1934-09-13 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1934.

AMAZING RESULTS FROM

WINDSOR LAD

WINS ST. LEGER TO

SECURE "DOUBLE"

Canters Home Ahead Of Tiberius

SMIRKE'S GREAT RIDING

London, To-day.

Mr. Martin H. Benson's Wind- sor Lad, winner of the Derby and the favourite ut 4 to 9. and 2 to

9 for special place belting, won the St. Leger, run over 1 mile 1172 yards at Doncaster yester day, heating Sir Abe Bailey's Tiberius, at 20 to 1. by two lengths, La Zingaro, al 100 to 9. was third. two lengths hehind Tiberius. There were 10 run-

ners.

ST. LEGER WINNERS SINCE 1926

1920-Coronach

1927--Book Law

1928-Fairway

1929-Trigo

1830-Singapore

1931-Sandwich

1932-Firdaussi

1992-Hyperion

Also_ran. - Adept, Primero, Umidwar. Achtenan, Patriot King, Pride of the Chilterns. Autumn.

Windsor Lad's time was 3 minutes 3/5 seconds which equals previous record set up by "Coronach" in 1926,

H. H. the Aga Khan's Umidwar. second favourite for this ruce and

FIN

This photograph shows the take-off of the United States Navy balloon in the national elimination race at Birmingham, Ala. The navy bag, piloted by Lieut. Charles H. Kendall, with Lieut. H. T. Orville as aide, was one of the two last balloons to land. Five bags started in the race.

WITH MAILS IN A GALE

MRS. MOLLISON-BUYS-A-

NEW AEROPLANE

May Also Purchase New Type Of Speed Plane

Wichita (Kansas.) Mru, Amy Mollison has ordered i

the Derby, who beat Windsor Lada Standard 4-seater Beechcraft by half length in the Eclipse peroplone with a 225-h.p. Jacoba Stakes, won by King Salmon, finish-engine, supable of a cruising speed ed Arth, while Pride of the Chil-of 150 miles an hour. torns was placed fourth.

There is also a possibility that Smirke, on Windsor Lad, rode aMrs. Mallison may purchase a new great race, entering the straight type of speed 'plane which in capa- behind Tibering, and just urging ble of a cruising speed of 190 miles his mount up to win in the last on kour. three furlongs.

Every precaution was taken to guard Windsor Lad against harm

whik: preparing for yesterday's STORY BEHIND A

FAMOUS FLIGHT

Face

A retired Scotland Yard superin-

tendent was engaged to look after Lindbergh And Levine

the

him, a step not unusual in case of a valuable racehorse.

Similar watch was kept on the famous Orwell two years ago.

It is rumoured in London that Mr. M. H. Benson has been offered i

NEXT YEAR'S ENGAGEMENTS

on

Rivalry

BID FOR UNIQUE PLANE

INAUGURAL

SERVICE IN

GT. BRITAIN

Bucking And Leaping Machine

EXPERIMENTS IN AIRCRAFT DESIGN

SAFETY FACTOR IN MULTI-ENGINES

I

ELIMINATING CHANCES OF FORCED LANDINGS

THE ATLANTIC SERVICE

(By AMY MOLLISON)

HAVE INSISTED THAT SPEED IS THE SELLING POINT OF AVIATION. WE TRAVEL BY AIR FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS, BUT FIRST AND FOREMOST COMES SPEED.

Its development. however, must go hand in hand with in- creased reliability; flying is safe, but we must make it safer still. The modern aero engine is the result of careful development dur- ing the last decade and engine failure is a rarity.

Nevertheless, it is the duty of aircraft operators to safeguard their passengers against even the most unlikely events. For this reason on most of our principal air lines twin or multi-engine air- craft are used.

Supposing we decide that twin, tri-or multi-motors are essential, it is interesting to examine the high safety factor allowed by de Ha- villand's recent four-engine development.

The performance tests indicate ,that with one engine out of com:

OCEAN FLIER mission a speed of over 90 m.p.h.

INJURED

may be maintained at the height of 15,000 ft., and with only two engines in operation controlled flight may be maintained up to! 3.600 ft.

It will be seen that forced landing through engine stoppage is approaching

From these figures. I

Captain Pond's

Rib Dislocated the impossible.

