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THE SPOILERS.
TO-DAY AT THE KING'S.
AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.
BRITISH FLYING NEWS.
LINERS.
AIR MAIL TO INDIA.
40,000 LETTERS A WEEK.
Increasing uso is being made of the Indian air-mail and, necording
at the highest possible cruising AIRPLANE IN A MAN to the latest figures available, an
speed on the smallest possible con. sumption of fuel, and with the engines running at relatively low
A replien of the famous Six Above Mino, one of the richest claims in Anvil Creek during the days of the gold rush to Nome, Alaska, was built by the Paramount Company for its talking edition of MORE ABOUT THE NEW AIR speed of revolution, thus ensuring The Spoilors, which is showing to-day at the King's Theatre. The mino took its name, as was cus tommry, from the fact that it was the sixth above the original dia- covery claim. The first claim up the creek counting from the original discovery was known 48 one above the first below as "'une below" and so on. t
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LONDON, Mar. 3. The monoplane air liners now being built in Great Britain for operation by Imperial Airways on the Afrienn trunk route attain new standards of efficiency. The secret of their construction was carefully The story of The Spoilers is full guarded till a few days; though of colour and incident, and there is, detailed design work was actually [of course, a strong love interest begun more than six months ago running through it. "The Spoilers" few people outside the firs im- are a group of unscrupulous per-mediately interested had heard of sons who try to cheat those who
the enterprise. have staked claims of what they should justly get. Fights of all sorts dramatically staged, thrilling chases, and tense moments when the death of the hero seems inevit. ablo are linked together by love scenes, against an extraordinarily interesting background of life in a mining camp.
We believe that "The Spoilers will be a very popular picture and advise tiu early booking of reats,
TRADER HORN ON THE FILMS.
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All the same I, personally, would have enjoyed the film more without any sentimental garnishing.""
I would also live preferred not to hear the platitudinous and face- tious utterances put into the mouth of the Trader. Platitudes such as "Everything in Nature means some- thing, Ind." Quips such as the reference to a young giraffe as "junior."
However, the fact remains that a sound-picture of wild life "Trader Horn is first class.
Do not miss it.
A CHEVALIER FILM.
I should hardly have believed, until a few days ago, that any film in which Maurice Chevalier appear ed could fail to be a complete
Aucorse.
economical operation and long life and low maintenance charges for the engines. Fully loaded the aero- plane weighs nearly eight tone, of which approximately two tons is
pay load.
Each of the four Armstrong Siddeley "Double Mongoose motors has ten cylinders and deve. lops 340 horsepower. The frame work of the fuselage and wings is steel strip, the wings being covered with three-ply wood.
** KESTREL " AND "BUZZARD.”
HUNT.
average of just on 40,000 letters o weck is now being sent from Eng- land to India by Imporial Airways Pmachines. At times of exceptional
DASH FROM DETROIT TO pressure, as at Christmar the loads. may comprise as many as 70,000 letters
NEW YORK.
Business mon in London find that A secret midnight air daah from the speed of the air-mail enables Detroit to New York in a radio them to send out urgent letters to equipped Ford tri-motor airplane India, and obtain replica, in rough- Lecently enabled Lieutenant Johnly the time taken for a letter to Hoffman of the Detroit Detective travel in one direction only by sur- department to capture a man badly face transport.
wanted in connection with the
murder of Jerry Buckley, Detroit
radio announcor
Odd Cargoes.
It is an interesting experience, when visiting the London air- Lieutenant Hoffman caught his station, to walk through the big quarry in a Bronx bank just '12 fraight sheds either just before the hours after he had received a "tip" (Indian air-mail departe, or im Enough information is now ro-
in Detroit that the man he sought mediately after the mail from Indic lensed by the makers, the Sir W.
A new system of naming has was preparing to flee to Italy. Tho has arrived. In addition to the G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft been decided upon for two well-plane ride from Detroit had taken ever-growing mail loads, strange The journey by train cargoes are often sirborne along Company, to indicate that those known British aero engines, one of 64 hours. new liners will be capable of a them the power unit fitted to the would have required 14 hours. It this great. Empire route.
WEB one of the most interesting maximum velocity of 145 miles an latest fighters and day bombers hour and cruising easily at 115 supplied to the Royal Air Force cases on record of the use of the miles an hour with the four motors and the other famous as the engine airplane in tracking down suspect developing only three-fifths of full from which was developed the raced criminals. power. Further, the design incoring motor in the 'plane that won' In taking Lieutenant Hoffman porates novel features sufficient to the last race for the Schneider from Detroit to New York, Myron after it had been prepared, went show that the British aircraft de Trophy and established the world's E, Zeller, a Ford Motor Company out regularly on the, Saturday signer possesses imagination equal speed record of 7.7 miles an hour. pilot, set his course by radio morning mail-plane from Croydon, to any of his foreign competitora,
These engines were previously Leacons over the fog-hidden peaks reaching its destination within a styled the "F" and "H" engines of the Pennsylvania mountains. Howeck of leaving London, BEAUTY AND EFFICIENCY. respectively. In naming them the also used the beacon flashes to
On another noension a consign- makers, Rolls-Royce, Limited, have locate Hadlay Field, New Jersey, ment of beautiful toys, bought in
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Not long ago a regular consign- ment of a certain medicine, pre- scribed by a doctor in London for
A patient in India, and nooding te be taken as soon ne possiblo
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The new craft, graceful and racy followed the tradition of the firm, the eastern terminus of the trans-London for the children of an a high-wing mono and the names of birds are chosen continental air mail route, where Indian Rajah, were consigned by police cars wore waiting to rush his air not only to save time but to passengers to New York.
