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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1932,
AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.
BRITISH AIRCRAFT
TRIUMPH.
NEW £300,000 ORDER FROM BELGIUM.
SEQUEL TO DRAMA OF INTER NATIONAL STRUGGLE.
WING COMMANDER ATLANTIC AIR
ORLEBAR.
SERVICE PLANS.
FAMOUS AIRMAN'S NEW
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Orlebar's promotion to the rank of Wing Commander is hailed with much satisfaction by all who know. him. He has gone over the heads Belgium's huge new order for
of 4 hundred squadron leaders Britiah was planes the biggest serior. to him on the list, but his to British ever placed by a foreign govera-outstanding services ment with the British aircraft in-aviation a captain of the High Speed Flight in 1929 and 1031 en- dustry-has its origin in a series titled him to exceptional; advance of dramatic events which took place mont. And apart from his high speed dying, Orlebar is an officer fourteen months ago.
Then, as now, the Belgian gov. gifted with unusual ability to com- mand and great knowledge of his ornment proposed the purchase of profession. To-day, not yet 30 now single-seater aid two-seater years of age, he is the youngest fighting aeroplanes to replane oh wing commander of the New Year.
list; it will be no cause for sur solete craft in the military air
prise if he rises to the highest ranks service. A proliminary competi in the service long before his time tion was held at Evere aerodrome, for retirement. and several makes of European aircraft were demonstrated there before the Belgian air authorities. Contracts were drawn up for the supply of French and Czechoslova kian neroplanes. They awaited signature on the desk of the bige responsible officer when, literally at the eleventh hour, 4 British
Firefly single seater fighter ar?" rived to take pant in the competi Lion."
Pilota Astounded.
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'FLYING BOAT FOR "40- PASSENGERS.
WEEKLY PLANE TO
THE CAPE..
Developments which will place Britain still further ahead of other nations in the world of aviation than in 1931 have been planned for
this year.
One of the most ambitious of her schemes is that for the ostab lishment of a regular Transatían tio service.
Other outstanding events which will make up a great. British bid for unchallenged supremacy are:
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| in, that last refuge of the die-hards, the English clubs. She is quite able to take care of herself. She knows."! what she wants, and she usually 蛸ない
it.
My young niece retorted, when I protested against Her excessive ex ponditure on a few frock, My dear, you don't seem to understand that being well-dressed, kiyesa woman a sense of security that avon religion is powerless to bestow,”
Commerce is King. Society, as well as commerce and the theatro, attracts all the sundry. to London.
common tapes and the transfor mation of an antagonias inte privileged colleague.???"
Thero sooms to be now more aya pathy with the Germans than with the French for the letter are thought selfish and are blamed for the economie troubles" of "Europo to-day.
The New Religion:
For centuries England was, thể The Book-pit of conflicting breeds. youth of England to-day is quite indifferent to those old issues.
Ethical roal now voices itself in the most potent, moral appeal over made to active minds, "Thou shalt build the Kingdom of Heaven upon Earth."
But the native of the tropics
The fashions for thinks that an early heaven consists ladies dresses, have changed the of lazy basking in the sunshine wheel has turned full cyole from the while his women do the chores; and long skirts of my youth, to the the fighting Turk thinks of heaven gradually diminishing length which in terms of harems That does not mado petticoats impossible and deflect the Englishman from bis bobbed hair compulsory, back to self-imposed task, nor diminish his restless energy, in striving to carry stately evening gowne of 1932.
But for all these superficialit through The opening of the Imperial changes society remains, much the Airways air route to Capetown; same. There are still the froth and Attempta on the long-distance the dregs in London as there were record;
twenty or thirty or a hundred years
A double crossing of the Athan-ago. tio in 24 hours;
The construction of the world!: biggest flying beat;
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Another wttack on the world's air speed record.
Recently Orlebar entered on his now duties. He is posted to No, 1 Air Defence Group as chief air staff officer to Air Commodore W. A balloon attempt on the altitude F. MacNeice Foster, where his record; abilities will And full scope in the
cadre administration of the for special reserve)" squadrons uti the Royal Air Force and of the eight bomber squadrons which make up, the Auxiliary Air Force the aerial aquivalent of the Tor ritorials.
A Great Plot.
1
team aloft in it. If a machine
And as an encouraging send-off to the campaign," there is the £300,000 order for British military. planes for the Belgian Air Force, which has been placed with the Fairey Aviation Company, of Hayes (Middlesex.) ·
To use an old cyhme,
"Cynics may complain that So.
ciety is mixed.
I am ready to maintain its
ingredients are fixed,”. For the world of men and women is a social ginger- Popi"
"The dregs are at the bottom and the froth is at the top."
The Paradox.
He firmly believes that he has real responsibility for any evil that exists anywhere in the world.
The spiritual urge to extend this type of civilisation has often rum< quad the nation from the bondage of inactive comfort.
It sent Stanley into darkoav Africa, Gordon out to China and it brought freedom to slaves throughout the world. It loaned up Egypt; and in Malaya it estab ishod order out of chaos, and jus- tice in place of corruption. ".