SEQUEL TO CRASH ON HILLSIDE

A successful bi-motor design with full load performance on one engine gives an almost parallel de- [gree of safety, but it is constantly being predicted that the days of Capt. George Pond, the Ameri- the tri-motor are numbered, be- can airman, underwent an X-ray cause it is said to be less efficient examination at Cardington Hos and less suitable for passenger By Renee McColl, who was the pital recently and it was discover transport, though the protagonists only passenger in the 'plane mak-ed that he received a serious dis of this type find their chief argu- ing the inaugural flight on the location of one of his ribs when ment is the question of safety in

he crashed near Fishguard, Pem- the take-off. London-Glasgow route.

brokeshire last month.

WEATHER'S CRUEL TRICK

vices

Londo and Glasgow to be halted,

chester.

The mails were taken out of the aeroplanes and sent on by train.

Landing Speeds

Rampa Bow under construction in New York City will enable set- plane commuters and taxiplane users to drop in almost at their office doors, instead of coming down miles out of town at landing fields. An architect's drawing of a station being erected at the foot of Wall Street is shown.

13 NATIONS FOR AIR RACE

Irish Flyer Among Favourites

FROM BERLIN

TO SHANGHAI

IN 8 DAYS

Huge Junkers Plane Shatters Record

VAST CROWD WELCOMES

GERMAN FLYERS

Shanghai.

Breaking every previous Europe-

Orient aeroplane speed record and opening up vast air transport pos- sibilities in the Far East, the giant Luft-Hansa tri-motor Junkers Ju

59, ordered by the Eurasia Com- pany, landed on September 6, at 5.43 p.m. at the Hungjao aero- drome admidst a large and enthus iastic gathering of Chinese, Ger- man, and other officials and well- wishers, exactly 8 days, 6 hours, and 30 minutes after it left for Shanghai on August 29, via Athens, Cairo, Bagdad, India, Bangkok, and Canton from Tem- plehof Airdrome in Berlin, a total sir distance of 15,000 kilometers.

Rousing cheers and vigorous "Heil's!" greeted the huge all- metal monoplane as it appeared from but a speck in the sky to its full proportions and RS it passed 150 feet over the specta- tors, the blue and white Kuomin- tang emblem clearly seen on its Wings and the black swastika of

new Germany emblazoned on the rudder. The gathering of 600 waited expectantly as the plane circled the aerodrome twice.

Greeted By Minister Completing a wide circle at the Southern end of the field, the plane landed gracefully and roll- ed up to the crowd who were tense with excitement.

the

and

Was

IF FITZMAURICE_WINS

While testing his aeroplane,

Even before the three gleaming "The Irish Swoop," which is now metal propellors stopped turning Birmingham.

crowds surged and ran toward the He will undergo treatment by a An impish fate saw fit to disor-

Cardiff specialist.

The tri-motor, they argue, has being completed in the Bellanca plane and almost surrounded it before ganise the inaugural day of the

The accident occurred when after engine failure, two motory works, Colonel J. Fitzmaurice will it came to a stop.

clean-shaven, Smiling, new British Inland.air malls with

or two-thirda of its probably attempt to lower the violen gales that compelled ser-Capt. Pond and Lt. Cesare Sabelli, remaining,

showing no signs of fatigue, Pilot both directions between who together flew the Atlantic in total horse-power. The bi-motor United States Coast-to-Const fly- Carl August Freihem топ

May, were on a flight in the has only one-half; but this view

Gablenz, veteran Luft-Hansa pilot, the former when it reached Bird Leonardo da Vinci, from Italy to is largely discounted by the fact ing record.

But the big test of the sero-stepped out of the plane dressed ingham and the latter at Man-Dublin, with the intention of curry-that certain twin-engine types can

ing out a return flight to America. actually take off with one engine plane's qualities will, of course, be in a white pilot's cap and white flying jumpers. Brisk "hurrahs", During fog they ran into the side stopped.

made in the London to Melbourne and cheers greeted him, and the of Carningly Hill, which is 1,200ft. With the single engine our safe!

Our Air Race which will start on Octo- first to shake hands with him was guards against emergency high.

meticulous care in maintenance and the ber 20. Between sixty and seventy Mayor Wu Te-chen of the Shang- Despite his injury, Capt. Pond, further development of slow landing It was cruel luck for Railway Air along with Lt. Sabelli, visited New- devices.

