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AIRWAYS AND
THE MEANING OF FLIGHT.
AVIATION.
AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF RECENT, EVENTS TO
HỒNG KONG.
[By E. BRABIER CREAGH.]*
Readers of this page, 'I imagine, Who is going to get this business, have fallen into the habit of turn-Shanghai or Hong Kong I am ing to it each week because it sorry to have to say that, as pre- deals with a subject of which the sent onditions indicate, it wil whole world is talking to-day. not be the latter. And yet, here Filled, as it is, with stray picees we are, with a fine aerodrome, of information about flying, with spacious water-landing facilities, reports of record breaking endea-practically the largest turnover of vours and scarcely "vealed eulogies shipping of any port in the world of this or that new machine it and allied, by blood and Govern makes one teel, somehow, that one ment and Ghance with the country is keeping abreast of development that produces the world's foremost This is all to the good, particularly aircraft.” where the reader is a youngster, in whose future aviation is likely to take an ever increasing part.
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But, as with more general affairs, nows without comment is only so many indigestible facts, so a loose knowledge of flying matters is not of much value unless served up with the sauce of criticism and the digestive pieces of constructive ideas. It is to supply these irrit ants that I have been asked to comment, from time to time, on the subject with which this page
deals.
And I address myself chiefly to the elders, to those in whose deei sions lie the future of our youth, of this Colony and, in the end, of our civilization. Whatever remarks
SAFE AVIATION IN BAD VISIBILITY.
MARVELS OF “BLIND-
FLYING."
"Every time I go up for a Right "I find there is something fresh to learn."The Duke of
Gloucester,
Hamblo, Hants.-The Duke.cf Gloucester had an experience in blind flying" when he opened Air Service Training, a veritable uni versity of this air, which has been catablished here, and was described recently in The Hong Kong Daily Pre
The purpose of the “blind flying” apparatus, which adds only 1h 10oz Since Sir Alan Cobham's visit to to the machine, is to enable a pilot Hong Kong, I do not believe that to keep a true course in fog to the Colony has seen a commercial recover from the involutary loss of machine capable of carrying more equilibrium which is inevitable than a teattie of cockroaches further when out of sight of fixed objects than Canton.
Fine Degree of Accuracy.
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BRITISH FLYING
NEWS.
NEW R.A.F. MACHINES.
London, June 16-The presenco in the Royal Air Force fleet of the. world's fastest single-engined and twin-engined day bombers lends peculiar interest to a controversy which is engaging much attention nowadays in the service. Should the day bomber have, one or more engines 1
FRENCH MARTYR TO SCIENCE.
X-RAY SPECIÁLIST'S DEATH.
Faris.Dr. Colostin Borot has diod at Nice, at the age of 76, a martyr to his prolonged and de- voted work na radiologist. For twenty-three years he was X-ray sproïnhiệt to the hospital at Le Havre, and it was in the coures of
his duties and researches in that' town that he contracted the malady known as X-ray)
cancer, which was eventually to prove fatal.
First his right hand and then his left had to be amputated. But the course of the discuse, was not to be arrested, and as a result of further operations Dr. Soret : lost both arms. His¬martyrdom, went back as far as 1914.
Dominant in day bomber design are certain essential requirements. The aeroplane must have a con- siderable range, ability to transport a heavy load and efficient powers. of defence against enemy machines Further, the day bombing aeroplane zaust provide a steady bombing platform. Which of the two types of machine "excels on these points?. The single-engined craft, superbly represented in the Royal Air Force
Knowing as he did that he was, by the Hawker Hart with its doomed, he nevertheless continued top speed of 180 miles an hour, wins hes studies and researches sam on speed and, given similar power, affliction he derived much data of radiologist. From his own terrible is able to cover longer distances without re-fuelling. On the other Brent value to medical science. hand the Sidestrand twin-en- Franco, rerognised the sublime Take another point of view. One It is so reliable and sensitive gined machine, perhaps because the heroism of this distinguishod medi- cal min by conferring on him in of the most obviously useful attri that the complete gamut of aero absence of an engine in the noge Butes of a flying machine is its butics can be excented, and that means there is less vibration in the 1923 the Cross of the Legion of capacity to travel over country that with a degree of accuracy not ex. fuselage has done notably well in Honour. lacks modern routes of communica-ceeded by the most brilliant pilot bomb-dropping trials, and seems to Flying Officer provide a steadier platform than tion-railways, roads or fast river lying by eight. services. In what parts of the Pope, the Duke's pilot to-day, re- the single-engined bomber. world do such places still existently flew from Hamble to Houns South America, Northern, «Çanada, low completely shut in, arriving Russin, Africa, Central and Eastern right over the aerodrome. Asia, Central Australia and those island continents that lie to the south of Hong Kong.
