1934-10-11 — Page 7

CAPTAIN F. DISMORE'S

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Robert Kuhn

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1934

TWENTY-ONE YEARS

IMPERIAL AIRWAYS

VETERANS

EIGHT PILOTS FLY TOTAL

OF 7,000,000 MILES EARLY DAYS AT "THE ZOO" RECALLED.

ONE ATAWA 25

NE OF THE PIONEER AIRMEN OF IMPERIAL AIRWAYS.

Salvatore Martino A non-stop light from New York to Home, often attempted but never attained, is the goal of Robert Kuhn, an American, and Sal- vatore Martino, an Balian, who are preparing to take off from Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn. They have hired two high-powered publicity men and agents in the expectancy of cashing in on The resultant fame.

TIME-SAVING BY PLANE

POPULARITY OF

NEW INCLUSIVE

HOLIDAY TRIPS

BY AIR, SEA, ROAD AND RAIL

COMBINED EXCURSIONS

An interesting fact which emerges from this summer's plea- Bure traffic is the popularity of combined excursions in which holl-j daymakers fly to and from the con tinent and, once

their objectives are reached, employ trains, steam- ers, and motor-coaches, as well as aeroplanes, to to widen the scope of their sightseeing tours.

An instance is provided by the growing air fratic from London to

AUTOGIROS ORDERED FOR S.

AFRICA DEFENCE FORCE ·

Raw Materials Also Ordered For

Forty 200 m.p.h. Planes

The Union Government hax placed an order for two autogira or windmill aeroplanes for use by the Defence Force in South Africa.

The machines will be similar to

YEARS AS AN AEROPLANE PILOT, WHILE THE TOTAL MILEAGE FLOWN BY EIGHT OF THE VETERAN PILOTS OF THE COMPANY — CAPTS. DISMORE, JONES, HORSEY, ROGERS, YOUELL, WILCOCKSON, PERRY, AND WALTERS - HAS NOW REACHED A FIGURE OF APPROXIMATELY 7.080,000.

It was in August, 1913, that Capt. Dlsmore gained his certi- ficate of proficiency, and he has been flying aeroplanes ever since, handling machines of all types and sizes. He was at the Central Flying School. Upavon, in the days before there was any special flying corps uniform, and the soldiers, sailors, and marines who were drafted to the school were so many different uniforms including kilts

that Upavon was often referred to jokingly, as "the Zoo."

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Among those who were at the Central Flying School, while Capt. Dismore was learning to pilot an aeroplane, were Lord Trenchard and the late Air Vice-Marshal Sir Sefton Brancker. At that time, how- ever, military aircraft were in such an early stage of development that sceptics were heard to declare that "only birds and fools took to flying."

In the early days of the Great↑ War Capt. Dismore carried out: scouting flights over the North Sea in search of enemy submar-

that now being used by the Lonines; after which he saw much don ulice. Pilots of the South African Air Force will fly theni.

The placing of this order is part

of an expansion scheme for the South African Air Force, Orders are being placed in Britain for raw materials for the manufacture, in Pretoria, of forty 200 miles-an-hour war machines.

and Traum Cologue. "the gateway of ENGLAND-AUSTRALIA

AIR MAIL

riveri

Germany", where holiday folk can, start picturesque trips by Bleamer, or embark on a Rhineland

motor-reach tour which includes a Inauguration By Duke

and

day and a night at Oberammergau. Leaving London on Sunday.

ying to Cologne, one can set off on Monday on a week's motor tour of the Rhineland, returning to Cologne, on Saturday, and, flying back

following morning.

to

Of Gloucester

TWELVE-DAY JOURNEY

The time-table for the Singapore

from England has just been an!

active service, fighting against enemy aircraft in Belgium, and heing decorated by the King of the Belgians with the Order of Leopold. He also acted as a fly-j jing instructor.

When hostilities ceased, and civil aviation began, Capt. Dis- more flew on the first commercial services to the confluent, and he has been a pilot of air-liners ever

since.

Contrast In Aircraft

GLIDER OVER 12

HOURS IN AIR

LAVER WINS BACK BRITISH RECORD

ASSOCIATION'S MEETING

Thirsk.

was broken at the concluding day A second British gliding record,

of the British Gliding Association's annual woaring meeting at Sutton Bank Mr. John Laver, of the Dor

Twenty-one years ago Capt. Bet Gliding Club, made a flight last- Dismore was flying a pioneer type ing 12h. 21m. He thus becomes

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AS PLANE PILOT

The National Air races at Cleveland's gigantic airport, from August 31 to 5 Member 1. was a "man's show," with only the cream of the world's professional Ayers participatin), is dials.de- are some of the ace birdmen, who performed before the stiff-necked stands: (1) KU But when

clared that neither amateurs nor women pilots were skilled enough to meet the sti

gaged in an aerial "dog fight" with Art Davis (3); (2) Milo Burcham, stunt flyers,

petilles Were

Whey Post.

twice round-the-globe flyer; (5) Col. Roscoe Turner, speed king; (6) James G. Halshad (2).2.

