1934-12-06 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL.

1934

FAMOUS FLYER SEES ATLANTIC AIR SERVICE WITHIN A YEAR

CANADA

British

ATLANTIC

Newfoundland

C.Race

Nova Scotia OCEAN.

NEW YORK

Azores...

Milegi

A map showing the positions of the proposed floating islanda.

LONDON TO AMERICA

IN 18 HOURS

TWO FLIGHTS DAILY EACH WAY CLAIMED

M.

M. BLERIOTS PROPHECY

LOUIS BLERIOT, the famous pioneer air- man, stated last month that a twice-daily service each way across the Atlantic, by means of a chain of floating "seadromes," was likely to be inaugurated within a year, and would bring Lon-

BRITISH PLANE COMBINE don and Paris within 18 hours.of New York,

PLAN TO SECURE BIGGER SHARE IN FOREIGN MARKET NEW SALES POLICY| FOR CHINA

SECRET CONFERENCES

It is understood that, a £5,000,- 000 British aircraft group is being formed to securé an Increased share of the world's aeroplane markets for Great Britain.

have

Many secret conferences been held, and as a result it has been decided to form the group to exploit British civil and military

HIGH SPEEDS SET IN U.S. ARMY AERIAL RACE

Captain Nelson Wins Premier'

Event At 216 m.p.h.

Selfridge Field, Mich. Roaring over an 80-mile course at an average spiced of 216.82 miles per hour, Captain Fred C. Nelson on November 17 won the Mitchell Trophy race, the premier competi- tive event for Ariny nir pilots Captain George Tourtellot placed "second with an average speed of

214,723 m.pch.

NEW FRENCH GIANT

SEAPLANE

aircraft over-seas. in a more de- To Carry 70 Persons

termined and scientific

than ever before.

manner

The first territory, to be attacked

¡is China, and it is understood that

Over Atlantic

Paris.

M. Beleriol, who more than 25. years ago was the first man to By the English Channel and win the Defly Mail · £1,000 prize when a sceptical world scoffed,at the idea, stated emphatically · that the next and immediate step-within a year or perhaps even earlier in the progress of flying would be:

TWO SERVICES DAILY FROM EAST TO WEST AND WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE ATLANTIC, BRINGING 'LON- DON'OR PARIS-WITHIN 18 HOURS OF NEW YORK. **

M. Bleriot, who had just re-co-operate in the placing of the turned to Paris from the 33rd islands in the Atlantic, and Canada international air congress at and Japan are being approached as Washington, said:

regards the mooring of the Pacific

"This development will be more epoch-making than my cross-Channel flight. There nothing

far jones..

ratThere is no doubt about the ts safety of the scheme. The best

• France expects to take the world speed mark of 440 m.ph away from Italy with this new departure in plane designs. Il la described as having "an elephant's power in a greyhound's body."

THE ROBOT PILOT

"GYROSCOPIC

GEORGE" USED

IN BIG RACE

FOR SPEED SAFETY

.AND COMFORT

ALMOST HUMAN "THINKING”

With only two exceptions, the competitors who completed the course in the England-Melbourne Jair race used "blind Aying”, instru-

ments based on the gyroscope.

The first five in at Melbourne were equipped with thom, and all speak onthusiastically of the great service they rendered. No one is warmer in praise than Mr. 0. Cathcart Jones and Mr. Ken Waller,

"Automatic pilots," based on the gyroscope, are fitted already to many R.A.F. night, bombers, and are called "George" in Servico alang..

Big Improvement new

FLYING-BOAT FOR PACIFIC The automatie pilot now

visionary about it at proof of this is that the islands NEW "SCHOOL" TIE FOR THE

ail. It is a matter of practical even urgent importance..

#

or can, be insured at a vory low pre-

mium, not exceeding 2 per cent."

ENGIROLING "THE EARTH "We shall-construct floating islands between Europe' and America and between América and Asia which will not only makë an Atlantic crossing by, air a mere

matter of 18 hours but will soon enable the world to be engirdled.

