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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1936.
INFANTRY AND GUNS
Troubles Of Peace Restrictions
NEW SMOKE SCREENS
•London, April 9. The 200 or more Infantry officers who watched the annual shoot of the School of Artillery on the tanges at Larkhill to-day have no doubt consoled themselves with the knowledge that artillery assistance
time of war might be better in several respects than it can possi- bly be when peace-time imposes restrictions of economy and con- venience.
The calibration of the guns of. a battery may cost a lot of money in the firing of shells, but it would diminish" the proportion of "shorts." The muzzling of a 9.B.C. station during practice might be inconvenient, but it is apparently essential at times if experience of spotting by aircraft is to be ob- tained.
To-day's infantry losses from "shorts" in their creeping barrage may be said to have been heavy. The call for the bombardment of a hostile battery was tardily met because the wireless messages from the reconnoitring aeroplane were smothered by music from a Walth amstow picture palace, dominant- ly broadcast by the Western Regio-
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A WEEK OF BRITISH
FLYING NEWS
Single Engined Bomber
THE NEW BATTLE
A closely kept secret till a few days ago, the most formidable single-engined bomber in the world has now been demonstrated in flight before aeronautical experts, to whom has been revealed something of its amazing qualities, writes a correspondent. The machine, a low-wing monoplane designed and bullt by the Fairey company, has been ordered in large numbers by the Air Ministry for the equipment of "attack" squadrons of the Royal Air Force, Delivery to the Service is expected to begin in the summer. Its Service name is "Battle.”
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London, March 24, "No details of the Battle's per- formance may yet be published, but I am able to state that in slightly over ten minutes the new bomber could fly from the Fatrey serbdrome at Heathrow, near Lon- don, to the south coast-a distance of between 45 and 50 miles. Flight the Lieutenant CS. Stanlland, company's chief test pilot, showed that with speed the aeroplane combines great power and ease of manoeuvre. Even when full allow. board, the perfect loops, rolls half- ance is made for the light load on rolls, tight vertical turns, and
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The Bristol monoplane medium bomber, to which Sir Philip Sas- soon, Under-Secretary of State for Air, referred in glowing terms last week, has been officially named "Blenheim," recalling perhaps the Borden Co. greatest victory of the man whomBklyn many students of war rank as England's greatest
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The aeroplane retired from the contest and the gunners took pot luck, which might have been much | Agures of eight through which the Duke of Marlborough. Large num-
to
worse had not their maps been so good. Taken together these ind- dents were perhaps not calculated breed faith in the artillery omong infantry subalterns, or inter some of the infantry "canards" of War days, yet the reasonable ex- planation of both misfortunes were reasonably accepted.
Battle evolved must remain a per- fcrmance worthy of the highest praise. Many of those who watch- ed wondered how far flying of this order could be countered in aerial combat even by the latest and most powerful Agħters.
The Battle has a retractile un- dercarriage and derives power WIRE-CUTTING BY SHELLS
from a Rolls-Royce Merlin liquid- On another point the infantry cooled engine-a new unit of re- were afforded invaluable evidence latively small cylindrical capacity of the inherent difficulties, To-day, but giving an output much higher as in War days, the infantryman than any engine yet in service
A dislikes going out, by night to cut with the Royal Air Force. wire or to drive tubes of ammonal Fairey metal airscrew with three beneath it. To-day gave him the fixed blades is fitted in the "pro- answer to his plaint that the art-totype" Battle, but the Merlin illery should cut the wire.
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bers of Blenheims are in course of construction. This is the bomber which was developed from the civil transport monoplane built for Lord Rothermere; in trial flights the civil mode! proved itself to be at least fifty miles an hour faster than any comparable twin-engined transport then in existence.
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42 FEET IN LENGTH
From tip to tip the wings of the Battle span 54 feet. It is an inch or two more than 42 feet in length and stands some 13 feet in height on the ground. In flight the land- ing wheels and struts are drawn up into recesses within the wings.
