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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1932.
AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.
SINGLE AND TWO- | AIRCRAFT,
SEATER PLANES.
LATEST R.A.F. ACQUISI- TIONS.
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CARRIERS.
AND DIFFICULTIES OF
"LANDING."
STAINLESS STEEL AEROPLANES.
A BRITISH ACHIEVEMENT.
crowned
LONDON, June 7. Single-seater and two-seater fight-"
Aeropianes constructed entirely Some foreign aircraft carriers, ing planes which rank among the most formidable Service aircraft notably in the United States, have of stainless steel nes likely to take yet plaeed in commission are being the decks equipped with arresting shape in British factories before added to the equipment of the Fleet wires which pull up the machines long, following the success which years of on landing. In the British AceL tha has reembly Air Arm. Capable of speeds"rang- ing up to moan than 200 miles an landing decks are smooth, and size.ogged research and experiment. hour, the new machines are incom-cessful laudings are the result of This aspect of agronnutical develop- parably faster than craft perform the high skill of the pilots aided by ment, one in which the British in- ing similar duties in any foreign powerful wheel brakes. As each dustry admittedly holds a lend over Navy their powers of rocket-like aeroplane deaconda and rolls near all other nations, may be expected climb and swift manoeuvre are ly to a standstill on the deck it into supply the final care of corro- seized by a squad of men and with-ion-a cause of deterioration in equally outstanding,
io na incredibly short space of metal that presents the aircraft de- time-manured in seconds ruther signer with some of his most dif- than minutes its wings are folded feult problems,
Both of the now types, styled respectively the Hawker "Nimrod and the Hawker "Osprey" havs their counterparts in
chine.
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the land if necessary, it is in the hydraulic Stainless steel was first used in squadrons of the Royal Air Force. hift connecting the deck with the British aircraft for the planing The "Nimrod" single-seater is a hangars below, and the deck is bottoms, and later the hulls, of close cousin of the "Fury" biplane clear for the next incoming mange flying' boats. Nowadays it in employed in the "construction of which is the present equipment of
Flying from a carrier is task many detail parts of certain types certain interception unita of the
the calling for considerable skin the of land and marine aircraft. The Home
and Defence Foren "Osprey" is one of the modifica-higher binuches of aerin naviga.recent discovery how to produce tions of the Hart" day bomber- tion. Frequently haze "or. cloud stainless steel Ruitable for all of the the machine which set standards of performance when it was first brought into the Service
THE NEW FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION.
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stinet, that nostalgia for far remote: countries, and an inclination, for the military fo.. mixed in the same man with the most advanced and contradictory tendencies of the. human spirit, not always very clear or well understood, as socialiam, Anarchy. sxtreme dividualismo,.
more or less absorbed by the exotis and rofued charm of the musulman | Bolshevism, etc. vities, or the more subtlo and fobrile
of the Far traction Jonhtries.
Young Men.
门
Enstorm
The new Legionnaire can be com pared either to the young black- guard boy who joins a gang of apaches." or to the young man.
No. That is the past. That is the who enters a monastery after u spiritual crisis, or after a love's. Legeml
deception; or to the young student who leaves his family, his books, " his home, to become a sailor and try his lack; or to the young artist, who despairs of creating a new form af art But less and leas do they enlist in a moment of impulse.
Tastend of these tirelem soldiers,
de-corps, inured to weariness and jealously maintaining their asprit
'fatigue; instead of troops, compos ed of men having all kinds of ex- perioder, you actually find there soon after the Great War, Legion- naires who were most of them mere
beardless boys."
Except for some veterans, sullen, enigmatic and not overbright speci- men having a job in the kitchens, in the officers mess, in the store- houses, in the offers, at the do-
etc., this legendary troop appeared operative, in the Soldiers homo,
mostly to be composed of, weedy and sometimes ambiguous lads, the majority of them with Fair hair and bright eyes.
A Typical Regiment. Contrary to the Spanish Legion,
His sensibility has been exus- perated and incensed by at laborious. physical grewth, by insufficient" food, by violent emotions, created by the commotions of prevailing.
social economic events.
