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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1931.
AIRWAYS AND
AVIATION.
THE POSSIBILITY OF COMMERCIAL
FLYING IN HONG KONG.
A WEB OF AIRWAY TRAFFIC IN THE FAR EAST.
VISION OF AIR PORT COMINGS AND GOINGS.
the
[By MAJOR E. B. BRASIER-CREAGH, M.O.]
During the past four weeks I have used these columns to retail PrOGORIJA of thought and the arguments which have led me to form the opinion that it is necessary for Hong Kong to make a move, now, if she ever wishes to take any netive part in the man agement of commercial aviation in her part of the world.
I hope that the articles will have beer,
of some interest in odd anomenta of reading. I hope more than that, that my road- ers, have been sufficiently impressed by what I have written to take up the subject in conversation with friends, to pick out and digest items of daily nows which have some bearing on it, even to search through the library or the new vendors' shelves for books dealing with it
In order that readers may refresh their memories for the study' of the anbject which I hope you will make, the Editor of the long Kang Daily Press has helped me to prepare a reprint of the first four articles. These are combined in a small 12 pago booklet which will be sont post free to anyone who writes or *phones for "it, or, given to those who call at No. 11, Ice House Street, the officer of the newspaper.' I hope that. readers will freely take ad vantage of thia" opportunity for, if I am confident of anything, I am quite sure that, the greater the number of people who think this thing over, the quicker will the Colony wake up to the urgent ned for action,"
"FAR EASTERN AIRWAYS, LTD."
YOUNG AIRMAN'S FATAL CRASH.
HIS FONDNESS. FOR: AEROBATICS.
ARE CIVIL PLANES SAFEGUARDED?
FLYING BOAT'S
CRUISE.
IMPORTANT EMPIRE DEVELOPMENT.
MORE USEFUL CRAFT- THAN DO.X.
AIR RACE FOR NATIONS.
TO, SUCCEED. SCHNEIDER CONTEST.
Plans are on foot for a great, in- ternational air race, to be held in England, to take the place of the
which has been won outright by, contest, for the Schneider Trophy,
Great Britain. The race will be for landplanes. instead of seaplanea..
The aim is to organise & sort of. miniature
intire Schneider Trophy contest
The arrival of the Saunders Ros flyingbout Saro 7 of Plymouth recently completed a test cruise of 8,324 miles under service conditions, and the results are of importance in regard to the development of with teams of aircraft, racing round Empiro communications... The death of Mr. Nigel Benjamin
The cruise consisted mainly of tered by different countries, but, pylons. The machines will be en Cohen, the 23-year-old son and heir series of long hops, the idea of unlike the Schneider Trophy racers,, of Sir Herbert Cohen, of Sandy the Air Ministry being to maintain they will be of limited horse-power, Hatch," Hythe, who was killed at such communications without using and will have to pass landing tests, Nowingreón, near Hythe, when the foreign porte, There is no doubt light acroplane which he was flying also that long-range flying-boats race being hold na the chief feature
The present scheme visualises the- crashed from a height of 2,000 feet, will be able to take over some of in a great civil, air pageant, to be
the duties now performed by naval held at na aerodrome neat London. crülaces.
was the subject of an inquest, which was adjourned until November 28, to allow of the completion of the Air Ministry investigations into the cause of the accident.
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The "-Saro!' carried a crew of six, under the command of Flt Lt. C. H. Cahill. When necessary, the
part in formulating the plans. The Royal Aero Club is taking bo
The work is being done by Mr. A.
Muniz and Mr. Nigel Norman, who created Heston Air Park, with the en-operation of the Air League
The race will be designed to of the British Empire...
cially in the light aeroplane class. promote useful development, pape.
America and Germany are being approached with a view to entering tenta.
