WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1933.
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P. & O.-British India Conquering Everest From The Air president liners
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(Continued from Page 6.)
Start Of The Climb
the
often swirls a vast eddy with a Beld and to record accelerometer "transverse horizontal axis," of observations. Besides the, tangible which one side moves downwards scientific objectives there is The flight across this zone, called with a force and speed which can more immediate one of bringingi the Teral, will occupy perhaps ajonly be guessed.
home to the world in unmistakable quarter of an hour, though it would The judgment, experience and air-fashion the supremacy of British call for several days' arduous march-manship of the pilots and executive aircaft and engines.
will here be tested. Should the ing were it to be attempted on foot. oxygen fail, or even the warming
Economic Value This flight will not merely be a The machines will by now have at-electric current which saves it from test of climbing power, but of air- tained a height of over 13,000ft., so freezing, the crews will become unworthiness and structural strength. that they will be inaudible to those conscious. This would be hazardous But there may be an economic as enough over low-lying flat ground well as a scientific value in the at- on the ground and will appear, if at with 30,000 ft. of "air-room" below tempt. Why should the services of (COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND).all, as specks in the sky. The Teral, in which a pilot can regain control. distribution confine themselves to
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though seamed with foothills and Over the terrific cliffs or the track-the oceans and the land and neglect ravines, can hardly be termed moun- face of Mount Everest the case is comes up to every man's door.
less glaciers of the hugh southern the air?. The air is the ocean which Lainous, but still farther north of it altered. The pilot will be fortunate the aircraft will fly over the real as well as akilful to secure command cross
Transport aircraft must either the seas or desert or elsa Nepal. Here is a well-ordered land again over his machine in the small mountain ranges. Oceana call for of green mountains, rapidly increas-space available. These risks are not more powerful flying-boats; deserts Ing in height and grandeur, but cause, yet the objects of the Expedi-chains of
to be run lightly and without due and jungles for the organisation ofļ
landing ground. and separated by wide fertile valleys full tion are ambitious enough to war-lights; but so far the economic lof terraced luxuriant rice fields, rant its hazards,
world has almost everywhere, except The hillsides, at first matted with Scientific Apparatus
in the Andes, New Guinea and be-' Its scientific goal consists in thetween Termez and Kabul, shirked mapping by air aurvey methods, by This practical demonstration, ad- the problems of mountain ring. means of the well-known William- ilex, pine, and finally with birch.
Hitherto the mountain itself will sibic glaciers, valleys, and cliffs on results. Everest may contribute its son Eagle cameras, of the inacces-dressed to the mother wit of busi- Ness men, may have far-reaching have been in view as one among the southern flank of Mount Everest.] many. but at this point it leaps The aim is not so much to produce quota to the coming reconstruction
of industry. a map of any immediate practical clear of its rivals and stands alone utility na to demonstrate to and peerless to the eye of the flyer. world, especially to the non-technical The green mountains become huge portion of it, the relative facility swelling breasts of upland turf mot- and quickness with which such a
The following warships were in map can be made, of a region for-port yesterday:- tled with boulders, streaked with bidden to ground methods both by
rhododendrons and subtropical growths, soon clothe themselves with
the
6th May Boman Havre, London, torrent beds, with rock and cliff and, policy and by the physical obstacles
BANGALORE
0,300
1933. 1st Apr.
4
RANPURA
1*MIRZAPORE
6,700 19th Apr.
CHITRAL
**BHUTAN
RANCHI
CARTHAGE
**SONDAN
NALDERA
**BURDWAN
MANTUA
RAWALPINDI
RANPURA
Antwerp & Hull.
& London. 14,000 20th May Hombay, Marschles & London. 6,800 27th May Bombay, I'lles, Havre, L'don, H'burg,
R'dam,
& Hull. 16.000
3rd June Bombay, Marscilles & London. KAISAR-I-HIND 12,000 17th Juno Bombay, Marseilles &
London. 6,500 24th June Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, Londos.
'burg
Antwerp R'dam
& Hull. 11,000 1st July Bombay, Marseilles &
London. 17,000 15th July
Marseilles & London. Bombay. 17.000 291 July Bumbay.
Marseilles & London. 17.000 12th Aug. Bombay, Marseillen
& London. 17.000 26th Aug.
Marseilles & London, 14.000
Bombay, Marseilles & London. 9th Sept. 10,000 23rd Sept. Marselffer & London. 15,000 7th Oct. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
Calls Casablanca.
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NALDERA
CORFU
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1935.
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•Calls Rangoon.
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutis. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
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North Wall-Folkestone, Fal-
in the higher levels, overmastered of the country. It is hoped to sup-mouth, Moorhen. by great glaciers. No imagination plement the vertical survey photo- graphs taken along the direct course may forecast the majesty of that of
the two machines by a new įstupendous declivity of Mount method of using stereoscopic Whitehall.
Everest's southern face, for no one! "obliques."
but the airmen will have seen it at; close quarters as a whole.
