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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS "WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1932.
AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.
EIGHT MILES HIGH
SCIENTIFIC RESULTS OF MR. UWINS ASCENT
SPEED POSSIBILITIES ABOVE
40,000 FEET
RIVAL TYPES IN AIRCRAFT
WHERE THE BIPLANE
SCORES
:
INCREASED AIR TRAFFIC
IMPERIAL AIRWAYS MAKES
RECORD FOR YEAR
OPERATIONS IN 3 CONTINENTS
London, October 25.-The "air-
2,000 FEET UP WHEN PROPELLER BREAKS
CROWDS WATCH PILOT'S AMAZING ESCAPE FROM DEATH
Crowds of people watching the flight of an aeroplane at Laurieston were amazed and alarmed to as a
blade of the propeller break off and erash to the ground.
The plane, which was an R.A.F. machine, was flying 2,000, fect up. By a display of cool daring and skill the pilot not only averted
For twenty-five years there has been rivalry between the biplane In the stratosphere, the region Mid the monoplane, writes Major more than eight miles above the C. Turner, Daily Telegraph earth reached by Mr. C. F. Uwins Aviation Correspondent. It con- when he obtained for Great Britain tinues with increasing kennces, and nindedness" of the people of crash but performed a perfect land- In addition to the pilot an oly the world's height record, flying now waivers the whole field, from Great Britain is increasing, accord.
to the 35-ing to a speech delivered by the porver was in the machine, and conditions are strangely altered the "light aeroplane
chairman at the annual meeting both had remarkable escapes, and some curious effects are notice-tenner.
Shortly after the propeller broke Both in America and in Franco to-day of Imperial Airways. Over able, Mr. Uwins, at a luncheon
ing.
SPENDING WITHOUT
AUTHORITY
CRITICISM OF BOARD OF EDUCATION
LEGISLATION ANTICIPATED
An expenditure by the Board of Eddeation of £300,000 in antici- pation of legislation" is criticised in the report just published of the - Select Committee of Public Ac counts,
The Committee state:-"An ex-· ample is afforded by the expediture
tion of the passing of the Bill to raise the school leaving age. The extra sum so spent cannot be stat. od neduracy.
incurred by the Boaril of Editen-
"It was pointed out on behalf
given in his honour at Bristol dur. efforts are being made to produce twice as many people were flying to the remainder of the mechanism of the Board that additional tea ing the week, said that, at 43,976 Fighters and Day Bombers for the the Continent from London, he said, situated in the "nose" of the chers and buildings were required feel, which is the altitude ofcially respective Air Forces which will at compared with the number. five years machine fell to the ground.
recorded after the readings of the least equal the British Fury and scaled, barographs had been cor Firefly single-seaters and the Hart rected by the National Physient and Fox two-seaters. The principal Imboratory, cables, such as those U.S.A. and French designs are used for operating the ailerons, monoplanes. The British machines, shrunk as much as a quarter of an by far the best of their classes in, inch and this shrinkage had to be the world, are biplanes, allowed for before the machine started.
Another thing is the largo cor rection for speed. The air speed: indicator in Mr. Uwins' Vickerı "Vespa acroplane showed only
53 milca nn hour when he was at the top of his climb; but corrected
*
ago.
He disclosed that during the past year machines belonging to Im perial Airways, flew 1,794,000 miles as against 1,200,000 miles in the preceding twelve-month, while the
com- mails accounted to 70 tons
pared with 50 tons in the preceding
The company, he continued, was
The new Short military six-en-year. gined flying-boat is a biplane. Other British Aying boats, which are fore-operating in 10 different countries in three continents and its machines most in design and operation, are also: biplanes. The German Do-X wore flying an average of 8,009 flying-boat, which is far from being miles a day.
a complete success, is nominally a
Beemed to Stagger. Momentarily the 'plano seemed
to stagger, but apart from losing little height the piloo quickly had
it under control. He procceded to glide in a circular course, and came slowly down to earth in a field at Newhouse Farm. A large number of eye-witnesses of the thrilling in cident rushed to the scene. By the to they arrived the pilot and the observer had left the machine.
He stressed as a The blade of the propeller was matter of immediate importance to found in a plot of ground at New-
for atmospheric pressure and den-monoplane, but it has auxilinrycivil aviation in all countries that lands Cottage. After a search the
carrying the six pairs of engines,
without delay.
on
stub wings below the main wing, the draft convention sity in a manner similar to that and over all is an auxiliary wing taxation should be given applied to the barograph readings, to some- the actual speed comes thing in the region of 130 miles an lour. It is in the reduction in
The Blackburn Aeroplane Co. was commissioned by the Air Ministry
double
in any event for the development of the accepted policy. It was ad- mitted, however, that one item of expenditure had been incurred in anticipation of legislation, amount- ing to £300,000 a year at the pre-
sent time.