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SPEED OR GUNS?
Undoubtedly this adjunet would
Defence in a day bomber, whose save many lives lost through bad task is essentially to drop its dead- visibility conditions. It would (ly land to good effect and get back also enable pilots of such machines, home as speedily as possible, is secured either by speed or by I make are of my own thinking Look what the Dutch have done, as single section fighters to achieve | and I, here and now, absolve my Study the tracks of Imperial Air- their maximum performance of a
armament. In speed the" present editor of any responsibility.
ways. Follow the Pan-American climb through clouda, Route in South Amerien, other The instrument, the Reid Sigrist A day or two ago two young people have scen my point and turn indicator, is now in produc Hungarians flew from Newfound acted on it. For what are we liv tion for the R.A.F., and it is een land to the Gates of Asia Minor-ing here if it is not to push British ceded that Great Britain now has 11,500 miles over water and a trade by every means in our power? an unequalled apparatus which similar distance over land. Some.
will place her in the forefront in flying by instrument:"
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days previously, two Frenchmen When I was a small boy I heard
A
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day single-engined bomber has the heels of the twin-engined machine; distance any foreign single-seater tho." Hart," indeed, could out-
fighters yet in service; but it car-
There is long Roll of Honour of those devoted workers in X-Ray who, after suffering me- tilating operations, laid down their lives in the cause of medi- cal science. They include: Dr. Robert Knox, of Harley-
street):
Dr. Augustus Parsons of the
Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich;. Dr. R. G. Blackall, of the London
Hospital;
Bir Archibald Douglas Reid, of
St. Thoma's Hospital;
Mr. Pringle, of the Prince of
Wales Hospital: W
Dr. Alfred Caleb Taylor, of Pe-
terborough;
Dr. J. Hall-Edwarde, of Birming
ham.
Jasper Redfern, of the Man- chester Infirmary;
Dr. John Webster Lowson
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Spence, of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary; and
ries fewer guns than the bigger machine, and supporters of the twin-engined ideal maintain that fell not far short of crossing the Boer War Song which declared The Duke, who flew with a hood the armament of a bomber like the Europe and Asia in continu- that we had the men, the guns and drawn his head, as is the prac
"Sidestrand" and the degree of ous fight. Not long before that the money too. If we substitute tice in training, expressed warm freedom from surprise attack oh- a couple of Americans encircled aeroplanes for gune, that song holds praise of the apparatus, arid said tained in a machine which gives the globe in a week. What do good to-day but, if it is to mean he was sure it was a valuable aid the crew adequate vision over the these astounding epies mean to anything we must all sing to to training. He had a flight of entire zone of sky make it no wit
Governments. Hong Kong? This, that the day is gether,
Shipping more than ten minutes, during inferior to the single-engined bom in sight when, from any port on Companies, Merchant Houses and which he took over the controls ber in powers of defence." the coast of China, men or mer Financiers. And we must think and himself and went through many So the argument goes, the like- chandise will be able to reach the act for ourselves; no longer. is it manœuvres",oled, testing straight-liest perhaps being a decision that uttermost boundaries of the land possible for each individual to work course keeping without exterior both single and multi-engined day within 48 hours. I mean by this out his own problem and then refer | view.
bombers are needed in the equiped is astonishing. The traveller is that, if a town in Szechuan wants it to London to be OK'd.
ment of a modern air fleet. electric lighting, not only will engineers be able to go there and examine the needs of the place and get back to the coast within a week | sider but a hundred, not one branch in the front seat a lesson during
nery
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The people in England are fully occupied with their own troubles, they have not one Colony to con-
Flight-Lt Jenkins, the chief in structor of the school, took me up "under the hood," and gave me by head telephone from his place.
LARGEST PASSENGER
'PLANE.
Dr. Lionel Sells, of St. Thomas
Hospital.
able to converse as easily as if he were in a first-class coach on a rail- way train, and the gain in comfort and lack of fatigue will be obvious to all who go by air way.
or ten days, but the entire machi- but a dozen. This is our problem which at times I had control of
A now stage in commercial avia could be delivered there the and it is up to us to give them a the machine. As one who learned tion, is marked by the first service .70 ́MILES IN 17 MINUTES. week after, with perfect ease, if clear lead as to what we want, how to pilot twenty years ago I can flights of the world's largest available on the coast,
we are going to finance it and aestimate
The new Fury" single-seater? the amazing progress passenger-carrying landplane, the reasoned estimate of how much made in the instrumental side of Handley Page Type 4 biplane Royal Air Force squadron, has al- interceptor fighter with which one I make no idle claim in this.. The good it is going to do them. fying, and, be it said, in methods which, in its "Western" form de- new Handley Page 42 (she answers What fight means to Hong Kong of training such as this school has signed for use in Europe, has spaca illuminating proof of their im
roady been re-equipped; gave to the name of Hannibal-famous can best be judged in Hong Kong adopted from the R.A.F.
