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Señor de la Cierves's autogiro flying machine, known as the "fly. ing windmill," which derives its lift from a three-bladed rotor! turning horizontally ou a vertical standard above the body of the machine, has entered upon a new development.
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A new type is to be produced
London, August 18.
LONDON, August 20, Arrival at the London terminal There are an increasing number of travellers nowadays who, when aerodrome, Croydon, of "Atalan making long journeys, siek variety ta," first of the 'fleet of eight Arm- while in transit by so arranging an strong Whitworth monoplanes in-
tended for the African routes of with a two-bladed rotor and with stage by train, another by air, and Imperial Airways, heralds a new out auxiliary wings, while it has perhaps a third by sea. Such airer in air transport. Weighing been found possible to dispense rail-sea trips, with the novelty they will full load on board nearly with portions of the control system. afford, are indeed, now growing eight tons od crvising at two Weight, has thus been saved, and it very greatly in popularity; and, mites a minute, these are tho has been possible to improve the such being the case, it is interesting swiftest air transport planes of machino's performance at the same to note that when, na from Sep- comparable size yet to emerge from time.
aircraft factory, Following tember, a now desert air service an
It is expected that it will be pos- duplicating the existing service trial flights in and around London,sible to put the machine on the is to be operated by Imperial Air-during which the first machine will market a half the price of the ordi- ways between Palestine and Iraq, be flown by several of the senior mary light aeroplane, and that it passengers travelling by this route, pilots of the British company, the will have a top speed of about ** Atalanta”. will probably be will, when either eastward or west
eighty miles per hour. ward bound, be able to utilise air.placed for an experimental period on the London-Cologne service. Sha craft, steamer, and train, in a com-
is certain to set new speed records bined journey offering many advan-
for the inter-city distance of 320 tages and attractions.
miles.
The oxisting autogiro has already won much support, and it has been made familiar to the public at R.A.F. displays. It can take off from a small space, and in landing stops almost as soon as it reaches the ground. Its principle has re- ceived the approval of the most ominent aeronautical scientists.
AN AEROPLANE FOR £275
BOOKS and READERS
THREE NEWS NOVELS
YOUNG LOVE IN NEW YORK country leave him a better, wiser,
FOREVER AND EVII. By Warren Spencer. London: Methuen
and more unselfish man, but that is all. The originality of the book lies in its angle of presentation. Most war books, whether fact or and Co.. Pp..280. 7. ed. not..
fiction, aro Impressionistic accounts The opinion of Mr. Theodore of the horrors of the trenches; but Dreiser, quoted on the jacket, is here the subject is seen from the
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that this is a situation handled points of view of those who were honestly and with sound psychology not actually fighting but directing. and natural and proper emotion," events. Hence all its characters mo- (financiers, politicians, and soldi The situation "is that
with Ch foiled marriage ers) are persons in high places, ther deliberately set out to make Con- and many of them are real per- stance distrust all men," nor is sons, while all are mature, the there evidence that this curious youngest middle-aged. They are and bitter mother oither opposed, behind the scenos, in possession of her daughter's marriage or had, knowledge which was never made James public while the war was in pro the humanity to warn against the poison in the minit of gress. And undoubtedly, told thus, the girl he was warrying. That, the whole thing sequires a new if no doubt, is a “situation," but we less emotional interest. It would feel it a palpably manufactured have been more impressive still but one, while the climax about the for an occasional hint of the Ger- suicide of an hysterical girl who man bogy, who, whether real or conceived a romantic passion for imaginary, might now be forgotten. James arising out of a short story Nothing is to be gained by reviv
tion. We are, farther, bothered by he wrote seems a desperate Invening these old rancours.
Mr. Waytemore has studied all a point which apparently did not the available sources of informa bother Mr. Dreiser that is, the tion, his style is lucid, and his marriage is celebrated in a Roman
The grasp of his material firm. Catholic church. If in New York i
result is a fascinating book, though heretics can drop into such a church
we think it would have been equal- just to be married we waive the ly fascinating, and to the student point. But if not, if these people more valuable, had it been pure
cious
ye splendidly streamlined, fuselage containing space sufficient for luxurious accommodation of up to seventeen passengers and their luggage, as well as much urgent START OF THE FLYING FOR are Roman Catholics, isn't Con-
ALL ERA.
