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EDNESDAY DECEMBER 9, 1931.
AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.
THE FECA CO.
OUR "RESPONSIBILITY IN
"AIR ROUTES
HONG KONG CAN BE AC
GREAT AIRPORTT
[BY MAJOR E B BRASIER. CREAGH.]
A..
In our own small Colony, and with our minds given over, for the greater part of our time, to purely [local affairs, it is only natural that we should take some time considers
. է ing rich a proposition as the Far Eastern Commercial Aviation Comi pany, the necessity of which I am continually urging. Each point of view adopted helps the accuracy of the final judgment, therefore I pro
Vlakers-Supermarine boat, now be ing built at Bouthampton, will weigh thirty-Ava tons. This boat has bean, afkjally described by the
NAVAL FLYING CLUB.
NEW ENTERPRISE FOR OFFICERS
HOME AND OVERSEAS, PORTS.
dinistry... as- the Mediter ranaan type," In the Report on the Progress of Civil Aviation," 1990 the Air Ministry havolnik down provisional specification for a dying Boat capable of ceann Rights, of laden, weight of sixty tona, a normal range at a cruising.
god of 120 m.p.h. of 600 miles-oors of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines who are interested in y and a maximum range, with full load, and at this cruising speed, ing has been formed, and is called
the Royal Naval Flying Club
of. 2,500 miles.
1200 Horse Power Engines..
A club for past and present effi
Its headquarters, oro at Han
Whereas the supermarine is being worth Park At Herton Aerod ponstructed to carry forty pasteng.rome, only three miles away, the ers, the projected boat will pro-Household Brigade Flying Club has of which number must have sleeping in order to provide for a pably leave room for seventy, a halts quarters and machines.
400ommodation provided, for them
officers at the home porta arrange Compare this machine with the Euments are being made at locat , of fifty-three tons, which has aerodromes. Thus, at Hamble, twelve ongines developing a total where the Hampshire Aeroplane Club is, stationed, members of the only 7,200 horse power, giving RN. Flying Club will find facils. fof' which occurred in 12st week's arbi. power loading of 16.5 lbs, per ties for flying, and when the Hamp
pose to use this week's space to put the proposition in a new light..
Before I begin, howevor," I would like to correct mi-statement
}
The chairman of the committee
P.B.E. Drax. of the new club is Rear-Adm
h.p., much higher than is customshire Club moves to the new Port- cle. In referring to Neville Stack's. Arc one-day fight from Jondon to 80 ton ship, with the new 1,200 vided for there. It is hoped," also ary with British machines. In the
mouth sorodrome they will be pru Constantinople I mentioned that h.p. Rolls Royce power unit, which This machine was a Fairey I was
to make arrangements at Chatham," is being produced as a result of influenced, probably, by sub-con-
the Schneider Trophy work, eight:
Plymouth, and oversees ports. arious knowledge of this company's wonderful, long distance machines, down to 14 pounds per horse power, engines would bring the loading such as that which je now ready to
reasonable figure, while ten en- By from England to South Africa.gines, loaded at 11.3 pounds per
· The Tail-First. "Piane. Stack actually used a Vickers horse power, would be ample for the
Hanworth Park becomes more Napier, a smaller machine than the extra' risks of a trans-oceanic ser the centre of very varied flying other, and one designed for quick, vics, Mr. Oswald Short, ons of interests. Here the London "Bus- Yong-distance freight work. Abour leading designers and manu men's Club, posssing one tuition | though the error is not a serious facturors of sca-going aircraft, writmachine, is hard at work. Ono one I owe it to the local agents of the Vickers firm to give the credit where it is properly duojj. I hope they will accept my apology..
Ocean-going Flying Boats.
In a recent number of the Times Trule and Engineering Supple ment, that of November 7, to be' exact, there is a valuable series 'of articles written around the ocean. going firing boat,
The upshot of these authoritativo writing is that there is no such thing in the world. America," al though her lines cross, the Gulf of Mexico from north to south, has net produced and nor has she shown any signs of attempting the task. Great things have been said and written about, the Do-X, which has
a loaded weight of 53 tons, by far
the largest in the world to-day,
but the best judgment of this ship
is that of her dosigner, Dr. Der
11
ing in the Air Annual of the Bry
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One of the attractions at Han- worth is the frequency of interest- ing foreign visits At present the Focke Wulf tail-first machine is there; its identification mark, which is D. 1980, may suggest it is a ma- chine of the future.
T
'PLANE FOR NEW KENT
BOMBER SQUADRON, ::.
CITY OF CANTERBURY."