Bigh top speed does not of the world's leading flyere, men hat City Government, who Services Limited, the

company port Castle, Pembrokeshire. Both necessarily mean bigh landing speed. and women, have entered for this followed by Mr. Oscar P. Traut Joperating the new services on behalf airmen were received by Lady! We know that there is no contest. Great Britain will havemann, German Minister to China, two and numerous other officials. Cap- of the L.M.S. Railway, for the rare Lloyd, widow of Sir Marteine golden road in aircraft design, but sixteen flyers, including the An interesting story, never be. £10,000 profit on Windsor Lad, fore told, of how Lindbergh miss August gales followed several wind-Lloyd, who congratulated them on intelligent compromise and the Mollisons, "Jimmy" and Amy, and tain Robert Untucht, co-pilot and

less days, which would have pro- their escape. whom he recently purchased from ed crossing the Atlantic the year vided ideal flying conditions.

use of every means of improving Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, who ace Luft-Hansa pilot on the South the Maharajah of Rajpipla for before his memorable flight, was

The damaged Leonardo da Vinci the inherent qualities of an air holds the England-Australia Air America run, radio-operator Kurt

Haenagen, mechanic Karl Kir Twenty-one American

choff, the balance of the crew, £50,000, and has declined it. revealed to Colonel Fitzmaurice! For some time, while rumours of is under police guard on the moun- craft will give what a year ago record.

as pilots, including three airwomen, by Mr. G. M. Bellanca during the the planes gale-bound at Manches- tain side, and Lt. Sabelli said he might have been described

London amazing results.

will compete; this being the largest followed Pilot Gablenz. Irish airman's recent visit to the ter reached us, it did not seem that had been in touch with Nothing has been decided

I read, for example, in the speci-national entry of the thirteen Last to leave the plane were we would make a start. Finally, concerning repairs. Windsor Lad's future yet. Experts Ballunca engineering works,

however, 12 bags containing the In regard to their future move-fication of an American aircraft countries which will be represented. Mr. Heinz M. Wronsky, ploneer The experts belleve that the race Luft-Hansa manager who made years he is an AB early as 1926, Bellanca had 164lb. of mail were put on to a taxi ments, the two airmen are await that it has a top speed of 250 undeveloped horse, and would be finished the construction of at the Airways terminus, Victoria, ing instructions.

miles an hour and a landing speed will be won cither by a British or the flight from Berlin, and Mr. R. better for training for another unique aeroplane built for long and they and I were

slightly more than the average an American machine. Wiley Post, von Maateuffel, technical manager year, especially as he has some at-distance, effortless flying, which

light aeroplane.

Kingsford Smith, James A. Molli- of Eurasia who joined the plane Croydon. tractive engagements for next year, later became the famous Columbia,

son and J. C. Fitzmaurice are the in Canton. Transatlantic Service including

outstanding favourites,

of опе · American Design Motors Eclipse Stakes, with two trans-Atlantic hops and

I have a letter from an Ameri-whom is expected to win the race. Jockey Club Stakes and the Ches- many long-distance records to its await one of the De Havilland wheels. ter Vase. He is also in the Jockey credit. The plane was owned by machines arriving from the north Bucking and leaping like a spirited can friend about the International If Fitzmaurice proves to be the yet seen in China, was specially Club Stakes this year, to be run on Wright, for whom Bellanea then and to make our journey in that entrant in a rodeo, our machine charg-Air Race to Australia. He states winner, the whole of the £10,000 built and equipped for service in worked. One day a young man But Manchester, it seemed, wased along with a head wind bagging at that it seems highly probable that prize-money will be given to charity the Far East by the Junkers named Lindbergh

into the producing a 70 mile an hour gale, us every foot of the way.

We lurched over the Northern several of the entranta will fly by the promoters of the Irish Company In Dessau. A low-wing по planes could leave. A

responsible all-metal monoplane with floating works, looked at the plane, and and The first applicant for a nomina-wanted to buy it. The Wrights Westland Wessex tri-motor machine suburbs, did a jig where London their machines here for the start. Sweepstakes, who are tion to Windsor Lad in 1938, and demurred; however, Bellanca made was substituted and the mail bags finally gave way to the country, and This raises the interesting point for the entry of the Irish Free aelirens

we are to a re- State's name amongst the compet-rear control surfaces, it is equipe all following years, is that very fine the decision for them by resigning placed in ita baggage compartment. as the green fields of the Midlands as to how atlan

Ing nations. judge of breeding, the Aga Khan. from the Wright Company and

[ped with three B. M. W. Gorman came into view, we bumped and gular Transatlantic service.

motors. I have flown the North Atlantic

of American Curtiss, His Highness-already-owns-a taking his plane with him to New

staggered like a cork in a choppy

~(Continued-on-Page-11)- und¬have talked with most of the sen.: Derby winner by Blandford in castle, where he established a fac- Blenheim, who is at the stud Intory of his own.