"This is a question of the utmost Im- portance to Great Britain, with her far

HIGH ALTITUDE ****** FLYING

Future Planes Like "Winged Rockets"

Suggestions for faster air ser- A giant seaplane, capable of lung Empire. No country more than

Britain is interested in quick and safe vices were made by M. Louis Bre- "an official announcement of the carrying seventy persons and inter-communication between the dif-guet, the French aeroplane construe-

new wales policy will be made cruising at a speed of more than ferent parts of the world.

tor, in a lecture before members of shortly.

140 miles an hour, is shortly to "I have gone carefully into the the Royal Aeronautical Society at China British aeroplane, be launched at Toulouse, and it is plans and estimates of the project the Royal Society of Arts, John- manufacturers are faced with se-hoped that trials will have been ed Transatlantic air service and street, London, recently. vere, competition" from the United successfully carried out by the have inspected the models of the floating islands which are being Slates and Italy, whose manufac. end of the year, ' turers selling in that market are France claims that this plane rapidly pushed forward at Wil

will be the largest of its kind... in|mington;, Delaware.

In

said to be heavily subsidised,

CHEAP FLYING IN AMERICA

ACTUAL SAVING ON RAILWAY FARES

Sir Eric Geddes recently referred

to the high average speed which

the American airlines maintain as

[vice.

He said that he thought the fast commercial aeroplane of the very near future would fly frequently at high altitudes, though not exceeding

CATERPILLAR CLUB

Members Whose Lives Were Saved By Parachutes

If you see a man wearing a blue tie with a gold caterpillar on it, you may be certain that he is an airman who has saved his life by a forced parachute landing.

The tie is an innovation of the International Caterpillar Club, which includes members from 32 countries, each of whom owen his life to the parachute.

The tie, however, la reserved exclusively for British members. of the Caterpillar Society.

SECOND GIANT

available is, however, a rable improvement.

conside The gyro

Iscopic instruments indicate at once

MACHINE READY the slightest veering, tilting, or rolling in cloud. As cloud deadens AT BRIDGEPORT the pilot's normal observation, he

BEING FITTED AS TRAINING PLANE

MAY FLY TO CHINA

ia saved fatigue, anxiety and error, a distinct contribution to safety.

There is neither lag hor oscilla-. tion in the instruments. They should eliminate, such accidents as have been caused by 'planes emerg- ing unstable from low clouds, Bridgeport, Conn. Providing smoother flying, the The second glant four-engined instrumnts used in the race have in flying-boat of the Pan-Ameri- some cases added as much as ten Airways has been com- miles per hour to the cruising pleted and is being fitted for speed. One of the incidental effects test flights which will precede the sa distinel, reduction in str Inauguration of trial flights on the sickness. trans-Pacific route,

can

These instruments are developed The huge Sikorsky is being fit-and manufactured in England, and ted as a training plane for trans- at the present time nine in ten of ocean experimental flights, it was the Air Forces of the world have stated, by company 'officials. adopted them.

Carrying 81⁄2 tons of fuel, the

Less Than 601b. new aerial leviathan will have a They are not yet generally in

about 18,000 ft. They would hava PHANTOM AIRMEN cruising radius of more than 3,000 use in the R.A.F. but British

IDENTIFIED

Finnish Frontier

Stockholm.

miles, which will be ample to as-manufacturers, with very few ex- sure safety in the long over-water ceptions, are fitting them. They Pacific service, Pan-American ex-other linea. stretches of the proposed trans- are used by Imperial Airways and

cutives said.

L

the world. According to the FOUR FLOATING ISLANDS "Excelsior" it will be more than) The scheme will probably first cabins which were as comfortable na 100 feet long, with a wing span of be put into force for the crossing possible, heated, and, if necessary, 160 feet and a height of 28 feet of the Pacific, and the Atlantic supplied with oxygen. There will be twelve luxurious service will follow. The United "I do not wish to say that one day Soviet Aerodromes Near cabins each with two bunks. States War Department, which is it will not be desirable to fly at The craft will be employed on backing it, wishes to make a start 50,000 ft. or 65,000 ft., but we are

They weigh less than 60lb., and the French South Atlantie ser-with a trans-Pacifie air mail and still far from this stage until new

California Tests

the cost is a very moderate pro-' passenger service.

engines and airscrews are evolved,"

