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YOUNG ENGLISH GIRL FLYER AT ANNAM.
The arrival of an English girl frer at Annam, Transjordanis, after a journey at 4,000 miles from the Royal Air Force pilots, chosen Great Britain in her own light for the attempt on the world's Yong aeroplane, provides yet another distance record," are expected to example of the trustworthiness and fy from Harmondsworth, near Lon- simplicity of the modern British don, to Chanwell, Táncolnshire. Ons acrosas. morning during this month they will second from Cranwell in the special long-rango Fairey monoplane, with fuel enough in the tanks to maintain them aloft, in favourable conditions, till they reach Cape Town-8,116 miles away along the great circle of the globe joining the two points..
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Most of the trial flights are over, Every adjustment is made to the machine and to the 530 bp. Napier Lion engine, which has been delicately tuned for economical running over a period extending up to sixty or seventy hours. The wireless apparatus, through which the dyers will communicate with the outside world once every two hours, is in perfect trim. All that: remains to be done to "tune up" the wonderful automatic pilot which gave the pilots noble help on the refent non-stop figlit from Eng hand to Egypt This uncanny iron man, its train a-gyroscope and its handsy, piston-operated levers which are linked to the flying controls, detects with superhuman precision the slightest deviation from the set course and corrects it instantly, During the fight to Egypt the human pilota were able to leave the aeroplane in the charge of the robot for lengthy periode, and they are relying on the mechanism to relieve them of much of the strain of the world's longest non-stop flight."
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BALLOON ASCENTS.
M. Max Cosyna, a Belgian physi- oint will carry out an experiment with Pro, Piccard's new balloon, miles. It is intended also to make and hoper to reach the height of 12
BOOKS and READERS
"INTERESTING ANEC. DOTES, A NARRATIVE OF CUMBERLAND LIFE.
[*THE FIDATING ADMIRAL," (Lon | froing p- 200—two pictures by ✪. don. Hodder & Stoughton) Alken. Here the wooden appeaT- In addition to the many intrigu-i anoo of the general anatomy of the course of this delightful and read life-like natural movement of both ing problems that arise in the horses when compared with the horses and riders in the picture by PA. Stewart, p. 1 k
parent. Comparison. of living aridete work is not desirable, but the horas, in action or otherwine, is walk mough expressed to day for most people by Lional Edwards
a scent in the Aratio to observable book, the oating Admiral atmospheric and other conditions also note the grave problem of how it should be raad Should one rend over the magnetic pale.
the solutions chapter by chapter Or should one road the whole story first?
"Count Theodor Zichy, a Hun garinn ad Herr Hane Braun are preparing a balloon for a high-alti tude, ascent, the object boing that, of It is, perhaps, natural that such testing an instrument invented by a book, written as it is by several Horr Brain for registering altitude distinguished writers of detective by the fores of gravity. His experi-novels, should provide an admir mant will aim at the determination able commentary on detective fig- of the loss of weight of specified tion; yet it is interesting to se objects with increasing distance how many of the authors reached from the earth:
the same not-too-obvique conchi sions about certain characters. The * nebulous red herring" has always seamed to me unworthy of the best typo of detective fiction, and I was sorry to see it crop up in the
D'YE KEN JOHN PEEL?
