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gers and mails Radio for navigation On short flights 40 passengerg_can and direction-finding was not ready be carried, but the fuct lond on long for the task of guiding adr-craft over hops, such us the 2,410 miles to Honolulu, reduces passenger accom- 9,000 miles of truckless sen..
modation to 18.
First
A
"stepping-
series of stones" was selected. First hop to They will have lounge chairs, com- Honolulu; then to Midway Island. fortable bunks, food served aboard, 1,330 miles further on; Wale wash basins with hot and cold water,
1,500 and even a shower bath. Inland. 1,120 miles; Guam, miles; Manila, 1,000 miles, and 700 miles to Hongkong.
Each slip will have a crew of six. First the captain, then the first If ever a nur needed seven- officer, wireless operator, engineer, league boots, it was Juan. Trippe. navigator and junior light officer. on the Illa bootmakers were Igor Sikorsky They will live and work and Glenn Martin. two of upper deckt. Apart from the wire-.- America's foremost aircraft designers, less operator, each member of the rh They took Trippe's measurements crew must be a licensed transport and went to work, producing the pilot capable of taking the controls. Sikorsky and Murtin clipper ships.
Hundreds of American clamoured for the 10 seuta in the machine.
Grat
by No. 1 was bought E first passenger airway w Rogers three years ago, but he from San Francisco to died with Wiley Post, One woman
Hongkong Telegraph. Hongkong
TUESDAY, Oct. 13, 1936.
ENFORCE THE LAW
l'an-American Airways have
America atinthes
Juan
years ago. Three men
bergh, technical adviser.
In the front cabin or cockpit sit the captain and the first officer or second pilot. Behind is an office for " the radia man, complete with trans- mitting and receiving sets and auto- MEANTIME plots. navi- matic radio direction-finders, with wireless deale, maps and instruments for the
galors and
the tempera-
is due to start was so infuriated to find that she' operators were being truined over a navigator. The junior officer acts this month. Thus a simple sen- was right hundred and something 1,200 miles stretch of ocean between as air "snetty." purser and odd-job
on the list that she demanded to Miami and Barranquilla. A steamer man." tence sums up A gigantic
monty charter the entire ship,
no crossed the Pacifle and dumped
squads of men and materials on the In the wing itself is the ship's achievement, years of patient object.
ine of "stepping stones" to build engine room. The engineer has a Ile pits surrounded by planning.
radio stations, docking and refuel- rent job.
instrumenla and dials. By Hing equipment, offices and hotels at 150 'n cost of several million dollars. telephone the captain orders engine In commenting on the over-pioneered the world's longest
Radio research was pushed ahead Speeds for take-off, climbing, cruising
and landing. THE story begins nearly five crowding evil a few days ago, we
so that pilots would be able to fly sea route-the nine thousand
Hour afler hour as the ship speeds unerringly to tiny islands which are suggested that the problem would miles of ocean separating San met to discuss a plan which then mere pin-points in the vast sen area. over the oceans, the captain and the have to be tackled piecemeal.
Last November the great plan Arst officer share the controls, vided As Francisco and Hongkong. Four seemed fantastic: from Anterien 10 start, the authorities might years of planning, four years of China within the week. They were come into practical being. The first by the Sperry robot pilot.
Trippe. president. of Pon- Martin clipper, piloted by Captain
The radio mun keeps in constant well consider enforcing the exist-wrestling with technical difficul
Musick, landed at Manila, capital of American Airways. Andre Prester, the Philippines, 6,000 miles from touch with ground stallons and ing laws by a process of selecting ties which seemed · insuperable. chief engineer, and Colonel Lind- the American mainland, in 00 hours passing ship; the navigator works special districts in which over- That is the story.
flying after an uneventful voyage out positions and course, and the engineer watches his bewildering crowding is most pronounced.
the greatest Those are far-off days in the his- The Martin bout weighs 51,000lb, array of dials which are tell-tales These could be dealt with in turn.
commercial importance to this air- 1ory of modern aviation develop--12,0001b. more than those being for every mechanical process in the
mení. There were then no flying- built for Imperial Airways. Let into entire aircraft, from Considerations of financial string-way to the East. Pan-Americans beats capable of spanning the the 130ft. monoplane wing are four ture of the hot water for the wash ency would not apply to treatment | hope transform
to
little-known 2,410 miles between San Francisco 100 h.p. radial engines giving a basins to the rate of flow of petrol of the problem in this manner.
