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NEW BRITISH TRIUMPH
ORDERS FROM BRAZIL, PORTUGAL AND IRAQ
THE ZENITH CUP
BRITISH 'PLANE WINS RACE ROUND FRANCE
For the fourth year in succes- sion a British light 'plane has won Landon, Oct. 20.-Orders received the arduous race round France for in the last three weeks by the do the Zenith Cup, this time in the Havilland company for the supply hanth of Mr. Datmyat, a well-
military aircraft to Brazil, Por-
kuown French test pilot, who was
of
BOOKS and READERS
APRES NOUS?
(MAN TECHNICS by 0. Spengler London: George Allen Cand Unwin, /-)
(THE VISION OF ASIA by L Cranmer-Byng London: John Murray, 18/-)
TWO STUDIES.... COURAGE AND. DESPAIR
dian tes, noglected Chiness land- scape-painting and laughed at the excellent object lesson in the valuo of leisure. The other is to credit
the Chinese with thought and reli- gion. The Chinese are utterly un- religious, and the nature of their language prevents any but the greatest intellects from doing any
at an inquest at Godalming, on tugal and Iraq constitute the Intest
That European Civilization is constructive or speculative thinking · Flying Officer A. W. B. Page (1) triumph of the British aircraft in accompanied by two passengers in
decaying is, alas, no longer à mat- of any depth. and Pilat Officer B. H. Gully (21).
dustry in the fierce competition of a "Pass Moth" monoplane.
This time the winning craftter of doubt. But many thinking| But why I suggest the book Gully remained at the controls, international trade. Altogether 38 while Page, refused to leave until aeroplanes will be delivered to meet covered the distance of 1000 miles Europeans are oxorcised in their should be banned is because the in 9 hours 10 mibutes-including al) | minds as to whether the existing author denies his European birik- the four aircraftmen jumped, and the new contracta:
stop-equivalent to Д average oivilization will be replaced, as right and seeks after the obscent- he went oves the side the bomber
Brazil, encouraged by the highly overall speed of 113 m.p.h., and seems at the moment inevitable, by ties of philosophical nihiliam as ex- was too near the ground for his¦zatisfactory performance in the. parachute to open,
Army and Navy Air Services of deutpassing with case every other the gradual expansion of enlight presset in Lao Tzu's doctrine of aeroplane enterod for the, contest. ened communism through reason-Wa Woi." What if we are doom- Havilland aircraft supplied within The aeroplane was the same manly competent bureaucracies or ed? There is still red wine! "And the last twelve months, has ordered chine as was flown by Mr. Boris, whether other solutions are pos- shall the civilisation that produc
more machines, Twelve of these
Gilbert
The coroner said that Pilot Of cer Gully was so badly burned that it would be necessary to identify
ed the Catholic Church, Chivalry bim by a driving licence found on are "Moth" trainer biplanes simi- its owner, more than 1,000 miles in sible,
We have here two books courage and Music take refuge in Oriental his body.
lar to craft previously despatched eight bours in the course of the F.to Rio de Janeiro, five of them great Clermond Ferrand relay in ously attempting to deal with this Pacifism Spengler's conclusion is Squadron Lender
July
problem. "Man and Technics" is, far better: We are born into Smylle, who represented No. 59! "Tiger Math" training 'planes
The suxcasion of British victories like the author's Decline of the this and must bravely follow the Bombing Squadron, to which the and the remaining five are the new dard officers belonged, stated that Fox Moth biplanes which in in the Zenith series of contests was West, a depressing and irritating path to the destined end. There is the machine was a Vickers-Virginia civil form represent the nearest ap-begun in 1929 by Mr. H. S. Broad, book, depressing because it con- no other way. Our duty is to hold Bomber. Before it left Worthy proach to the aerial limousine of Chief test pilot of the de Havilland elusively shows that the Faustian on the lost position without hope, Down all the regulation inspec- moderate power that the aircraft company, and continued in 1930 civilization, as Spengler calls the without rescue ............. That is tions were carried out. It was a constructors of the world have yet and 1031 by Mr. Edouard Bret, a Western European civilization that greatness."- middle-aged machine. Flying Off-produced. The Brazilian govern- well-known French air enthusiast cer Page, who was in chargo, badment has naked for the "Fox Moth" and owner pilot of a "Puss Moth." down it before.
craft to be fitted with fonts, which This year Mr. Detroyat's machine means prasamably that they will be was the only British cadrant, a fact added to the air fleet of the Brazi which emphasises the completeness linn Navy..
Corp. Frederick E. Brooks (one of the survivors said that he could throw no light on the cause of the accident. "From the time they left Portugal is taking ten. "Tiger Worthy Down he noticed nothing Moth" planes and Iraq six of an unusual. "I had been watching! entirely now type of twin-engined the revolution indicators, and they biplane, styled provisionally the showed nothing out of the ordin- D.H. st. The degree of confidence
ry," he said.
of his victory.
