THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1931.
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AMERICA'S LATEST THE SKY CAR.
PHOTOS COUTESY AKBO DIGEST
All-Metal Monoplane.
THE AUTO ENGINE,
Comparison with the Human Body.
USEFUL HINTS.
[By Israel Klein.]
An apt comparison of tho auto- mobile engine with the human body, the careful attention needed" by both, and their failure under neglect or overwork, appear In the February issue of The Whert, monthly publication issued by The Studebaker Corporation.
Both as a help and a warning to motorists, it is worth repeating here in its major parts.
this
"The automobile
engine," comparison begins, "has the sweet- ness, softness and constancy of well-behaved folk when it is treat- ed with consideration-likewise, the obstinacy and perversity of a clo- peeved porson, when certain ments bearing on its proper upkeep are deliberately disregarded or un- consciously overlooked.
"But there's more that's human about the automobile than Ita moods.
"It breathes, for instance, and a constant sapply of pure fresh air Is essential for it to perform Jat its best.
"The
automobile feeds on T quit diet of gasoline. If it over- ents--operates on
over-rich mixture-it becomes sluggish In its performance and is foverlah. Isn't that most human?
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"Starve your motor-operate it
a lean mixture and it bo-. comes
feeble and faltering in ita delivery of power.
"The motor has a highly devel-
ivver of the air is this unique plane designed by William B. Stout, who is shown in innet. At top is a side view of the plane. Lower right is a front view, and lower left shows the motor and propeller back of the cabin.
oped nervous. system. The ignl- Dearborn, Mich., Mar. 24-The A Breproof wall between motorfused to avoid warping of the ion distributor is the brain of the flyver automobile has taken wing and cabin also helps mute the valves and, other difficulties from engine it signals its varlous com- with the introduction of its noise, so that practically the only too sudden cooling.
mantle to the different cylinders counterpart in the form of sound reaching pilots and passen-
even as the human brain signala #ivver airplane by William B. Her is the rush of air around the
our muscles for nelion. Stout, famous designer of the cabin anul a hun like that of an
The Sky Car is of the full enati- If the delicate tissues compos- Ford tri-motored all-metal passer-utomobile speeding #ver lever high-wing monoplane type in the human brain are seriously ger planes now travelling many of smooth road.
upid in of all-metal construction. disturbed, complete lapse of e- Amerien's airways.
Seated well forward, the pilot Its wing span is 43 feet and its tivity is the result. finds before him an instrument length is 23% feet. The entire
with the engine's nervous Stopt's flyver plane, called the board, much like the simple motor machine weighs less than 3,000 syster. Some serious derange- "Sky Car" is a unique air editionrar type, with an ignition switch pounds.
ment of the distributor may cause of the small motor far and and safety key. There is also a A low wide landing gear, with a 'dead' motor. Less serious mala- has been planned with
the standard self-starter button on caster-ilke wheels beneath the dies such as diety points, damp particular view of making the the floor and a brake lever at his engine, combined with shock-wiring, loose connexions, chafed motor car driver feel more at home left. similar to that of the old nbsorbing struts and doughnut insulation and like disorders
Ford Model T.
tyres, assure easy and safe land-enuse the engine to miss and lag;
nct ings. It is said that it is prac-to
much JH
a person beget tically impossible for thi plane to with some nervous aiment, tip over in landing.
in the air.
if
Price of the Sky Car is expected
For Braking and Turning. to be under $2,000. At present no word has been given as to who will This brake lever, however, not manufacture the plane, but Stout's only keeps the "Sky Car's" wheels: The plane's normal landing "It is chemical action within close connexion with Henry Ford locked while the motor is warming speed is said to be 35 miles an our bodies which generates the heat makes it possible that this. like up, but an ingenious device per hour, but Stout says it can be of life and the power which ant- his larger plane. will become a mits one hand application of the landed and stopped in a tennis mates our muscles. Food supplies. Ford product.
brakes to either wheel for pur-court,
necessary, without the source of the chemical action. pones of turning around.
damage.
"In the automobile engine, com- What is unique about this plane The rudder, tou, is operated by The whole car is not over alx bustion of fuel takes place, beat le is ita close similarity to automopedais, recalling again the opera feet high. It is only one foot generated, gases expand against bile design and operation. It hastion of the Model T. Ford, from the ground, making it easy the piston and the engine is vita- a tandem two-plice cabin, some- There is a four-cylinder, invert-to enter. Its rasoline is carried ized. what similar to the small coupe, ed, air-cooled Rover motor of 75 in two tanks, ruch In the forward | "Chemical action gives rise to placed well forward to give the horsepower In back. This is section of either wing stub, and waste products, aere is wasting pilot full view of everythin mounted between the steel mem- shut-off valves are within easy tissue in the human body which nhead.
bers of an "otrigger" tail, pre-reach of the pilot and passenger. we carry off through the lym venting anyone from blundering In addition, easy reading gauges phatics into the veins, thence to into the whirling propeller. tell the amount of fuel in each the lungs where, passing through The motor is in the rear, with| An adjustable air scoop at one tank. the propeller of the pusher type.side helps keep the engine at First showing of this plane will Thus, not only does this arrange uniform temperature at all times be made at the forthcoming Inter- ment afford a clear forward view. of the year. It also is a conveni-national Aircraft Show at Detroit, but it serves to decrease the naise ence in warming up the motor and April 11 to 19. The car is ex- from motor and propeller that in cooling the engine slowly, in pected to go into production soon would otherwise enter the cabin. lieu of the idling" process now lifter.
Clear View, Little Noise,
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thousands of cellular presages, it brought into close contact with the cleansing air and then ex- relled from the lungs.
"Isn't that exactly how the water cooling system of the auto- nobile works? It picks up waste heat, carries it to the many- celied radiator, where heat is dis sipated and brings it by contact with the air.
"Most vital, perhaps, of the
The highway department of 18 Twenty-eight states are expect Defective automobiles are to many system necessary to the sup American states improved a total led to conduct campaigns for the be eliminated from New Jersey port of life. is the blood system. of 32,522 miles of state highways adoption of a drivers' license law highways through the revocation The human heart is a perfect pump In 1929, according to a report of this year, according to the Nu- of car registrations and the and it discharges à constant stream: the U.S. Burents of Public Roads, tional Safety Council. Twelve licenses of the drivers, according into our arteries which distribute During that year they expended states already have atriet drivera' to a recent notice of the motor blood to each 'vital part of the $910,485,201 for highways.
Weense laws.
vehicle commissioner.
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