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AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.
FOUR-O-FOUR MILES PER HOUR.
BRITISH FLYING NEWS.
SIGNIFICANCE OF SCHNEIDER TROPHY SPEEDS
OUT EAST
[BY E B. BRASIER OREAGH.]·
J. A MOLLISON'S GREAT- FLIGHT.
THE GUIDE BOOK OF THE
ROUTE.
London, August 11.-The fastest
Two days ago there were wide declares that the question of so- headlines in the papers and presentation for "English residents lengthy reports extolling the speeds in Hong Kong must be looked upon set up at Calshot by Stanforth and as the next step in the development Boothman. By the time you have of this Colony's political entity. I turned to this page the shouting will go further, and say that it is British load carrying will be over and the waving of not enough es grant us a measure craft yet built an Avro mail faga be stilled. But I suggest you of autonomy in local government, plane capable of
Blying at let your mind stay on aviation for another five minutes.
here to disturb the flow of air over the structure; oven the land- ing wheels have stream-lines ons- ings, while every strut and wire is stream-lined,
ALL-METAL.
SAVING WORLD TRADE WITH SILVER?
(Continued from Page 13
The make-bolief that there waa Except for the fabric coveringa sufficient gold has been completely of wings and tail unit and the shown up in the past year. It was fuselage fairings, the entire based on the highly artificial de- SPEEDIER MAIL-CARRYING, machine is built of metal, wolded vice in very many (unfortunately steel tubing making up the fuselage too many instances of having framework, high tensile corrugated TOU's for gold' to represent the real stool strip the wing spare and metal. ̈ ̈For instance, if Tom, Dick duralumin pressings the wing ribs and Harry are all three people of The engine, an Armstrong Sidde the highest standing in the City, ley “Jaguar Major" 895 h.p. air. and Dick gives Tom, and Tom givos cooled radial unit, is surrounded Harry, and Harry gives Dick an
ring, the outlines of which merge by a resistance-reducing Townend IDU for, any £800,000, and each of the three have £200,000 in gold and all three each start a bank of smoothly into a stream-lined ox haust manifold behind the motor $1,000,000, then these three people as in a municipality, but that we nearly three miles a minute with and continue into the fuselage of undoubtedly high stonding, in must be entitled, as la Chanda, to full load on board, was demon. The single pilot sits in a cockpit starting each a bank of £1,000,000, What does it mean to you that express our opinions in all matters strated yesterday afternoon at immediately aft of the fireproof and each issuing notes to the value Great Britain has haid the Air affecting this circle of undeveloped Heston airpark, near London, bo and water-tight wails compartof £1,000,000, can only imaginative Spoed record, practically without lands of which Hong Kong is both fore Colonel Sholmerdine, Director ment, which has a total capacity of ly be said to be covered for 100 per challenge, since 1027? The land the geographical and natural noli of Civil Aviation, and a few privi-40 cubic feet. His oyes are on alerei cont. Surely, in fact, they are each
leged experts. speed and the water spend too,tical hub.
only covered for 20 per cent, with the upper wings and
which The
would be apparout if they amalgame "Acceleration of air mail services magnificent view in every direction. set aside for the discussion of avis receiving nowadays marked atten- the rudder bar at his feet are ad-ly comparison is not too far-fetch- tion t
ed. It sums up the position. tion in British aviation eireles, and justable in flight; before him on A web of Commercial Air Lines. Because the biggest single in-humber of mail carriers construct-large equipment of navigational in the cellar with the world bank- this new craft is the first of the dashboard is an unusually
Too Much Paper. an unusually
What is the use of hoarding gold
what bearing have these on life in Why do I say this, and on a page throughout the world is, a subject Bood height and the position ofated into one bank of £3,000,000.
this Colony?
London Must Move,
This is an outpost of Britain. This Island of Hong Kong, with
** י
its mentally picked white popula fuence which could be brought to ed in British works which promis tion, exists as does the tip of a bear on these Eastern lands is an spectacular progress in the develop apparatus to guide him by day and ruptost If a few nations persist terve in the human body, so that organised web of commercial air ment of night and day agrial by night. After dark a flood light-world must inevitably fall back pa in hoarding gold the rest of the it shall, at times, warn the body is. Add to that a wireless sys-mail routes The British Empire ig device illuminates the dash and something else for bartering pur about what is going on in its own tem, wrought to strengthen the sonttered in every part of the retractable landing lights are ready posea. If silver were stabilized, particular neighbourhood and; at flying routes and hold them under globe, offers a field for high-spec for instant use. To meet the what would be the immediate effebt"}, other times, convey to the muscle no control, and you have an in mail operation, not surpassed in and skin and bono cells which sur. strument for the civilization of the potentialities by any of the other rigours of flying in temperatures ions of the world's wealth
East than which nothing more great round it orders from the central
Iand areas-the United far below zero. the cockpit is warm brain gauglion. We are here, not powerful could be imagined. At the
States, Latin America or only to receive our orders from same time you would have an im- Soviet Union-and leading experts wrapped round 'a' pipe attached to theed from the engine by a long muff London but to warn London when
consider that the employment of relays of machines similar to the
she must move."',
"
If we are the nerve centre, if Lon don is the brain, if the chain of Em
piro is, as 1 believe it to be, the nervous system of civilization, of) what does the body consist? The other nations of the world. And it is the function of the Empire to activate the other nations into co prdinated movement for their own protection and for the good of civilization as a whole.
