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AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.
FUTURE OF THE
·R.100.
EXPERTS OPPOSED TO SCRAPPING.
There is considerable spéculation
in neronautical circles as to the fate of R.100,
BRITISH FLYING
NEWS.
SPRING BRINGS OUT THE AVIATORS.
Losnos, March 31, 1931.
AIR-MAIL SPEED-UP.
ENGLAND-INDIA IN FIVE
DAYS.
As a result of permanent agree- ments with Italy and Gréece, which are about to bo ratified, and the
Spring time, bringing lengthen-introduction of new and faster flying- ing days and ever a warmer sup, is, Betson of quickening norint ne
Mr. Montague (Under-Secretary for Air) said, in the House of Com-tivity in Great Britain. Owner mons, that until the report on R.101 pilots and flying olub members who has been carefully considered, no have spent the winter months trying decision will be made in regard to ta get somewhere before dark. R.100.
watching from the stub windows the There is a general belief, how-clouds sitting early on the "deck," ever, that the airship will not beer doing desperate deeds in involun- dismantled. It is possible that shotary "blind" flying, through un- will be recommended for future posted fog, are planning air holi- experiments.
days and race meetings that may perhaps be unhindered by the diver- sity of aloud, rain, fog, hail, and so forth which make flying in this country so interesting over a great part of the year.
Major Nixon and other officers from Cardington have visited the Air Ministry.
"
"The whole future of British air. ship construction is under review," anid an official at the Air Ministry.
lows of the R.101, said:
bonts in the Mediterranean, Im- perial Airways have arranged to speed-up both their England-India, and the newly opened Central- African air-mail services.
Beginning on May 10, it is hoped that the present ronte across Central Europe will be discontinued, and passengers and mail will in- stead travel via Switzerland, Italy and Greece, to Egypt.
A triple-screw Arimstrong-Sidde- ley air-liner carrying the combined India-Africa air-mail, will leave London each Saturday, from that date, for Basle where passengerk and mails will be transferred to a new night-train to Genoa. Here they will be placed on board one of the now four-engined Short ying-boats for the flight across the Mediterranean, and will reach Corfu vi Naples on the evening of the second day, and Alexandria (Egypt) via Athena, at 2.30 p.in. Greenwich Tirae on the following day, only 2 days 7 hours after leav
Enater, being the first important Further Experiments." public holiday of the year, natural- Professor L. Bairstow, the tech-y sees the beginning of the flying "scason," marked by air meetings nician and expert witness before the Commission of Inquiry into the all over the land and the setting furth of many small planes on holiday tours of Britain and the adjoining countries on the contin- ent of Europe. A few owner pilots gn yet farther afield, confident in the ability of their light seroplanes to carry them swiftly and withouting London. fuss even if it be to the ends of the
world.
"Nothing has come out of the report which justifies the opinion that airship development should not continue. There is no reason why further experiments should not is made with R.100, but the question of a commercial service by airship is one for the future rather than the present."
Air Vice-Marshai, H. C. T. Dow- ding (Air Member of the Council
"Exploring" Yugo-Slavia.........
After a short train journey to Cairo, which is the junction of the | Indian and Africa nir routes, the Tudinn air mail will travel by land-
An air tour spiced with the plane vid Baghdad, and the Persian unusual is the "'exploration "Gulf to Karachi and Delhi. A
of
for Supply and Research) said:
"The whole future of airship de.se, in "Cutty Sark" twin-speed-up is also to be made on this
engined amphibious masonlane, "of section by the introduction velopment will now be considered
two members of the British House partial night-flying, and passengers hy the Air Council. Policy concern.
of Commons, Captain Balfour and and mails will arrive at Karachi 6 ing airships in general and .300 Lord Lymington, who are hoping days 2 hours 35 minutes after in particular will be determined, return with a considerable anunt leaving London. The African mgil and the Air Council will then sub of up-to-date information about will travel from Cairo by air-liner mit a report to the Cabinet:"
fying prospects in Yugoslavia. and flying-boat, id Khartoum, to Inquiries at Cardington showed
Their monoplane, which is equip | Central Africa, Kenya Colony, there are 220 men at the stationed with boat-bull and landing being reached from England in n R.100 has not been brought out of wheels for operation indifferently few hours over 6 days, her shed for flying for over six from innd and water, will be pilot- months and the mooring mast hased for them by Flight Lieutenant not been used since R.101 went on Pope, of the loyal Air Force. her ill-fated voyage.
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Mails to Australia.
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The incoming Empire airmail CALDBECK MACGREGOR & Co.,Ltd.
will, beginning on May 18, leave Delhi (India) each Monday, and' Mwanza (Tanganyika Territory) each Sunday. These two air-mails will join at Cairo and will reach London on the following Sunday.