JOHN P. By J. M. Denwood
Published by Hutchinson & Co. Price 7, ide
Miss Irene Brooke Sewell in £2: years old Nayor previously had she flown outatils England and hor longest non-stop air journey was only eighty miles or so. Her flying instructor was not enthusiastic about her skill as a pilot. He is even reported to have said that
Here is a well written "novel, she who definitely a bad pilot. Yet. The balloon cabin will be. Atted
woven round, the romantic figure he has arrived safely at Aonam, with a big parachute, and on des-
of that celebrated huntematy n her machine undamaged and her conding to about 13,000 feet the bal
mortalized in the familiar son confidence unabaicen, after a voyageloon itself will be detached, and the
The author needs no introductions. which took her boross many counaoropauta come down with their
his name is almost inseparably tries, a wide stretch of sea and cabin by parachute. This methodFloating Admiral" And I am linked with one of the finest first some, mountainous, regions where reduces the amount of ballast readways somewhat harrowed when novels of recent years, "Bed Ika." an emergency landing or a badquired to case the speed of descent. the keystone of an otherwise enjoy. "Mr. Denwood has just that apt pen for portraying the character of this mistake in navigation might hars Mossays Short Bros., of Rochester, able yarn is the corpse of a sym- ne sportsman; and being himself had
unpleasant results are making, ready as balloon for a
It is next to impossible to decide a native of John Peel's country
Cumberland, warms to his workh While in Italy she set -local ra-high-altitude ascent in England.which is the beat chapter, but one As he says himself, the novel is in cord for the solo journey from
includes alightly towards chapter no son intended to be a biography Naples down to the extreme south
Many of the secrate of the upper leven, the author of which frankly of John Peel, but rather a narra- of the country and in doing so few air have been revealed by means of admits to being completely muddled tive of Oumberland life in
and finds the way out by producing eighteenth small unmanned, balloons carrying another corpec. Under conditions turios Mr. Denwood, however, and nineteenth coas through weather which caused more self-registering instruments. It is like this it is not altogether sur speaks with authority in any at- than one experienced pilot to turn known that what is called the straprising that the last chapter is the tempt to express the character and back to the aerodrome.
worst in the book, with a weak personality of Peel; for his son tosphere, or isothermal layer, which dónoument and frankly bad Jonathan, was an intimate friend (begins" at a height of about seven ending.
of the author, from wbpm, na ke |mides,, ja characterised by a break in
tramped the fells of Cumberland he obtained vivid impressions of the the steady decline of temperature
father! with height,
quite.
Ease of Control..
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SAMPLES OF AIR.
It is known that in this region
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Clearly, Miss Sewell is by no monna a bad pilot. She steured good course and arrived at her destination; admittedly good pilots have sometimes failed to do as Food Supply.
well. But much of the credit for also the wind's speed increase, com Gayford and Bett have arranged the flight must go to the ease of mon with increasing height up to description to the supplies carried control and utter dependability of five or six miles, or so, declines, and on the Egypt journey, but in double the light aeroplane and its engine.that there is comparative calm. the quantity. Basic requirements Literally nowadays the British will be met in the provision of two herocar can be trusted never to
Physicists, however, desire to boned chickens (Gayford and Bett are reported to be ransacking local falter, given only the most olemen learn more of the chemical consti henroosts for the plumpest and tary routine, attention to the, en-
tution of the air at great altitudes most nutritious birday · and
Among other problems is that of the twenty whole, round" sind Bine Mr. Scott, who held last year wiches. Fraitarians will rejoice in for some time, the record for the assumed presonce of hydrogen and the selection of four dozen oranges, flights in both directions between other light gases in greater pro-
dozen apples and a dozen
England and Australia, said
portion at great heights than wear a day bananas, a pound of dried dates,
the ground. pound of figs and a pound of for two, agó that the only sorious raisins. Next on the list comes a
factor in a high speed dash in . sugar group, comprising half a pound of chocolate, a pounds each modern British light plane was the of lump and Harley sugar and a endurance of the pilot. pound af mint. sweets. Finally eight quarte of black unsweetened coffer, and half a pound of malted milk tablets. Altogether. com prehensive had well-balanced assort
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Some surprise has been expressed at the absence of evidence of this in, samples of air taken at a height Miss Sewell's machine is a "Gipsy of seven or eight miles. One would Moth" biplane. In the luggagant, however, it is not likely to compartment and the spare cockpit.
be found at much lower altitudes she towed away a small trunk, suit-
than 30 miles. chats, a hat box and a hot-water bottle holding a reserve supply of MAKING FLYING PAY.water. She made the flight beside she had friends to visit in Trans. jordanin, and her own light aero. plane. What better reason" could
ment.