This real to confer, not only material benefits, but a new ethical sense, often compels great sacrifice,' The industrial life in England England is left carrying the has greatly changed since my work-baby-as to-day in the matter of War Debts and the finance of the shop days; conditions are much Loague of Nations. better in many ways. There are
Then the Englishma grumbles now old age pensions, shorter hours but plods on with his burden, As The world's biggest dying ship..and lean manual effort. The auto- in the Great Way, and as a brilliant which is intended for service on matic tool and the always-moving lodged, He pays an infinite price Gorman writer recently acknow- that he may accomplish inânite good."
40 Passengers,
A truly great pilot, dowered with the uncanny anticipation that marks the dying of man who Firefly's" first demon has spent much of his time in the the British soction of the proposed bench demand less muscle but also The
difficult and delicate task of tess. Transatlantic mail route is being less skilled labour. They have, stration astounded the Belgian ing new aeroplanes, Orlebar per built by skilled craftsmen, at the however, reduced employment.
Aviation pilots and dashed the spirits of the sonally tried out every racing sen. Vickers Supermarine
The blunt fact is that the ingen, competing constructors. Never had plant before he sent any of his Works at Woolston, Southampton.uity of the engineer has outrun Weighing 35 dous and capable of the vision of the politician and such terriño speed, rocket-like rate were modified, or a new iden need carrying 40 passengers in addition the efficiency of the distributor of climb and ease of control in ed careful trial before final adop to a crew, it is a monoplane dying And so we find poverty in a world who baat, larger than the German Do- of plenty. The farmers were burn every evolution been seen in Bal- tion, it was again Orlebar gium. Compared with the craft made the first hent. And fow and is the only civil flying ing wheat in America while millions men know better how to combine boat at present being built for the in Asia were starving; and coffee proffered by other nations, thenruffled charm with a decision in British Government.
was used for. fuel in Brazil so that: * Firefly" was as a raccheres to command which admits of no de la designed to fly continuous-you and I might pay more for what
hack. The contracts wore sus mar or question.
ly for about twelve hours at an we buy.. average speed of about 120 miles
Yot there is far less rear poverty pended, and ultimately nullified.
an hour, and is being constructed in England to-day then there used mainly of stainless steel.
to be.
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Belgian pilots went aloft one after tion" made ringa round" every another in the new" and wonderful foreign machine, fighting 'plane; each apoke in "glow. ing terms of its handiness and power. Flying officers of one re- giment actually offered to forgo part of their pay if they could be assured of piloting "Fireflies"
Capetown Weekly. “
That is the sort of breed they teach them in the schools of Eng land. The discipline of games and fagging, the hero worship, the de malleable young minds a code which mand for loyalty, hammer into the carries them in after-life through great adversity.
and the leaders-the statesmen like This creed produce the rulers Salisbury and Grey, the powerful Ambassadors and the uncorrupt civil servante,
To-day the English will stand no tyranny from any one or any see- tion-the finish of the General balance; they object to the lopsided Striko proved that. They demand
development of one or other sido. of human nature.
You find, at any rate in London
They regard the whole manna. All through 1991 the Fairey com-
and in the new industrial South, made up of four component parts, no one in rags, no one that looks social, physical, spiritual and intel pany has been building the arro
The weekly air mail, service Lo
"down and out." In Popfar and lectual. They believe that only the planes then ordered. While work South Africa will be inaugurated Whitechapel you see nestly dressed man who has developed all four progressed in the British factory on Wednesday, January, 20, and children and grows ups, sobriety; sides. can stand four square to all: Avions the mails are due in Capetown on planning has given to the new ideas to the exclusion of all others
and an absence of squalor. Town the winds that blow a subsidiary company
For the development of social Fairey S.A-was formed in Bel- Sunday, January 31.
generation of the lowest class gium and a small but highly efficient working plant installed in a factory at Gosselies. And one of the features of the now order which give it the highest rank as n 'tri bute to British aircraft design and construction is that it should be
Closing an Argument, French constructors raised the qucation, of strength. They declar ed that the British machine was not so strong as their own. There placed while the earlier contracts
are still being fulfilled, was discussion, and counter-discus" This time the Belgian govern-
At the request of the Postmasteraanitation, sunlight and self-reproduces the rank, physical the brute, spiritual the bigot, while General of South Africa, Imperial spot. Airways have arranged to time the
There is, however, a paradox of concentration on the intellect leads to the devil-for it was by, intel- progress in England. A palace can departure from Capetown each be built with caso and rapidity, but Lucifer and the angels.
lectual arrogance that there fo.. on Wednesdays, no architect can provide a certain week for 6 m
In the end the lop-sided Faust instead of Mondays as originally cure for a smoky chimney!
suddenly realised that books are a They can build magnificent halls, bloodless substitute for life. And intended.
so ho sold his soul to the devil in but they cannot guarantee that any one who speaks in them will beaxchange for the social amenities he, heard I
had neglected.
6,000 Miles Non-Stop.
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Science Acknowledged, -
Science was the Cinderella in my [-youth........
