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AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.
SOME REMINISCENCES OF THE EARLY DAYS.
A 1909 PLANE AND A PUBLIC SCHOOL
·CRICKET MATCH,
HOW AVIATION DEVELOPED DURING THE WAR.
BRASIER CREAGH 1
In 1900, when aeronautica was Darving
über, 1015,
there took to the air the first twin
still a mixture of sport and scienti. do research, I was at school and it engined bomb was in that year that I first saw an aeroplane, citaming through the sky above the cricket field. An im. portant match, against. Uppingham, was in progress but it ceased com pletely for the several minutes that it took the machine to get out of night. I remember my house, master, who was sitting on the window-ledge of the Pavilion, mak ing the remark, "Silly ass, he'll break his neck one of these fine daya.”
The master, then proceeded to
lean, further and further, out of the window until he overbalanced and, in falling, sprained his bowl ing wrist. The airman, I afterward lentat, was the present Colonel the Master of Sempill.
• Handley Page, Ltd.
I take this as a good point from which to run quickly, through a description of the growth of British commercial aviation. In that year, on June 17, to be exact, possibly the same day as that match, for all
I know, was incorporated the first British company, Messrs. Handley Page, Ltd, devoted solely to the manufacture of aircraft.
machine of
fly
extraordinary stability, able to with one engine cut out, and cap able of partying over to bombs. Actually, some parts of this machine were armour plated This type of machine, with minor alterations made from time to time, remained the chief offensive weapon of both Navy and Army until the creation of the Independent Air Force which took place, if I remem ber aright, at the closs of 1917,
FASTER LONDON- PARIS AIR JOURNEY,
"NEW AIRWAY, TERMINUS
AT VICTORIA.
On July 27. Imperial Airways reduced the time on the London Paris air fourney by 20 minutes when the London terminus of the Company was removed from Charlos Street, Lower Ragent Street, to fie new Airway Terminus at Victoria, which is exactly opposite the Royal waiting room and entrance to the continental departure platforms of the Southern Railway.
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port by road from Victoria, and the Easier access to the Croydon air-
employment by Imperial Airways of the now-engined Handley Page airliners, which are the fastest, well as the largest and inost luxurious, aircraft on the Loaded- Paris route, will reduce the intal door-to-door time between the two capitals to only 3 hours 40 minutes this including road connections between the airports and the cities as well as the serial journey be tween Croydon to Le Bourget
The establishment of this London Early in this year, one of these machines few from England to way terminus at Victoria will ensure for continental passengers, Mudros, the Aegean base of the whether they go by air, or by boat Royal Flying Corps operating in and train, a common and most con- Greece and Asia Minor, and from venient departure and arrival point thence carried out raids on Con-in fact, an airway Victoria ad stantinople and other Turkish and joining the railway Victoria. Taxi- Bulgarina towns, These flights cabs with air passengers will up.. averaged well over four hundred proach Victoria Station exactly as miles, or nearly six hours' contint-if taking travellers for the hoat ous. travel.
England to Mudros,
A Great Advance,
train.
SIX AND A HALF MILES A MINUTE.
OUR AIR BULLET" FOR SCHNEIDER RACE.
GUARDED HANGAR.
A seaphne capable of a apead approaching 400 miles an hour wi}" soon be moved from works on Southampton Water to a closely guarded hangar.
THE FIVE YEAR
PLAN
(Continued from Page: 1.)
On the other hand, ovary Com- munist believes in the world zevolu- tion, but they believe that will: fol- low from Russia's example, but not by militarist intervention.
· Bad Work.
Will the Fire Pears Plan ucceed?" he asked.
My impression is that quantita- Squadron Leader Orlohar, skiptively it is going to succeed, that per of the British High Speed collectivisation will be socuaplish- Flight, which is in training at ed more or less up to time. Quality Calahot for the Schneider Trophy is quite a different question, race on September 12, will take ovar this seaplano, the second now Supermarina $ 6, spesially built for the event, next week.
The finishing touches will be given this 61-mile--minute bul. lot” at the Vickers works. Wools tou, Southampton, during the week end.
Before it leaves the works, fota. tion tests must be carried out and
the Roils-Royce engines run up 30-
veral times,......
Costing £500,000 meses de The When these are satisfactorily completed, the machine will be towed down Southampton Water to the guarded hangar,
If British hopes of winning are fulalled, this year's race is likely to be last contest of its kind, prin cipally because of the great ex pense involved.