Our national nervous system has
pregnable barrier against the petty mindedness and national jealousies which have done so much to hold back the progress of the Western
nations.
Chip and the Aeroplane.
In the days when the Schucider
the exhaust manifold.
Six.or. Boven hundred additional
would be created-(I mean from Eastern countries),
moru
The world is suffering not from a shortage of gold so from too great an abundance of
papar.
Avro 'plane could at once, A MARVELLOUS Flight. given the essential ground organi-
There has been a race, in all the sation,"reduce the time taken for
Luck and great physical endur
countries of Europe particulariy, lic. mails to travel from London to ance are not alone sufficient to exto replace real silver in circulation Sydney, for example, to 7 days.plain the new record flight between either, by paper, or by coins look The present controversy engages Australia and England. Mr. J. A. ing like silver, but containing very
Trophy was first set up for cothe protagonists of two theorics, Mollison, who landed at Croydon little of that metal.
petition, the speeds ovinced, round about 45 miles an hour, moant nothing in the young life of China Useful for a bumptious Brigand General, perhaps, in the way that
that mails should travel with passengers, and, alternatively, that
on his
these two main classes of aerial ham, Western Australia, has to his ninth day out from Wynd.
traffic should be separated. Sup credit one of the most, carefully
porters on the one side declare that
Everybody knows that there are
of paper in circulation of denomi in some European countries masses nations of is, and upwards. Such
tion, which is becoming more and
been wondrously and marvellously all young things first try out their the slowing down of mail transport Planned long distance solo fighta Bes only strengthen the convic created. It still commands the strength in destruction. But now financial organisation of the world that the fight is over, now that the
to the speed mads necessary by the io aviation history and his triumph more widespread, that there is too though sadly weakoned of atoncience of flight has advanced until requent belts while the passengers is but the culmination of twelve much unreality and make-belief, through the drawing-of of a great we can bridge, between breakfasts in illogical. The result, they months of arduous preparation. which is the germ that has created
and tiffin, the distance from Hongy is that the Indian air mail deal of its strength in the setting Kong to Hankew (600 miles, four moves at an average speed of no
the want of confidence which is. No detail was omitted. The route up of a sistor control centre neron
general, and which is 00 per cent.. the Atlantic. It is the centre, to hours at 200 mp.h.), and that with more than 20 miles an hour; for was studied again and again, his the cause of the present crisis, day, of shipping, of telegraph and out fatigue nor very great risk, the two-thirds of the journey it is machine-a standard "Gipsy Moth" of political control over the greater question of flying becomes a burn-stationary while passengers eat and light biplany fitted with extra fuck part of the world body. And now,ing one for you and for me..
sloop. On the other side experts exceptional brilliance in the mai.
I have read arguments that if silver was re-established it would be tantamount to making a gift of for nearly five years, it has shown. The engines that carried Stain-point triumphantly to the United tankage--prepared to perfection, millions of sterling to the producers States lines which begun as information of any kind likely to of silver and to the millions of In-
in 1913.
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notable
the authors of these statements that if such appreciation in silver takes place it does not come out of any body's pocket and that the only effect would be:--
(1) the creation of more real,
tery of this new method of move-forth and Boothman at over six ment of meh, and ideas, actial miles a minute will soon be pulling mails only" enterprises are now be useful along the way was eagerly dians and Chinese who are holders flight. Men now travelling four times as fast as the cold us about this half of the world at a rapidly turning over to the opera sought. Finally, all thess data of silver. It has not occurred to
We can talk across all comfortable three. This priceless tion of aircraft carrying passen
were condensed into obstacles; we can photograph and gift of science must not be wastedgers and mails together. But argu- reprodues both sound and move nor misused in the East. We mustment apart, there can bo no doubt document, a guidebook of the route ment. Wandering Out East-Unorganised, agitate, for forethought, for states about the immense speeding up that showing minute particulars of
The people in England have no manlike vision. We must work for would follow establishment of idea of the conditique and needs this thing to be organised and co-mails only services throughout every serodrome, facts about pre- of the Eastern adtions. Al each ordinateu, now while the air is the Empire and this is work that vailing winds and weather along money, and (2) that as the basis of new force has been put in their crear of interference, for the set- lands, the English and the Con- ting up of an Eastern air route, the Avro Muilplane Type az.every section, timos of sunrise and trade is to have producers and con- tinentals Have fiddled and footled unblemished by restrictions and is admirably Ätted to do. in applying them to their immedi.quids pro que, built on the know- ate uses. Shipping, telegraphy, ledge and experience that the West wireless and, now, aviation have now has to offer." been allowed to wander out East, We are the nerve tip and we sente unorganized, unbenefited by the opportunity. Let us gather our lessons of application worked out personal sensations till enough force with much blood and sweat in the of opinion is generated to attract West. The Hon. Mr. Shenton, our the attention and action of our most experienced unattached mem- brain. Let as direct the nations ber of the Local Legislature, speaks around us that they act together for what wo all are thinking when ho their general good.
