and the Canary Islands and the flights over
approximately aviators the plane had flown 8,000 miles, with perfect performance. kilometres,
the desert in search of the lost
5,000
bera, of the fighting power needed
to win the battle; of moderato speed seeing that battle can he in the battle and in giving security. to the oversen trade he requires forced by sound strategy. To assist
power and high speed relative to our own battleships. In place of armoured cruisers of good fighting
the present torpedo boat destroy- ers he substitutes second class
cruisers of high speed relative to
the armoured ernisers,
range weanon and upon the bomb.
to be too inaccurate to be used or feared at sea. Since the failure of the submarine, when properly coun- are great, he would only use the tered, shows that fits limitations
Since torpedo in small ones suitable as
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All these ships are to be armed The Inaugurai Flight... exclusively with the gun. He right- the Whitehead, The inaugural flight in the Fordly looks unon plane, which the Classa line had torpedo to be an inferior short aperated in regular service between Madrid, Seville, and Barcelona, was preliminary to the, regular Spain and the Canaries with am- operation of the service between phibian planes. The service at fret will be weekly but later it is plan- deterrenta to local attarka.
he has, tio use for the bomb, the ned to put it on a daily basis.
A gathering of distinguished acroplane and the aircraft carrier: Spanish civil officials, including can be replaced by the seaplane Minister of the Interior Mator, dropped from and hoisted up by the participated in the ceremonics, in ships of the fleet.
New Type of Battleship. liners due to reach Southampton tident to the inauguration of the
His battleship is vessel of from Madrid. Largo crowds greet- test were warned six months.pre-ed the plano and its party at both 12,000 tons, with a maximum speed around the day fixed for the con-service when the plane departed
Some ocean ships were Las Palmas and Santa Cruz de of 17 knots, of great sea-keeping: viously. nctually instructed by wireless Tenerife. The plane carried in ad capacity at low speeds. herrily dition to the pilots and the official armoured over the vitals and armed when they were separated from party two mechanics, a radio opera- with is 13,5-inch guns in turrets bundles of the Madrid- newspaper yards or lets, or at maximum ranges of 20,000 yards it required." Southampton by the width of the tor, inrge consignments of mail and to fight at decisive ranges of 15,000.
La Vanguardia.
His armoured cruiser is a 233-knot.. 12,000 tons vessel with similar sea.... keeping capacity, armed with six 9.2-inch guns in turrets and armour ed to meet slightly heavier gun, His second class cruiser is a 27- knot vessel of 4,000 tons wifir
world.
On February 12, a contract was signed between the Greek Govern ment and the Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Company for exploita tion during a further period of seven years by the British con- cern of the aircraft factory at Phaleron, opposite the port ofing done at Felixstowe last year is was held over the Solent, ocean hoped to supply data and informe Piraeus, near Athens.
The new contract, obtained after tion enabling the performance of a competition with constructors of super-speed racing aeroplane to be other nations who wished to take deduced from tests of models in the laboratory wind tunnels as over the factory, is the most. re- cent milestone in a picturesque and accurately as the designer now. important enterprise. The Black-estimates from the model results burn company has administered the the performance of slower machines factory since 1994, building new.
NEW SCHNEIDER COM- machines for the Grock Govern-
MITTEE CHAIRMAN. ment, re-conditioning others and anaking large quantities of spares;" parts for motor vehicles, special gear for the Naval Air Baso nearby and filling innumerable small en gineering orders for the Greek nir services. Work at first was ox tremely difficult and progressed
flying in this country, plays a con- Squadron: Commander Bird is slowly; to find workmen, trained to siderable part in the organisation director of the Supermarine Avia- the degree of skill and exactness essential in aircraft construction of the contest. The special Schnel tion Works, where the successful der Trophy Committee of the club, British machines in three provious was almost impossible. Actually more than one, thousand workmen re-constituted under a now chair Schneider contests were construct an unrivalled fund of passed through the company's man, is launching immediately oned, and has band before a complement of three the manifold details of preparation, knowledge about the event. His In which include the organisation of membership of the Southampton. hundred men was selected. time the Greek workmen became the contest itself apart from the Harbour Board is certain to assist gradually more and more efficient, Royal Air Force side and numerous him in the inevitable discussions $4.00 FOR THREE MONTHS. till to-day the works are manned, arrangements for its efficient run and conferences with the harbour $8,00 FOR SIX-MONTHS. except for twelve Englishmen, en ning. How complicated the task authorities, whose co-operation is $16.00 FOR A YEAR: tirely by Greeks, who have even may be is illustrated in the fact essential to the smooth running of replaced the British leading hands that in 1928, when the last contest the contest and of the navigability and charge bands.
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The new chairman of the Schnei der Trophy Committee is Squad- ran Commander James Bird, ono The third organisation deeply in- of the best known men in the terested, counting the industry as British aircraft industry and a pro- one group, and Air Ministry and minent yachtsman. Royal Air Force as another, is the Colonel Mervyn O'Gorman, who Royal Aero Club, which, as the was obliged to resign by pressure body responsible for all sporting of other work.
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Theap different classes are severally comparable with the ships of the pro-1004 era. They Are some what amallerar but, unlike thera their armaments are homogeneous. The speeds of the unarmoured cruisers are higher. On the whole- the comparison indicates that the proposals are practicable,
According to the author the sulting navy compared with that existing would consist of; 25 battle. shins with 150 guns as against · 17: with 138 36 armoured cnusers with 228 guns as against 4 with 28; 112 against 49 with 124. This great in- unarmed cruisers with 472 puns 28
orease of gum power is due to dis carding, ineffective weapons and to eliminating vessels of little er, no Bahting value, which have eroWN, like, fingi, round the faulty doctrine thut the battle need not be decisive.