The cheap light aeroplane, which should bring flying within the means of most car owners, is about to be produced in England.
It is to be an open; two-seater
magio Townend ring which was in vented in Great Britain to lessen the air resistance of this type of nero power unit. With throttles monoplane of low wing design, and half-closed these engines will drive it is hoped to market it at the the great pinnes through the air at record low price of £275.
The
Travellers by this service from
No more beautiful big commer- London will, for example, accom- plish their first stage to Paris incial aircraft have been built. Air
borne on a pair of cantilever wings one of the big luxury air liners. Then, changing from airway to which have no unsightly external railway, they will proceed by train bracing wires or struts is a capa- either to Trieste or Brindisi. Here n change will be made to one of the steamships of the Lloyd-Triesting Company, and in this vessel a' sea section will be affected to Jaffa, Palestine, where motor-chis will freight and mail. Four aircooled convey passengers to the air-station 340 h.p. "Double Mongoose motors. at Ramleh; from which point the are located in the leading, or front, |new desert air service operates east edges of the wings, each surrounded bound cach Monday to Baghdad, at its greatest diameter by return flight being scheduled every Wednesday. This service provides a cheaper though somewhat slower route from Europe to drag than is given by the all-air service, while, at the same time, it is quicker than the all-surface route and avoids the surface arossing of the desert,
The advantages of making a trans-desert journey by air are in installation and security in light The now light plane will be easy dicated sufficiently by the fact that are implicit in this large power reto fly, simple to maintain, and will ona flies from Ramleh to Baghdad: norve
have low retrol consumption. in 7 hours, sa compared with a Conditions prevailing along the Ita top-apsod is expected-to-be two days trip by motor-car, while route between, Cairo and Cape about 76 miles an hour and its slow air travellers avoid, of course, the Town, where many of the aero-landing speed will permit of des hent and discomfort of surface dromen are located more than 5,000 travel across the desert.
feet above sea-level, were the first Passengers who make this air-ses. considerations in designing the rail journey in a, westbound dires" Atalanta "class machines. Thus tay in hours from Baghdad every neroplans in the fleet will be to Galilee, where they are tran- sported by car to the Haifa sea able to maintain height with any port to join a Lloyd-Triestino unte engine stopped up to 0,000 feet, steamer for Brindisi or Trieste.
and the power is sufficient to Apart from its attractions for
facilitate trouble-free ascents from tourists and travellers, - the new service should render. far easier
aerodromes as much as 7,000 feet and quicker the, journeys of Iraq high, even at the hottest hours of a officials to and from Europa and central African: day: also to Cyprus; while it may also cuable to Iraq Administration to accelerate mail transport.
120 mp. though they are then cheapeat English light aeroplane producing only 60 per cent, of full available now, is a single-seator power; long "life" of the power monoplane, costing £550,
Bpeeding the Airway,
Commissioning of these new machines is likely to result in im
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Cape Town air service. At present
the through journey occupies eleven
history.
LIFES ROUGHER SIDE
The Loans By Bridget Lowry.
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stance'a abnormal jealousy some: thing about which her priest would ranke efforts1 As a fack, the "For ever and Ever" of the title refera not to the indissolubility of Roman
London: Hodder and Stough. Catholle marriages but to the hold of Constance. upon James in spite
ton. Pp. 320. 7. 8d.. pet. of all the suffering the causes him,
This first novel 'has most of the and that marriage in a Roman virtues and faults of inexperience, Catholic church is simply an inci- On the credit side it in honest and dental but enigmatic irrelevancy. simple, full of earnest conviction;
As a problem-novel, then, we have against it there is a lack of the theme of two young people very portion and form. Through
part of much in love with one another, it the author seems to w Constance tortured by knowing between comedy and tragedy; -as that James, attractive to women, though. she felt uncertain just has had affairs before he met her, what kind of book she wanted to and James faithful and offended by write. In the end she plumps for her obsession: and in keeping their woe and deals it out with emotions young Mr. Spencer scores erous hand. Only one of thoac cents on small fields.
