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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19,
AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.
SHANGHAI" IS AIR-MINDED!
SOME FACTS FOR SELF-COMPLACENT PEOPLE
IN HONG KONG.
"AERONAUTICAL OPPORTUNITIES
IN CHINA.
[BY E. B. BRASIER CREAGH.]
Where Airways Foy.......
Let us examine the rest of the
It is an unfortunate thing that munications and her great dis our local Flying Club should be intances. This is so, but Shanghai its present position. And it is not superimposes her air routes on inappropriate that Hong Kong existing land and water routes and people should consider at this time so she misses the point, searching the views held by Shanghailandera, immediate profits. on aeronautical matters. "
Ihave spoken-with-English, French, German and American air- maa, even a certain Welshman, and world. London to Paris, New York I find among them all at Intor to Chicago-the most used air tionalism" which is of the air of routes to-day-are the worst pay. Shanghai. It is expressed in every ing because they compete directly, walk of life, editors, by business with surface transport, have, tre houses and by the women on the mendous demands made on them dance floors. It can be seen in and must keep their rates low. "On the New Luna Park where captive the other hand, Pan-American Air- "seaplanes" awing eternally round ways, joining North and South their illuminated pillar. Beyond America and perhaps the longest and above all their homeside con-air-route in the world, pays its way nections" and national sympathies and it will not be long before the there is this mutual expression of Imperial "Airways route through co-operation and purpose. John the Central Africa, will show surplus of Englishmat and Sam from the income over outgoings. If there States may underent each other all were not the French and Dutch day, but at night, or when the competition, the Imperial Airways' pinch, comes, they think as
ong Eastern Route would have paid ere wes, and so do Louis, Nikohito, Juan and Ivan.
Where Unity Lies.
w. Why is this? Because the air is of no advantage if it only puts an hour or two of a day's
1931
A RAY ROAD FOR AIRCRAFT.
GUIDED FLIGHT OF 600/ MILES.
BY AN MIR CORRES
BRITISH FLYING NEWS.
THE SCHNEIDER TROPHY:
NOW AND SIX YEARS AGO.
AERO-ENGINES AND MISS
ENGLAND II.
LONDON'S FLYING BUSMEN.
1.
WOMEN CAST EYES ON ATLANTIC.
FOUR AMERICANS PREPAR- ING FOR OCLAN FLIGHTS.
New York, Aug. 10-It was re- vented, here to-dag that Miss Elinor- Smith, one of Amerien's most noted aviatrixes who recently est ablished new altitude records for women, has been preparing secret. ly to attempt a non-stop flight from Harbour Grace, Newfound- land, to Paris.
Less than eight years ago ali American pilot, Lieutenant Ritten- Manchester, July 17-An in-house, won the contest for the visible ray road," along which Schneider Trophy, the supreme in
With Miss Smith several other aeroplanes and airships can be ternational speed air event, at aaviatrixes are proparing to make guided safely at any altitude, is average speed or 177.38 miles an the Intest invention” which vashour. Before the next contest, in tested hore to-das
1925, there were many ardent dis
It promises to revolutionise avia-cutaions about, speeds likely to be tion by making the skies safe even attained. Opinions were sharply divided about the possibility of through cloud, bad visibility, or
getting much improvement and more than one British aeronautical
fog
I flew to Bristol and back, some
nonatop fights across the Atlantic ocean. Miss Laura Ingalls is com picting her plans and Miss Ruth Nichols, recovered from recent in jurice, is also anxious to reattempt her trans-Atlantic flight which was interrupted last month when hez plane racked up at St. Johns, Newfoundland, after successful Bight from New York
Mrs. Geraldine Lofreds, wife of a photographer of Buffalo, New York, has obtained the use of the monoplane Liberty,⠀ Moss, Helgar Holrtin and Otte Hillig recently few from America to Copenhagen, and she will
300 miles, to-day, along this unseen journalist will have a vivid recal beam with the inventor. Mr. Rlection of an expert who laid it down without qualification that the Galleti, an Italian, now associated with a well-known Lancashire on limit of speed over n circuit was gineering firm, in an air-taxi pro somewhere in the neighbourhood of
220 m.p.h. vided by Northern Air Lines Ltd.