IR. L. Atcherly, of the British Royal Air Force.

NEW KWANGSI AIR MAIL

GIROPLANE TO FIGHT PEST

IN SCOTLAND

Start To Be Made On Bracken

On Renfrew Moors

A giroplane, spraying a solu- tion of sulphuric acid, is being used to help rid Scotland of its greatest pest-bracken.

A aturt legs been made on a stretch of moorland in Ren- frewshire.

If it succeeds the giroplane will spray other parts of the country,

NANNING-CANTON

LINK OPERATING

3-DAY SCHEDULE

Many Days Saved On

River Journey

POPULAR WITH PASSENGERS

From Our Own Correspondent)

£5,000 NE FOR AUSTRAL RACE

"Comet" Type Good

a result of the

Test

As

of biplane which was like a big again the holder of the duration DENMARK-AND-BACK For sometime past an aeroplane are satisfied that the machines will FLIGHT

box-kite, being driven by a single soaring flight record.

four.

Approximately 1,000,000

miles

The first record was made a few! days before, when Flt.-Lt. Buxton

hours.

His Record

FOR BRITISH ENTRAS

Specially designed for th international air race from: Jand to Melbourne, to start on ber 20, the De Havilland "Co aeroplane, a type for which thể are three entrants, made its fr Lungchow. flight recently. It was piloted by Another step toward making Capt. H. S. Broad, the firm's test Kwangsi an up-to-date Province pllat. was the recent inauguration of an

Capt. Broad made two trials, each air mall service between Nanning. of about a quarter of an hour's the capital of the Province, and duration. The object was to make Lungchow. The service is avail-a general test of the control and of able on every market day, usually the retractable undercarriage. every third day.

trials the makera

50 h.p, engine, and carrying a pi-

service for passengers has been in fully carry out all that was pro- Bot and one passenger.

operation between To-day

Canton andmised of them. London that same evening or on the to Australia section of the air mailers Commander of an air reached a height of nearly 8.000ft. Captain Stack Breaks trip twice a week. The first step of for speed and long range, and is the Lungchow, the plane making the The "Comet" has been designed liner of Imperial Airways which It is even possible, owing to the nounced.

is driven by four engines

in a thunderstorm. deve-

the journey e from Canton to only aeroplane designed specially speed of air travel, to visit Cologne, The weekly service provides for aries 39 passengers and a crew of the competitions, were almost ideal. loping 2200 horse-power, and car- Conditions on the tenth day of

Wuchow, the plane arriving in for the London-Melbourne race. The enjoy a steamer trip up the Rhine 12-day journey between Brisbane

Wuchow about 10 a.m. Leaving De Havilland Company, very enter 10 HOURS 50 MINUTES and be back again in London-al and London, but in order that the

Competing sailplanes were in the

Wuchow, the plane flies westward prisingly, despite the limited time within a holiday week-end.

Duke of Gloucester may dispatch

FOR 1,400 MILES air throughout the day, there being

and arrives at Nanning, the capital, available, offered to produce a new. about two hours later. A Fascinating Trip

the first aeroplane from Brisbane have now been flown by Capt. 0. often seven and eight of these en-

Departing type, provided orders for three on December 10 (two days before P. Jones, who has had honour, on gineless machines in flight at a broke, by a considerable margin, Lungchow

Capt. Neville Stack recently from Nanning, the plane arrives at machines were received. A fascinating trip, with won it would normally start) the out- several occasions, of piloting Im-time. The total flying time was 40 his own record set up in May, 1931, afternoon, and returns to Nanning 200 miles per hour, with other about 2 o'clock in the They guaranteed a speed of derful views en route, is from Lon-ward trip has been extended to perial Airways. oraft which have dou through tu Rome. Leaving fourteen days,

for the London-Copenhagen and re-the same afternoon, The next carried the Prince of Wales as

conditions. Orders were receiv Croydon in the morning, one flies The first aeroplane leaves London passenger.

Laver's barograph was sealed at turn flight. He left Heaton air morning it leaves for Wuchow and ed from Mr. Bernard. Rubin to Basle and Zurich.