The speedometer needle flickered other pilots who have France. He no doubt realises that

tion ceremony took place, then between 50 and 100 miles an hour. The ideal is naturally the direct RADIO-CONTROLLED In order to finance the venture, Capt. Armstrong, the pilot, climbed The altimeter said 2,000ft. Bright crossing of the Atlantic from New Windsor Lad is bringing in a fairly new and most virile sirain of blood he sold a half interest to a wealthy into his cockpit, and exactly one sunshine. filtered through black York to London or Paris by the on his dam's alde, such as will be who later became

junk-dealer named Charles Levine, hour behind schedule, with the on-clouds. In the hedges below us great circle course, the shortest famous as the lookers waving cheerlly, we jumped one could see the trees bending and distance between any two points of value in alliance with the Aga arst trans-Atlantic passenger. Lind into the air and headed north. Khan's stud.

swaying in the same wind that tore on the earth's surface. bergh then approached Bellanca Croydon broadened below

Continued on Page 11). us. at us. And, if I may add a personal with renewed hope; no objections The horizon fled away from us in note, it is to say that Mr. Benson! (Continued on Page 11.) has asked me to manage the horse's

say that at three

the

October 1.

FIRST STUD NOMINATION

career when he goes to the stud,

writes Hotspur.

Derby 'winner can come into RUSSIA

came

rushed. to

The original plan had been tol

serpentine

7.

Start Delayed

The belated Croydon Inaugura-

widening circle, the Thames rose

under

our

landing

(Continued on Page 11).

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the private or public market only:

in certain unusual circumstances.

RUSSIA LEADS WORLD

WORLD IN THE AIR

AEROPLANE

ABROAD

J

done so

SALES

J

AIRSHIP

Robot Pilot Tests In Soviet

The huge Junkers, largest plans

and

counter-balanced

NORTH ATLANTIC AIR SERVICE

Mr. Hutchinson's Plans

Moscow.

New York.. Experiments are being made in Mr. George Hutchinson, pilot of the Caucasus near the city of the "Flying Family," who is hoping Tiffs, with the model of a wire-to begin a regular New York- less-controlled airship.

London-Moscow air service carry- In the last year, aeroplane sales The length of the model is 80ing freight, states that he had re- Amsterdam....... |_ Russia, Britain, Japan, Italy and exted, and their engines too delicate abroat absorbed 38.8 per cent of feet, and it carries no passengers ceived the necessary permit from In the great majority of In A vivid picture of the next war in France Mr. Fekker emphasised, were and specialised.

the total production of aeronauti- but a "mechanical man" in the the Russian authorities. stances the fortunate owner is the air was drawn by. Mr. Anthony stl building large bombers, as their plecusing effectives Me Fekker cal products, and engine sales took shape of a complicated wireless ap- He is now waiting for the com- breeder and needs the services of Fokker, the airplane designer, in an character, and had their objectives at said, Russia ban understood the need 15.0 per cent. the horse, which, if bred on ap interview.

for trained men in reserve and is traîne proved lines and possessed of the There will be highly developed fast

fing large numbers of highly, efficient For "ground-strafing"" he envisioned plats and mechanics, Hussin, he be right physique, must necessarily be machines,” he said, “manned by three In more demand than can be met or more mon, heavily armed, to pre-armed with six to eight maching guns, power than many people think.

A two-seater, with an 800 h.p. engine, Heves, is much more advanced fair until, for want of success, he has sght off-defence machines that ity to speed of 220 miles an hour, and laro naues to carry troops, and tect the large bombing"?planes, and to carrying amali bombs, and capable of fallen from favour."

The enormen distances ibere de *-, attack the bombers, rugby That can only be ascertained bid back these swarms of machines

"No opposing force will be able to World's Largest Air Fleetwa Rasala, le building the „orld's largest Moet of large machines, bath for, trans- after at least four years at the although, of course, any will be Mr. Foxes thinks that the present most ind bombing purposes, he de

brought down."

day, friting airplanes are too compli- clared.".

air forces were of a more offensive

close range

BRAZIL AERONAUTICAL

paratus

pletion of the American Govern- It is intended, that by means of rent tests of his "plane, and the another wireless on the ground the permit from the British to'land in dirigible shall be made to ascend Newfoundland, Ireland and Eng- and then be steered. In any direc- land before starting. MARKET

tion.

Freight rates, will be high on the azil lends the world as mar. Besides this it is hoped that it first trip due to the advertising ket for American aeronautical will be possible to make the airship value but on subsequent flights. products, absorbing more than 25 droo propaganda leadets over any regular fee of approximately Sa per per cent of the entire export.

place to which it may be sent. ounce will be charged."