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AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.
BRITISH FLYING
NEWS.
ANOTHER
AIR" HOLIDAY.
LONDON, May 10.
On this same date, Mays. 14,
Kingsford Smith reached Sydney with the second experimental mail, which he had taken over from tho
'British pilot' whom he had met at Akyab. To-day the second return mail is scheduled to leave Port
Darwin,
ONE-MAN R.A.F. MACHINE.
FOR BAYARDS OF THE AIR.
The complot re-equipment of a Royal Air Force squadron station- ́ed at an aerodromo near the south
BRITAIN'S AIRSHIP
POLICY.
CAREFUL EXPERIMENTS WITH R.100.
ENGLAND IN 1,000 YEARS
(Continued from Page 1.):
in which every spark of initiative, every noble aspiration, every desire for freedom, have been extinguish- ed by ruthless elimination.
The Government decision on fu turo airship policy follow expected linea A middle course is adopted
We might then have a polity between continuation of the British distantly approaching the insect airship experiment on a big scale type, except that the extremo dif- ferentiation of the bees, ants and and closing it down completely termites could not be imitated in R. 100, still in the hangar at Car-Four species. It is not quite impos- dington, where she has remained sible
The approach of the Whitsun The successful conclusion of these const, with "Fury single water ever since her record flight to"But whereas religion, privato first fights is followed speedily by fighting aeroplanes marks an im. Canada and back last year, is to ownership, and the family are in.
twos.
..
break at the end of this week has seen the usual holiday
oday "liveli ness" among flying Club members and owner pilota Many are plan- ning to set out on aerial jaunts to the continent of Europe, travel. ling in small fleeta or by ones and Favourite localities like the
south of France attract many air holiday makers; the aeroplane, bringing Monte Carlo, Nice, Can- nes, and the like within a single day's journey of London, makes a brief visit possible and unhurried. Others will be flying to Scotland, Ireland or down into the west country; even in a comparatively small country like Britain the acroplane saves much time and. trouble.
The coming of the light 'plane has indeed enlarged astonishingly
maker.
the effective range of the holiday It is a commonplace nowadays to hear of people who have a fortnight's holiday setting off for 'Égypt or for a tour of three thousand miles through Europe People with more time set off nonchalantly for Asia and East Africa; the faunt to Aus- tralia is not unknown' and is
certain to become a usual event, especially when organisation of a through air line assures the private flyer of ground help and, frequent ly, company in the air over the more difficult sections of the route.
24
THE FIRST. AUSTRALIA
MAIL.
?
the
portant stage in the progress to-
defence Twelve of the fastest war wards perfection of London's air
There will be no longer or, 'planes yet placed in service any where in the world, with adequated simply as a flying laboratory present are very far from favour spectacular flights. R.100 will be
be re-conditioned and used for restitutions ingrained in human no- ture for hudrods of generations, it search and the careful investigation will probably be impossible to of unsolved problems:
eradicate them."
the announcement of appreciable acceleration in the regular services to India and Central Africa
reached with Agreements Italian and Greek Government and the introduction of larger and
numbers in
provide a reservo faster flying boats on the Mediter
spearhead to the defence organisa- ranean sections of the air lines tion keeper and
effective than now bring India within little more before. No service aircraft built than five days of London, and Kenya within six days and a few parea with them in speed, rate of outsido Great Britain 'nearly com-
hours. Later in the year the climb and fighting efficiency; to African service will be extended that extent the Londoner is so much to Cape Town, a total distance the safer from the attacks of from London of 8,000 miles which
possible hostile air raiders." - will be covered at first in eleven days and, after a few months of operation, in nine.
THE ROYAL AIR FORCE
DISPLAY.