"Although this money and other sums not identifiable have by no means been wasted by reason of the failure of the Education (School * . Attendance) Bill to pass, it is clear that they would not have been spent had the rejection of the Bill been foreknown,
"Against Sound Finance." remainder of the propeller was “Although the estimates wara du- effect found embedded three feet deep inly sabmitted to the House and in
New 'Plans Ordered. London, October 25.-The con-
drag, and therefore in resistance to build a monoplane and' a biplane struction is nearing completion of f
to forward motion through the
similar in power, load, fuselage,
E fast mail-carrying aeroplane,
air, that occurs at great heights and general equipment, in order ordered as an experiment by the!
that some engineers foresee a meani
of obtaining speeds undreamt of up to the present and the Vickers "Vespa's" flight has done some thing to forward their projects.
Some idea of the problems be fore Mr. Roy Fedden, the designer
11
į
the bean field of Newlands Farm, about 600 yards distant from the
blade.
LAW'S INVASION OF LIBERTY
LORD OF APPEAL'S VIEW
frequent debates the facts of the position were disclosed, the process is a plain offence against sound and ocenomical finance."
The subject, arose when the Com- mittee, with Sir Arthur Michael Samuel as chairman, was investi- gating the trading accounts of the Board of Education for 1930. Bir Arthur, according to the published -
that complete operational tests Air Ministry from Messrs. Bolton might be made. The biplane was and Paul, Limited.
The machine will have a top shown at this year's R.A.F. dieplny. It is a twin-engined machine of an speed; of 195 miles an hour, a all-on weight of nearly 5 tons. cruising speed of 172 miles an hour,
The tendency of modern law to evidence; pointed out that in go- The comparison monoplane is now and a range of 1,000 miles.
interfere in the ordinary affairs of ing through the accounts with the nearly ready for tests
It is a biplane with two Bristol citizens was a subject raised by Comptroller and Auditor-General The fastest aeroplane in the Pegasus engines, and will carry Lord Macmillan, a Lord of Ap- (Mr. G. C. Upcott) he discovered of the Bristol "Pegasus" engine world is the Schneider Trophy 2,000 lbs. of rails and will have pent-in-Ordinary, in a talk on the what he thought was a serious mat- with which the Vickers "Vespa winner, the Supermarine. Rolls
the Board with Treasury sanction is fitted many be had from the fact Royce seaplane. In 1931, as in Apparatus enabling mails to ie law which was broadcast by theter, that money had been spent by
dropped and picked in flight..
"Nowadays," he said, the law without. the authority of Parlia that, at 18,000 fent, the ordinary 1920, Great Britain won the contest
ment. concerns itself with all sorts of unsupercharged epgino. rolying with monoplanes. The outstanding purely upon aspiration for filling quality of theso craft was their
things it never bothered about in' the cylinders with mixture, will spood, to which other requirements
former times, such as the quality of milk, the size of lobsters, the give, only half the power it gives were sacrificed; but it nerd hardly,
hours within which you may buy near the ground; while at 40,000 be said that both in the case of
chocolates or cigarettes, feet the power will fall off to about fighting planes and civil aircraft a seventh of what it was near the other considerations than ground. The Bristol supercharger speed are important. prevents this reduction in power occurring..
Lessons of the Fight
A great deal of valuable informa tion has been gained by this flight, much of it being immediately ap plicable
and to Servico civil ninchines. The Vickers "Vespa " aeroplane, for instance, is a typo that is find particularly suitable for operation in places where the aerodromes are situated high above nen lovel. The machine has those
mero
ROYAL AIR FORCE
UNITS TO REMAIN IN IRAQ.
B.B.C.
How far ought this interference of the law to be carried?
Sir Arthur, according to the re- part, called upon Mr. Upcott to ex- plain to the Committee precisely what had happened, and Mr. Up-. cott said that the Board in this caso had spent money in advance of the legislative authority which was being sought,
study, in popular lectures and 50 per cent, grant. Also, in 1990, manuals. Indeed, of all our great they admitted 1,000 additional stu- national institutions the law is the dents to training colleges, costing least understood. Yet it is the most as a head for two years, in anti- fundamental of all, for it is the cipation of the increased demand very basis of our social life.”
for school teachers when the school There was a time, he said, when age should be raised.
The coming into force of the treaty by which Iraq becomes an
While you are all presumed at The Board of Education. Mr. independent State and a massaber The biplane has the novantage of of the League of Nations will not your peril to know the law, the oild Upcott added, had raised the rate the possibility of securing a greater make any immediate difference to thing is that no steps whatever are of grant from the Exchequer from total wing area for a given wing the position of the R.A.F. units taken by anybody to tell you any 20 per cent, to 50 per cent, caus- span. The wings are mutually sup there. This will continue as at pre- thing about it. The law is not ing a considerable increase in capi
taught in our schools, nór it is ex-tal expenditure of local authorities porting and can be made relatively sent for another five years light for a given strength. The The responsibility for the defence pounded, like other bratches of towards which the Board paid a monoplane's wings, on the other of Iraq was handed over in 1922 hand, must either be strongly and to the R.A.F., which became the heavily built on the cantilever prin- principal arm in the defence of the ciple, or else must have exterior country from external aggression struts, which increase both weight and in the maintenance of order Four land among the tribesmen. and resistance.
