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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1932,

Aviation, Building and Engineering

SUBSIDIES FOR

PLEASURE HOPS.

Belgium's Plan To Aid Industry.

Apprehensive of the slow growth of civilian flying in Belgium, the Government has announced a lavish scheme of subsidy by which Belgian owner-pilots will be handsomely paid for flying for pleasure.

The first grant obtainable by any member of a Belgian flying club, is)

one of £28 10s. Ol. towards the cost

of obtaining his pilot's certificate.

It is stipulated that this sum must

pilot generous assistance in purchase of his own aircraft. If

Little Plane To

To Pole Fly

Aviator Tells Of Plan To Conquer Antarctic

DETAILS OF

STRUCTURE

THE CHINA MAIL

BIG REFINERY AT MONTREAL.

Shell Company's G$2,000,000 Plant,

Montreal.

CHINA'S NEW IRON WORKS.

Minister Pays Visit To Proposed Site.

Winnipeg's Big Enterprise

G$972,750 Auditorium

To Be Erected.

Previous permits, it is pointed out, had been issued for the excava¬ tion of the auditorium, $35,000, and for the caissons $40,000, making the The building permit issued re-total value of the work undertaken

Winnipeg,

Mr. Chen Kung-po, Minister of Industry, proceeded to Pukow on The Shell Oil Company of Canada, November 26 for another inspection Limited, has decided to erect of the proposed site of the Govern-cently for Winnipeg's civic auditor-

$2,000,000 oil refinery in Montreal ment Iron and Steel Works to be ium is stated to be the largest the ||$972,750.-

INDUSTRY.

The Winnipeg contracting firm of

Christmas Fare

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CHRISTMAS CAKES

Memorial

East. The Montreal Gazette makes established by the Ministry. Но

city has had in four years, the Carter-Halle-Aldinger, Ltd., is un- this definite statement on informa- was accompanied by a representa- tion from one of the officials of the tive of the German syndicate inter-value being $897,750. Four years dertaking the construction of the company. Work on the project willested in the project and deputies of previously the permit for the new great auditorium and is making give employment to between 300 and the Military Affairs Commission Hudson's Bay Company store con- rapid progress to date. The bulld- 400 men for from nine to ten and the Ministry of War.

struction established a record marking is being built on (By LINCOLN ELLSWORTH),

:months.

It will be recalled that whils

{boulevard, very for high values in building permits.

close to the' The plans of the company include the Ministry is in favour of estab- For the first time to-day I saw tailored, fashion-plated airplane the construction of a two-berth lishing the works at Pukow owing The auditorium is the second lara site comprising

Manitoba Legislative Buildings, on the airplane with which I expect to While every other line is truc dock on the St. Lawrence river for to communications and other facigest to be issued in recent years, block.

a whole

city make what has been called the last well balanced precisely in great geographical discovery pos-harmony, the vertical stabilizer fin the unloading of tankers carrying lities, the military authorities are sible in the antarctic.

is slightly askew. It is offset to crude petroleum; the erection of in favour of a site at Saddle Moun The machine, designed and built correct the torque and drag of the pipe lines from the river front to tain in Antigel owing to strategic be refunded to the member concern-

the refinery site north of Sher-reasons. A decision has been pen by Jack Northrop, whose first trim engine propeller and slip stream, ed and not retained by the club.

lined Lockheed-Vega startled the and keeps the ship, when propell brooke street east; the construction ding for some time, but it is hoped Having taught him to fly the aviation world and carried Bened by the powerful 500 H.P. Wasp of large storage tanks and erection that a final agreement will now to

of the refinery plant proper. The reached. Government will then afford the new Eielson and Sir Hubert Wilkins engine, straight in normal fight refinery will produce gasoline and

Although in the antarctie where; motor and industrial oils, etc. the across the top of the world; is

known as the Northrop Delta. It with Bernt Balchen at the соп

The new Shell refinery will be is, in size, not a gigantic machine, trols, I do not expect nor intend the aeroplane selected is of wholly It measures only 48 feet wide on to fly in bad weather, and although located beside the reineries of the SOVIET ELECTRICAL Belgian design and construction the the wings; is 31 feet long and, we may not need them, all the British American Oil Company and Government will contribute a maxi-empty, weighs 3,200 pounds. But latest improved instruments for the La Salle Petroleum Refinery, It gives one the impression of blind flying and aids to the pilot Limited, the latter just recently

Production Statistics mum sum of £285 towards its cost. gigantic power and reined, tool have been installed in the cockpit. placed under construction when tho If the acroplane is of foreign de steeled strength.

For Nine Months. Besides the normal temperature, firm of Joseph Elle, Limited, fuel merchants of Montreal, decided to sign but Belgian construction this Speed and lift were the words speed, oil pressure, gas consump

an oil refinery in Montreal forcibly suggested as I watched tion, counters for the engine, there erect

The factories united under the sum is reduced to £91.

artificial East and financed the new refining Federation of Soviet-Russia Power- forth.the machine roll from the hangar. are a sperry gyro, and Government aid is also

Current Industry, registered, ac- coming to keep the machine in com. It is an all metal low wing mono-horizon swing, visible indication of company.