in outline, is plane, lifted, that is, by a single pair of wings located above the fuselage, From tip to tip these wings sprend ninety feet. They constitute i cantilever structure, without exterior bracing wires or struts to cause air interference " and thus to diminish efficiency by increasing resistance to movement through the air,
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In the leading or front edges of the wings are placed four powerful radial air-cooled engines, two on either side of the fuselage-a most unusual engine arrangement. There motors are carried in stream-lined nacellee, or power-oggs," which are designed to merge as smoothly as possible into the shape of the wings. Drawings of the machine show that the engines are cowled with: Townend rings, & British de- vice which markedly cuts down the
Fog Sets In.
minimise any risk of their being damaged. The airway, owing to the individual care with which everything is handled, proves an ideal mode of transport for fragile. articles, and for this reason urgent- Jy-required electrical apparatus of many kinds finds its way into the | Indian janil-planes.
to add to a family already ropre sented by "Eagle," "Falcon," "Condor" and "Hawk" engines. Lieutenant Hoffman reached Ford Thus the 500 hp. "F" engines Airport at Dearborn, Michigan, at become "Kestrels" and the 825 midnight and the plane took off h.p. "H" motors become "Buz-nt once for Now York, zards." The various types of en- gine in 'ench class, differing in scar and compression ratios, are distinguished by the addition of a
A bright moon was shining when the 'plane left Detroit. The pilot Roman numeral and a letter. For easily followed the lake shore into example, the engine formerly styled Cleveland. From that point on to ant by air, owing to the saving in «F. XII. B," a system of nomen-
New York, the radio beacons blared time, which can be obtained. elature found by the Air Ministry
the course.
Bad flying weather Vaccines for hospitals are consign-." to cause confusion, is now called
came as the plane was passing ed by aeroplanes for a similar "Kestrel II. B" and so on. The Brookville, Pa., when the pilot reason. Motor-car parts, urgently degree of supercharging is still in- ters MS or S. dicated by the addition of the let
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POWER FOR WAR 'PLANES.
The “Kestrel," a power unit of astonishing efficiency and compact-,
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Special hatching egge ara alan
spun the dial of his radio set to required, often fod their way into pick up the Bellefonte beacon. A aeroplanes outward-bound. growing hate was apparent and the The time-factor enters into the lower valleys were filling with fog.qucation sometimes in respect of By the time the plane had passed very unusual consignments. The the mountains rose above the fog, beard, required in baste for a Fellafonte, Pa., only the peaks of other day, for example, a false
Yet Playboy of Paris," at the resistance of the star-shaped radialness, is largely responsible for the and only the airway beacons on the theatrical performance in India,
Carlton, amused me but little.
One or more "Ker
moter. The landing wheels are de-
highest peaks were visible. The was sent down to Croydon just in Chevalier was given very unpro- pieted encased in streamline fair-assing speed and effectiveness plans was dying at 7,000 feet, safe, time to catch the outward bound mising material. "Playboy of ings; throughout the machine every aeroplanes,
of the most recent British service above the peaks. As it passed machine, Paris Incks the glamoroas settings effort is made to avoid unnecestrel "mators provide the power in
Sunbury, Pa., the first low clouds of The Love Parade." Chosary excrescences likely to diminish British fighters, day bombers, night and from that point on the pilot heralding a ground fog appeared valier's part is not so "sympathe aerodynamical efficiency.. tic as the one he had in fano.
bombers and flying boats, which are The spacious cabin, mensuring admittedly each in their class far cents of Paris."
And he has only one real song to sing, a poor one at that. What a pity it is that Maurice's E- pean engagementa prevented his
prove it.
their luggage.
SAFETY.
PRIVATE FLYING.
flew above a solid cloud bank with-
Metuchen, N.J. was reached. out a glimpse of the earth until
Lieutenant Hoffman climbed out
AUTO-LAUNCHING OF
'CLIDERS.
ASSOCIATION DRAWING UP NEW RULES.
The fatal accident. to u glider, E
development.
