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AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.
THE BIG FLYING BIGGER AIR MAILS.
BOAT.
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DEVELOPMENT LEFT WITH
THE R.A.F.
SAFE AIRCRAFT.
UNITED STATES.
GECOPHONE
Radio Receiving Apparatus.
TRAFFIC ON INDIA ROUTE. BRITISH DEVICES IN THE
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"B.0:1500 withhree fixed output voltages.
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Price:
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Air mail träffle last year showed a remarkable incrense over that of
The Handley Page devices, which 1930. The total weight of the
were first applied in the fallost The abandonment of the 35-ton British air, letters was 624 taps.
sense in the Guggenheim Safe Air- flying boat by,, the Air Ministry an inercned of 20 per cent. over the when it was half built loaves Grant previous year-and of 74 per cent. craft Competition in the United Britain without any immediate pro-over the year 1929. The year's mails Statio in 1990, have now been gramme for the development of the represented about 2,223,000 1stters, big ciyilinn ying-bont. This boat, an increase of 500,000, or about favourably reported upon by the America National Advisory Cons when the contract was given to 10,000 lebters a week Vickora (Aviation), Ltd., and work
The increase cannot be accounted mitteo for Aeronautics. The sero was begun at the Supermarine fon by the opening in March of the plane which was tasted had been works, was accopted as a valuable parvice to Contral Afric, for the fitted with automatic slots and contribution along two important acrease in the India mail was flaps after the fashion of the Hand- fines. It was primarily a move almost equal to the total mail car. towards making British airlines riad on that service during nineley Paga Gugnure, which has been independent of forsign Powers; months. The weight of mail carried seen at many air displays in this. and secondarily an advance in the on the Intia route was 32.500 lbs.,
country. The committee reported quest for an ocean-going passengyan increase of 4.376 lbs. compared that with the aid of these devices neroplane,
with the previous year. That car- It is not to be concluded that ried to Central Atrien as 3,487 the landing speed was reduced by essential research along either linolha. The Christmas mail dispatches 15 miles an hour, while the lift s ended. More probably the duty to Indin in December weighed, over co-efficient was increased by 4 per of investigating senworthiness in 2 tons. aircarft will pass for the next two The parcele mail has not shown three years into the hands of a good a record. The total weight the RA.F., and any argument that of pareils was 62 tons. This was the deeds of military and evil slightly less than in 1980 but was aviation are different may be annotably better than in 1920. The sweral by the statement that in joint weight of letters and parcels
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This aeroplane is this well suited
to laiding in and taking off from restricted spaces, and the effect of the devices is virtually to offer a
several respects tho vital Reads of last year was 11 tona, against toeing with a variable camber. The
both are identical. For scavorthi-tons in 1930 and 88 tons in 1929. ness there must presumably be a full of fairly large dimensions. In the civil machine its interior weld
be planned for comfort, in the military for utility but if there is.
plenty of room a hull interior is fairly adaptabla
LYNX ENGINE RELIABILITY.
F
*
The Lynx, ongines serving in the
single involuntary stop, late depar ture, or cancelled service. Also the period between the overhauls of these engines has been fixed at 600 flying hours. The cost figures in dicate that the Lynx engines are appreciably "cheaper to maintain and repair, ork cruising horse- power hour" basis, than any other engines in the Imperial fleet
automatis slot, as is well known, performs the vital function of ra-
storing life to a stalling wing by smoothing out the air flow over its upper surface. In ordinary com mercial or private aircraft the slot
Avro Tons of Imperial Airways | The civil kont was to have been a
have now covered a distance of is fitted along the part of the lead- monop Inno The military autho | 347,300 miles in the air without a ing edge forward of the ailerono rities have shown no sign yet of
In the Gugnung the slot is Also supplanting their biplanes by
fitted along the remainder of the monoplanes though it is the fashion able belief that in high seas the high
leading edge, and this section of wing monoplane should ride the
the alot is interconnected with finps more comfortably. It may also be
on the trailing edge which are pull- said that what the R. A.F. wilFeock
ed down whep the slets open.. in ita big flying-boats will be speed and and a fairly high mea- sure of lead carrying without large capacity to accommodate light but bulky loads. There are, indeed, im-
The Aerial Transport Company 'portant points of difference between hold. The Supermarine boat was the civil and the military idend, planned and designed for such of Siam, operating four de Havil and it would have been proftable.| routes. It would have served if, and Puss Moths, "have recently in ordinary times to encourage for any reason, the routes to India pablished, some figures proving the
range
development along both line, but since ecmomy has closed down the "civil side it is not unlikely that military development will solve the most urgent of the problems.
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PUSS MOTHS IN SIAM.