The Shell company, it is pointed cording to just published statistics, mission and the owner may claim plane of exquisite workmanship. the angle of the ship in flight, and an unnuni sum of £57 towards the The metal leaves with which the an inclinometer and rate of climb out, has been importing gasoline during the first nine months of the cost of repairs during the first four pressed dural frame work is cover instrument register the amount of and oil products from Venezuela in current year a total production of tank steamers. On com- 553,900,000 Roubles, or 29.7 per ed fold one over the other with a climb and wing dip. The rate of its own smoothness resembling the climb instrument tells if and when pletion of the new Montreal East cent. more than in 1981. "Flying Pay."

feathers of a well-preened bird. and how fast the machine is refinery, erude petroleum only will The production of the factories The most remarkable source of Round leaded rivets neatly awedg-climbing or falling, and with all be imported and "cracked," or re-specializing in the lighting equip revenue, however, will come from ed and plumb in line hold the the instruments available it should fined, in the new plant, the pro-ment even registered an increase of the "dying pay" offered by the leaves together. Gleaming silver be possible to fly the machine en- ducts being distributed by tank 49.2 per cent, and those manufac Government to all Belgian owner wings set sturdily beneath a her tirely blind if necessary.

steamer down the St. Lawrence and turing electric machines of one up the Great Lakes. It is stated 36.1 per cent. pilots. This varies from £1' 2s. Od-ring-gutted fuselage tip dihedrally'

also that the refined gasoline will per hour for every hour flown on an suggests the outline of a slim an

During the same time railroad all-Belgian aircraft, 58. per hour tarctic petrel.

be taken to the western const of yards finished 67 engines driven by Canada through the Panama canal. electricity, instead of the 150 eri- "Pants."

The Shell oil refinery will make ginally planned and ten motors for Montreal East more than ever Diesel engines instead of 20. In a foreign make the subsidy rate is tarctic will be changed for skils, cember, 1938, there are seldom any most important oil, refining centre. Sept. 1932 the estimated monthly shows only the smallest section of half measures in the weather, It In addition to the two new refineries production of the whole electricity Finally a reduction

of 50 per the rubber tyres beneath metal is either violently stormy or ren to be completed this year, namely industry was realized up to 84 per on aerodrome landing and streamlining, giving the impressonably claim and clear. Since our those of the Shell Oil Company of housing charges is allowed to all sion of a ballet dancer tip-toed in flight is one purely for discovery, Canada, Limited, and the La Salle pilots whether members of Blying momentarily arrested motion. The we expert to land and wait for Petroleum Refinery, Limited, there

General Liu Pei-chuan, general called "pants" clear weather rather than fly are at present located there such clubs or private owners of aircraft. streamlinings are

large refineries as those of Imperial manager of the China National It is hoped that this new schemo by the aviators, but they more through or over fog conditions,

We will not attempt to reach the oil Limited Frontenac Oil Re Aviation Corporation has tendered of subsidy will give a great impetus nearly resemble thin fitting panties: to the Belgian light aeroplane in-than the baggy nether garments of South Pole: our course will keep finery, Limited, subsidiary of the his resignation in order to take up But of the McColl-Frontenac Oil Company; other duties. His successor was dustry as well as providing a re the male. On the back of the fuse-us 400 miles away. serve of pilots in case of national lage there rises a sloping glass in 3,000 miles we hope to cover when Limited;, and the British American appointed by the directora at

the pilot's wind shield, and the crossing from the Ross Sea to the oil Company.

moeting held on December 10. Under the British flying club glassed-in section is carried back Weddell Sea and return, not more subsidy scheme of course no pay-beyond the navigator's cockpit, than 300 miles has ever been seen ment is made to individuals, nor is which is directly behind the pilot. by man.

It would be vain to fly over such any assistance given in the pur-In flight the navigator and pilot chase, maintainance or housing of may communicate directly with an area except in clear weather. private aircraft. Approved clubs each other. The streamlining faWe believe it will be safe to land gressed amazingly. Here is their receive a bonus for each pilot train-carried right through to the tall, almost anywhere on the ice-cover- table: ed but no reduction is allowed on) As part of the tall assembly, the ed antarctic area, especially with landing fees or housing charges on discerning eye discovers the one the aid of the newly designed flap Government-owned aerodromes. apparent misfit noticeable in this (Continued at foot of next Column.)

years.

for each hour flown on a machine

of foreign design but Belgian con- Beneath the wings the wheeled struction. If the engine alone is of undercarriage, which, in the an-

178, per hour.

cent.

emergency.

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Antarctic Weather. Such necessity should only occur when testing the machine in this country. In the antarctic, which country we hope to reach in De

QUICK PROGRESS OF AIRWAYS.

Imperial. Airways Ltd. have pro-

Countries Served. 1924-26

G

1927-28

8

1929-30

13

1931-32

22

Passengers Carried.

1924-25

11,895

1927-28

26,861

1929-30

29,888

1931-32

34,162

cent.

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gear with which the Northrop Delta is fitted. The flap gear is an arrangement under control of the pilot. It is attached to and near the trailing edge of the wing. Slow Landing.

In fight, it is folded up and helps to form the wing in conven- tional shape, but if a quick take- off or a slow landing a necessary, the pilot, by winding on a thread- ed gear, can drop the flap, swing- ing it, downwards as one can swing the cover of a book The wing is then split-edged at the rear, indue, ing drug and increasing liftin other words, making the machine leap upward or stopping its for ward speed by putting on an air- brake.

This feature necessitates the fitting of Boating ailerons or small control wings attached to the rear top of the large wing for use in controlling the machine In normal flight.

These features and several others will be thoroughly tested. before the airplane leaves the fac tory airport and possibly, later in the winter, when in the anow and. temperatures in the Northern States and Canada, we will get an opportunity to test

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