Consider this twentieth-century weapon of defence. It is a grace ful, small biplane, clean
and
13
Leaping Into New World,
"Besides this, the conditions at
and training ship, in which airing a stereotyped, unprogressive
civilisation. We are leaping into- ship personnel can build up' flying
a new world made by ourselves. experience and the research work This violently accelerated tempe ers" study the various difficult as requires continuous readjustorent,
pects of lighter-thaocomotion.increased inventivenous, unceasing.
at Car
criticism of ourselves and our in- The Royal Airship
stitutions. Methods of improving dington, carrying on with a staff the stock, far less slow and cum much reduced from the numbers brous than random natural sette-
R.101tion, are now open to us."!"
employed there before the
disaster, will not be lost to the nation should the next few years indicate that airship travel is safe
and practicable,
As to the danger of another. great war ending cur present civi civilised nations shrink in bor lisation, the Dean asked: "Even
rer from such appalling cirmes (the Germany and the United States use of 'devilish compounda" and now share the more spectacular side other inventions to exterminate a of airship development. In both to think that Russia would stick.
rival nation), have we any reason countries great vessels, the Ameri.at anything? It looks like a race
to
struc
A
ean one even larger than the R.100 between common sense and over-
whelming, catastrophe. or the R.101, are nearly
#Exhaustion some of the take the air. Much in
earth's resources may come within ture of both these new ships is our period. Another danger, much derived from the structures of the more insidious; all civilisations.
lovely of line. The streamlined nose carries within it a super- charged engine from which power Preparations are going forward is obtained sufficient to drive the rapidly for the greatest one-day acroplane at a speed of no less than show in the world, the annual 214 miles an hour, oven with full Royal Air Force Display at Hendop load on board, and to take it to aerodrome, which will be held this a height of 20,000 feet, or nearly year on June 27. Men will soon four miles above the earth, in nine be working busily on the grand minutes. One, man, armed with stands and enclosure space, and at machine-guns and provided with
two British chips, admittedly, much many service stations in all parts elaborate oxygen-breathing appa-
the strongest big airships yet. built of the country, formations of fight
in any country. Now it is the turn ratus for his ascents into the rare of the British experts to watch the ing and bombing acroplanes are fied" air of the great heights, confirst flights of ginnt dirigibles rehearsing the spectacular and im trola this winged projectile. He pressive manoeuvres that make the is the modern counterpart of the Display to outstanding aerial event armoured knight of old, backed by of the year.
a tradition of single combat no less glorious than Roland's or Bayard's, equipped at all points to do battle with the invader.
This year's Display, the twelth of the serica, promises at least to equal the best of its predecessors. In some ways it will certainly excel them; for example, the new
"
Interception.
"
that we knew areations
что
dysgenic. They are busily revers- ing the process of natural selec tion
"Let us recognise clearly that the battle which science now has to
fight is not with religion Meanwhile, work will proceed
superstition. It is a war between steadily here, in order that, if science and the irrational forces events. trend that way, Great which make for social degeneracy
sealo experiment interrupted by the Britain may take up again the full and disintegration.
loss of R101.
"Christianity has much in com- mon with Eugonics. It aims at aaving the soul-the man himself. Religion can act as the leaven of
But, I repeat that a degenerating scciety cannot hope much from its religion. Its religion will itsolf bo degenerate,"
to seek the
the enemy, vendhing an as the operational height miles above the The Hawker "Fury" belongs to earth in a few minutes, there to the type of war machine called the patrol the particular three-dimen
interceptor fighter." The name sional space allotted to them before exactly indicates its function-to they left the ground. intercept the raider between Lon don and the coast, on bis inward
journey if possible, on the return'
journey certainly to exact toll for
Semi-Automatic Assembly, The first aquadron selected to receive the "Fury" biplanes ie No. 43, stationed at Tangmere,
near the ancient city of Chichester,
ISLAND TITHE WAR.
BAILIFF'S VICTORY AFTER: TWO YEARS.
