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AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.
BOOM IN CIVIL AVIATION.
EUROPE'S AIRPORTS BUSY.
STEADY AND COMFORTABLE MACHINES.
LONDON, Aug. D, 1832.
LONDON-TO-
NEWCASTLE
AIR RACE.
CLOSE FINISH AFTER 263 MILES.
AMERICAN
AIRPORTS:
LESSONS TO BE LEARNED
BY ENGLAND.
BOOKS and READERS
SOUTH AMERICA: AS A U.S. VISITOR SAW IT.
SOUTH AMERICA, TWO WAR BOOKS AND SOME NOVELS.
I relish, therefore, the refusal or Miss Askwith to be led astray into the murky paths" of self-analysis, she attempts a tale of passion and tragedy, and succeeds by reason of her contempt for, unessentials.
depicts magically. Victorian England and the ugly,
Sho
mid-
"The Coming of South America" The report on American airports should have been called "The Coin presented to the Royal Instituto of ing of a Writer to South America.?? The London-to-Newcastle air reed British Architects by Mr. Graham Mr. Norton, who has been writing was won by Mr. R. Westenrs in R. Dawbarn, who last year hold the on many parts of the world and European civil aviation is exhis Gipsy Moth light aeroplane at Godwin and Wimperis bursary, who contributes a weekly column unwanted child of selfish gentry- periencing its greatest "boom" sinen
[an average speed of 118.75 miles has now hem made available. Mr.to the New York Herald Tribune, the first air-liner flew between
an hour. With the same machine Dawbaru travelled 7,000 miles by was appointed by the Carnegie The marble image of her little dead London and Paris thirteen years
in the King's Cup race, his best air in America last year, and his Endowment for International average speed was 116.75 miles an report is largely the product of that Peace to visit five of the Southplanation of her mother's indiffer. hour over the second day's course. tour,
ago. Almost daily fresh records in numbers of passengers and weight of mails and urgent freight are sel
American Republics. Undoubtedly
who learns of love through the con- fidences of others—at second band.
brother in church is a haunting ex-
Flying on a northerly course on Remarking on the opportunity to a good journalist, he was hardly ence, and she grows up almost re- at the chief airports. Services on Saturday, some slight advantagearn from the experience of the equipped to see below the surface conciled to a prettier sister's ex-
the more important Toutes are
duplicated, triplicated, even quad From early morning ruplicated. till after dusk the air transport 'planes move in and out of the terminal aerodromes with the sure-
was apparently gained from the stiff wind, which was a little south of west. The second in this race was Mr. W. L. Runciman in the
ploitation at her own expense,
There is research and vision in the depiction of that faded Victor-
narration in the evocation of an- an gentility, and a high level of
cient days in the nursery and schoolroom a generation ago.
of Latin-American ' life United States, Mr. Dawbara says:
and civilization. What he did perceivo -"Generally, England, 15 the pioneer of railways, failed with her he has set down accurately. Much Rame Puss Moth in which he flew railway stations, while America he did not see, and much he might to third place and won the Siddeley profited by her experience. Ameri- have seen if it had not been for ness and punctuality of the most Trophy in the King's Cup race,
ca has to-day a greater number of certain preconceptions he held be- efficient railway service.
and the third was Mr. I. C. Max-developed airports than any other fore he set forth on his voyage of well in a Comper Swift.
country, and it should be Eng-discovery. Many of these he him- Helena, left to herself, drifts into matrimonial entanglements when land's turn to take advantage of self is probably quite unconscious
foil her. Her lover is revealed ific pioneer work already done. of, but they weaken his book,
The author sets out to destroy: How subtle and solacing, then, is tragically as a physical coward. The architectural opportunities of
Prince of Wales' Machine.
The Prince of Wales' aeroplane,
:
of these
is a Latin-
the emergence of the real hero in the shape of an ugly, peor who t wedded, alas to a madwoman.
More holiday makers are travel ling by air than in any previous year. Swiftly at last, after long years of concentration by the lead- ing air transport companies on a Swift fitted with a Gipsy III. the developed airport are moreover, certain straw men he himself sets
greater than those of the railway up. One policy of safety with regularity, (120 h.p.) engine, which made un station. Even larger problems of American unity which never existed the man-in-the-street is realising | average of 155,75 miles an hour and
town-planning arise, and the port in the thought of informed people, that in the flying machine ke has took second place in the King's Cup
itself, covering several hundred and another is a "Latin America" The test of a work is, “Can one a new means of travel which offers ruce, was more heavily handicap-
put it down" and, frankly, I After he' advantages in speed, absence of ped in this case, and was unplaced, cres, is seen not only from the sur- he himself has invented.
could not lay aside this, Miss trouble, in comfort even, which no of the field of 19, including Miss rounding country, but from every has torn these to shreds he leaves
Askwith's first novel (not in colla- conceivable angle above. This gives standing out saliently his own disi ground vehicle can equal. The re- Fidelia Crossley in Compor
boration), until I had understood sult is evident in the traffic returns. Swift, which started from Brook. unrivalled opportunities in masscovery of facts that are old to those
and proved the full purpose of the The British company, Imperiai lands soon after noon, all but oneing and in ordered lay-out, while who know, Latin America.