A yearbook which, under the title ed by steamship but for the use ofly the Dorast Gliding Club, dosis the airplane.
them 342 aeroplanes. Two of the safely eluded the police and escap-of" Gliding, 1931, has been issued
1 feet in length and with more superior in every aspect of per than six feet of head-room, pro-formance to any aeroplanes buik vides accommodation for seventeen outside Great Britain.
Then the signals in his earphones passengers And There is a steward's pantry and the compliment of a recent order The pilot hunted a hole in the fog, Harpenden is not likely to affect.
warned him he had passed Hadley The "II engine, which received Field to the North of the course. playing in Monte Carlo "! For that talkie contained some excellent forward and wireless compartment United States Government, is again
buffet, a large freight compartment for a batch of three from the dove down through it and flew the great popularity of the sport musical numbers, and musical num-The main cabin, being well aft of to provide the power for the British flying a coures circling the beacon bers are Maurice's strong point. On the zone of rotation of the engines Schneider Trophy defenders.
south seeking the field. Then by in England. the other band, Mr. Jack Buchanan, and airscrews, is comparatively
It seems quite clear that the de- and noting the changes in the cident was the outcome, not of an who took over the part in "Monte quiet, and the noise is still further Carlo," dances better than he lessened by taking the engine ex-
signals as he crossed the course ordinary gliding effort, but of ex- zones, the pilot was able to lacate periments with launching appara- sings-and had no opportunity to hausts over the top of the main
the field, though it was shrouded tus that resulted in a speed far in 'plane. Freedom from vibration, progress of privato flying in Great to the ground.
Further evidence of the steady with fog, and found his way safely execse of that normally attained at Lucky Walter,
as compared with the normal three-Britain is contained in the latest
the start of a flight Maurice, in Playboy of Paris," engined airliner, is secured by the list of privately owned aircraft, of the plane, rushed to New Yorked the opinion that the accident Gliding enthusinate have expressTM is supposed to be a waiter. The absence of an engine in the nose. proprietor of the cafe where he
issued by the technical magazine pad a few hours later ran down his would not stand in the way of works learns that his employee has
The suspect could have quarry. been left a fortune, and gets him to sign a 20-years contract at once. Safety typical of British aircraft, The idea is that when Maurice dis construction is implicit in many envers his good luck he will pay details. With full load the nero- highly for the contract to be can piano is designed to continue level, celled, In order to secure his ~aigunture the proprietor tricks inm-flight-at-any-height below 7,000 feet- into getting drank. Maurice's at with any one motor stopped and tempt to register intoxication did to be able to maintain in those not convince me for a moment.
To apito his employer he refuses conditions a true air speed of no to buy off the contract, and takes less than 90 miles an hour. The revenge by behaving very boister wheel brakes are strong enough tu of diversity, though the majority of ously during working hours, · After hours, however, he becomes the enable a pilot to bring the machine complete millionaire, mingling with to a standstill on an aerodroms in people of fashion.
There is a love story, of course, less than two hundred yards, even As a millionairo Maurice steps on a calm day. The cabin windows out" with a society beauty, but in are so designed that at need they the end he returns to his real become emergency exits; a single sweatheart, the café proprietor's daughter. Blies Frances Dee, was sharp blow is sufficient to knock charming in the latter role.
them out "Playboy of: Paris". contains a funny dual scen On the whole, nevertheless, it disappointed me.
"Flight." It contains the names · of 312. owners, possessing between
Owners on the list possess four aeroplanes each, ave one three each, and 20 own two; on the other hand four pairs of owners are shown as sharing one machine. The number of people with one
aeroplane each is given as 971.*
The acroplanes listed show. pleaty
them are naturally light aeroplanes. They range from very small "baby" single-seaters to the tremendous three-engined flying bouts employed
private seroplane owner, the Prince' of Wales. Close study of the list, however, reveals, that his "Gipsy Moth" biplane and "Puss Moth". cabin monoplanes are declared as the possession of the Prince's per sonal pilot, Mr. E. H. Fielden, In- cidentally the "Moth" biplane is shown to be the most popular as air yachts by the Hon. A. Guin- “perpcat in Great Britain, the ness, which carry ten or twolve list citing 179 of these machines. occupants in luxury and at high Next in number is the Puss speed over long distances.
Moth" with 50, followed by The design was governed by the One apparent emission is the "Aviana" (28) and "Bluebirds " idea of carrying a given pay load I name of the world's most illustrious | (19).
fully with all aspects of the pas- [time. One of the many contribu-
tore is Capt. C. H. Latimer Need-: ham, who says:-
Gliding is infinitely safer-than- power flying, largely because the causes of accidents applying to airplanes are either non-existent or greatly reduced with gliders and sailplanes. The chief dange cra of flying are, Aro, the results of stalling and high landing speed..
Fire cannot, of course, take place with gliders, landing speed is low, and the effects of stalle are seldom serious. Owing to the light wing loading, stalle are little more than parachute-des- cents, and flying speed is regain. ed in a very short distance. Even when the machine turns into a spin to the ground, the machine generally takes the brunt of the crash,
f