Capt. Jones learned '7 a.m. by Capt. C. H. Latimer-port at six minutes past six in the Canton. Here one with the Christmas mail on Decem-to fly in 1917, and piloted many Needham, vice-president of the Bri-morning and was back at four}

(entrant, and pilot), from Mr, changes to an air-liner in which ber 8 and arrives at Brisbane on different types of aircraft in the,tish Gliding Association, who is in minutes to five in the afternoon.

The fare from. Canton to Wuchow A. O. Edwards (for. pilots C One passes over the Alps, arriving December 20.

is $30.00, and from Canton to in Milan that same evening. Then

Royal Air Force. Then,

W. A. Scott and T. Campbell on recharge of the flying throughout the The Quantas Empire Airways, signing, he conducted a joy-riding meeting, and

He reached Copenhagen at eleven Lungchow, $75.

Black), and from Mr. and Mrs. one can either go on at once by which conducts the Singapore to concern: while for a time he was launched in

at 7.39 Laver was a.m., and after a rest of 45 minutes

That this is useful progress is Mollison. train to Rome, or spend the night Australia section, provides at least with Mr. A. J. (now, Sir.

the Doreet club's left on the return journey for Hesrealised when it is understood that The price at which the orders in Milan, lying on to Rome

Alan) Doraling glider, the same machine ton. the five De Havilland four-engined acro- Cobham; after which he flew for in which he established the British

the same trip by boat requires at|were placed was £5,000, and it following morning.

planes with a maximum speed of Instone Air Line, subsequently duration record of 74 hours last minutes halt, was 10 hours 50 weeks to cover the distance. Busi-muth in respect of each machine.

least a week, and when the West would be fair to There is an increasing volume of 170 miles an hour, capable of ay joining Imperial Airways. On one October at the same place.

His time, including the forty-five River is low it sometimes takes makers are spending at least as assume that the

traffic on the air route to Switzer-ing with a full load and with two occasion, piloting a big 4-engined

¡minutes. Thus he beats his pre nessmen see the tremendous advan- land, the trip through from London engines out of action. The services atr-lizer up to Scotland for to Kasle and Zurich, via Paris, now leaves Brisbane at 10 a.m., enabling monstration flights, Capt.

vious record-11 hours 40 minutes tage of travelling by air and are being made in big Imperial Air-junctions with services to

by 50 minutes, other took up more

After three hours onlookers were!

avalling themselves of the facility. than 3,000 passen- surprised to see Laver make con-stop it Copenhagen) was 120.9 ways machines of the latest 4-en-capitáls.

His average speed (including the gers in three days. gined type.

tract with the clouds and circle m.p.f., and for the actual flying Capt. Youell's Career

away towards the north. Half an time 138.8 m.p.h. over hour later he returned to Sutton miles course,

the 1,400 Capt. Youell, who has now flown Bank and continued soaring until This compares with more than 800,000 miles, became eight o'clock.

There is not a protruding gadget the average Another triumph for

Ulster's great lying family, of except the tiny red and green: British apprenticed when

speed of 124 m.p.h. Tor the actual fly- he was fifteen

Ing time during his previous record which Lord Londonderry, the Air navigation lights on the edge of the to an early Aying A large crowd of pilots, officials making attempt.

Minister, is head, figured in a spect-wings. The two Gipsy VI, engines Commodore Sir school at the Hendon aerodrome, and onlookers gathered at the top Capt. Stack flew in a Miles Hawk acular broadcast from an air liner give a total of 460 k.p Charles Kingsford-Smith crossed his first job being to mend put the last stages of Laver's flight in Gypsy Major engine. Extra tank when Ards Airport, Ulster's first speed is not nearer 230 than 200

of the hill and watched in silence Major machine with 130 h.ptravelling at 110 miles an hour, the Australian continent at

It will be surprising if the top an turea

in aero-tyres, and replace air trip from Croydon to Le Tou- thus outrivalling the United States wheels. When he was sixteen, he cheered loudly on the completion of range of 1,500 miles.

spokes in average speed of 232 miles an hour, missing

aeroplane the falling wind and light. They age was fitted to give the 'plate a civil aerodrome, was formally open-miles per hour. Assuming this in pilot Jack Frye, who is May cross-learned to fly one of the school the twelve hours.

ed by the Duke of Abercorn, achlaved, with the machine carry Governor of Northern Ireland.

ing at the same time sufficient fuel ed the American continent at 227 biplanes. In 1918 he was in m.p.h.

for the longest stage of the race (2,560 milles); the "Comet" repre sents an important advance..

