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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER · 8, 1938.
AEROPLANE THAT IS ALMOST The Knitting Season is Here!! FOOL-PROOF IN LANDING
WES
several Japanese
Torrential rains lasting inore than three days brought death to hundreds in
Abave is n scene in Kyoto, away. cities, with estimated damage in the Kobe-Osala district of $30,000,000. ancient capital of Japan, where the main bridge over the femous Kamo river has been swept Six-foot wall of water roared through the city.
Diana Battye Tells Of Work As Model
MUST BE SOCIETY GIRLS,
SAYS AGENT
Society beauty, Miss Diana ("Didi") Battye, whose parents enlisted the aid of clairvoyants and Scotland Yard detectives when she disappeared in June of last year, gave evidence recently at an L.C.C. inquiry into the conduct of a West End employment agency for photo- graphers' models.
TWENTY-TWO-YEARS-OLD
un agent from taking a preliminary fee of more than 2s. 6d.
20 ENGAGEMENTS Miss Battye, wearing a blue tweed costume and a small green hat. with her hair at shoulder length and her Anger nulis painted red, spoke in a whisper when called recently,
30
She said she had done about Jobs through Mr. Grant for fees of about £2 2s. Mir. Hale: Grant's agency was satisfactory? Most satisfactory.
Do
you think
Mr.
Mr. Grant, a Canadian by birth, said he started the agency in October 1930. It was a new thing in London. He required "quite a nice sort of girl
a well-brought-up girl." The defence was that there was no registration fee, the payments being for reproduction of the photographs. After a retirement the chairman said: The committee bold that Mr. Grant has not complied in important respects with the regulations and
from satisfactory,
DESCENT IN SMALL AREA HELPED BY GLIDE CONTROL
By Group Captain L. G. S. PAYNE
Airwork Ltd, of Heston, gave me an opportunity to try out
the new Miles Monarch, the Snow White's"
Intest of a long line of success-
ful civil aircraft built by Phil-
lips and Powis to the design of
Mr. F. G. Miles.
I flew the machine from Heston to
Record
Reading aerodrome, where I found Still Draws Packed
Mrs. Miles engaged in the hangars.
The wife of the designer is herself a
pilot und a designer and his co-e Houses In London
rated with her husband in drawing
up the plans for some of his most successful aircraft,
(From A Correspondent)
AS Walt Disney's full length film,
Dwarfs," is fresh in the minds of Hongkong cinema-goers you may be interested to know that it is still run ning at an exclusive West End theatre to packed houses and the booking chief sees no reason why it should not continue there until after Christmas:
When i congratulated her on her appointment as one of the five Com-A Snow White And The Seven missioners of the Civil Air Guard, she smilingly replied that she would have to await the official announce ment of the Air Ministry before she could discuss the matter in detail. She added that she thought the work
Air Guard
Commissioner would be "very interesting but not easy" and she gave me the Impres sion that she was fully aware of the responsibilities which the post would entail.
of
an
130 H.P. ENGINE In external appearance the Miles Monarch closely resembles ita pre- well-known Miles decessor, the
Is Whitney Straight. It
powered with the same engine, the 130 h.p. Inverted De Haviland Gipsy Major. which is unquestionably one of the most reliable civil aeroengines in the world.
In reality, the Monarch is a greatly improved machine embodying many new features and improvements in
Gross lakings of "Snow White" is the West End have probably exceed. ed the total taken by any one film ot any theatre in the world. The figure was not disclosed but it is known that it took more than £100,- 000 at one theatre in New York.
T
catch-
"SHOPWORN ANGEL" TOW often we find that interny title hides a film of real would place "The Shopworn Angel" as about the best It does not release of the week. enjoy the spice of complete novelty: for the story, which came originally from a French stuge dram, has been seen and told before.
Margaret Sullavan is a dissipated manufacturing technique. The aero- war-time cabaret actress who, when plane is now available either as a bromo-seltzer has cleared the dally two-seater at £1,250 or as a three-hang-over, genuinely loves her man- seate
These prices seem ager (Waller Pidgeon). Along comes seater at £1,325, reasonable considering the up-to-soldier (James Stewart), unhurt, date specification and the excellence untouched by war,
simple soul. th of the Anish.