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human pilot on long flights and owns the naval rights. In thirty- when flying in conditions of "zero three other countries the slotted visibility"-clouds, mist or dark-wing is used extensively on civil Fresh re-assurance on theness. The cockpit is exceptionally and military aeroplanes, subject of smoke screens was to roomy with comfortable seats for be set on the other side of the scale, plot and observer; it is totally en- and there was some most convincing closed by a tunnel-shaped top work against Infantry masaing for made of tough, transparent ma- an attack. The old smoke screen
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range and
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The new smoke, delivered by one-third the number of shells, generated more slowly but clung tenaciously to earth and Was nical excellence of the expanded in cruising and maximum speeda. thinned more slowly, by the wind.
the Armstrong The slot devices, by preserving lift It screened the advancing tanks Royal Air Force most thoroughly, and, screening Whitworth Whitley heavy bomber, and full control at the lower end from them their objective it doubt- which is now going through its of the speed range, make possible Hercules Powder Co.. 811*
the building of very fast aero- less demanded navigation by com-flying trials. This is a big cabin pass, while the barrage ahead of monoplane with the wings attach- planes which shall set be able to It demoralized the crews of anti-ed low on the fuselage and power-fly and land" comparatively slowly. tank guns.
Another of the new aeroplanes become more dangerous" and lesa which will assure the high tech | practical with every step forward
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ed with two Siddeley Tiger air- cooled radial engines. The under- UNREHEARSED SHOOT carriage is retractile. Like the The field brigade, which shared Battle, the Whitley is built entire- with a medium brigade the duty ly in metal, except for the fabric of dispersing troops prepared for coverings of relatively unstressed an attack, gladdened the hearts components, and the fuselage is of of the chilled, spectators. Shells monocoque form. Five stations are dropping right among the enemy provided for the members of the Infantry in an unrehearsed shoot crew, two of whom are pilots, The compensated the infantry officers second pilot acts as navigator." for the trials their imaginary men Three enclosed gun-turrets are had supported in other demon- fitted to defend the Whitley against the attacks of fighter sero- The air co-operation in the day's planes. One is located in the ex- work was unlucky in two respects. treme nose of the fuselage, a Broadcasting having defeated 12 ́on second in the tall between the twin one count, engine failure reduced
strations.
it on another. The shortcomings
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A ratio of 5 to 1 between maximum and minimum flying speeds has been, secured by a competition aeroplane fitted with Handley Page wing slots and slotted flaps.
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continued "speaking,"
the Air same types as those of the parent Marshal, "the method we are Unit and sometimes with a later adopting in forming new Units is type and in certain cases training to require an existing squadron to is being done for conversion from throw off one of its fights. This one type to another, Beveral flight then becomes the nucleus of months may clapce before one of Interesting and little known de a new squadron, is given a new these embryo squadrons is expand- tails of the process. of Royal Al number and begins to organize it- ed to two or more fights, the Force expansion were revealed by self as an entirely separate squad period depending on the availab- ron while remaining for a period lity of personnel, equipment and Air Marshal Bir C. L N. Newall, Air Member of Council for Supply on its original station under the accommodation. At a later stage and Organisation, in an address, guidance of that station's organi- the original parent squadron may last week to the Royal United Ber-zation. By the time this embryo be required to throw off another squadron moves to its new station i flight and newly formed squadrons thus have created the may sometimes be required to
form the nucleus of another new
vice Institution.
He said that the principle adopt it will
of the autogiro as an Army co- culties as well as their ability to deed had a station basis, meaning nucleus of its own organization.throw off a flight, in each case to operation machine were frankly things supremely well. None of that it started with a "station and will have collected most of the
publications. on Unit." recited by the Commandant of the the shoots had been registered to Headquarters" administering two Paraphernalla, School of Army Co-operation, and advance and the successful work
or more squadrons located there, store-keeping and accounts, tech- the autogiro at once responded by consequently gained in value. As Thereby various resources such as nical matters and administration
"Are these eggs fresh?” making a forced landing within
a means of evoking intelligent transport, workshop facilities and generally, and so forth, which are
"Sure, they're just in from the the spectators" enclosure.
consideration of artillery problems stores were pooled and the actual essential to every unit.
"The new squadron is equipped | country," In this series of displays the ar- the demonstrations could hardly Units were relieved of much
administrative detall. "Broadly with afrcraft sometimes of the tillery wisely-revealed their dim- have been bettered.
"Yeh, but what country?”