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SHOULD THEY BE SEPARATED?
PERFECTING STREAMLINE OF NEW PLANE REVIVES OLD
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of a
CHANGING CEAR IN THE AIR.
PROPELLERS OF VARIABLE PITCH.
JOKS and READER
A SERVICE MAGAZINE AND LATEST NÖVELS REVIEWED
WINTER OF DISCONTENT. folt, but it is, above all,
Broken House. By
London: Grayson and Grayson Ep: 419---78, Bdi natakot, If this as it appears to bo—la a
z Ambrose South.?
author's, abiding sense of lith van-granted opportunities that came to them in every hour to love, and give and rejoice in one another's that the power and companionship"
first novel it exaite kein interest Beauty of the novel consist..
the author but leaves the ques tion of his future development more- A SERVICE PERIODICAL, Puncartais than is usually the vans,
Almost as old as the dying machine is the idea of the nirscrew of variable pitch, a propeller so mado that" its "blades," movo "autos. Chief of the demons that torment Now that a British firm 18 en- the aircraft designer is an inescap saged on the construction to Airmatically at any given moment.
In the main it is a lone study of The United Services Review," able hindrance, a perpetual tryant, Miniatry, arder spatial mail under the compulsion of the agrospute physical discomfort as experi. Published fu Shanghai Price 53
enced by a warbroken man and his cents per copy or 88 per annum. » shat goes under the title of "inter-carrying agroplane which shall be dynamical forces affecting an aero-
We have received from the pq"} ference." This is not, as might be capable yet cruising a thousand place in fight, to the most efficiens wife que family on a torty-five
acre farm in, at a gue, an eastern blishers, in Shanghai, a copy of the supposed, a personal matter; the miles a non-stop at an average of angle of pitch. In other words, an
airsure which takes the place in county of England. This imprem United Services Magazine, & perio- andicas discussions ber
between com at least 150 m.p.h.. controversy
fying machine of the gear box insion dominates any other, and be dical which, to use the publishers pany's denishers and official on about the separation of mails and motor-car, changing gear" to
fore the oval can be accepted as own phrase is conducted in the footnote to contemporary his Interests of the foreign forces iá perts and inspectors are usually passengers, in air transport hag moet varying "conditions.
From time to time inventors havs lory, with a permanent, abiding China and the Qrient." chussed under a politer heading again become a chief topic for die
The magazine certainly covers a produced propellers with adjustable value of its own,o quote, its/ The interference. question is
cussion.
blades constructed so that the publisher's claim, it has to be wide range, assuming thereby at Up to the present Imperial Air angle of pitch might be altered on duo to the operation of natural,
decided how far the discomfort was international aspect. It is very
physical laws.
ways have followed the policy of the ground before ascent, but then the nature of the onse well got up and excellently printed, The designer starts off with a carrying letter and human freight immensely more difficult problem That it was may be questioned while the pictures and it contains A of the automaticauly varying unit Apart from the fact that they were many are clearly reproduced. The perfectly
together in the same machines, streamlined, fuselage.
has taked longer to solve. For more isolated than is plausible headlines of the various articles Then-and it is the only time he with the result that mails have had several years past the Gloster air without explanation, it is imposed sem a little larger than the matter is porfectly happy. The drag await the convenience of pas oraft, company have vonducted ex ble-ovan in view of present ex merits, otherwise it is difficult to or air resistance of the structure sengers all dong the routes. Opperimental work directed to perfect perience to avoid the comment and any fault with this newcomer-
an idea first worked out by Pro-that the Canleys were singularly to Far Eastern journalism laydown to zero, or pourla With
ponents of the system nossor Hele-Show, and compiste unfortunate in their weather. The The cover is attractively coloured practically no power the model right that the maile should be held success is now in sight. The book actually begine with the words in red and green on a white back- The weather was unfavourable," ground, with a map of the territory should be capable of flying at up for a considerable part of cash mechanism fitted in the hub of the
day and the whole of each night airscrew consists essentially of and there is hardly a warm or even covered by the magazine taking up
half the pago. -- umpteen hundred miles an hour.
