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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1935.
“At 5,000 feet the pilot glides off the wing of the mother-craft ... a winged rocket.”
THE PICK-A-BACK SEAPLANE Fast Atlantic Liners To Be Launched
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to be the most remunerative in the
A Regular air service across the Atlantic between the North Atlantic; also that it will Britain Canada and the United States is to be discussed operate regularly at a reasonable at an Air Conference in Ottawa at the end of this month. The ocean air routs between the It is a combination of two flying-machines in United States and Europe promises one-a giant which climbs skyward with another world. No wonder, therefore, that 'plane perched on its back. It is here described.
This winged projectile is soon, composite apparatus, still joined to be launched in its fight, pot together, will taxi across the water air like one from ground level but from a point and high in the nir.
One of the world's best-known firms of constructors have been entrusted with the building of It, and early next year it will be on its preliminary trials.
to the take machlire.
Steadily they will climb. Then when a height of about 5,000 feet has been repehed, the plot of the upper 'plane, pulling a lever in his cockpit, will operate a mechanism de-enabling him to glide off the wing of the big mother craft, and launch himself like a winged rocket in free flykt,
Major Mayo, the aircraft signer and expert, is responsible for this astonishing "brain wave" of aviation.
ON HER WINGS
By carrying the smaller machine Picture a huge. weight-lifting up to its operating height, and flying boat-a multi-motored mons-there launching it in mid-air, it is ter of the skies,
possible for this machine to trana And then pleture # smaller port a bigger load at a higher speed machine-a silm, streamlined 'plane and to fly for a greater distance which tells of speed in ita every than if it had to take the air under Ine-mounted on specially signed its own power from the surface of supports on the upper wink of the | land or sen. big flying-bont.
That is the idea just in its out- line, and an astonishing sight these two machines will present the mother craft floating on the sur- face of the water with this smaller craft resting on her great, wide stretched wings. *
GLIDING OFF
THE BIG PROBLEM One of the big problems in flying the Atlantic with commercial loads is to gain altitude at the beginning of its flight-burdened as it is to its limit with maila and petrol.
But if it can be carried up into the air mounted on the wing of a big mother 'plane, and launched When the day for the first trials from a height of thousands of feet. comes, the four great engines of the one of the chief difficulties is solved. mother craft and also the motors It is calculated that this Mayo of the 'smaller machine she carries, 'plane, even when carrying a con- will be started up.
siderable mail-load, will fly non-stop And then their extraordinary | at a high speed from England over
Rome of otr best alr brains are concentrating on it,
It may well prove a geld mive from an aerial trams view-paint. It is not just a question of carry- ing letters in a Taxi, nir-launched mail maching such us the Mayo. There is the all-important question of passengers.
Business mea to whom time really means money are constantly in transit on this North Atlantic route, and if auch travellers can make an ocean voyage by air in comfort and safety and save much valuable time by so doing, they will pay special fares for the privilege. But the designers of the big flying-boats now being prepared far a first phase of experiment on the Atlantic are faced with many pro- blems.
These great machines of theirs must fly fast. They must have a multi-engined power-plant render- ing them practically immune from forced landing. They must have an interior equipment providing a luxury comparable with that of luxury surface travel.
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Dr. Eckener, that wizard in hand- "ZEPP' WIZARD
ling lant airships, having down The ingenuity of man has dia-. And then on top of this comes regularly through the favouring covered yet another possibility for the most important point of all. weather of the South Atlantic, now spanning the seas between Europe. They must also carry a load, over proposes with a bigger and more and America. This new science is nnd airove fuel and erow, which powerful dirigible to make tests called "rocketry." will enable dividends to be paid to this next year on the North At- NEW YORK ONE HOUR the shareholders of the companies |lantic.
Some of our cleverest engineerə operating them.
WII he prove his contention that jaro now engaged on this problem Seaplanes and flying-boats will fast airship is a proposition even of rocket transport and propulsion
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