A Virginia aircraft of No. 500|
| (County of Kent) (Bomber) Squad- ron was formally named the "City of Canterbury ". at Manston Aerodrome, Kent, recently. The peremony was performed by the Mayor of Canterbury, in the pre- sence of Group Capt. Sidney Smith,
Manston, Wing-Cmdr. L. Forbes, oficer commanding No. 500 Squad- ron, and other squadron officers. There was also a parade of abcut 500 men, with the station band in attendance.
nier, who confesses that she is dottish Empire (Gale and Polden, 21a0.B.E., the officer commanding, intended for rough seas and her net,) declares that he can foresee experiences since leaving Europe "no technical obstacles in the provi- have borne this out.
sion of a flying boat of 60 to 70 France and Italy have good craft, toris loaded weight, provided en which have given satisfaction in gines of high power, fewer in num coastal work in the Mediterranena, her, become available. They will hat they are not to be compared he really seaworthy and very fast with the British in sea-worthiness. in the air." He hopes that tau Even the latter craft, which have indisputable lead which has been crossed from Egypt to Europe gained by British designers will under really bad conditions, have, not be lost "by lack of what may on many occasions, prudently been be termed a sea sense on the part held up in some of the roughest of those who control the air policy weather. The French, to-day, have of Britain," adopted the "Short Calcutta and are building it under license. Italy, but for her intense patriotism, would be the gainer by making a similar
arrangement,
The Atlantic Service.
Similar Conditions in East. I ocho Mr. Short's hope, and I give to it a local favour by saying that conditions in the Far East,
No. 600 Squadron is a night bom. ber squadron, and was formed at Mansten in March last. One air- craft belonging to the squadron a named "The Isle of Thanet." The squadron offers an opportunity to young men to learn one of the aero- nautical trades, as there are avdi vacancies in it for recruits.
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BRITAIN'S AIR SPEED RECORDS.
OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED,
AGENTS:
VIGENTE ATIENZA & CO. No. 54,
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FASTY ARMY PLANES FOR FRANCE,
TO FLY AT 07 M.P
Faris, Nov. 5.-France is to build
Britain's air speed records have a fleet of fast fighting aeroplanes next year which will fly at a speed now received, official confiation
more than 200 miles per hour.
the French air M Dumemi the Minister, revealed this plan to-day,
equipped investigation into the on routes that I have discussed in circumstances bearing on the ques papers previously published in these tion of commercial aviation in this The U.S.A., France and Great columns, are approximately the part of the world. If we aut now Britain, are all keenly antoranted half-way standard between those we shall have the advantage of in setting up an Atlantic service, found in the Mediterranean and in making the first move: we shall and have gone to the length of the Atlantic.
The Meditor preserve the prestige of Britain agreeing on the joint use of the ranean Typg" Supermarins should by calling our neighbours together Asores Bermuda route whenever the be almost perfect for this part of into consultation with us on our idea can be realised. Great Bri- the world, the new projected ocean own territory. Further, we shall tain, in another direction, that of going type would be too large for be working to a patriotie end, for maintaining its Empire services the traffic of the next few years, as things stand at present, British independantly of foreign ports, is advocate a realization among the machines would legitimately be usedtional Aeronautical Federations He declared that the new machines being forced to give serious thought tions of the Far East of their in the event of a service being de to the development of craft which like to see them adopt an arrange
respective interests and I would aided upon We should receive the will solve both problems. It is of ment, similar to Dhat arrived at support of British manufacturers interent, therefore, to examine the regards the Azores-Bermuda and be encouraging them as much
World's Grastest Speed. form which this developments have laid down Rangoon to Japan the use of their machines out here marins Rolls-Royce B.6B, ens kilo-! route, covering the route which 1 by the lessons they would learn by G. H. Stainforth on a Super taking
and Dairen to Australia. I would
chases made by as by the actual value of the, pur metres per hour-representing!
Lastly, we should be forging the 407 miles per hour."
link in the caential world One Hundred Kilometres Record hour. The Lorrains, Renault and chain of main flying routes, the rest of which is either in operation,
will also be in construction or in definate
The Short Kent with four are those who control the policy Bristol Jupiter engines, which has sway of its financial strength, not of Hong Kong and those who hold fulfilledquirements both of Im. to show a lack of ion sense in their
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Investigation, Wanted.
In my opinion the time is ripa thirteen tons; the six-engined to make a serious and properly
No one has yet planned what uggest o cur Jenders Jezd
The Royal Aero Club has receive ed notification from the Interna
Paris, that the speeds were confimed as follows:
would be equipped with an engine which has just been perfected.
This engine is an 800 horse-power super-compressed. Hispano-Suiza, which weighs 1,000lb, and enables an aeroplane to be flown at a spoed of 350 kilometres (217 miles) per
Flt. J. N. Boothman, on a Gnoms-Rhone firme Supermarine. Rolls-Royce S.0B, commissioned to construct similar 681.8 kilometres per bour-repre- types of engines for the Air Minis menting 842.5 miles per hour.