a mild day in the whole story! Nor to fit in with the reasonable com- b-filled cylinders, working on But here the trouble begins. To
hydraulic principles, which regulate does it appear that the actual means lift that fuselage wings niust be
the twist of the blades according to
of the family were insufficient fota reasortable amount of comfort if they attached Wheels and undercar,
the load on the engin
had been properly managed." riage "must be provided for launch ing the cruft. Att engine must be installed probably spoiling irtome diably that first pure streainline
Lesh
fort needs of the traveller
Separate the two/clnases of freight, they declare, and the mails need not halt anywhere except for the next stage of the journey.
Passenger Comfort. Attention to the comfort of
and has certain inevit
Longer Engine. Life. Advantages claimed for the later forms of the devices are increased performance of
any aeroplane em theploying this kind of airscrew,
shape. The craft must be pulled travellers in the design of an air longer engine life and the elimina:
transport 'pland.
Harrowing
one that should prove popular with Altogether a very good effort; and
the service men of all nations sury- ing in the Far East.
SHEILA KAYE SMITH One feels than that, legitimately The Children's Summer. By Sheila for his purposes as a novelist, Mr. South has imagined a special caso and indeed, it is in proportion as
Kaye-Smith. London: Cassell and CaPp. 311 7: 6d net." In this study Miss Kayo-Smith
or pushed through the air by oneable affects on performance For ion of breakdowns caused in milt the footnote to history" is ignored,, seems to have concentrated her
tary machines be “ qver-revving " of engines, during aerial combat: The pilot simply set hir aircrew to a certain rate of revolution and thereafter that rate cannot be ex
In-
of more airscrews which neize the example the gabin must be large
miration and fiction borne in mind that ad. memories of early childhood-for afid darytie uns a wide fuse
for his work risca, surely Selina is more remembered, sh and sweep it into eddies
bhak
Hughie Caplay suffers from exae that imagined into the leisured | Inge and
therefore considerable
parated nerves more, one feels, description of one summer on a Sus hatter against the fuselage and
“drag," or air resistance. The every other part of the machine in machine may have as many as four ceeded, no matter how the pilot wounds: Clara, his wife, is a mud ends, and with it the book; there is than can be explained by his sex farm, The summer begins and the slipstream.
For five engines as safeguards
IDY move the throttle or how
dler though an adorable. muddler, no other reason for its form, Not only do all of these casential against forced landings due toateeply he may dive his machine. motor failure; those engines and
and their children are strongly, deed, the concentration might well Craft: fitted with the new prothough sweetly, temperamental. The have bean carried farther, and any components of a flying machine d
their installation systems will peller have now down more than thief therit of the book is the way it one of several episodes could have direct"drag"; it is found that again add " drag" to the struc- 180 hours. Adaptations of the de-brings cut the extraordinary per ben de significant as the whole. increased air resistance may affect
ure In contrast the mail carrier vict have been made for leading sistence of human virtues, of affee For Miss Kaye-Smith's achievement can be built to be nearly as well British nero engines, including the tion and humour, under the stress here is to have recreated the performance wherever main com
streamlined and shapely
intense, ay: Bristol Jupiter *** and Rolls- ponents are joined. together, where Schneider racer; the fuselage Can Royce "Kestrek"
of defective character and unfor inexplicable joys and fears, the the wings join the fuselage, forbe kept slim and many of the other suitable for use with the "Kestrel this reason the novel, though har sensitive child, sheltered and cared An airscrew tunato circumstances combinod For twisted fantasics, the confusion of a example, от the undercarriage concessions to comfort made by the motor has been constructed for rowing, is not in the least depres for but not understood. There are struts are connected to the wheels. passenger 'plane designer can be trial and, if it prove successful,xing, and it is remarkably free episodes, like the picnic and the In other words, the toinl" drag." omitted.