In constructing new machines and carrying out preliminary training, it is estimated that the botal cost of this year's race will be £300,000 The value of the Schneider Trophy is £200.
217 M68.
Great Britain, France, and Italy are och entering three machinca. The course will be a triangular one over the Salent. This will have to be traversed arvon, times, making the total length 217.47 miles
In its provision of large, luxuri- ously-appointed booking offices. By may 1916 another great ad- waiting-rooms, lounges, and bufet, vance had been achieved in the the new Airway Terminus offers construction of a four-engined every comfort and convenience which beraber with useful and of experience can suggest, the aim Italy's advanco guard will arrive tons and capable of continuous being to ensure that the speed of at Calshot shortly with three train flight round" the clock or 1,200 the airway ahall be associated, at
+
ing machines. The main
You hear conflicting atories that by apooding up development to such a passionate degree there must be a lot of bad work You cannot oussads" of
tako hundreds and Moujiks and put them into mass production factorise, led by half- trained Communists from school and universitics, and not mind, thum smashing up a large proportion of machined
₹ The percentage of breakages and insfiviency is very high. The more dimoult problem still is technical direction, Technicians
barely exist. It is going to take” time to change the inert Russian into a really competent executive of that kind.
Regarding the human side the ... Communists say we in England have warped and distorted human nature by encouraging an excess of in- dividualism, Thoy any of you must live in a house with a garden
round the house and a wall round
the garden. They add, it is much more natural to live communally as is shown in childhood, and I think there is some truth in that, but whether a community will stand living with lack of privacy and with
restrictions on
aspects of in dividuality I take leave to doubt
Cannot Go Back.
Taking all
Athese things info account, I think it is obvious, and I never found any European re
In those days there existed no miles. Served by a crew of six, every stage," with that luxury ex- the Ithi A,& Party and; sident in Russia who disagreed, that'
knowledge of the fundamental prin- ciples of flight, and the whole buai aces of flying remained in the bands of a few pioneers whose methods consisted mostly of trial and error, the latter alternative resulting, more frequently than not, in the writing off," of both pilot and machine. The imperfections of the internal combustion engine of that period were such that most of the experimental work in now forms of wings, bracing, fuselage structure and so on was conducted with gliders, and, had this not been so, our losses of brave and brilliant aeronauts such as Cody would have been much heavier than, fortunate ly, was the case.
Early Days of the War.
they could carry, in addition to pocted by modern travellers their defensive armament of machine-guns, no less than thirty 250h, bombs the weight of ty grown-up people!
As an example of the true value
STUDENTS' FARES BY AIR.
of a crash-most people still think EQUAL TO THIRD CLASS RAIL of aeroplanes ar manufactured solely for this coa piece of aero-
Borlin, August 7-In order to batics--the first machine of this interest Young Germany in aviation type was completely broken up the Deutsche Luft Hansk has x- during its trials. Nevertheless, tended facilities to students who are over two hundred of them were not in a financial position to pay. ordered for the air service and their the ordinary costs of air travel by" magnificent air-worthiness is de which a trip in an aeroplane will monstrated by the folowing story cost them no more than a third class
railway fare for the same distance,
#
Students will have the option of places which remain unsold after ordinary air passengers have been
told by one of the delivery pilots. Whilst ferrying a machine from Belfast to Folkestone he suspected his mechanic of neglecting the petrol guage and left the controls accommodated. All the student has
At the commencement of the war, I recollect seeing in the air, in one aftersoon, three out of the half to investigate. Bienspicion to do is to obtain a form at one of dozen machines which the British proved correct, and be found the the Luft Hansa offices or at his Expeditionary Force took to entire crew asleep! He then, de-school or university and fill it in. France; their aggressive capabili liberately, made a complete inspec ties consisted of one revolver each, framk carried by the pilots. This was as far as flying had got.
:
Russia cannot go back. It is going
to evolve forward, but wher
is going to get to nobody knows,
not even the Communists them-
elves
seaplanes to be used in the race reached Calshot on August 20.
The turning points of the course will be: The western pylon on the Ryde Middle, the southern They will die in the last ditch. pylon of St. Helena Point, and rather than return to a system the eastern pyton on the foreshore based on private property. of the eastern side of Chichester Harbour.
AMERICAN FLYING
FORTRESS.
GREAT NEW AIRSHIP,
“Inroads into Communism, how- over, are already being made to day. They differentiate in wagen according to skill, some receiving four
For five times as much as others."