Indeed most of these young men do not belong even to the middle
period of their youth in Germany" class; they have lived the critical
or in Central Europe. They have suffered numerous privations. Their adolescence--I mean that period of human life when the body needs. rest and ample food, and the soul an opportunity of development, has taken place during the most pain-
new high may obscure the view and the pilot operations involved in aeroplane where you find more Spaniards than ful part of the great war: so they
detailed to make a long distance manufacture opens the way to the reconnaissance from his floating stainless, aeropiane..
his hure
work home
Already an experimental wing may some two years ago.
The made up entirely of stainless steel Differences between the land and cut out to find his way back.
therefore has been built, and designs are su-going machines are determined sea-geing aeroplane is
fitted with much more elaborate being prepared, of military, aero- by le peculiar demands of flying on and off the narrow Bonting aero-navigational equipment than the planes in which every component, drome provided by the deck of a majority of landplanes. That an down to the amallest nut, bolt and aircraft carrier, and by the exigen-emergency descent because of loss cable will be made of the same of direction is a most infrequent material.. "Obviously, neroplanes no, eic of catapult launching. Thus, the "Nimrod" and "Osprey have in the British Fleet Air constructed will be immane from Arm is sufficient evidence of the the effects of seawater or of humid certain eisoponents strengthened up to withstand shocks imposed by the high degree of skill attained by the climates. catapult, which accelerates ar pilots and of the efficiency of their noplane from jest to sixty miles: an hour in three seconds. Far- ther, machines much be protected BRITISH AEROPLANES FOR against the worse consequences of
the
an emergency lighting on water; flotation bags 11 the after portion of the fuselage and addi tional buoyancy is got from boxes placed inside the wings between the ribs and spars.
instruments.
EGYPT.
FIVE MOTH TRAJNING 'PLANES.
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A Bolls-Royce 480 h.p. Kestrel The first squadron of the Egyp motor, similar in many details of Pain air force ascended in forma design to the wonderful racing en- Links which powerd Britain's retion last week from Hatideld eval-breaking Schneider Trophy nerodrome, wear London and is seaplanes in 1929 and 1931, supplies now on its way to Cairo. The ma the power in nck of the new hero- planes. Its frontal area is excep tionally small, allowing the aircraft designer to plan around it an un usually wellstreamlined cowling
and fuselage.
chines are five Moth" training planes, each driven by a 120 h.p. Gipsy" motor and equipped with full military lond, including camera, wireless apparatus, and racks for the carriage of bomba flight
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British airernit firms have from the first led the way in steel con- struction and it is fitting that this latest great advance should rank as a British achievement. Strength and sturdiness comparable with British aeroplanes made of ordinary high tensile steels will be associated with increased economy in mainten- ance and longer "life" in service.
similar fight last year by Iraqi Pilots in mind, ordered them to be sont back to England, re-assembled and flown out in formalion,
The director of flying training in Erypt, Flight lieutenant Stocks, is flying the leading machine. Egyp
tain effects pilot three of the re-
maining machines and the fourth is
Reconnaissance, patrol, offensive
in the hands of two British sergeant nction against hostile aireraft and gun control make up the greater
curious pilots. cloyes 32 portion of the work allotted to the
The Moth trainer is a biplane Some months ago high fighting and scouting aeroplanes episode.
alrongly resesibling the famous which go to men with the aircraft representatives the Egyptian carriers in a modern foot. No
naine. Fitted with extra tankaze, branch of the work of the Rayni government ordered the aircraft, touring aeroplanes bearing the same Air Force is more picturesque, which the Egyptian, pilots had flown dramatic ever, than the operations frequently, to be parked for ship-it has a range in still air of 300 ment to Cairo, instead of travelling miles, and cruises with full load at of these huge floating aerodromes.
in their owa madium They were
90 m.p.h. Air-tight ration boxes, A typical carrier has a flying deck
a 2-gallon drinking water tank, measuring 700 feet in length and crated and placed on board. 50 feet wide. Beneath the deck is when the machines reached Gibral signalling pistols and much other Hundley. Page tar, the government, indignant 2 gear are carried, storage space for thirty acroplanes, hd fully equipped the apparent sight on the skill of its automatic wing-slots improve the workshops. More than a thousand men make up the population of the pits and with the success of a handling and control of the me
lyntinued on next autumn.) chine, especially at slow speeds,
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foreigners, in a French Foreign have presented themselves to the Legion Regiment you found in 1924, recruiting officers in a real state. out of 1,000 men: 620 Germans. 72 at physical, mental and moral 'de Bulgarians, 43 Austrians, 41 Rus-pression.
sians, 6 Belgians, 37 Swiss, 45 Hungarians, 25 Turks, 19 Danes, 17
Victims of the War.
