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AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.
FLYING SHIP POLICY. BRITISH FLYING
EFFECTS OF THE R.101
REPORT..
NEWS.
SPEEDING THE MAIL SERVICE.
ENGLAND.
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London, and was listened to, and THE CONDITION OF nted upon instantly, by the person for whom it was intended, and who was at that moment staying in the Channel Islands. By steamer, aeroplane, and train the traveller to that distant sick-bed sped across THE SPECIALLY-Europe, and was rewarded for a breathless rush by arriving just in CHARTERED 'PLANE. tine.
READY FOR ALL EMERGENCIES.
The report of the Court of In- quity on the loss of the great air-
Acceleration of the air mail ser- Almost every day now. Imperial ship R. 101 cleared the way for con- Sideration by the Government of vices throughout the Empire is to Airways officials pick up their British airship policy" during the day the most widely discussed sub-telephones to hear urgently-worded British eivil aviation, calls for specially-chartered aircraft next few years. The report, sigoject in ed by Sir John Simon, President of Launched recently in an interview to fly long distances, at a moment's the Court, and his two expert granted by Lord Amniree, the Airefice, at a pace more than twice Licut-Colonel Moore. Minister, to Sir Robert McLean that of surface transport. These Brabazon and Professor C. E. and other leading men in commerce air speciale," by the sheer speed Inglis, makes certain positive state and aviation, the topic has been at which they fly above land and ments and describes in detail a given renewed life and vigour by, extricate people from predion. tents in a way no other vehicle could.
ALANCEAUTS,
The other morning a wealthy merchant arrived in a taxi Euston just in time to see, steaming
at
reasonable theory, supported by the march of events. Yesterday an subsequent careful experiments, ex-acroplane landed. at Cape Town plaining the series of events that only six and a half days after leay- ended in the grent vessel, with its ing England, while a "lone" flyer in a light acroplane has beaten Air 34 passengers, sinking to earth an
hillside near Beauvais, in France, Commodore Kingsford-Smith's re-out of the station, a train connect cord time for the fight from Eng.ing at Liverpool with the boat in and brusting into flames.
land to Calcutta., Incidentally, the repart is well written and graphic, more exciting, indeed, even for the lay :cador,
than many a work of fiction.
,,
tradition has made cheating the Revenue an innocent exercise, has not quite stood the strain: This English people is possessed, in all classes, by the fixed iden that life can be easier to-day than it was An idea which before the war. reckone so obstinately without the sad facts must come to catastrophe, M. Siegfried writes of our frivolty as moralists have written of the later Roman Empire, describing the" wild pleasure-seeking of its sinking
cities.
Aerial Ambuianco, Olton the saloon of a big Im perial passenger-'plane is converted inter an aerial ambulance. Here is a typical ense. It was desired that the sufferer from a grave apina! complaint should be moved from tendon for treatment abroad. Th shucks and vibrations of a long journey by land and sea would pre bubly have been fatal: but, lying on a bed which had been hung on shook- absorbing springs in the aeroplane's saloon, this patient flew in perfect comfort high above the Channel,ways the English people, Lewilder neomplishing in 2 hours what would have been a long, and, iu the circumstances, dangerous jour ney by boat-and-train.
The nas of a Aying ambulance is. as a matter of fact, growing grondly in favour among physioinna desir
Better Than We Used To Be. It would not be difficult to print out where and how this dark pic ture should be qualified, in what
ed and purposeless as they may seem amid their difficulties, are a" better people than they were when their prosperity and power seemed to be firmly seated; why like in their praise of our past and in. their blame of our prosent these brilliant pages give often superficial judgment. Would any self-respecting Englishmaz like to go back to the London described by
which he had booked a passage tog to send sick people 'ncross the Channel to undergo various forma It was imperativa Many British experts affirm the West Africa.
of treatment, Its found that principle that mails and passengers that he should catch the boat, but should be separately transported. I found upon hasty enquiry that patients can undertake a smooth. The adoption of this principleno other train would get him there swift aerial journey when their
condition would prohibit any ideaCharles Booth, or to the state of society described by Sir Hubert would enable the operating com- ir, time.
of surface travel, No Structural Failure."
Llewellyn Smith and Mr. Vaughan What did he do in this emergency 1 }
Time is Money 1 Arguing by a process of elimina-pany to send the mails by aero- tion the Court came to the conclu- planes very inach faster than the Why, the only thing possible.