They allowed certain accumula- tions in the banks and you could lend money to the State at six or, Feight per cent, but by inflation of values they always took part of there
New York, Ang. 7.-The great new American airship known as your savings back again
the flying fortress" will be form, was no great inducement to save. ally christened the Akron to-mar- raw by Mrs. Hoover, the wife of the President Paradoxically, ▸ fight of white doves about the dirigible's bow will signalise the event.
" It is in some ways the moit gigantic and, herafe, experiment ever tried in human history," Some of its underlying ideas are going to transform the whole world, be “The notion that private pro- The monster "dreadnought of perty should function for every the air has a gas capacity of body and not merely for those who own it is in my view a winning KAYE DON'S TRIBUTE TO 6,500,000 cubic feet, compared with
the 8,000,000 of the R 100 and the iden. I think somehow or other we DROWNED ACE..
2,800,000 of the Los Angeles. A
have got to restrict the chaos of The designers declare that it
competitive economic life and in- will be practically immune from troduce a considerable measure of seroplane attack owing to its abil-state planning, but how far yon Kity to rise 2,000 feet in a minute. can do that without restricting the Gardonne, Lake, Garda, Angust.
waka mpapai pada while making a forward speed of rights of private property is
FLOWERS ON A LAKE.
tion of the machine,, lasting for over four minutes, hefore returning It is interesting to recall that, to the ocntrols, and no mishap, not even a variation from the compass just before the war, the difficulties. of finding suitable serodromes, free course, had occurred. In this or comparatively so from nearby machine, even if both engines on features of the land which would one side of the fuselage had failed,
used the stability was not impaired, nor any The deep regard of one spredt 80 miles an hour. The fastest matter for consideration. cause air pockets had
"ace, for another was shown in greatest development to take pince strain Imposed on the pilot. There wer
the gesture Mr. Kaye Dou made to
Made among seaplanes which could not type was brought into being special-
pursuit seroplane, it is said, can-
“How can the good in the * not cimb as quickly as that. The Russian experiment be reconciled Akron's rising speed is said to be with liberty. I am not afraid that
Italian Schneider Cup pilot, Flight pollers are mounted on swivels and
only find taxling spate in all direa for long distance bombing and day in honouring the memory of the due to the fact that its eight pre free men will refrain from taking
was drowned on Lake Garda en Monday.
upward.
I do not think there will be a second Russian revolution."
Continued on Baga B.).
tions. when on the water but were.
a flight of threa were in readiness,
over what is good when they wo Ve bunk Ng Mag Captain Monti, who crashed and can be adjusted to drive the ship it is good, l able to carry heavier loads, and during the signing of the amnistice,
An important feature of therefore stronger engines, than the to carry the war to Berlin if there
of the dirigible is what is popularly des inefficient Jandiagaquipment of was ay hanky Panky. Both as a
Mr. Kaya Donje in ngland pre-cribed as the wasps pest” —a'kind a ohid, and in popular modern land 'planes rendered possible, It was natural, also that the Ad.bory books, one has read of the paring to go to Detrole for the of garage in the envelope, housing
five, fast, fighting aeroplanos, whica the estimated weight is not annihilating of enemy capitals by f
by | Harmsworth Trophy races, but on
can be launched at the approach pected to reduce this ma miralty, charged with the defence
of any hostile oraft and return to The use of helium gas will great-
ly lossen the danger of destruction, by fire Through the use of the airship white it is in flight,
The Akron cost £1,078,000. Its water recovery system, which co sight ongines generate 4,460 horselects the water from the engine
exhaust and employs-it-for-ballast power, and should give her a norvi no gan need be released to permit wooli hava, occurred in Berlin had fartent motor-bost out to the spot
mal cruising range of 10,650 miles. the vessel to gain altitude. The Captain Mon died und ng fact that she is five tops over
Kirship's DoFMAT CIURIZ.111"Samart ci. Gaven, odours and thirt flowers on the water.
■ (Continued at foos of next column.) crow!
of the coast of Britain should take capital ships of the air. It is, per his behalf his chief mechanio, Mr. the kenner interest in the possibili.ps, a misfortune that the armis tice was so quickly and easily con ties for counter-offence that lay in
chided for no one can imagine what this
now: weapon::
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Wilcocks, who is in charge of Miss England 11, and the Rolls-Royce team here, piloted the world's
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