The wife of Mr. Michael Asquith, son of the Hon. Herbert and that his explanations have been for the staff pilots of Airwork Ltd. accepts, lest the soldier, symbolising |
Lady Cynthia Asquith, she gave her name as Diana Battye, say- ing it was her professional name.
of
dic
In her mood of devil-may-care. The machine I flew was a three- she plays with him partly from pity seater, and I was able to try out its and partly because it relieves her take-off with one, two and three nerves, Things become a little scri- people. On the fight to Reading ous when he falls in love with her Was accompanied by Mr. Lecayo, one He proposes marriage and Margaret "They; however, have decided not Neither he nor I are light weights, the sacrificiul millions, should
but the machine took off easily in without one happy memory, to revoke the llcence, but must warn about 150 yards. On the return She is still in love, you must him that in future he should act
Journey to Heston I was alone.. understand, with Walter Pidgeon, 1 was interested to note that the and he with her. He understands It was the resumed hearing; ment agency in Regent-street, strictly in accordance with the regu
lations."
Mr. Hale: That warning will be take-off with two people seemed al- her mood. One day, when she sings
most as good as with one. After 19- by the L.C.C. Public Control | W.
in a club, the soldier's identity disc Mr. Davies, stated at a previous Committee of an application by hearing that Mr. Grant arranged for aliended to as strictly as possible.
Bliss Battye disappeared from the turning to Heston I took the Monarch is brought. Mr. H. A. C. Davies, chief officer gir to attend fashion houses for Oxford-square, W., house of her off again with two passengers on
was board. A slightly longer run was formance with the intelligence and of the Public Control Depart-advertising purposes, the payment friend Viscountess Long and ment, for the revocation of a being usually £1 1s. He charged found a week later in Sussex-place, required, but the machine came off licence granted to Mr. Graham each girl. £4 4s, for publication of Regent's Park, near the home of her easily and gave no impression of be- personal brilliance of this Sullavan-
her photograph in advertising fance's parents, dazed and unable to ing overlonded, ... Grant to carry on an employ-book, whereas a by-law prohibited give an account of her movements.
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It is not everyday you see per-
Stewart team.
It would be easy for so naive and GLIDE-CONTROL FLAPS
crude a fellow as the soldier to have been made ridiculous, but James The outstanding feature of the Stewart invests the character with a Monarch is the glide control by
genuine and touching simplicity. flaps which can be actuated with | F There is something subtlely compell- the throttle. This is a new feature. ing about Margaret Sullavan's acting The Monarch is virtually fool-which makes the whole tim seem proof when it comes
landing.
just plausible enough to hold your Even when there is no wind-and interest and somehow to get your there was very little when I flew it emailons quite genuinely caught up -it can be flown
In over the edge in a strange little half-cynical fairy ส height of about tale.
of the aerodrome
200 feet. Speed is reduced, the
flaps are lowered, and the machine.
sinks to the ground in a steady glide STOLEN FROM THE
one
of from 00-05 miles an hour,
Instead of landing far up the aero- drome, as might have been expected, nds that the machine has stop- ped near the boundary of the aero- drome over which it passed. The difficulty of Judging the glide-in to land, always a bugbear to inexperl- enced pilots Is, thus, almost elimin-
led.
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On any average-sized aerodrome one can be inside the area of the aerodrome before starting to land. Moreover, the pilot has the comfort- ing feeling that, K be has made on error in his approach, he con imme- diately the throttle pr
raise the flaps, either by by advancing the flap lever, without any risk of causing the machine to
lo sink.
This
feature of the Monarch, which
Is known as the Miles glide-control flop, must be tried to, be appreciated. It certainly makes the aeroplane easier to land-and, if necessary, to land in a confined space-than any that I have previously flown.
WIDE UNDERCARRIAGE Landing is also asslated by an ex- ceptionally wide undercarriage, Ben- dix brakes and Lockheed air-draulic struts, which are designed to with- stand n vertical drop of 13 feet a second.
The cabin is roomy and luxurious- ly appointed. The field of view obtainable through the one-plece whit-screen is excellent. The mach- ine is easily manoeuvrable, and the speed is all that the makera claim. I found that the machine, with thei engine throttled down to 2,030 revo- lutions a minute would easily main- tain its cruising. speed of 125 miles an hour. This, though not fast ac- cording to modern standards, should be ample for most private owners unless they belong to that limited
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