GIRL FLYERS BEGIN JOY- RIDING TOUR."
The youngest girl pilot in Eng- land-Miss Pauline Gower and her friend, Miss D. M. Spicer, qualified air engineer, are beginning a joy- riding tour which will take them and their three-seater Spartan aero- plano over most of Great Britain, and last all through the summer.
Miss Gower learned to fly at the London Aeroplane Club nearly two years ago. Not satisfied with the "A licence which is the usual badge of competency sought by the amateur pilos she qualify for the "B" or " com-" mercial pilot's ticket, and she has already well over 200 hours of solo Aring on her log-book. Last year her father, Sir Robert Gower, M.P.. gave her an aeroplane for a twenty-first birthday present.
went
Competent Pair.
on to
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LIGHT PLANE IN
NEW GUINEA.
* GYPSY MOTH" PROVES
FTS WORTH.
Descriptions of the view of earth and sky from the cabin windows
the high-travelling aeroplanes. and balloons will certainly be in- teresting.
pathetia person,
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By Mar-
CAPS OVER THE MILL
jorie Booth, (London, John Murray, One of the most depressing zes- peety of modern mediocrity is the vast amount of hopelessly second- rabe literature placed од tho market. The stuff is usually writ-
The incidents of the story are In the main, based on fact, though local traditions and the author a imagination nesist the interest of the story.
A hardly man was John Peel; in the first chapter, at the end of a
ten by someone with no particular day's hunting he realized he gift for writing, partly because she could not take his horse and bounds (and an equally sad fact is that to Ruthwaite that night, and, thare the majority of such books are being no place where he could written by women) has nothing kennel tham, his only alternative much else to do, partly because she was to sleep out on the falls" hopes to earn a little money thereby We are then told that he found and partly because she thinks her an old disused born in which Be feelings and views are worth per-put the horse and hounds, all is given currency by the publisher had oats for his horse and food for petuating in the printed page. Itired after day's long chase. He partly in the hope that it will be himself in a bag which he always appreciated by people with minds carried tied to his aaddle to meet as mediocre a the author, partly such emergencies." in the hope that Mr. Gould will mention it in his weekly list of the Best Novels of recent years, and partly in the knowledge that, at the worst not a few copies will be purchased by circulating libraries, Mill is a typical example. It is
Of such a book "Caps Over the
pointless book, written in a point less style about pointless people and it will be a most persevering reader who manages to struggle through more than three chapters.
· M.G.
"HORSEY" ANECDOTES.
The sky will be deep-hued, and it."TURE, CHASE AND PADDOOL," By William Fawcets, Published is not impossible, that at 10 or 19
By Hutchinson & Co. Price miles some of the stars will be
12s. 6d. visible by day. The globular shape. of the earth will not be any moro visible than it is to an airman fy- ing at 35,000 feet.
Quite an interesting collection of anecdotes, gleaned from the thres sources which give the book stał title, and not, a little valuable in- formation, are here well blended by one. who, in his own words, " was As to him, the earth, much obentered to Hounds at the tender secured by mist, will appear as a
bgo of two and a bittock." In the chapter, Over the Saddle-room concavity, the horizon on a level Fire," the "author relates then with the eye....
Severe Climate, sky
The hounds, he tells us, had no need for food having, divided the
caroases of several foxes between them during the day."
We are rather left wondering
fact, local traditions, whether this incident is based on
author's imagination.
or the
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HOW TO LIVE LONG.
If you wish to live long you should read the new book, of Bir Humphry Rollsston, Physician-in- Ordinary to the King.