The three "Comets" will be coloured in accordance with their"

There is busy traffic, also, on the services to the Belgian coast. Os. tend is only 1 hour 20 minutes from Londes by air and, on arrival in Belgium, holidaymakers have af

KINGSFORD-SMITH'S NEW RACER BREAKS RECORD

choice of many interesting excur Javiation was achieved on September years of age

alans. To le Touquet the bookings continue heavy, particularly by the popular Sunday excursions.

The

quet now occupies only 1 hour 5 minutes..

Growth Of Air Trave!

"One of the features of this holi-j day season", remarks an official of

11, when Air

CLAIM

Imperial Airways, "is the growth in 1,000-SEATER AEROPLANE the number of passengers who em bark on European tours in which they make all their journeys

de-

Jones

Contact With Clouds

"

France on active service, seeing a had attained a height of 1,500ft. After leaving, Laver said that he considerable amount of aerial during the morning, that he was fighting. When peace came

i

a

It has

cruising speed of 140 m.p.h.

BROADCAST FROM AIR

AT 110 M.P.H

he feeling very stiff and sore, but ad Airman Slips From Plane But

went with a joy-riding concern thoroughly enjoyed the trip. to Sweden, carrying out flights

160 miles north of the Arctic Once, during the day, there were Circle. On returning to England nine machines in the air at the

A Danish engmeer claims to have he began flying on the Continen- same time. Three of these were due damaged in landing in a field at the

seen

"Clean" Design

That the machine is fast can be at a glance. Not even the Schneider Trophy racing seaplants were so "clean." There is not an external strut, nut, or wire on the "Comet."

Lands Unhurt From 2,000 Feet purchasers' wishes. Mr. Rubin's

Southampton.

from city to city by air. In a 'trip lasting not more than a week, invented a method of aeroplane pro-tal airlines, becoming in granted one's main journeys are by pulsion which will make it possible course one of the pilots of Imperfoot of Sutton Bank, but the pilots feet, at Hamble, Hants, a young over. air, one can pay visits to Amster||

to build machine to carry 1,000)ial Airways. ' dam, Copenhagen, Berlin, and passengers,

were not injured.

AUSTRALIAN-GOVERNMENT. PLANE TESTED

will be green. Scott and Campbell Black have decided on red, and Mr. and Mrs. Mollison have chosen black

PLANE FALLS IN

JUDGE'S GARDEN'

when I felt myself slipping out of While flying an aeroplane at 2,000 the cockpit as the machine turned with gold lettering.

pilot had the terrible experience of "Before I could do anything I had falling by accident from his fallen right out. I ripped open my machine.

parachute and made a good descent. He pilled the rip cord of his As I came down I looked for my parachute, and Landed unhurt in a machine, but it had gone out of deld. The machine crashed to earth sight. two miles away.

Two Irish Free State airmen were buried to death and a third

I took off the parachute harness escaped when their aeroplane crash-

Vienna, returning to London via

Another of these veterans, Zurich and Paris, On by another

Capt. Rogers, joined the R. A. F. Itinerary also lasting no longer route. Taking several typical 1914 and, after serving over than a week-one can fly to Paris, tours, each lasting a week, the sens, gained his wings in 1917. Zurich, Milan; and Rome, returning saving of time in travel, If one files When the war ended he,like]. to London via Marseilles and Paris, from point to point, is from 2% to others, turned to civil aviation, And the advantage of such flying 3 days compared with surface

and he has been piloting passen

An aeroplane like that which won The pilot is Mr. K. T. Murray and got a lift to the spot where the ed in the garden of Mr. Justice. trips is that the speed with which transport; which makes all the ger-planes ever since, his total this year's King's Cup Race, built whose home is in Costa Rica. He plane had dived to the ground. 1 Meredith's home in Terenure-ad you accomplish your air journey difference from the point of view time spent in the air: now amount for the Australian Government, sald afterwards that he had been tried to find as a souvenir a plece Dubiin on September 11 pre-road, gives you a maximum of time for of the amount of sightseeing one

ing to more than 9,000 hours. successfully completed its tests at in the air for about 20 minutes, and of the propeller, but it was buried men were Lieut. Arthur Russell, sightseeing at the various cities en can do at one's halting-points.”

In the ground, and pieces of the aged 28, the pilot, and Private. "I had just done one slow roll; machine were all over the "feld." Twomey, aged 21.

Croydor Aerodrome. It has a speed was practising aerobatics.

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of 160 miles an hour.