title. This is a brave, unflinching problems connected with the many main thesis, as hinted in the Inte Airways, carried more than 1,300 completed the 283 miles course. passoligers a week on the cross Mr. H. C. Mayers in a Compor ground activities offer scope to the of the volume, is that four or five tale, and the daring young author t is a novelist of exceptional per. Latin-American republics are leav Channel routes during the month Swift just missed finishing, but his of July, and over the recent holida, forced landing was made in a' fleld
"An airport, to be either efficient ing what he calls "Latin America, formance and promise,” week-end that average was greatly close to the aerodrome at Cram-or beautiful, must work to a master and are now becoming full-fledged MAIDS AND MISTRESSES. By Beatrice
Keau Seymour. surpassed. On one day well ove-lington.
plan which should be worked out in
nations. In other words, there is, i This is a tale with love, or ra considerable detail, but be sur/according to Mr. Norton, a "Latin thor sex, as its main theme. Here
!
most acute brain.
200 travelled between London and:
Clever Handicapping. Paris in British air-liners ; ́ al- together they carried in four daya
The winner conceded 20 minutes on this one route no fewer than start to Lieutenant Colonel L. A. 674, while the Loudon-Brie route Strange, who was first away in his accounted for 103 more. That the Spartan, and eventually took Switzerland service meets an ur fourth place; Mr. Runcimian gave gent need is evident from the him 38 minutes; Mr. Maxwell gave and architect, and the same brains mounting totals of passengers, car 32 minutes; and Mr. Kennard, who should as far as possible control all subsequent work."! Nearly 2,000 ried in the Imperial planes-from came in fifth, just failed to make 440 in June to 755 in July. By air, up the five minutes start he had to airports have been laid out in the the entire journey from the Eng. give. The handicapping, with the United States, he added, the ma lish capital to Basle only, occupies evidence of the King's Cup race jority, for air line services. 5 hours; passengers leave the to help, was admirably done by London airport at 8.30 am, and land in Switzerland at 2 p.m.
Ten Years Ago—And Now.
Messrs. Dancy and Rowarth, The first three machines arrived within a minute of each other and the next two were only a few minutes later.
BRITISH 'PLANE WINS.
INTERNATIONAL AIR RACE
ROUND THE ALPS.
HUNTING BIG GAME BY 'PLANE.
HUSTLE TRIPS TO HEART OF AFRICA.
Throughout Europe
Airways offeinla #re
*His
many
1
Sally is one of those proterna- -
ficiently flexible to absorb unfore. America" in which is found the'
we watch the failure of two mar American-conceived; seen developments not only in the conventional, airport but in the aircraft itself. type of Latin-American nation, and ages through the eyes of Sally, la housemaid, 'who incidentally has The master plan is best achieved as nations therein reach a certain by collaboration between owner, au point of development they censo to bar own affairs of the heart,.......... be Latin-American" and attain al thorities, aeronautical consultant,
higher level, where the sign of their turally wise domestics who con- arrival is the right to be called by veniently enable authors to unfold their own natiqual names. It is has made very effective use of her. their themes, and Mrs. Seymour too bad that Mr. Norton did not visit Latin America in 1810; 1825, In her first situation the husband 1850, 1876 or 1900, either in person her second, it is the wife who suf
is suffering from sex-repression; in or through books. If he had, it is doubtful whether he would have [] fers; in her third, she falls in love written "The Coming of South, borself with the son of the house; and in her fourth she becomes the America."
mistress of a lonely man, who 'dies It is lamentable from
| suddenly and leaves her destitute. points of view that books of this She had a wide range of ex- sort should be written. This pariences, in fact, and Mrs. Bey volume, intended primarily to mour is earnest and outspoken bring about a fuller understanding about the physical side of life. Imperial of the Latin-American peoplea, is
She is not particularly original, planning like so many volumes that have ap. I think, but her competence bus en- parties in which journeys by aizpeared on Latin America recently-abled her to write a sincere and way to the heart of Africa and Unintentionally they offend. Latinsalid story. game-hunting trips there in motor-
person who has cars are worked into general travel Americans. No
THE BLACK SWAN. By Rafael schemes. For example, from Brus- reached maturity and who has be- sels begin special hunting trips to haved as a mature individual. for "From the steru-sheets rose the
Brbatini. the Belgian Congo which are pos
whose accom- tall, alim, vigorous figure of a man sible because the out and return many years and the trip in one direction by sur-tion in informed circles, likes to silver lace. About his hat curled journeys by air take less time than plishments have achieved recogni in a suit of pale-blue taffetas with face transport, An expedition lasting 38 days provides 24 days in be interviewed by a reporter who to pale-blue ostrich plume, and the the very centre of the African then enthusiastically proceeds to hand he put forth...emerged from game-lands, 14 days only being claim him as a recent "find" of his a cloud of fine lace, taken up by travelling over a dis
"Thus the tance of more than 10,000 miles
| author, ...; striking the authentiù The air transport.company's Br It must be said that Mr. Nor. Sabatini pote at the outset, in- The race was reserved for mili-rangements includo carriage of mist are common. Inevitably, retary machines of the monoplane gans, revolvers and other huntington's description of the revolutions troduces us to Charles de Bernis, gularity suffered from the absence type. It was one of the events or of the air-liners and the transport plete and objective, but he need not ful fellow,
gear in the baggage compartments of 1930 and 1931 is accurate, com- buccaneer, exquisite, and a delight. of essential organisation and of ganised for the third international back to Europe by air of the much have gone to South America" to Harradine and a fatuous English- When the story opons Priscilla really efficient air transport craft, aeronautical meeting promoted by prized trophies of the chase.