GIANT LUXURY AIR LINER
AGREEMENT FOR NEW. BASE FOR SEVILLE, CONCLUDED
M. P. G.
at present dominates the world, That is what it means to be a was doomed to decay and is decay thoroughbred. The honourable end ing as its doom is irritating bo is the one thing that can not be cause, while the intellect is con- taken from a inan." vinced that he is right, one's feel- ing is that he is wrong, and also becauso one feels that a man of the author's
imental'
powers should be able to offer us some other comfort in the face of inevitable disruption than Alfred Lester's "A short life and a gay one." But it is a stimu- lating 'book and should certainly be read.
THE VISION OF ASIA
The Vision of Asia," on the
ASIA'S FUTURE
THE LOOM OF THE EAST. By F. Kingdon-Ward (Hopkinson. 51 net.)
In the hope that it will reawakeu more general intervat in Eastern affairs, Capt. Kingdon-Ward hna written this most thought-provok- ing book.
placed by foreign experts in British "We had just started to tako aasronautical products is implicit in alight turn to the left; which the fact that thess new orft were thought was a navigation detail, urdered "off the drawing board" when I saw Mr. Gully apparently on the strength solely of the com Driven by bending over his chart-board. We many's perilicntions.
two 130 b "Gipay Major air Friedrichshafen, November 16. were then 2,000 to 2,500 feet up..
cooled motors the D.H. 84 in civil An agreement providing for the
Drawing upon the knowledge and "Jump for It."'
form is to have a cabin with places establishment of an airship base in other hand, should be banned. It experience gained from nearly The next I noticed was one of for six occupante, who will be car cluding the construction of a meor-
is a cowardly, perverted and ignoranty years travel in the Esat the officers banging on the machine rind at high speed. The engines ing mast and sheds at Seville has rant book. The author, a Mr (experiences which some of as have with his hands to attract my at-will be installed in nacelles reating been concluded between Dr. Hugo Cranmer-Byng, is one of those peo- enjoyed with him through previous tention. I stood up in my cockpit on the lower wing. Those despat-Eckener and the Mayor of Seville, ple, all-too-common in modern books), he endeavours to traco and Flying Officer Page said some thed to Iraq will be filed to take according to an announcement in
Europe, who combine a
certain plainly the various political and thing like 'Jump for it. I had to guns, wireless gear and bomba. the Zeppelin Works made to-day. knowledge of things Chinese with a racial currents and cross-currents
fundamental ignorance 18 Powering all of the 38 craft will It is understood that the construe Chins. An example of this can be give to them their true proportions. to at present disturbing Asia, and to ed out before I could get through be "Gipsy" 120 or 130 h.p. motors, tion of the new berodrome will found in the frontispiece poor Much of the book, with India and the communicating door..
either in the upright or inverted taken in hand immediately and in "Then I signalled to Lewis and forms, the latter having the cylin competant quarters the view is held reproduction of a colour print China almost daily to the fore in (taken, I imagine, from the "Study the nows, has a strong topical in- the others to jump. Mr. Page ders below the crankcase, which is that this port will probably play an jumped off the right wing and I an arrangement making for better important role when the Gral Zep book nor the British Museum's and Far Easteru affairs are frank of the ten bamboos" neither this terest. His comments an Indian jumped off the port wing. The streamlining and improved view pelin. resumes its regular royag postcard of the same picture men and very much to the point. others, went off the fuselage. Lewis for the pilot in aircraft that carry was in the tail and had got away power unit in the nose of the by that time.
fuselage. "Gipay" engines, in ad. "When I left the 'plane Mr.dition to their employment in many Gully was sitting with one foot on British aircraft, are fitted to scores his sent, and I took it he was go of different types of aeroplane co ing to make a dive for it as soon astructed abroad. Their record in he could,"
wait until Mr. Gully had clamber-
When I heard the banging de de Havilland afroraft include two scribed by Brooks," he said, the of the greatest flights in the his engine was running all right, and I did not
tory of ayiation-Hinkler's and worry. Flying Officer
Tage shouted, 'Jump.” Mr. Q- Mallison's "lund" dressings of the
stood on top of the fuselage and South and North Atlantic Oceans, mado way for me to jump out. He did not go himself, but made was for me."
MARINE AIRCRAFT
to South America next year.
tions its origin) of the late 17th By that time the new dirigible, century and in the note thereonsoling to Englishmen. Of Japan ho
Nor are his opinions always con the 19th of the Zeppelin family,
...The masterpieces of the old
"
which is now nearing its compler dynasties are mostly too blurred tion in the Friedrichshafen yards, to give the general public much will probably he also in the air and idea of the joyous spirit they dis will use the new base. This new layed in line and colour.......
an
says that with each new war her
imh grow
more ambitions, her peace ferms more ruthlete.