The first of two experimental re- | turn fights with mail between Eng land and Australia is scheduled to
New all-metal Short flying-boats, hegin from the London Air Station, with hills of stainless steel, and Croydon, on Saturday, arriving at each driven by 4 Bristol Jupiter | Port Darwin in the Northern Ter-engines totalling 2,000 horse-power,
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sitory of Austálin on April 19, have been specialy built for the CHINESE RESTAURANT
fifteen days after departure. From Mediterranean section of this route, Two monoplauca designed and
Part Darwin aeroplanes belonging and will be put into commission in constructed in such a way that the-
to "Qantas," one of the chief Aus the Mediterranean during May. Aero-dynamien forces operating analian air transport companies, These new flying ships are larger the wings can be measured in flight will carry the mails on to Sydney, than any yet in use on regular air now form part of the equipment Melbourne and other important routes, and will accommodate 17 of the Directorate of Scientific Re search of the Air Ministry.
passengers, in addition to 15 tons of mail.
These machines, the first of their kind, were designed and built to Air Ministry specification by Messrs, Georgo Parnall & Co, at their air- craft factory at Ynte, near Bristol.
The contral feature of, the design
cities.
On April 27, eight days after the scheduled arrival time, the return journey will be begun from Port Darwin, the maile being tied to reach London on May 1. The second outward-bound mail is to
is that the wing bracing struts, have London on April 25 and reach certain wing members, and a main Port Darwin on May 10; the return fuselage member constitute between journey on this second trip will be- them a parallelogram which may ba gin on May 17 and is timed to considered as a kind of swinging reach London on May 31 éradle, allowing relative movement between the wings and the fuselage under the influence of the air forces on the wings........
During the summer it is hoped to extend the Central African route through to Capetown, bringing the total length of Imperial Airways Empire air mail routes to 13,000
miles.
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Another frequented route where- Air Taxta in the Balkan States,
the air taxi can save much time Travel over a large area of the over the train is that between Bel Balkan States will be much ac-grade and Buclinrest, a journey eclerated by the operation of an made an twenty-three hours less This relative movement, however, air-taxi service by "Aeroput," the time by air than by rail. is prevented by a member connect- ing the rear spars of the wings with Yugoslav air transport company. the lever of a dynamometer situated This enterprise, the first of its kind centrally in the fuselage and slight in Yugoslavia, is designed to afford ly forward of the leading edge of highspeed travel not only within the wings.
the borders of the country but also The load thus communicated to
The new air taxi scheme will be inaugurated with a "Puss Moth "` light cabin rionopiane, similar in casentials to the machine owned privately by the Prince of Wales and flown by him recently in Argen- the dynamometer is due partly to between Yugoslavian cities and imtina, which was flown from London the lift and partly to the drag of portant centres in other Balkau to Belgrade a few days ago." Mfr. the wings. The load is indicated countries. Thus, travellers on the directly on the recording dial of the dynamometer. Two rendings are';
rail expresses which reach Belgrade
Sondermayor, Director-General of "Aeropat," and the company'a chiof test pilot took delivery of the
need to obtain the gurea necessary, from France and Germany in the craft and flow in it back to
Another unusual festure of the morning will be able to travel on Yugoslavia. A telegram received -aircraft is a bydraulic brake on the by air to such cities as Athens, by the de Havilland Aircraft Coui- airscrow actuated by a lever in the accomplishing in five hours by air pany stated that the aeroplane fpilot's cockpit.—It is used to stop
covered the distance between Paris and Belgrade in an afternoon, and was to be put immediately into air {Continued at foot of uczt column.)'taxi service.
thirty-six hours in the train.
the airscrew from rotating and so a journey occupying no less than to eliminate slipstream during glid ing fight when observations are being made.
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MENU.
1. Stewed Shark's fins with Crab Meat.
2. Garoupa Slices with Tomato Sauce.
8. Roasted Pigeons.
4. Fried Chicken Slices with Preserved Greeds. 5. Milk Gruel with Special Flavouring.
6. Steamed Rice Mixture.
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Stewed Shark's fins with Crab Meat. 2 Garoups Slices with Tomato Sauce: 3. Roasted Pigeons."
4. Milk Grael with Special Flavouring. B. Steamed Rice Mixture.
Price: $1.50 per dinner për person.
There is a special "a la carte" menu in English from which patrons can order other dishes also as moderately charged as the menus. One can choose to the individual taste, either oblcken, duck, awabi, shark's fins, bird's nest soup, bolled or fried garoupa, pigeons, as well as one hundred other dellcastes too numerons to enumerate.
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