Nash in their account of the dock strike? There are grave evile and sion that the disaster followed a air-liners at present in use. Light Hastening to a 'phone-box, he call-Airways are ready for any and every
dangerous in our system for us- sudden loss of gas from one of the ing of the main routes for nighted up Imperial Airways; and by
sharpest critics really prefer the immense gas-bags near the nose of flying would ensure the mails mov-the time he had motored to the
employment relief, but would its starvation and rampant disorder the ship. The accident was not due ing during nearly every hour out of aerodrome at Croydon. an' air-taxi to structural wrakucas of any kind each twenty-four; to-day they are stood waiting for him with its pra-
of the American cities where charity puts up an unequal struggle and there was no failure of the stationary for all but the scheduled pellors already revolving. Jumping into its comfortable saloon, he sped
with faming? If England has mado control gear. Loss of gas forward, day-time flying stages,
ff through the air and reache The result of the policy of carry-
2 great effort not to let her the extremely bad weather and the
civilisation slip back under the change of watch a few minutes being mails and passengers together Liverpool in ample time to catch
stress of the war and its curse- fore the crash, meaning that a is, in the words of Sir Robert his boat. strange hand had probably not had MeLenn, that the air mail moves at an average speed from London to time sufficient to "feel" the con-
Dash to a dick Bad.
The air traffic exports of Imperial energency. The other day, as not infrequently happens, a wireles metsago came from a big liner Cherbourg from approaching
It was from a business America. min who wished to reach London for an important appointment in Kreat haste. Promptly a "taxi- piano was despatched from Lou on to Cherbourg. After alighting there, the pilot went out to the
patsenyor aboard, and brought hit swiftly to land. Then he was trans- ferrod to the walling plane, and in an astonishing short span of me found himself gliding down at Creydon, with a motor car waiting w bring him up to his hotel in the West-End.
A real-life drama of an nerin:
wik-bed can often .bo found Yet, high speed is one of the clef assels of air travel, and, calculating chronicled, nowadays, in the records on the basis of British axuraft of Imperial Airways; while it already in existence or building, a sometimes happens that wireless day and night air mall service could lends an added thrill to one of these be operated, once the necessary modern dramas of speed. Here is lighting equipment was laid down, a case in point. Far away in the linking London and Sydney, Aus Eouth of France a patient lay at
the point of death, and it was Another instance of high-speed specially desired that a relative work was provided recently when whose whereabouts could not he
an urgent load, consigned to Ameri ascertained, should see that suffereren, arrived one evening at the buforo he died. Accordingly an London air-port on one of the big S.O.S. was broadcast from a wire Armstrong-Siddeley mail-planes. less station in the South, of France. This was picked up and relayed by (Continued on top of next column,
quences, that is a matter for batis
M.
Siegfried gives the impressing some-
times of thinking that we did these
1018. That view will not stand a close examination of history. Butt it is more profitable to consider M, Siegfriend'e adinirable deeription
things better after 1813 than after
of the task before us.
tral of the ship accurately in the Indin of only 23 miles an hour rush by relatives to some distant liner in a fast motor-boat; took his faction rather than concern. prevailing difficult conditions-these are associated as the main factors. Probably a tear in the fabric cover- ing of the ship near the nose ag- gravated the gas leakage. In ear. Her fights trouble was experienced with the gas-bags, which in many pluses chifed against excrescences on the main framework and enustralia, in 71 days.. previously the cover had split sud. denly over a length of 145 lect..
Dismissal of any structural failure rehuts all doubts about the strength of the framework and the exactness of the design calculations. By in- ference, too, it clears entirely from auspicion the efficiency of the in- spection methods applied to the structure during and after construe Lion.
NEW MAIL 'PLANES. Future progress may be expected this year along these lines. British aircraft constructors are busy on
Within a few minutes of its arrival, very fast ma planes which will
it was transferred to a waiting air- attain cruising speeds superior to
taxi and flown from Croydon ns the Old Sarumi nerodrome where, any comparable craft yet built and capable of top speeds, with a con-
just as night fell, it was transferred siderable load on hoard, nearly world-wide felicitations on setting a
to a fast motor-ear, and rushed on equal to the maximum velocities record of six days for this stage of to Plymouth. Arrived there, it was Future. Developments,
reached a level flight by the hor light to Australia, -
put aboard a speed-boat, which
life," The improvement in the schedule dashed out just in time to catch a The sister ship, Rio, lies in the world's fastest single-seater-fight-
Machines of this kind will will follow the ratification of perheer outward-bound for New York, big shed at Cardington awaiting the ers. Government decision. Her officers, show the problem of mail services manent flying agreements with the By this use of aeroplane, motor-car. Governments of Greece and Italy and speed-hoat, several days wer? headed by the captain, Squadron in a new light. Leader R. S. Booth, are still avail- The late Commander Kidston's and the introduction early next saved, as compared with normai merns, in the arrival of the goods and faster flying at their destination in the United able for duty, though the losses of flight to the Cape, though it is month of now
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To turn the corner from tho nineteenth into the twentieth cen- tary-there, in a word, is the whole British problem," After 250 grey and adxious pages about the char- neter of that problem we come in the last two sentences upon a burst of unexpected confidence. When England changes we may say that she is dying, and it is never trac. The Empire and the spirit of Eng- Iand on which it thrives have un- limited powers of adaptation and Now England's way of adapting herself to a changed world' is a constant puzzle to peoples who, from their geographical position as well as from other causes, ding to standards of success and prestige- Our refusal to exhaust ourzelves and to sacrifice all our higher has a struggle for and interests to naval supremacy when our life
wisdom to us and like failure to a Frenchman. In some respects our power of adaptation has been dis-
have left many great gaps in Bri-gular service through Africa is tions of the route.
