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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28. 1925.
GIANT "PLANES.
UMBRELLA HISTORY.
Long-Distance Projects. Early Opposition Recalled.
The next ten years will soo air- planes weighing 100,000 pounds in the Times for old umbrellas-
The gentleman who advertises making regular flights peross the "at least a hundred years old ' Atlantic. This is the prediction has of O. E. Simmons, one of England's and one wishes him luck in his a very interesting hobby, aviation experts.
queat of raritios, comments a Such planes would carry 100 London writer. One of those will Passengers, he thinks.
He uses the term, "flying boat""Robinson Crusoe" (If there was be the original umbrella of to describe the plane, expressingjan original and if it is still in the opinion that the plane would existence). It is at least so far, have a seaworthy hull which historical that umbrellas were would make it possible, if for emergency arose, to land upon "Robinsons," just na, later on, timo nicknamed ocean and spond as much as ton they became "Gamps." Um- days or two weeks upon it.
The plane would have a span Swift and Gay, but they wore
brellas are, inentioned by both; of about 220 feet and a wing are used only by women, and tho of 6.000 square foot," he says. suspicion of effeminacy was one The engines would be housed in that long clung to them and engino-rooms built into the wings greatly retarded their general. about 30 foot on each side of the adoption.
hull.
Winge, hull and cabins would
Homo
The brave man who popularised
all be of motal. The hull would the umbrella was Jonas Hanway, bo arranged in two decks.
who live in Westminister Abboy;; not so much by reuson of his
"The speed of such a plano
would exceed 100 knots and campaign against getting wet as
would be possible to fly from Europe to America, making only one stop at the Azores.
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of his general philanthropy. One of his silk umbrellas (previous ones were usually of oiled paper:
I believe that the flying boat or cotton) must certainly be in
is the logical vehicle of the future any pretentious collection. He, and that it will afford speed, com- had great difficulty with the fort and safety which cannot be hackney coachmen, who pursued obtained by the ordinary airplano him with stones and obloquy an
or the occan linor."
ZOO SPIDERS.
" Cannibal Island' Arranged.
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A roul cannibal island has been set up in the Zoo insect house. Though the inhabitants merely the big bird-eating spiders, which occasionally reach, Britain from the tropics, hidden amongst bananas, they are, novertheless, cannibals "bred and born,"
It was owing to their preference for each other, rather than for the cockroaches givon them as food, that oach spider had to be confined in a glass jar by itself.
In the hopo that with ample space at their disposal the spiders may live on more friendly
und
Вп enomy of tho trade. A disciplo, ono John Macdonald, tolls in his autobiography how he brought a fine umbrella from Spain, but "could not with any comfort use it, the pooplo calling! out, Frenchman, why don't you got a coach ?'"
Among later rareties may bel counted the umbrella of the last Duke of Cambridge which figured so prominently in the caricaturos of the Commander-in-Chief. ·
IMPRISONED FOR KISSING.
Traveller's Experience in Italy.
tarms, Koeper Brown set to work the slogan for travellers in Italy, 'Don't kiss!" might became to construct a rocky islet, com-if the experiences of Dr. Erwin pletely surrounded by with growing vegetation
water Foiber, a loading Vienna musical. snug little caves into which the critic, are to be taken as typical. spiders can retire for seclusion or Dr. Folber, whose advontures will protection.
probably form the subject of These long-legged cannibals diplomatic intervention on the have ari aversion to getting wet, Part of the Austrain Government, for, being hairy, they take some states: time to dry themselves. It ing thought that the surrounding panted a woman friend, a notad "On September 11 I accom- water will keep them from stray-Berlin singer, in the stormar ing into a colony of parasol ants from Venice to Fusta, We were in the same caso,
the only passengers on the first-
But if they do trespass on their class deck, which was in totall neighbours' territory, the dwarfs darknoss, are likely to defeat the giants, owing to their embarassing smeliness and their vast superiority in numbers.
"We flirted innocently, and us) I kissed my friend the searchlight was turned full on us. The cup- tain of the boat admonished us with much profane language TO U. S. IN 36 HOURS. in Venice I was handed over to from the bridge, and on landing
the police.
"Two carabinieri took hold of
Engineer's Aerial Prediction.me, emptied my pockets and
threw me into a dark cell,, where Ocean-going flying boats of I spent a sleepless night, sharing 3,000 h.p. constructed entirely of my plank bod with a drunken stainless steel carrying 100 pas-man. On the following morning, sengers, will be operating within I was led handcuffed through the the next decade unless progross streets to the police court. On is inordinately slow. This pre-the way we mo. Profesaur Adolf diction was made by Mr. O. E. Weissmann, the Berlin musical Simmons, of the design staff off critic, who protested against my the Supermarine Aviation Works, treatment and Limited, in a paper read before Signor Mussolini.
threatened the Engineering Section of the
British Association.
criminals.
to
The only result was that If These machines, Mr. Simmonds was taken back to the cell and explained, would be monoplanes,
Jof thore for nearly twenty-four weighing 100,000 lb. (the largest complain to hours without food or successful flying bouts yet built even water. Then I was handcuff- have weighed about 30,000 lb.) ed again and dragged to the they would have a wing span of Giudecca, prison, where my finger 220 foct, and a speed, of over 115 thrown into a room where were prints were taken, and I was miles per hour. They would be able to cover non-stop stages of fifteen or twenty dangerous 1,500 miles, and the flight from Europe to America could be ac-1 complished via the Azoros in 36 was handcuffed again, and on my "At last my case was tried. I hours.
Mr. Simmonds advanced techn-sorewed on so tightly that my protesting the handcuffs wore ical argumonts showing the skin was broken. In addition I advantages for certain purposes was chained by the log to three of the thick-wing monoplanoforiminals and thus lcd bofore the ovor the biplane. The biplane is the court. the more favoured form of cons- truction in this country. For
"Judgmont was delivered, and
the same performance as a bi-I was told that I had been plano," said Mr. Simmonds, "the pardoned and that in an hour's monplano internally-braced wingtime I would be a free man. reduces the horse-power requirod
by no less than 15 por cont. Con- Nevertheless, still chained, I was versely, for the same engine lod back to my oell and was kept; power, the top speed is increased
by 6 or 7 per cont, and the climb there for five moro days. At the by about 15 per cent."
ond of this period Intervention of
Mr. Simmonds remarked that the Austrain Logation and a almost every country in the world:
has come to Southampton for its Vontoe lawyor secured marine aircraft.
liberty."
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