Islands in the Pacific into rich men's and Honolulu with a load of passen- cruising speed of nearly 100 m.p.h. from the tanks to the engines. Obviously, a beginning has to be made at some time, and the evil could be dealt with at its source if the Government gave due notice that it intended to enforce respect for the law, which is now ignored in wholesale manner. Despite the fact that overcrowding is known to be rampant in urljan arcas, seldom, if ever, are there any prosecutions for infringement of laws which specifically pre- scribe light, air and sanitary con- ditions and the proportion of floor space or superficial area per each person occupying domestic buildings. There is a further Science provision that the sub-letting of
In
A HUNDRED YEARS HENCE?
Mr. II. G. Wells's film, “Things to Come," has started many discussions as to the future. What do practical scien tiate and technical experts think of the matter?
By A
To-day we give the answer of a Science Correspon-
Correspondent
While coal is in the ascendant, iron
used
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dent, an Aeronautical Correspondent, and a Naval Correa- pondent, who for once plunges into the manner of Mr. Wells himself.
Soon we shall give the ideas of a Medical Correspondent,” a Housing Expert, and an authority on dress.
By An
Aeronautical Correspondent
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By A
Naval
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BUZZER and a red light. The voys and thereby make them more any part of a domestic building A HUNDRED years hence we may THE HOPE of everybody must be
that there will be no air force continuous echo sounder tells me vulnerable to surface or air attack. in such a manner as to cause expect to have smokeless cities,
the atom, 100 years from now. For if one seeks on the bridge that we are approaching! overcrowding is illegal.. Yot, in new industries based on
Now, of course, all we do if there point of fact, it is this very sub-sex-control clinics, advisory bureaux to forecast the future by observing the "shelf" which raises the Atlantic on human heredity, and statutory the trends of the past, one must con- bed around the coast of Europe. A
is any hint of trouble and our sensi- letting practice which is the main tribunals which will condemn us, ac- clude that the doodliness of the air few orders, and I go below,
tive instruments tell us at once if cause of overcrowding. And cording to our social usefulness, to weapon will continue to increase with
We change from the radio-trans- there is anything within fifty miles sub-letting is in turn due to the chemical rejuvenation or to natural the years until it reaches the point
where, if there is no limitation, the mitted power to our own engines and we just submerge. We don't sub- fast that the rentals asked for death.
machino will indeed be. master of in a moment the great ship is sub-merge just to a hundred feet or so. flats and other accommodation are
The world's natural supplies of oil
shadow to betray destroy themselves in the act of by the Impulses of a "leader cable." craft can see even a too high for tenants to bear unless if the prophets of doom are justified) man, and nations at war would merged. She is gulded all the time We go so deep that no searching eit-
Aur
have to do is to follow these im- our presence. Of course, we are they can recoup themselves by will have become exhausted. All destroying their opponents.
pulces. They will take us into No. 3 armed, just in case we should ever be coal will be treated at the pit-head, renting portions of the premises From there will be distributed smoke- If one looks back upon aerial de main channel, which in turn will take caught on the surface by hostile craft, to others. This applics both to less fuel, electricity, gas, and in-velopment one realises that man has us to No. 3 port This is miles in- But we don't carry any of those our ancestors has land, and underground in the heart clumsy guns which much of the better type of pro- numerable synthetic chemicals. This failed signally in the way he
much about. If we perty and to the worst of the country will have new honour as a directed it. He has turned it more of the Welsh hills. Next time we used to worry
We may coal-producer.
even and and more to military purposes; he has disturb the surface of the water, and had to fill our ships with shells we cargo-carrying buildings in the slum areas, 'ourselves
exporting oil produced from developed it always with the object it won't be long now, it will be should reduce our
We the latter, the conditions, under coal. It is unlikely, at this stage of of war in mind. His air lines them- alongside the wharves of No. 3 port capacity to absurd proportions. which families can afford nothing human history, that man will have selves have been "strateiic"; ls com- Here, far underground, we shall dis-carry two small Zedray projectors. of cargo and You can hold your hand in front sun's merclal aviation has been subsidisel embark passengers and batter than bed-spaces.-
are yet learnt to harness the
these and they won't hurt you, but almost unbelievable. The re-radiation, or that the atom, useful in so that it shall provide a reserve of load again for America,
so soon as the Zodray comes into other ways, will have become a source pilots in readiness for war,
Many, many years ago. It was contact with metal It generates such sult is not only gross over of industrial power.
renlised that there should be only one intense host that the metal simply dis- crowding, but also totally inade- quate sanitary provision for the will be on the decline. The lighter force for world prosperity and world more economical to revert to
Aviation might have been a great service in place of the old Navy and Integrates.