Royal Air Force machines equip from sentimentality.
actress's kiss, which revive for the of the complete aeroplane may turn Even so, opinion is by no means ped with this type of power unit out to be more the aggregate unanimous on the point, and those may
reader the full intensity of a for The Deity. "My Dear." Other soon take the air.
gotten experience. It is a book ¡“drag” of each of the components who favour continuing the present natione are displaying keen interest Clara is the success of the book, which will give pleasure by its veri considered separately, because air" system can point to the trend of in the work; several months ago Hor habit of addressing God as "my similitude to those who love child is trapped at the joints and dieturbovents in the United States, where Japan and the Soviet Union acquir.dear," her detached humour-in a ren in the abstract to those whose ing eddies are formed."
several lines now carry passengers ed variable-pitch propellers of this sense frivolity when things are at affection is more practical it will
nd mails together after years of kind...
their worst, and her contained and "give cause for thought. They very alternative polioy....
playful tenderness to her children absence of form and development,. all contribute to the impression of the marking of progress by triviat figures. Rightly regarded they real and most attractive person events in the manner of the child- mean a revolution in time-distanerality. The effect is despened by a ren's tale, although they are nonthe- between Magland and the African sense of how she would have flower- tic defects, make the book more states along the new air line. Theyed in happier tirenmstances. « valuable materia) for the study off on an experimental machine in dif- least a partial change of policy, can, and will be, bettered, but the Hughie, the "Broken Hous" of the childish ways of thought... ferent positions where the phono-given the production of the right airliners are doing pretty well and menon. of interference" may host of aeroplane, spots likely have already far outstripped boats ovuur and, their behaviour carefully in the next year of two Bat and train. noted when the aeroplane in there is a danger that the remark, flight. Much is done with models indie irving of time made possible in the wind tunnels, ingenious deby the use of the existing British vices, for the blowing of smoke over air mail services out of Great the research worker to observe Britain may be overlooked in the the air movements around them heat of argument. Take, for ex British scientists have also invented ample, the newly opened air route means for throwing these smoke froth London all the way to Cope movements on to a screen, where Town Letters addressed to the they may be studied "ych more North Badan reach their destina readily
tion in five or seven days less than This and similar devices for make possible by ordinary postal do
Pictures in Smoke,
* Saving Time.
This is a serious matter, and much research has gone forward in British laboratories and design One point, too, should always be ahops to discover how to baffle the borne in mind. The criticisms are ZA Zeamers are pissed to a large extent justified and at
LITTLE
care in setting up an advertisement often doubles its selling power.
ing visible air flow round structures livery. In the South Sudan the P- Iw that little
of all kinds of shapes have the saving may run up to as much an |"great advantage of providing direct | weventsen days and cannot be legg evidenco. They necessarily outstrip than six. Air Mail to Kenya saven the methods of the mathematical anything between eight and 33 investigator. It is simple to make days, according to the habitat of aslight alteration to the model the addressee, to Uganda between aird try it in the teab chamber twelva and st days. Tanganyik again the mathematician might be Territory registers a saving of sight weeks, making fresh coaculations.
to 24 days, Northern Rhodesia 19, And to it being learned that Southern Rhodesia 11 and South will ultimately show
Erica siz.
These
more encient And more "economie""" seroplanes.
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are not inconsiderablo
extra thought and care which is given to every advertisement drawn up in the office of the Hong Kong Daily Press, which bongs
tite, is well realised as an indivi- The characters and scenes of the dual, but he is too pathological in background-Nurse and the Hag bandistic frenzies of disciplina getts and their farm, even Selina's for complete artistic sympathy. One more solid younger sister have the Lehab is to say, that his ab- unreal, typical form imposed by THERA
priblity goes deeper than his adult imagination on half-remem Wounds, and his sufferings 13the hered reality. Perhaps the belo Juum his farm, and thers is a phone betrays this method, or were hint of a similar abnormality in his there really telephones in Sussex in oldest, berry Max. Hittle hero, though
babe intention was to make the nineties? But the descriptions Hinging child of a father it is of the country itsell Kre done with verklapbuy carried out The farm the pipial exactitude readers some are vivid, and the exasperat have learnt to expects this author's ing abjurs of things" of lamps.. and stoves in particularis keenly work
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