May 14, 1931, is a date that is certain af remembrance in the history of Britain civil aviation. service aircraft now replacing ear- At 2.28 p.m.-two minutes before] lier, aeroplanes in many squadrons. schedule cime-the first air mail will demonstrate & speed and rate from Australia reached the London of climb never yet seen at the Dis Air Station at Croydon, compris plays, except in the performance of ing some 20,000 letters which left one or two special craft included in Sydney on April 24 and Port the parade of new and experimental Darwin, in the Northern Ter-types. Squadron equipped with ritories, three days later. From the world's fastest service day is assault on the capital. This Supply of all the machines requir. Sydney through to London the bombers and single-seater fighters work implies extreme speed, which, ed was completed by the makers For two years residents in the in ter days, the production district of Canvey Island (Essex) allied with good tactics and an machines ordered by the Air known as Oyster Fleet have dodged entire journey occupied 20 days are keen to show their paces; the efficient information service, will Ministry being built at the works the payment of tithes, but at last Surface transport takes at least high degree of flying skill and per-bring the raiders to combat a high in quick time. Constructed of the officials responsible for their 34 days and the Imperial Airways formanço attained in a few workste
rate of climb and ease and rapidity metal, with fabric covering to collection have scored. experts declare that immediately a by the service pilots with their new of manquere. The interception Fury" is assembled easily and Court-ordered that distriant ehould winge, tail unit and fusciage, the Two years ago Southend County regular servies were begun the machines was sufficiently obvious in time could be cut to 11 or 18 days the film, recently taken, of forma-quons must work in split swiftly, the wing space, for ex be issued on the occupiers of 100 Even this lapse of time is too tion flying by the Hawker "Harts" ds. From the const to London ample, being put together by semi acres of land. Since then the
is sixty miles,
automatio machinery. Stainless bailiff's have paid scores of visits, much, according to those who of No. 12. (Bombing) Squadron the best of the present day bombers su possibilities of corrosion, where kept for them and doors and steel is used extensively, eliminat but always careful watch has been favour réparating, mails from pas. And there are other squadron confi-
could cover in little more than this mteal cannot be employed a windows, safely closed on sach sengers and sending the mails dent they can do at least as well.
twenty
minutes In that brief nickel-chromium material is sub casion. across the world relave of Included in the programme are
stituted that possesses an inhérent "We refuse to pay the demands
distanco which.
one Oyster Fleet bun- galow dweller told Doily Nail reporter because when we went. into occupation of our houses The power is derived from nothing was mentioned about its
being payable."
ling.
4
special fast mailplanes, which, the simultaneous parachute drop by period of time the entire machinery high degree of resistance to corro of the Queen Anne Bounty Titho
of defence has to be thrown into sion and is further protected by Committon, would travel day and night and a number of
number of airmen, individual bring Sydney within 14 days of and flight acrobatics, the air drill Bear. Reports received from the a covering of cadmium plating and London. The distance from Sydney by squadron, and the attack on a network of listening and observa cellulose enamel or of stove enamel- is 13,500 miles along the air route, hostile buso that all lovers of the tion posts around the capital must and the first homeward mail kopt Display know well, but each this sent to leadquarters and supercharged Rolls-Royce Res to time-table all through the year possessing aspects of novelty thenes on to the supreme command, trel" liquid-cooled unit maintain. But now the furniture of Mr. flight. Air Commodors Kingsford in den and detail. Together with Orders from the commander of the ing an output of about 460 horse Arthur Grovca, a retired postal power up to heights of many thou official, has been seized, and he bas Smith took it in an "Avro Ten the parade of new and experie defending squadrons in a few experimental machine of the type beds and a box or two to tit on,
and feet. In official trials the been left with only a couple of monoplane as far as Akyab intal aeroplance, and the fly-past
minutes, Bearchlight and anti-air attained 214 miles an hour Minor His goods will be sold by auction Burma, where it was transhipped of flying-boats, the items in the Dis-
craft batt
-by-appriend refuement in the production of aim to satisfy the warranty to a three-motored "Hércules," play give in one afternoon a, com- biplano forthe journej join prehensive glimpse of progress in the regular India mail service at the work, training and equipment Karachi
of the Force.
defence operations must reach the
X
of the approaching raiders. From craft have appreciably increased £9s being involved.
both meed and rate of climb. In "A county court official said: “Mr... the servico aerodromes the single spite of the high maximum speed, Groves is suffering because
planes must-risca-swiftly "the"""Fury" lands at a speed | been leg watchful than his neigh (Continued on next Column.) which is below the average.
bour