"She knows exactly what she wants, how to get it, and when
Het dream she will get it.. of Oriental Empire is being slow- ly but surely realised, the Em- pire of the Pacific. Japan, Ko- ros, Manchuria, the Yangtze es tuary, Formosa-and Bine Bay to control the Canton Biyer under the guise of wiping out piracy. Then Hong Kong, the Philip. pines, and southward hot through the Indies, taking the peninsula of Indo-China in her stride. Vlt is no idle dres
dream. and
dirigible, which has been in the Thus to ignore the fact that Chin ranking, was almost entirely scrapese pictorial art was essentially a pad after the R-101 disaster and scholarly art, as opposed to was then rebuilt in accordance with artisan art, and that therefore co a now design based on the lessons lour was completely subordinated derived from that catastrophe in to the more susters and intellec respect of dangers accrueing from the use of hydrogen.
The new luxury liner will be filled Addressing the jury the coroner Flight" has been merged into with no inflammable helium gas said it was clear that a direct in "A," and fights of the and driven by crude oil-motors, thus timation Wad given to the men to Marine Aircraft Experimental reducing the danger of explosion to evidence showed that Mr. Page table Felixstowe, with effect.
First Aircraftman George H. Ralphs said that he noticed nothing happen to the plane except that it banked steeply.
get clear of the machine. The
know there was something' wrong.
The Flying Bant Development
from
RICH WOMAN IN AIR ** YACHT. *'
tuki beauty of black and white, is absolutely inexcusable in a book, the sub-title of which runs Interpretation of Chinese Art and Culture.""
The book is pleasantly written, despite rather frequent lapses into
*fins writing conciously anonymous quotations, and the thor seems to have a pleasant if effete mind. But he falls: somewhat into the trap of thinking the Ideal China of the Chinese philosopher- poeta to be a China that has so-} A wealthy American widow, Mrtually existed, and of adding his
CRUISE TO NEAR EAST
May 14, 1032. I think the jury will unhesitat The official name of the Fairey ingly agree with me," added the IIIF. niferaft atted with Panther coroner, "that in very difficult ciri- cumstances the action of both Mr. engines and supplied for the use of Page and Mr. Gully was partian the Fleet Air Az is "Seal." This larly heroic. It is another instan- name, states a new order, is to bo cs of the very fine tradition which used in all correspondence and re- bas always been associated with the Services.
ports relating to this type of air- He adjourned the inquest until craft. The new name is in accord. J. J. James, of Rownhams, near own imagination to that of the Tuesday, Nov. 22.
ance with the Air Ministry system Southampton, together with her son Chinese publicists in describing an of classifying typed by
by the initial and secretary, set out from South
FLYING AT 1,000 M.P.H.
REACHING AUSTRALIA FROM- EUROPE IN TWO "HOPE”.
letter of
under which their names Fleet spotter airbraft were to hayo names heginning with the letter
S
drosood the Rotary Club at Geo- The possibility of flying from long, Austrálið.
ampton for a pleasure oraise to the Near East in an air yacht, piloted by Capt. H. C. Biard, the Schnel der trophy moing pilot, who has a orew of two.
When the Japanese have rea- ched, the Amur, or before, they
will turn right about face, and advance south in overwhelming force, with a persistence, a re- lant ones, and a ruthlessness that the Western nations hardly yet, begin to understand.
has failed in the tropics-ng a reco, He thinks that the Englishman entirely mythical country. not as an individual. He has made comes no hearer to his ideals in
home in
for the Indian China than in any other country!
and in Maleya for the Chinaman. But lie has not made, one for him- The author makes two further self in the equatorial or monsoon The air yacht, which is an all-important mistakes. Ous is that belt, and so his days there so num-
bered: China has something to offer metal monoplane flying boat, in
The author does not agree that fitted with all the latest aircraft Europe: apart from Mystical Ex-
China's Limitatioga
in India was envisaged liy Ciptain change, that Professor "Junkers, the for generating electric light whilely all countries and is hinted at in the clash of civilisations. It is not Europe to Austrália with one stop. He doclared, according to devices, including a charging set perience, which is common to near- the troubles in the East gre due to
Hans Bertram, the German airmsa
who was missing on the north coast German aircraft designer, had near of Australia for woma wooks afterly completed
stratu
flying from Germany, when he ad-place tapable of a speed
bén:
1 (Continued at foot of 1271 Column) | Tween 200 and 1,000 miles an hour..
the water. The wireless set is arranged for las reception of broad Least, programmes
the penultimate Chapter of Reve-the clash of civilisations which mate iation au well as anywhere els have found "We have taken to In (Continued on Page 4)