Poles, 17 Moroccans, 16 Italinne, All, or nearly all, have been' wit 14 Spanitus, 19 Luxumburgers, 9nesses of direct or ludirect victime. Greeks, & Alsatians, G. Czecho of the War. Some of them served slovaquians, 3 Algerians, or 3 during the War, and carry the Rumanians, Serbians, Tunisians, Iron trose in their pocketbook or Dutch, English, Jugoslavians, on their chest.
Albanese, Americans, Argentinca, Many of them carry in their heart
Armenians, Portagnese, Swedish, a part of the infinite and isarti- 1 Chinese, 1 Egyptian, 1 Japanese,culate distress of our time, which 45 French.
has affected the whole generation.
The German race, gepresenting For our recruit, the fact of hav about 67 per cent. of the total ing joined the Legion appears like effectivo force-including good one of the possible and normal Inlay Austrians, Swiss, Belgians, effsets of the paychio crisis of his Luxemburger and Alsatians gives adolescence, a crisis aggravated, by the moral distress of our times and to de present Legion its spirit, its gait, its qualities and drawbacks. the physical misery of a genera-
tion. The French, knally 12 to 13 per company, are usually rather old: one undey 5, "eleven over 20,
All Professicas.
He has joined under the influence of three factors: the racial factor. composed of sentiment, love for dis- cipline and organisation: the moral Twenty-five per cent. of, the factor: after sorrow, fault or Legionnaires admit to an age of crime; the social factor poverty under 20 and 64 per cent. agreed unemployment, political disillusions.... that they were less than 25. Many etc. of them have been able to join. by concealing their true nget it is not rure to meet faces looking 18 years of age.
You meet there all kinds of pro- fessions: ironworkers, chauffeurs, manual labourds, masons, wood carvers, coachmen, bakers, miners, butchers, cocks, gardeners brick- layers, conlmen electric engineers, tuners, mounters, tailore, dentists, hairdressers, china-ware artists, watchmakers, draughtsmen, house painters, druggists, footmen, bar- men, waiters, postmen, accountants, ex-civil service men, clerks, sea- men, aviators, N.C.O.'s, officere.
But you must allow for socie cxaggeration or lies, as, very few really possess the professional qualifications they pretend to have. In short, inanual workers: 73 per cut, husbandmen: 6.0 per cent. clerky, students, artists 120 per eont.. is more likely to represent the facts.
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Young Germans.
نمودها
It is perhaps a result of that peculiar tendency of the German race to go towards any fertilizing or germinal forces, whatever is the origin; anyhow, the new Legion is a proof of it
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It is also perhaps because. France » is an old nation and a country of hardly free manners. We can imagine a German Foreign Legion enlisting French people, French Foreign Legion enlisting Germans appears like a necessity to these young men, who have not in doing so violated any national point of honour, who are not exposed to fight against their own country, and who are pleased to find there an opportunity for action, for efforts, to regularise their confused' tendencies,
new
Is seems natural that this Legion has been favoured by these young mes, after a great war which has subverted many of their national Institutiona: princes, military lead- ers, engineers, bankers and finan cicre who were regarded as the pillars of rules, discipline and good order, so necessary to them.
The New Legion appears to be composed mostly of very young "Germans coming from the working
Morally Unbalanced Men, classes, most of liemuntrained workern. From the physical and
Thus you no longer find there psychological point of ow, the criminals, adventurers, unsociable, now - Legionaire is before.dll a mysterious or passionate men, but... adolescent, a "lad," with the usual short, morally unbalanced men characteristics of adolescent ment in search of an extraordinary at- ality, in every latitude. Some join tivity, civil security and forgetful- alter & disappointing love affair, theness. They are no longer meri Legionnaire is in principle a great particularly difficult to manipulate, ignored lover, but many belong-dutside the social pale, and for ing to poor, families brilisted be- whom freedom is only a phatime cause they were tired of being of the imagination; going out with burder to their poor parents. To that bullets in their pocket as we go
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