a success... We prefer, however, to carthquakes or shipwrecks now for--** With it will be sold a light trailer regard the book less as problem-bidden to noválists could have fin novel than as peephole into New ally disposed of her characters for towing the aeroplane behind a ear from the family garage to any York. The surrounding circum- more thoroughly. Drowning, in- hold suitable for taking off The stance is better than the gimcrack sanity, divorce, drunkenness, death production model is expected to be situation the characters of the at the birth of a thirteenth child: naively unscrupulous New with these large weapons Mrs. ready for flying tests within the sa.
York business world, the Lowry wipes out the inhabitants of next few weeks
drama of the Wall Street a little bungalow town on the coast. crash which put James
and still manages to weare an at-
NEW AERO CLUB FOR MANCHESTER
A gen-
publicity agent out of employment, mosphere of happy. Christian sheer
round the whole cataclysm. Naj the unconquerable, optimism of a movie king in exile. The reality one but the novice would be brave of these people combines with the enough to do it. The result will FOUR MACHINES AND TWO drive of the narrative to give life probably make a capable novel fali
PILOTS.
A now Manchester Acro Club,
| days, a time schedule which places with headquarters at Manchester
the air service far ahead of the
With Airport, Barton, will hold its first quickest purfaco transport added experience of the African meeting at the airport on Septem route and the superior speed of the ber a, the day of the Manchester- new material the journey may come
down to nine days. Much depends Liverpool sir race. The airport is on the work done in draining the the control station this year at aerodromes along the northern see which competing machines will NEW DANCES — IEW-COSTUMES - tions of the African airway ;, it
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they can be made ressonably dry at stop for an hour in the course of all seasons of the year there is no the race, and the occasion is insuperable barrier to the employ thought to be highly suitable for ment" of the new high-speed Arm-
strong Whitworth passenger car such a meeting. riers all along the 5,800 miles separating the Cape from Cairo.
to a book of which we found the central problem credible perhaps and tiresome certainly.
between two classes of readers, Those who like their reading wo cause them no uneasiness will suf for some shocks before the end, and the sockers after realism may grow impatient of the rosy insistence that everything works out for the best in this best of all possible worlds. The author must have got. A good deal off her mind in writ- THE PROFITERE. A tale of
Home Front. By Godfrey Waying this book. Her second attempt
should have more balance,
THE WAR: BEHIND THE
SCENES
the
A LAME BOY'S STORY
New LIVES..
tomore. London: Wright and Brown. Pp. 392. 8. 6d. net. One-questions if Mr. Waytemore has gained anything by writing The Profiteer" in the form of The movement to promote this
novel. Well, probably he will new olah began about a month ago, and there are now ninety gain some additional readers, but members. - Application for men truth certainly in this book is bership are coming in fast as the stranger than fiction, and we conditions become more widely should have preferred it unmixed, known, and temporary club accom- The fiction (Reggland's relations modation" has been arranged at with Ango and Lady Henry); boys, the children of his wife's sis- Photo the Air Port Hotel. Negotiations though competent, is somewhat com ter, who have been brought up in Basingstoke. The propeller of for the building of a clubhouse monplace, whereas the picture of Paris but now are orphaned Flight Lieut. G. H. Stainforth's adjoining the aerodrome are now life in England during the years naroplane, which broke away when ge
LOST PROPELLER
FOUND AFTER TRAVELLING 8 MILES FROM STAINFORTH'S PLANE
the machine was about two miles in progress, and the club is start-
in the air, was found in a field at ing with four or five machines at of the world war is very well done Bramley, Ave miles north of Bring-ite dispon
dont with indeed.
stoke, two days later by children;
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ACCOMPANIED AT THE PIANO (jeller, broke away, and in hurtling may be
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