Generally speaking, if due regard bomber squadrons are maintained, qualities of climb that enable it to be paid to strength, the monoplane Nos. 58 and 70 at Hianaidi, No. law was not thought too technical
a subject even for! take off easily with an ample mar will have a higher wing-loading 30 at Mosul, and No. 84 at Shaiated abstruso gin of lift in the most adverso than the biplane of equal speed, bah; and there is also a Aying-beat school instruction. "An Act of Par- conditions. Mr. Rex Pierson is the which means that, it takes off and squadron, No. 903, at Bar of cliament of 1404 required the rudi- ments of it to be e taught to boys of designer of the Vickers "Vespa" lands at greater speed. If, as in chango in due to be made in this or-
ganization. and shortly after the machine had usually the case, the monoplane is
In December Air Vice-Marshal Ea certain age.
"But that," he added, "was in been brought out it was adopted a low-resistance design, it "fonts" Ludlow Hewitt will relinquish the command in Iraq on his selec by the Irish Free State and by a long way in the air near the tion as Director of Operations and Scotland where, I believe, they have His a natural aptitude and appetite for Bolivia na an Army Co-operation ground as it comes into land and Intelligence, Air Ministry.
is Vice Marshal C. Saw." aircraft. In Bolivia the maxbing takes the ground or the water at sucesor works from an aerodrome 10,000 high speed. This is a disadvantage feet above sea level...
both in military and civil aircraft. A good deal of information has
Nothing has yet occurred in air-AN AIR PORT FOR ESSEX also been obtained by this flight
craft development to disprove the on the method of keeping the pilot contention that the biplane, in nay warm and arranging for him to bolsas, should have a better landing supplied with oxygen in a manner performanos, and carry a bigger that is both Bale and convenient
to use. A failure of either the load, than the monoplane. heating apparatus or of the oxygen
Burnett.
LORD, MAYOR GOES BY "PLANE:
General R. B. Colvin
Displays and Races.
ANGLICAN SYNOD AT SYDNEY
FREEDOM OF GOVERNMENT FROM PARENT BODY
Sydney, Oct. 22.The Anglican Synod to day completed the new constitution ter the Anglican Church in Australia,
In Komford a luncheon will be given by Mr. Edward Hillman, the
The main change is that the proprietor of the serodrome, who is church in Australia will have com- also a pioneer of inexpensive air plete freedom of government irre- taxi services. In the Market Place spective of any law or statute made a parade of 35 cars of the Veteran in England, but will majotain un- London, October 2-A big flying Car Club will be held
swerving allegiance to the faith, meeting, the main object of which
Despite an eloquent ples by the is to advance the claim of Essex supply would have serious conse-national regulations between one
Bishop of Goulburn, the Synod de
tire At the aerodrome, which, by the cided that the WON Kont quences at a height of more than record and the next is therefore for a Customs air port, such as
inopper- -40-000-foot It was in order to amply covered. The new British Surrey, Middlesex, and*
Homford. guard against all possible risks that record, besides adding the second already possess, is to be bold at way, in not the aerodrome to hetons to miske plans-for-a-now.cather chosen as the Air Port of Essex, dral at Canberra or to consider the Mr.. Uwina had a special switch of the three most covered world's The Lord Mayor of London (Sir
a large and varied selection of air creation of a new bishopric for the fitted to the control stick of the air records to the country's soore, Maurice Jenks), Lady Jenks, and acroplane for switching off the en also brings clorer the tune when the sheriffs and their ladies will craft will give exhibitions and bold Federal Territory.
races. A RAF, flight of "Bull- gine if he lost consciouances. the layers of rarefied air at great arriro at the aerodrome by air.
They will fly from Heston aero
of public servants and their conso- heights will be used standard The official figure of 48,916-16-maty wnd and by the drome in a Spartan Cruiser and dog" fighters from Hornchurch the drastic reduction in the salaries Westland Wessex and they will give a display of sorchotics, quent, inability to send their chil- beats the previous world's height the view of many experts that will have an aerial escort They ad No. 600, City of London, Auxi-dren to private schools, the Angli
can Grammar School established in record by nearly 800 feet. The tensive developinents in the way of
will be recived by the Lord increasing normal working heights vargin demanded in the inter-are likely to take piece in the Lieutenant of the county, Brigliary Squadron will carry out for
(Continued as foot of next column)mation manœuvres.
It is stated that, as the result of
Canberra is threatened with finan
cist difficulty,