In his "Medical Aspects of Old
Age" (Macmillan, 7 Bd) Siz Humphrey reveals that of more than 800 investigated instances of longevity 50 per cent. came of ex- ceptionally long-lived families. Ho
continuera
A good stock may ensure long life in the face of adverse en vironment, sud na town life and alcoholista. Many centenarians, perhaps from inherent vitality, have been able to take alcohol in quantities, that would be too much. for ordinary mortals
The Balkans, Greece Scandine
** vim, California, and the English "Laicca have been thought to favour longevity, and Ireland has always had a great" number of reputed cantenarinm
Careful measures may often com romance of one of the most famous jumping mares that ever entered bat unfavourable hereditary tenden the ring at Olympia. Bought forces the strength of the will to Down in New Guinea the private
220-and a new hat if the mare live in the nerve cells of the owner of a British light aeroplane the unpleasant possibilities of a were lucky-from a farmer by a brain is probably an importhat fac- has just completed 1,000 hours of forced landing in the interior and into the ring at the International will to live may well bej hereditary
well-known trainer, she was sent tor in lengevity, and a want of such flying in two years. He has made his looked down on many parts of Horse Show, atj Olympia to take her
* Although the digestions of 38 trips from coast to coast of the the island that men may struggle could lep her own height as
Methuselahs are meually good, ity! chanco The farmer had said that
will comfort some people to know great island, which remains to this for weeks to reach on foot and easy as out. She cleared is in.
that: weakness of the digestive day among the wildest and lost then, perhaps, fail in the end in the ring at Olympia, and was
system by prohibiting excess may in a negative way promote long Her friend and partner holds the | known regions of the world, a land
sold to an American for 2400; engineer's A and C licences, of jungle and mountains towering
life “without the saddle and bridle.”: and is also qualified to care for
a regres over the disappear compasses and other navigational 10,000 foot inhabited largely by
In two years Captain Shoppesance of one of the most picturesque instruments. Clad in purposeful untamed tribesmen and offering has down approximately 90,000 show, namely, the carriage and aight”, that our England had to engincors! overalls, both girls are terrible barriers to the man whomiles an impressive figure. And pair, will be shared by the great wall known figures at Stag-laže, serodromo, where Miss Gower ventures on foot along paths that his flying has been donem condi- majority of readers Mechanical gazages her machine whenever she | the, aeroplane passes over in a low tions of climate that test severely self have swept the horse into the
dovicum, besides, the motor car it
Happy Dispositions. is near London, Between them hours..
the structure of any aeroplane. background. they maintain and operate the
Bears hate Nearly half a total of 800 long machine, seldom seeking help, and The airman, Captain L. C. Designing a machine for trust. We do not altogether share the lives analysed survived severe il not shirking the more tedious and Shoppes, reports to the de Havil worthy use in the tropics is one artists who can depict horses to 800 pensioners with an aveĽAKO, SED authors apparent inability to findi) nemon 45 one time or another; andễ „oilier joba associated with garage
work on an aeroplans as on 3 motorland company that in all that flying of the hardest tasks the aircraft fayli Flaving qulogized Ben Mar. of 73.3 years did not possess a
his machine, a Gipsy Moth manufacturer has to face the world shall Henry, Alken and the Her-healthy tooth among them Miss Gower says that she adopt biplane, has given him no, trouble, wide experience of the British coming to wants to know where the Idlane was generally considered
sporting artists of our day care, to be detrimental to the ed the joy-riding idea, which is ran in conjunction with a small air taxin spite of the severe strains instructor enables him to solve auch of the admiration of old pig living long, for disuse business, because she could not posed by the tropical climate of problem on a basis of urer, know yuran off horses in motion murat betions of the mind ant- afford to continue fring regularly the island. No repair has been ledge than any of its competiATE
due to the fact that they are old; speedily led to deterioration unless she could make her hobby needed and the engine is quill rue That, ad ordinary learned morph Bray for itself. Last year she made
twenty or thirty taxi trips with ning happily. His coast to coast can stand up happily to the nassengers, mostly inside Great trips takó hím generally about 35 sive dying done by Captain Britain, in addition to joy-riding activities at several places in the hours; he has never had to face pee is suficient proof of Brit Countr
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