South Wall-Bruce, Verity. East Wall-Oswald, Rainbow. North Arm-Kent, Wishart,
West Wall-Hermes. Dock-Keppel, Odin and Otus. Buoy No. 2.-Medway and Sub
In addition to the actual tops- graphical mapping there is a de- finite expectation of adding to our marines. The world must await the achieve geological and physiographical know- ment itself and hope that some pen ledge, and possibly it may be
Buoy No. 10-Whitehed, Witch Foreign-French Algol. Argus;]
will be forthcoming to tell a hun-feasible to explore the gravitational U. s. S. Fulton. dredth part of the reality.
The point directly over the high jest summit is the airmen's objectivo, because there is no need to go beyond the actual confines of the Kingdom (of Nepal, nor is there any desire to
do so.
Risks Of High Flying Much of the success of the flight depends on the fitness of the flyers! and the soundness of their equip- ment. The greatest danger threatens the arteries of him who adventures into the highest levels. Over the mountains the pressure of that air which supports the walls of the blood
vessels nearer the surface will be
B.J. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for only one-fourth of that at sea-level. tat and 2nd class passengers,
Deprived of their normal support, these vessels tend to burst from the internal pressure of the heart's]
*ASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). violent pumping, and such a state of
NANKIN
NELLORE TANDA
1933.
affairs may cause the loss of vision, Ja dangerous or fatal lapse into un- consciousness, or haemorrhages. The
1st Apr. Manila, Rabaul Brisbane, Sydney 4 only safeguard lies in the physical!
5,000
7,000 7,000
11 a.m. 2nd May
2nd June
Regular monthly sællings from
waé Hong Kong to Australia.
Hong Kong to Bydasy--19 days.
Melbourne.
fitness of the men themselves and! in the youthful strength and elasticity of their artery walls.
All the flying members of the ex-
Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan pedition have, by the courtesy of
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:--
The Union 8.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New Besland, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The P.&O. Royal Hall Steamere to Lordon and
་
The P. & O. Branch Servics of steamers to London via Bes
the Air Ministry, been tested in a great sealed chamber at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, from which the air was pumped out and rarified to the degree · appropriate to an altitude of 87,000 feet. All passed
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and this test admirably, and breathed London via Panama Canal
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
*NELLORE
RANCHI
TAKADA
ALIPORE
SOUDAN CARTHAGE BIRDHANA TALMA NALDERA
'TANDA
*BURDWAN
TILAWA
1983.
5th Apr. S'hal. Moji, Kobo, Osaka & Thams 7,000 17,000 0th Apr. Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama.
7,000 7th Apr. Amoy, S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Osals. 6,300 7th Apr. Shanghai, Moji & Kobo, 6,800 18th Apr. 14,000 20th Apr.
8,000 21st Apr.
10,000 4th May 10,090 4th May
7,000
Shanghai, Kobs & Yokohama.. Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama.. Amoy, S'hal, Moji, Kobe & Osaka.
S'hai, Moj, Kobe & Osaka.
the necessary oxygen with facility jand even, zost. Some surprising effects were demonstrated in this chamber. Sheets of paper fell {straight to the floor, having too lit tle support, from the air even to make them flutter in their descent. The tick of watches and the chink | of coins faded eerily away to silence, there being too little air to carry the sound..
From these facts it will be appre-
8th May Shanghal, Moik Kobe & Yokohama: clated that the flight itself, if all]
Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Ybams 6,100 18th May Shanghal. Kobe & Yokohama.
Shal, Mali, Kobe & Osaka
KAIBAR-I-HIND 12,000 18th M
MANTUA
NANKIN:
*SOMALI
KAWALPINDI
RANPURA RAJPUTANA BANCHI
CARTHAGE NALDERA CORFU MANTUA RAWALPINDI
goes well, will be no mean achieve ment for British aviation and no Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.arnail feather in the cap of the
Kobe, Oaks & Yokohama.
10,000 18th May Moll, Kobs & Yokohama. Westland Aircraft Works,
11,000 7,000
May 1st June
B'hat,
ach June B
Mojl,
18th Juna Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama. 16th June Shanghai, Kobe 4 Yokohama. 17,000 29th Juha Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Kobe 4 Yokohama. 17,000 18th July 17,000 27th July
& Yokohama. 14.000 •10th Aug. Shanghel, Kobe Yokohama 16,000 24th Aug. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama, 15,000 7th Sept. Shanghai, Kobe 4 Yokohama. 11,000 21st Sept. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama, 17,000 8th Oct. | Shanghaf, Koba & Yokohama.
Cargo only. ↑ Calls Nagoya
All dates are appropionate and subfint to alturation withous motion.
All Cabins are fitted with Elstra Fani or Punks
Bosmars' on London and Australian Eduos are
Mountain Air Eddies
The conditions under which the attempt will be made, differ pro- foundly from those of a straigt- forward attack made over an ordin- ary flat country on a conventional belglit, record. No queteorological expert can foretell what turmoils and currents of air will be encoun- tered......... Wind observations will '· be telegraphed to the Expedition's headquarters from the relatively low | levels of Darjeeling and Katmandu,
samsuring not more than 5. en. It, will be received at the Goss but the direction and velocity may
nos up to Noon on the day previons to aulling,
jags, Freight, Huisdbooks, ase. Mysly
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,
Co
| have changed completely even by the time the 25,000 ft, mark is reached.
In the vertical plane again there are unknown wind, movements.” On the leeward side of the mountains there
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