for no fewer than 38 passengers in mense abilities in speed and rate. for his elephant cavalry) will lift by British and Chinese alike, and Lord Amulree, Secretary of State
two large saloons. well over four tons of freight and it needs a general committee to for Air, Mr. F. Montague, the Un.
of climb yesterday, when three of has as large an interior as a consider it. What a Chinese sales-der-Secretary for Air, and many
"Hunnibal," the first of a fleet them flow from ther home station way, carriage, The entire machi-man, with & bunch of Lancashire's representativca of foreign Govern- nery for a gold mine in New Guinen latest patterns in his bag could dements and of the aircraft industry has recently been conveyed from in a month with a Moth or Avian were prezent at the opening... the const to the mine by pir in aenn best, be visualised here, but a much smaker craft. If one of the man on Wigan Pier can not see essential parts of the lighting set the water for the mud, and a mis GUIDES FÖR LOST PILOTS, breaks down, a replacement could sion from Manchester is not much to-day be brought out from Europe, better placed, and delivered, on the spot, in less than a fortnight, using established services except for the last lap,
CHEAP FLYING."
NEW LIGHT PLANE
Here is a thought, then, for this week's evenings, but I hope it obtrudes into the office.
AN AIR SIGN SYSTEM.
of eight of these giant machines at Tangmers, in Sussex, to a re ordered by Imperial Airways, has heareal of the RAF Display at profoundly impressed its pilots in Hendon aerodrome, nearly seventy the course of first voyages between miles away, in seventeen minutes. London and Paris, carrying freight In spite of a wind that was rather apróss the course than helpful, they averaged, therefore, about 240 miles. an hour, and the feat becomes still striking when the height Weighing with full load on boarde
reached during the fight-no less approximately 13 tons, the Type 4 than 7,000 feet-is taken into ac
only
QUIETER AIR TRAVEL.
more
A uniform national system of
is a biplane of which the upper count air signs for the guidance of avia
wings spread wider than the lower tors has been prepared by the Au wings, the greatest wing span be tomobile Asociation and approved ing 130 feet. Four Bristol “Jupi by the Air Ministry and the Royalter air-cooled engines, developing Aero Club, and is being room up to 2,300 horsepower, drive the mended by the Civil Aviation Seegreat craft at a cruising speed of tion of the Londen Chamber of about 105 miles an hour.. Commerce for adoption throughout
production in quantity is under taken the engines will be made in the Wolseley car engineering works at Birmingham
No official details are available In the London area daily flightsnt present, but the horse power of the ecuntry are being made by a civil acro the seven-gynder is about 250 and
[BY CHILTER]
plans, which is destined to make that or Dhe, singglinger diout
Sir Wiliam Morris's name as 300.
that
DEFENCE OF LONDON,
During yesterday's rehearsal the Fury" fight climbed to more than 3,000 feet in ninety seconds.
Actually these machines are tested to attain a height of 20,000 feet in Reduction of noise heard in the nine minutes while still maintain
The system of primarily dealer sideration in design. The engines an hour; performance of this joind
is design-Passenger cabins was a first con- ing a forward speed famous in the air na on land. Their performance in aeroplanes course and it is recommended and airscrews are located quits means that they are better fitted away from the passenger quarters, than any of their predecessors for Each sign should give the name an arrangement possible largely be the difficult task of intercepting Its power unit is a seven-cylin. has been so fine that an official an der radial engine, made in Coven-nouncement may be expected shert iry. It is one of two, models, both Ly of the manufacture of a new of a place easily recognisable on à cause of the sheer size of the enemy raiders on the way to attack machine, and the stout walle are Londeh, work that may involve map. light pinde, Price and other do, of which have been splendidly suc
we are a minister and a 33 (mida in baguhin ateriat The diminution of zo se height of two or three miles
To distinguish it from other packed with sound-deadening mannsecut from the aerodrome to cessful on the test bench. The other not yet been settled, but reports in signs it should be provided by model le a nino-cylinder:
nder radial. Coventry, Binaligham ar Lon 20ft arrow pointing true north, one of the chief disadvantages of ing the entry and bringing
den indicate a deunion which will Two experimental engines have mean the fost real step towards with the letter N in the middle of aeroplans travel in the past, becur combat, all within the
(Continued on next Column.); fifteen minutes. bean made in Coventy, but when cheap dying