LONDON TO THE
CAPE
By
AIR.
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NEW PASSENGER SERVICE THIS YEAR. Another British air, dream is coming true. Final plans are being made in London for the opening in December of the southern half of the great Imperial Airways trane African flying mail,
sumers, cannot but be beneficial moonrise, fuel stocks, an engine
to everybody that the consumer THREE MILES A MINUTE.
inspection schedule and a time- should become richer because it is, tuble which, if fatigue bad not only by those means that he can Last week the new machine com defeated him, Mollison would have take increased quantities from the pleted official trials at Martlesham Heath, the Royal Air Force ex followed to reach England one day
producer,
perimental station where all new earlier than he did. British aircraft are put through exacting teate. It recorded there a maximum speed, with 870 pounds
Add to this intense preliminary 4,000 MILE TEST FLIGHT. work
a dogged insistence on
of mails on board and a full load thorough routine inspection of BRITISH PLANE'S TRIAL BE-
STOP ATTEMPT
and mails, by high-speed aeroplane of fuel sufficient for 600 miles non- bngine and aeroplane at the end FORE RECORD NON- and flying-boat, right through from stop, of more than 150 miles an of every stage and, astonishing London to Capetown, & distance of hour, a rate of climb at ground trustworthiness of the engine approximately 8,000 miles, in- Dot more than 11 days.
level of no less than 1,200 feet a
Forest Landing Grounds. Subsequent accelerations should reduce the total time to not more than about nine days,
minute and a cruising speed at though run at full throttle for only two-thirds of full engine several days, sometimes for more power of 140 m.p.b. These figures than twenty hours at a time, it long-distance monoplane, with represent a degree of performance striking enough to commend the
not
A trial non-stop fight from Cranwell, Lincolnshire, to Khar attempted by the Fairey Napier toum, nearly 4,000 miles, is to be
which it is hoped to win the world's non-stop long-distance air record- be made on September 94.02 95, the for Great Britain. The start will object being to try put the mond plane in the semi-tropical weather conditions in Northern Africa. the monoplane will fly back to Should the fight bo successful, Cranwell, where it will be prepared from Cranwell to Cape Town with for the attempt to fly 6,000 miles
but lighting, and thus to break
The organisation of this Africah airway has been one of the 'plano to aircraft operating com," never missed a boat and the romances of wonders aviation, panies abroad, and within the next almost firaculous achievement faay Along the 6,720 miles from Cairo fortnight or so the machine will be more accurately estimated. to the Capants as many su27 main be shipped to Canada for further Already the northern half is in air-stations, together with 30 inter demonstration; actually the con- active service, and passengers, mediate alighting grounds, many of ditions governing mail carriage in
Millison only knocked two mails and merchandise are being them cleared in the heart of forests Canada received primo considera days off the time taken a few weeks air-borne weekly front London for or in vast stretches of virgin bustion in working out the design. more than 5,000 miles to Mo Seventeen, powerful, wireless stacThe Type 027 in shapely
ngo by Mr. C.
C. W. A. Scott in in Tanganyika Territory, completions have been established along biplane, & wing system chosen by similar machine for the homeward ing in only a few hours over six the route, and at no time while the makers to secure conveniently daya & journey which, by surface they are in fight will thehig mulle small overall dimensions and low journey; he also beat by several the record of the American airter, transport, would occupy more than engided aeroplates and ingebbala cost of transporting spare winge in hours Scott's record for the out- Bourdon and Polando, who flow 20 days.
gambe out of wireless touch with one emergency. In every detail is per The opening for regular traffic of or other of these ground stations, ecptible the insistence on lessening ward flight to Australia and, there-stantinople (6,000 miles),
markonce non-stop from Net York to Cor-
air-the-roduction of "drag."" : to
Squadron-Leader 0. B. Gayford:
the southern half of the route, by a number of the stations resistance to movement through the fore, has made the quickpeb journey and Flight Ineutenant DẪN TA
which the airline-will-go mouth for along the route-Imperial Airways anotller, 3,600-miles from Rhodesia have built and equipped with every to Capetown will mean that it modera comfort rest houses for the will be possible to carry passengerá | air travellera,
use the technical term-which is so in history between Australia and Bett have been chosen to pilot the marked feature of present-day British aircraft design. Nothing is England.
machine on this record-breaking attempt.