Merchant Navy. It was so much occupants. It is to be concetted metals-aluminium, magnesium, and happiness. It has been turned into centuries-old practice of every carrier that the landlord's point of view possibly beryllium-will have come the most ghastly menace conceived or of cargo being her own
To-day no voyage takes more than protection, ten days, and there is no dirt or dis- has to be taken into account-that into their own. They will be
conceivable. At this moment, the particularly when it was found that comfort in any of our ships. Even he has a right to expect a reason for all constructional purposes where nations of the world are straining the only reply to submarine attack the weather does not affect us. Why,
lightness makes for economy. We their resources to build up enormous was to herd ships together in able return on capital outlay may even have aluminium framework bombing fleets. When war breaks
con- we've just come through a bad March gale in the Atlantic without rolling at But, without question, much of buildings, with materials of the cork out these will be used ruthlessly in
all-just by going underneath it the slum property has already of asbestos type used of the secrets accordance with the doctrine of cen-
Instead of wallowing about among moves and over again and ness, and lightness, and resistance to of bombing only military objectives; direction, has centred itself upon the used to do. There is always more than paid for itself in ren- of metals, so that strength get harde tral shock. People still talk dibly consideration. Aviation, through evit the waves, on the surface as people corrosion can all be cheaply com-but they know that every living thing bomb. When one thinks of an aero-layer momewhere in the sen, usually some of it calls for condemnation bined.
In a country at war under modern plane to-day one thinks of the bomb half-way between the surface dis- is being unfit for human habita-
ccnditions is a "military objective" If that state of affairs can be reached tion. The outstanding fact is
may be. My instrumento tell me Now synthetic materials will and so a "leglumate" target for the in thirty years it is impossible to banco and any ground swell there believe that it can continue for an exactly where this calm inyer is and that, generally speaking, accom- have replaced glass and wood. Most both.
bther 100 years.
Some
man or some when bad weather is approaching. modation for the ordinary worker of the looms of the industrial North. In thirty years aviation has reached nation must prise with the Influence can only be secured at rentals some say, will have disappeare, in the stage when it is the most power to check the militarisation of avia- Naturally, we don't go about sub- away above the basic wage; this we shall be more cheaply clothed
known. Itation and redirect it along commercial, merged in fine weather, even though is a circumstance which no Gov-will have been driven out of business, constructive, or commercial, akde la touring, and mall-carrying channels. the air conditioning is so good that. ernment should ignore. If the for the clothes of the future will be relatively so puny as not to be worth 1 cannot believe that the world will there is never a "fug" in the ship. commit suicide. Yet any suggestion But. the engine-room ratings like a overcrowding laws were enforced, nelther washable nor worth washing.
that air forces will continue to de- rest as well as everybody else, so we district by district, rents would
Tabloid foods we shall be spared their way towards (economically) poses that the world is bent: upon face when we can without danger or
Įvelop. for one hundred years presup-work on the radio power on the sur- perforce have to come down. for these could never supply enough
human machine improved stocks. With more
con- suleide
discomfort, Such a measure, in conjunction energy to keep the
output the
Ah There's the blue light. We with a planned movement to at work. Yet the countryside will centrated agricultural
wear, an unfamiliar look. Strange Insect menace will have frs! In It appears, therefore, that, create industrial centres away high-yielding
crops,
scientifically creased and then beeri overcome. Incivilisation still exists one hundred are in the channel now, going under- from congested areas, would un bred, will have, replaced the varieties a hundred years' time, also, it is years from now, the hope that it will ground to No. 3 port. There the 5,000 doubtedly contribute to a problem we now know.
probable that enough knowledge will contain no such thing as an air force tons of wheat we carry will be sucked have been accumulated to enable the must be fulfilled. The first line out of our holds and distributed of great magnitude and admitted
Rather more cautiously, animal improvement of the human race itself strength of my air-force of 100 years underground, of course, to the bomb- complexity.
breeding laboratories will be feeling to be seriously considered.
hence is therefore a cipher,
proof food centres of the country.
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pressed cellulose. Laundries, too,
ful destructive force