get his material. The newspapers a sailing to London from carried all the information he need. Antigua, are captured by the re- ed when the revolutions “broke."
doubranie Tom Leach, one of the few pirates who had escaped Mor. In other respects, too, the author gan's Bourga of the Caribbean. has sought to be fair, but incom- De Bernis comes forward plote acquaintance with background Priscilla's champion and then be factors has marred his interpreta is a thrilling battle for su
premacy, in which Mr Sabstini ex- tion of foreground events. Char ploits his capacity for historical acteristics commonly attributed ar romance to the full, Chilcans are nesigned to Brazilians
A journey nowadays along any of the British air routes to the con- tinent provides much reason for thought and comparison to those travellers who made their first flights on the regular air services ten or more years ago. Then the aeroplanes employed were in the main converted war types. They were noisy, if multi-engined they
Monday.-A British were slow, and the possibility of Hawker Fury machine with a improving the cabin accommodation Rolls-Royce engine to-day won the was glaringly obvious Systems of great international air race round
the Alps. dlight control and of weather in formation were rudimentary. Ex- The pilot was M. Chintitch, 5 perience and instruments lacked Yugo Slav. He covered the course for "blind" dying of the kind that of about 230 miles in 68 minutes is frequently necessary in a part 38.8 seconds...
of the world where low cloud and
Zurich,
and for some years he who flew the Swiss Aero Club.
might reasonably adopt the man": ner of one who dared a great ad- venture.
Today all that is changed
The course was Dubendorf-Thun Bellinzone-Dubendorf,
Travellers are carried swiftly in bird is gaining height rapidly ovar large motor coaches from the control the edge of the aerodrome on the of London to the aerodrome, where way to Paris. they are passed quickly through the Inside the saloon conversation is imposing booking ball and passport easy, because location of the passen offices to the tarmac "apron" which ger quarters below the wings and is the equivalent of the platform at away from the plane of rotation of
a railway station. Without either the airscrews makes for relative bustle or delay they are guided-quiet, There is little movement, if they are "travelling British”— oven in rough weathor; the huge iato a huge four-angined biplans machine takes no notice of air dis. which has two luxurious saloon turbances sufficient to incommode cabins inside the shapely hall. Ex. the occupants of smaller craft. And actly to the second the signal to the journey is quickly over; fre start is given the four engines quently in less than two hours after burst into their song of power, and ascending from Croydon the air a few seconds later the giant metal liner is gliding into land at Le Continued at Yoot of next column.)1 Bourget airport-225 mile away,
PARACHUTE END OF RECORD FLICHT.
FRENCHMAN, ABANDONS
'PLANE AFTER ESTAB-
LISHING NEW.
SPEED.
Own.
ing the world's air speed record for checked more accurately.
Etampes, Aug. 31.-After break-Also, certain facts might have been
500 kilometres with a load of 500 kilogrammes, the French airman Haeglen was unable to land owing to a log. After waiting a while he mado a safe parachute descent. His machine suffered only slight damage.
NEW NOVELS.
Ours is an age of introspection Haeglen to-day reached a speed and of the pursuit of obscurity for- of 177.09 miles an hour, which imits own Baker Modern novelists are proves by nearly six miles an hour the old mark of 171.40 miles an not happy unless they can double hour, established by Calla, a Czeck the mystery of creation. They can aviator. However, as the French not bear the notion that characters point, the new record set up by him may be simpler, not profounder, man did not land at the starting to-day cannot count officially,
than they seem.
He has had many resounding ené- cesses in this particular line of fiction, but one is inclined to the belief that The Black Swan" is the best book he has written. It has actuality, drama, and, above. all, narrative interest which carries the reader breathlessly on.
THE WAR.
SUBMERORD. BE
Ellabe
~ (Hunt and Blackett). ONE LIVES TO TELL THE TALE
E. Gilligan (Cape
Cmdr. E. Ellsberg, U.S.N., who will be remembered the author
of "On the Bottom, an opio story. (Continued on Page Three)