Now the scientists are encourag- ad; so they are trying to prove that Newton and Darwin wore wrong...
all
Every day I live in terror lest. my colleague Professor Shellshear, will produce a book as wonderful, and as dull, as the Origin of Species." If he does I shall have to read it he will argued
This will allow more time for business houses to reply to lotters received by their air mail.
While the doctors will put a now Although the schedule allows ele sion. Finally Mr. C. R. Fairey, ment has ordered more than ven days for the flight, it is hoped piece into my skull, put new fer- chairman of the company which sixty machines. "Fireflies"
and that after operating experience, has tres on to my face and manipulate makes the "Firefly," tired of talk Foxes," of a total value exceed be reduced to nine days, and work, they cannot give me a per- been gained, this time-table will my intestines while they dope, me so that I can watch them as they and made a simple offer. His test ing £300,000. Equipped with new fleet of fast monoplane sir pilot, he said, would climb to a nearly a hundred and fifty of these liners has been ordered by Impermanent cure for a cold in the head, al Airways. These machines will nor can they stop an epidemia of height of 20,000 feet, put the extremely swift and efficient ma cruise at 120 miles-an-hour.
measeles !
The engineers build márvellous Firefly" into a vertical power chinen, the Belgian military air
bridgen cro68 dive" with engine full on till it service will possess soon the most
the Zambrai and Sydney harbour, and bring drink reached a velocity of nearly 400 formidable fighting arm of any The attack on the world's non-ing water from Wales to Birming miles an hour and pull out of the nation on the continent of Europe, stop long-distance air record is to ham; but they cannot supply a pipe
|which does not burat in a frost/ly. dive just above Evers aerodrome. except in sheer numbers.
bo made by the Air Ministry whed While locomotion is being spend. The most valued heritage of the the Fairey long-range monopiane Of course the continental manufac
The Engine.
will leave Cranwell Aerodrome ined up and cars now frequently roar Englishman is not the steam engine turars would do the same with
an attempt to fly 6,000 miles to along roads at sixty miles an hour, that brought him wealth, not tho the great towns suffer more and dyname that brought him light, but their machines. But, strangely
·Capetown without alighting, Again the contract stipurTCE.
more from trafße blocks so that in | Magna Charts that brought him enough, ha foreign constructors Rolls-Royce supercharged
The fight will take about streets the speed gets slower and freedom "Kus hours...
slower, yo
The first English Parliament has demurred. The strength argumen trel engines, which develop full: Plans are being made by Mr
While, if I had a great deal of evolved into something greater. To ground-lovel "power of 480 hp ur J. A. Mollison, Gel. Fitzmaurice money it would be quite easy for day the Anglo-Saxon confederation- machines have frequently accom to a height of 11,800 feat. In the Transatlantic fight in one day in like the vast majority of my follows in the world, has anorel basis.
and Captain Baul: for "a double me to make a good deal more, if, is a State which, unlike any other plished this rigorous test of design of tliese motors, which are the spring.
I have no money except what I It rests upon the idea that within strength and design without the noteworthy for their compactness The trip will probably be made earn, it is extremely difficult to have the Empire, founded by force, there slightest difficulty, diving with the and economy in operation, are in in the machine used by the Comdr Jenough.
freedom for every man. We have learnt to pronounce the words usity air speed indicator showing 384 corporated many features similar Glen Kidaton.
to the Rolls Royca 2,300 and 2,601 Mr. Eusince, and Mr. Oswald
and freedom, in one breath and m.p.h.
h.p. racing engines that won" for
without a stammer. Tribute to Faireys.
Great Britain in 1981 fresh worlu
Despite the agency" of the "war" That also is the "secret" "of the, nothing, meam, nothing revengeful, sudose of that amazing experiment Thun come to Britain an order pod laurels An the air and on the water, Looked at from the
The attempt will probably be exists in the English heart to-day in welding together in peace, and for 45 single-ncater fighters, sup front, the Kostral" presents made in the manner.
After the pence of 190% the Boer into one Federal State, many, plemented a few weeks later by ceptionally small area this entire The Belgian order for British miration in London and the ox States It is a remarkable accom
bate general. received impassioned ad. | divorad nations in the United contract for the supply of a gun the aircraft designer almost biterait provides for the construction to do and treatest sistimant, but it wouldable accur ber of "For "high performance fect streamline shape,
tion of more than 60 aeroplanes of exponent in the world of our Eng been dom without the golden throad Hat ideals and aspiration E of those Anglo-Saxon idesis of free wo-seater machines, which similar.Nowhere in the history of avia two types and be tak
tion is recorded a similar triumph Both types are of all-metal con Recently prominent German dom with unity guider, the leader ||ly in stiff International compett for the aircraft and nero, engine atruction, and are equipped with said The English state rests on of the new and rost democracy
builders of any nation,
Bolls-Royce Kestrel Algeng and pro specifically English astuription (Continue
GAYNOR -was—over,—Actually, Firefly..
and
CHARLES FARRELL merely Mary Ann
Her love melted the bir of caste and convention which
| tlamic souls.
(Continued on nexe Voluma y
build
Short are preparing, for their bak loon nacent, and hope to reach, a altitude of about 15 miles.
--Forget-and-Forgive,