The theory was advanced by ex-crew lived on board, for the hull of perts who gave evidence that Mr. the boat has sleeping accommoth Cohen, made an ascent to 4,000 feet tion and cooking appliances, to perform aerobatics, and that the At Algiers she soda out at anchor dive preparatory to doing an out-a" gate of sixty miles an hour. In siqu lopp was made too fast and the final non-stop flight, from Gib put a strain on the structure of the raltar to Plymouth (1,230 miles), aeroplane which it could not stand. the Sare used only two of its Sir Herbert Cohen said that his engines for the Inat two hours, zon was a medical student, and The Saro" is a bi-plane flying- Hived with him at Hythe. They had boat of a size intermediate between tes together about 5.30 p.m. on the the twin-engined "Southampton day of the accident, and his son and the three-engined Iria" and expressed the intention of flying his Calcutta," but it may be stated machine, which was at Lympne.in passing that a sly-engined flying He had been flying since the early bond is now neuring completion, America shortly on an inspection of MiNorman, who is sailing for summer of 1930, and was efficient. and, that there is every reason to US aerodromes, will probably test His son had told him that aero believe, and indeed to claim, that the feeling towards this contest batics were normally sale if per- although the German Do- of there. formed at a height. The machinety tons, is the more spectacular was bought in June·lant:
Flying Upside Down." James Frederick Beazer, ground
club
The jaitials F.R.A.L:"may well before the business houses close. become the denomination of one of The other boat, will tie up and draw the most powerful organisations in the big ship head on to the slip the Orient-the Far Easterir Airway where in electric winch will ways, Limited. 'Let
metry to haul her on land in five minutes. visualize for you the place which As soon as each ship is landed such a service might occupy in the she will be surrounded with "mecha-, life of this outpost of Empire. nics, fitters and inspectors; tanks engineer of the Cinque Ports Every day at noon two huge fly will be filled, nuts and bolts Flying Club, at Lympne, nid ing boats wil circle the Peak and examined, plugs changed and all that Mr. Cohen, before taking slide down gracefully into Kaihe duties performed to perfection off, asked him to inform the
to pass her out for her afternoon's instructor of the Tak Bay, Each boat will measure
(Mr. something like 100" feet from wing, and at one o'clock hath ships Brown) that he intended climbing tip to wing tip and a like amount will be away ng 1,000 miles a height of 4,000 feet to do an from nose trudiler. In the air day, Hanoi to Keelung, Formosa to inverted spin, and he wished
Brown to watch him. their four diesel engines of a totai French Indo-China, On the service of some 1,600 h,p. will waken, the will go next day, in different craft, echoes of the clouds and hillsides two days more to Yokohama, two and, if the clouds be low, passeata Rangoon, gers on the ferry boots will see, five hundred feet above them, a ship, almost as big as that they are aniling in, sweeping across the sky at a speed half as great again as that of the small training planes to which they are now ac customed.
الريم
ti
Local Services.
venture, the smaller British flying-
the air pageant will be built round
If the plans for the race"
Buceced
the R.A.F. Display, but confined to ft. It will be of the magnitude of
Reivil machines
boats are infinitely more practica}, ]^ "PROF. PICCARD AND HIS for they carry a greater proportion -
of useful load, they cost far less,
and they can use rough water.
Diary of the Voyage.
Of all-metal construction, the
练 fitted with
Saro"
·BALLOON:
TO ATTEMPT 64,000 FT.
Professor Piccard, who rose to a
three height of nearly ten miles in a
Jupiter air-cooled engines of an balloon in May of this year, is pre- nggregate power of 1,500 h.p. It paring to make a new assent into weighs all on eleven tone, and has the upper atmosphere. He is con a span of eighty-eight fect. Au |sidering · applying to the Fonda other flying-bont undergoing, the National des Recherches: Scienti. me test as the "Sarg" is a four-ques, which financed his earlier engined "Singapore."
venture, for a new grant.
Mr. Cohen climbed to perhaps a little over 4,000 feet, and after about Lyo minutes, straight fixi: the machine went into a gradual
The following is the diary of divé. About 200 feet from the start the voyage. At Maita, Aboukir, he saw an object leave the plane, | Algiers, and Port Sudan Jochi, trials which appeared to be fabric. The were carried out:- dive continued in an over vertical
Aug. 15:
The attempt, it is expected, will
be made during next summer. This
time the balloon” will carry a Bal-
gian pilot, and a Belgian doctor, Land Time in order that the new height res Miles hmcord shall be purely Belgian.
Next morning a flight of smaller and planes will rise from Kai Tak, their courses pointing north and west.. The first following a position" for about another 200 circular course will head moss feet, when more objects, apparent Lantay to Kongmoon and thence ly from a wing structure, left the
Felixstowe Plymouth 310 continue along the const line craft. After the collapse of the Aug 17-
457 dropping her parachute mails at wing structure the 'pläne crashed. a the constal towns until she Mr. Beazer said there was no
"
From Keelung and Formosa. The first, swooping in from the teaches Nanning, just, before lunch. East will have left Keelung, For After an hour's rest, she will re- mosa, at eight o'clock that morn turn along the West River picking ing and will be carrying American up"mail-bags slung in the air from mals which left Ney York fourteen bamboo poles and she will not days previously. Her passengers again touch land till she reaches will be from Shanghai, 24 hourshome. Another will speed away to Japoo, 48; Mania, 30; and per- Yunnanfu and even Chungking, haps one or two will have come up linking up directly with the bor from Sydney in just the week!ders of Thibet and Mongolia. A Quite likely there will be on board third will head for Hankow, 800 a couple of Chiness business men
miles dead flying. who left their offices in Swatow at the stroke of ten and propose to return thither in the late afternoon by air-taxi, their round trip and business completed by five p.m. at cost of $180, including their
IL.
hunch on arrival
A Web of Tramo.
Plymouth-Hourlin, Aug. 18:
equivalent to the periodical inspce. Houtin-Marseilles - 330.0 tion of R.A.P. aircraft for civil Aug. 10
planes. Because it was Mr. Cohen's private property it was no part of his duty to inspect the machine af un time:
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Marseilles-Malti Aug. 20:-
Malta-Aboukir
* The professor is convinced that he will on his coming ascent reach In higher altitude than 16,500 metros 429 if the arrangements are well made.