The recently inaugurated servicë
powers of adaptation are to be tnin's equipment of experienced practicable in the type of aeroplane.
be few (mainly because its land. to Central Africa will share in the tested today by a number of prob- airship men. R.100 has flown suc. cessfully to Canada and back, en- ing speed is high), was of value in improvement, the maila being re-flems harder than any we have faced does not depend on it seems like
timed to get to Kenya Colony in in the past. In one sense the mo- ment is unfavourable. For M Sieg- fried, who say that we have pro- during very had weather and proving the capabilities of the six days,
The present air mail route goesduced more leaders in the past than making the quickest airship journey modern aeroplane as a carrier of
scarcity to-day. But is that sur- 10 a change is scheduled to a zonte prising? The generation that last going by way of Switzerland, Italy most of its natural lenders in the war was born between 1880 and That generation is at this war moment the most important.
on record ross the Atlantic mails and urgeat freight. Undoubt. across Central Europe, hut on May other people, is struck by their played more effectively in the last.
Qcean,
magniture, involving incalculable occurrence of tomorrow.
and Greece to Egypt. In this way nails and passengers are timed to reach Alexandria, Egypt, two days
few years than at any other time.
We have escaped at last from the.
failure of that power on the part If of the last generation, a failure
edly still better going might be It seems unlikely that the Gonde, over the route he followed by crament will decide to abandon the machines already built--one of the Royal Air Force's new day bombers,
we look at the past leaders of whom that let the Irish problem become M. Siegfried in thinking we see that an obstinate and nearly a mortal airship programme completely.
But every Englishman lungo over Catholic emancipation; disease. from London: Originally the building of two ships for example, could certainly knock and seven hours after departing Perl was 41 when he took the
Between Cairo and Karachi fur-Disraeli was 41 when he led his would admit that there are respecta was sanctioned largely to ensure many hours off Kidaton's time-
Buccessful revolt against Peel: that the failure of ona ship should and it is a commonplace that the ther acceleration will be secured by Cobden was it when he destroyed in which our power of adaptation Lot end the experiment. What was record achievement of to-day be the partial adoption of night flying, the Corn Laws; Gladstone was 45 has not kept pace with our proes
his great Budgets; Ehafesbury was not foreseen was a disaster of such comes the everyday commercial the air way being marked for a į when he introduced the first ofsities. The history of our cont considerable distance by powerful when the Mines Act and it when industry since the war, with ite beacons and special aerodrome the Ten. Hours Act was passed. If lamentable breakdown on the part then different things had happen-both of employers and of trade lighting equipment.
The big four-motored: "Shorted between 1025 and 1031 the men unions, is an example of the want
whose names are associated with FIVE DAYS TO INDIA.
flying boats, the largest passenger them would all have been born be of that resilent mind which alone can restore to our industries the A good example of this truism is carrying boats yet commissioned by tween 1860 and 1895. Of public men plete overhaul and refitting. This the news that Imperial Airways nay airway in the world, on which born between these years there are vigour and power that they once
many who are doing good work, work would cost, according to some propose to accelerate their mail the new time-table depends, are but Lord Irwin is the only one owed to advantages that they no estimates, riearly £100,000, and service between England and Irdin.huge biplanes, furnished to provide associated with a great achieve longer posseas The Balfour Com unprecedented air travel comfort. It display of personal power.mittee reported that the readjust- What is true of politics is true
ment and economy of industrial would, take about twelve months. Beginning, it is hoped, on May 16 Each machine has spacious accom of the whole of our social life, of thinkers and citizens; wo have -At-the-end-of-that time a cautions the mails will be carried from Lon-modation for seventeen passengers employers and trade unions, of power had proceeded more quickly the greater in Soft" re-beginning of test flights, the ship don to Karachi in two hours longer and able to carry in a special reached that mucninou his on the Continent than here, though,
hold, no less than 1j tone of mail.tory when the losses of the war fall the need for it was being infinted probably with helium than five days. Yet only last year The four Bristol Jupiter" 500 with the greatest weight upon our respects here than there. M. Sieg
JL Hammond in the Manchester instead of inflammable hydrogen Miss Amy Johnson was receiving hp engines give this craft a maxi moral and intellectual power at fried in right in saying that our
1.Guardian. ́(Continued at foot of next column.) mum speed of 139 miles an hour:
losses in personnel as well as material.
At present R.100 requires com
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gas, may be expected.
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