éff-
and Africa, by way of Italy, Grence, Egypt, and Persia became impos remarkable reliability and sible. Some anxiety has already eiency of the machines. During been entertained concerning the three montha: August, September, Eastern rections of the Indian and October these four aeroplanes route. It may not be justified or,
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Not once during this period did any machine give the slightest trouble, and the prearranged flying schedule was ourried through from start to finish with but one delay 2-24-hours stop at Kornt, due to
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RECEIVING SET AND LOUD SPEAKER COMBINED ALL-ELECTRIC.. B.C.3236. A now self-contained able model with powerful
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The chief plen urged in Congress for support of the Hoover Relief
Programme Was "necessity"-the necessity of doing something to cir culate money, to restore, industry, and to provide work.
Long Range Essential.
if it is, an alternative may bearried 2,301,710 kilograms of mail times as large, backed by the Long range the occan flying-bost found which will not demand the 523,024 kilograms of goods, and 22 Washington Government, will proye must have, for on the most likely use of a long-range flying-boat. At passengers, and altogether covered equal to the emergency. Atlantic route the longest stags bo. all events there is & potential
20.840 kilometres. towon the Azores and Bermuda, is sphere of operations for such a boat 2,000 miles long. Rango mast boin these directions, though at the a major aim in any tow military moment it is nothing more than heat because the idea of indepen-potential, and it would be folly for.. dent operation is being more and England not to equip itself with more accepted and the distances be the knowledge out of which a ser tween British Possessions in the viceable boat for such a purpose Mediterranean and elsewhere are could be produced. Kreat. Seaworthiness for similar It is assumed in some quarters bad weather." reasons will be essential, and that the Supermarine boat has beck: though it will not be seaworthinesssacrificed in order that the fant on the Atlantic scale, it "ahould be mail carrier might proceed. In the seaworthiness equal to that of the financial affairs of the Air Ministry boat now to be scrapped, for this the decision to give the order for was intended to operate in the the latter may in a sense have been Mediterranean.
connected with the decision to aban- don the former, but the question
THAWING THEIR FROZEN CREDITS.
(Continued from Page 1.)
The spectre of a jobless army, estimated by President Groan, "of the American Federation of Labour, nt 8,000,000-the highest total in the country's history-haunts the na tional capital. It was President
Hoover who promised that "DO American shall starve this winter." The task of providing work for the unemployed was placed by the Federal Government on the various
Those companies which are at present contemplating the Atlantio was probably less one of making have hardly begun to think in a choies than of making limitéd To create credit where credit did Lorina of passenger-sorrying. The funds serve. The mail carrier is not exist before most economists Aéropostale line is concerned almost an urgent need on routes where here though not all-regard as in exclusively with maile. Panpassonger traffte is increasing with flation. Mr. Hoover's Femedy of states. and local governments.
American Airways looks "for" its out any demand for higher speed "counter-deflation" is to prevent Atlantic profits to mails sad and a clamour is arising for faster bad becoming worse and provide Money for freights: Imperial Airways, which manila,
the construction of better chances for the future. The public works and employment of The effect of the choice is to lay risk some critica discuss is that the labour is a great problem, which Reconstruction Finance Corpora.. many municipalities facing bank- the burden of developing the flying.
tion in trying to achieve its object ruptcy have been unable to solve. boat on the RAF Fortunately until it had, fully established its its sympathy with and its belief in will itself become so burdened with The Reconstruction Finance Cor
is interested alsa in, the Azores route, would bartainly not take the risk of carrying pawongers
It is recalled that a
private
$800.00
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service. For the beginning of an
the future of the flying-bont are frozen securities that it may relapse poration is intended to supply the
money. Atlantic service therefore it is most
The Treasury allots the first probable that a big military bost well known. The flying-boat has, into a state of frigid helplessness. would approach more closely the however, reached an expensive stage commercial idial than would a civil in its development and economy agency, the National Credit Cor- £100,000,000, and asks the public to boat with luxurious passenger no- may press on the R.A.F, as well poration, formed at the suggestion raise £300,000,000, the balance of the as on civil aviation; but now that of President Hoover to relieve the capital, by purchasing the bonds, civil aviation is borult of its only strain upon. America's business debentures and short-term notes of Our Folly.
contribution to the flying-boat ques. structure, with a permitted capital When other possible sen routes tion there should be no deceleration of £100,000,000, has proved totally How will the public, rozpond? are examined this argument cannot of the flying-bost programme on inadequate. It is hoped that the The answer to that question involto succeed himself in the Presi
(Continued on next column.) the military side.
new corporation, with capital four, but as evidence of quail faith.-ED.] dency.
commodation.
the corporation. :-
res the success or failure of the cor- poration. It may even decida Mri Hoover's eligibility as a candidate