That was six years ago. To-day The beam was transmitted from tower on the roof of Ferranti's the world's speed record stands at Hollinwood works, and before the 357.7 miles an hour and a British pilot in the aeroplane was a wood-souplane won the last Schneider tempt a nonstop flight to Rome, an box wherein lay part of the contest at 328.83 m.p.h. But the secret-the other part was in the glimpse back lends additional in- tower n'few miles away,
torest to the performance achieved in official tests by Fairey "Firefly" single-seater fighters intended for Belgian air regiments. Carrying full military load, these graceful
"
Cheep, Cheap" In Clouds,
Through head-'phonce could be heard a "cheep, cheep," which in-
11
went with
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
TCMB FOUND BY MR,
HOWARD CARTER.
A message has been received in
journoy, It is too uncomfortable dicated that the beam had been biplanes attained a maximum Rome from Alexandria to the effec Now an unity like this does not and novel to most people, its coats found. The 'plane climbed 4,000ft velocity in level flight of 223 miles that Mr. Howard Carter has suc
are high and luggage must be left and through the clouds occur unless there is an equal and behind. But where it turns weeks that "cheep, cheep," like a bird tice trend close on record or of the tomb of Alexander the an hour. Thus does everyday prae-seeded in identifying there the site. opposite unity from which it may and months into hours, why, all draw power and the obvious cause other considerations fall by the of their gathering of the class is
boatu. united China. The stronger Chino shows herself in opposition, the closer do the units in Shanghai combine. The longer Chins can be
For China,
greoting the dayn, “
stunt" performance, a and
now. Grast, which he places where the Coming back along the same adays British aircraft constructors Pompey column stood. Mr. Carter "highway" at 12,000ft ¿ver the
are turning out in largo batches is confident that the tomb has not Severnthe beam was roughly muca service aircraft any one of which been violated, held divided so long shall the inter might, theoretically," be from Hai-sured to be metres wide or less could have outstripped all come!
Mr. Howard -Carter, the co-dis- national city retain her powers of Island to Kalgan 1 Think what Then down to 1,800ft, further on petition in the Schneider Trophy coverer with the late Lord Carnar
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quicker cohesion. This elementary principle is well-known by both sides, and its influence on aviation
The main occupation of all these airmen in Shanghai is to sell machides to the various leaders of
The most paying line in Chine
When the beans is commercially
the saving in cost of these complied, night flying, fog dying, and
modities, so great, that it would pay
to take them by air. Do you know long-distanes flying will
that Hankow never sees bananas 1 new
importance. With
anh1m
such
That is the principle which Shang-guide an Atlantic air service be hai has missed. And Shanghai
thinks of Hong Kong as out of the comnes a practicable proposition."
content of only six years back.
KAYE DON'S AERO
ENGINES.
Kaye Don's new water record in "Miss England 11.," an average of 110 miles an hour over the speed
von of the tomb of Tutankhamon,
has been engaged since last Octo- ber in efforts to iocate the tomb of
Alexander the Great, who died in
Babylon in 323 B.C., and is reput ed to have been buried in Alex andria in a golden coffin.
getting together to form a flying:
up as strong as at the source, with course on Lake Garda, is even more club... Fifteen hundred of them,
out of 27,000 employees of the London General Omuibus Company,
China so that each shall maintain n state of rebellion and prevent unification. China's reply is to in-picture. She encourages China to If 140 miles from the transmit- dues foreign aviators to spend their set up what amounts to a Taxi serter, to-day signals could be picked vica when, what is required is o time and money teaching China the use of the air by offering them bus route, I blame Shanghai for
boing selfish, for choosing to neglect the use of only one valve, what a triumph for British aero engines worthless contracts and monopolies."