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A difficulty will be to find' a ̈phy.. sician ready to make the ascent.
3 38
750
7 23
300
0 20
A FRENCH BAN ON LONG FLIGHTS.
Port Sudan 1,073-
9.3.
SEQUEL TO RECENT CRASH
Aug. 28-
Aboukir-
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Aug. 31-
· Port Sudan-
Sept. 8:-
The Coroner: Can you offer ang suggestion as to what was the cause of the accident-It appeared to me that Mr. Cohen altered, his original intention of an inverted spin and wanted to do an outside Ismailia-Aboukir loop. In making the initial dive to Sept. 9: attempt this with the engine full Aboukir-Malta. on it appeared to the "the speed Sept. 11- of the dive was too great, and put too much stress on the aircraft. Flying conditions were quite sait-
able.
201
960
Three proposed French attempts.
Lake Tunsah 893 10 45 to capture the world's distance fly- ing record come under a ban issued hy the French Air Ministry-recent- 26ly. It states that they must not take place until the investigation into the deaths of Lt. Le Brix and 13 Mermin (who were killed while attempting to beat the distanco re- 053.3 o sacord recently) have been completed. Moreover, any machines used for long-distance flights must be subject. 3.30 ed. to an examination by Air Minis-
try, mechanics.
Malta-Algiers Sept 18
Algiers-Gibraltar Sept. 16:
Gibraltar Plymouth 1,939 13 40
8,324200 Average speed 92.5 miles an hour. (pp.)
STRATOSPHERE FLIGHTS,
EXPERIMENTAL GERMAN
PLANE.
Thus the birds will come and go, spreading overland a web of traffic comparable to the medicy of ship ping tanes all of which centre to. day on this spiders", nest, Hong
A Terrillo Speed, Trom Hanot in Tive Hours.
Kong. And all these internal lines will be Chinese owned and man- Keith Kendal Brown, pilot-in- The other boat, coming in over aged, providing employment for structor of the Cinque Ports Flying Green Island, has had to face the Chinese, capital and Chinese avia Club, said that he considered Mr. NW. monsoon n the way from tors, carrying Chinese passengers, Cohen fairly efficient. He was-Bur- Hanoi. Her journey of 500 miles and malla They will be brought prised when Mr. Cohen put the has taken her just are hours, her into being because, the main line aircraft into a very steep dive. return, as police had seen the por average air-speed having been brings them traffic which demands
A new type of aeroplaze spooia)- The aircraft got up a terrifiction in the field, but it had sincely designed for fights into the round about 120′′m.p.b. Streaming quick delivery and they will bring speed, faster than I have over acen he hoped the article would be 106rst ant at the Junkers works disappeared. The coroner said that stratosphere is now ready for its away from her either wing tip will to it urgent men and matter which a light aeroplane accomplish," said turned. be a long sky-blue pennant signify China wants to be moved quickly Afr. Brown, "and at a height of
at Dessau, Germany. It has bean ing her darge of the Royal Maid, to the ends of the world, about 2,500 feel some part of the Cooper that his investigations into bedrolf Institute of Berlin, which for she will be bringing in the new. All these lides mean work, engi-aircraft broke off. The plane then the accident would be completed proposes to carry out the first Sight
in about two months, the coroner within a few weeks. thrice-weekly budget from London, neering shops, carpentering, up- got into a spin and shed other adjourned the inquest until Satur It in the institute's aim to explore. 10 days old.
holstering, painting, dopa making; portions. Dadoubtedly the cavee day, November 28, A and study the higher regions with As each ship comes to water the work in aluminium and steel and the accident was the excessive should like to satisfy the the idea that future air services will
strain put on the aircraft by the public," the coroner! ward, that free the stratomphère111 La will be met by a couple of fast fabric-for they will be contred on speed of the dive” tut
these gallant young fellows are The machine is oue of the Junkers motor boats into one of which then get quick eficient service. coroner that he was engaget in conditions. Mr. Coher was not a width of thetween the wing Hong Kong the place where they Major Cooper informed the sent up ander the very best possible all-motal low-wing craft. It has i mails will be bundled pe she is still Here is n now Industry for Hong piecing together the machine and Bervice man, but the Air Ministry tip. Airtight and pressure-proof axying up to the slipway-Away it Kong A nez debt to her gootrying to arrivo as a technical son issue a certificate of Alsmartbingas chambers are built on the cama will dash at 10 miles per hour to get to the balance sheet of fane strut was missing, and he would way not defect, and Whly by brioxcept that they bayer double walle
graphical position and a valuable elusion. Unfortunately one import Either there was a defect or thera ciple as Professor Piccard's gondo's the Queen's pier so that the other importance to the world's like the coroner to appeal for its dence to that effect could they set to minimize the affects of sadden tore she carries may be delivered "trade.
(Continued at fast of nået columni)]! at rest the minds of the public;”! changes of temperature.
On being informed by Major ordered by the-Acronsutical Re