Aviation, up bere, is a thing of Hong Kong, and for wilfully allow could not be done by a multi-valve that for the boat itself. Three the wilds, of werk hastily built run the Chinese to believe that the receiver in Australia'
months nau, on the river Paran have enrolled as Blying members and ways following blindly the age-old world does not want her co-opera-
near Buenos Aires, he set the foot-tracks of another dimension;tion but only to utilize her to its
the club's first machine has begun. world's record at 103.49 miles as instructional work at Broxbourne, Extend they may, if the under-own ends. growth of bad management and
nothing to sell but good fellowship, hour, though hampered by the beat an aerodrome near London chosen squeeze does not wipe them out of
nothing to ask but permission to and the rough and awollen waters to be the north-east contre of the existence, merely becuase they serve the first, great rush" of the
The sooner we, in Hong Kong,
fy their own machines. For ten of the river. A little later on Cour new organisation. Some time to pulsing renascapes of China. But assume the initiative and offer years this devoted group has identi-modore Gar Wood, the American wards the end of this month the new club will hold an official open they do not pay. They are Ching her share in the world's air fed itself with Chinese aspirations, speed-boat racer, got withining meeting, when it is hoped that commercial lines planned to act as traffic, the sooner will we win her meddled in no ones affairs and decimal point of Koye Don's at least one club trained member arteries for the new, industrial era sympathy and give her the con maintained that fine spirit for figures, and it was decided to at into which China is slowly catering, dedice in her own abilities of which
not
Hong Kong Should Take the Initiative.
will be able to fly solo.
Finance of the organisation, Finance naturally the chief dificulty, was decided after careful examination Since the boat arrived back in of costs on the basis of a subscrip
there is no plan, no foresight about the shows such a lack today. The which wartime pilots were justly tempt to set a higher record in them. As happened in the United whole of China's so-called inferior famed. And now comes the hope. cooler waters. States, they are the first aimless ity complex is, I believe, a very There has been made quite recent wanderings of an organic growth natural hesitancy to accept, from intended by the gardener: (Com- one self-styled friend, what the is a suggestion by leading Chincas Europe certain alterations have tion of sixpence a week from all mon Sense" (mest of them) to be sure, from past experience, will be flyers, elderly men who have pas been made to the cooling systems of members and flying charges of five shillings an hour. The moderate offered her cheaper, by another. ifed through the fire of National Re the two Rolls-Royce racing aero fear should enable the club to run 'clipped offe
sho waits long enough. It is idio generation, that a true Internation engines, each developing approat least two neroplanes and to A Petty Understanding. tio of these airmen to go on sal Flying Club be formed at Shangximately 2,000 h.p., and to the secure the services of an instructor, The internationalism, therefore,.
they do, without thought, without
a ground engineer, nerodrome 807 of Shanghal I see a petty, policy, and with little chance of ally stipulated, but our old-timers cooler waters of the Italian lake hai. Chines management is patur driving mechanism. Now on the
comboadation and a club house. localised, understanding-between in eventual gain. They must already have been invited to co-operate the boat has showin speed more the leading spirit of the busmen'a Driver Godwin, of East Ham, is dividuals each of whom is striving know this for, I am assured, the both in committee and in member nearly representative of its design club. He initiated interest some
to get as much as possible out of China, seeking rights, monopolies, personal gain and combining only whon mutual danger looms ahead. I see little or none of 60-operative
are on the verge of bank-ships, and they accept
Here is the spirit of New Chins,
air-lines
ruptcy,
An International Flying Dlub. forging ahead and clasping hands, On the other side there is
as it always will, if let alone, with modern State nor of general desire bright ray High up in the Shang the unpretentious went. Would it to allow her free choice of means hai Bank Building is contred anot be graceful gesture for our
THE HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE effort to build up Chins as
26, Queen's Road Central.
Stubbs, Road.
Tel. 24759.
Tel 27778.
or method. Shanghai fecle that small group of enthusiasts-old fly. Hong Kong Chub to sent North a aviation is essential to China, being men of all nations. They have message
ment – and
.
osase of her lack of other fast com (Continued on next Oolumn.)
goodw
1.
ed performance, though there is time ago by arranging for parties Tittle doubt that it can move con of husmen to take joy-rides in a big siderably faster still and further air liner and for a few of them runs over the speed course are being to have trial instructional fights. talked about. A
In a few years": time he may be regarded as the founder of one of the most important movementa private figing......... Whers, the "bai London busmen have taken the drivers and conductors have led, lead among. British working 4 men in other working men will sure
(Continued on, nez; Column.). follow
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