Firat tests of the new giant, portion of the price of any gerо-- "It is proposed to start the he added. "Perhaps these future

sister-ship of the Brazilian Clip-plane bigger than a light two- Transatlantic service with four aeroplanes will resemble winged men haunting Scandinavian waters now schedule on the New York The fully automatic pilot is com-

per which recently inaugurated a seater.į floating islands. Perhaps a couple rockets.” more islands will be added later as It would be a very great progress

for the last few months has it is South American rub, will be held paratively expensive, but there are emergency stations, though four if the aeroplanes used on the Indian reported, at last been cleared up. over the Atlantic and Caribbean, indications that will soon be in should be enough. Even with our African and South American routes According to a telegram from with Miami, Fla., as the base for general use in all the bigger ma- present aircraft, two services a could attain speeds of approximately Helsingfors, a high officer of the

the operations. day each way are quite feasible. 200 miles per hour Aying between Red Army, who recently escaped taken to California for similar almost human thinking of the Later, the new plane will be An extraordinary Instance of the "These Transatlantic and Trans- 11,500 ft. and 16,400 ft.

KINGSFORD SMITH AND £550 CLAIM

-compared, with Imperial Airwaya. "To Fight To The Last"

He did not mention the low fares which their heavy mail subsidies enable them to offer.

Los Angeles.

the auit filed

The mystery of the phantom air-

t

chines,

In many cases: it is actually who has just flown over 7,000 miles

who has just flown over 1.000 miles pacific air services will be of as Mr. Handley Page in the discus-from Minrmansk across the Pin-tests "preparatory to actual inau-automatic pilot is that an aero- cheaper to travel by' air in the across the Pacific, described

great world importance as was the sion afterwards, said that alownish frontier, stated that three guration of experimental Rights plane dropping perhaps 2001t. in a United States than to go by rail, "preposterous"

building of the Suez and Papama speed, particularly on Eastern Soviet Russia aerodromes, be way of the Hawaiian Islands, gently climb back to the right across the Pacific to China, by bad air bump will of its own accord when the cast of meals on the against him by a man who alleges carry cargo along the sea routes of ground organisation.

canals. Ships will continue to routes, was, largely caused by lack sides a military air base at Alex-Guam and the Philippines," com- altitude and resume level flight. · train is taken into account.

that the airman owes him £550 of the world, but the seaplane will

for services rendered" in 1926,

androwsk, exist near the shores of pany officials said. "The man might have bought M. Bleriot has the plans of the s carry the mails and passengers." New York to San Francisco,—.

the Welte Sea. By alr 432; time 17 hours; by me a cigar," added Sir Charles. "I lands which it is proposed to anchor in train £24, time 3 days and 4)mean to fight him to the last." nights.

Here are three examples:

New York to Chicago-By air! £9 108., by train £3 78. 6d.

air £2,158,;, by, train £2,

New York to Washington-By

MEDAL FOR SCOTT AND CAMPBELL BLACK

a chain across the Atlantic. Each is-

than 500 yards long and about 100fc.

GREECE TO PURCHASE 250 AEROPLANES

CIVIL AVIATION PROGRESS IN JAPAN

AIR RECORD BID

land consists of a landing platform more The Greek Government decid-important than the one at Al-Japan will have more than 700 Across U.S. In 12 Hours above sea level, and will be moored to ed to place orders for 250 military exandrowak.

a huge concrete anchor specially low-aeroplanes. It has also been de-modate 40 'planes

cided to float a loan fór 200,000,-

Jered to the sei bed;

One is at-Kandalax-and-ons-at Paluojnerv), which are both more

Each can accom- licensed civilian pilots by March 1935 On November 19, men and There will be only one anchor, 1000, drachmas to lay out several these aerodromes; believes that the 671, 262 having, firat-class papers, The officer, who helped to build women pilota in Japan totalled The Royal Aeronautical Society The distance from, London to has announced that Mr. G. W. A. which each island can pivot so aerodromes for service in interplanes seen off the Norwegian 120 second-class and. 89 third- Calcutta is slightly more than Scott and Mr. T. Campbell, Black, ing purposes. Four, six, or more

Jas to be facing the wind for land-national air traffic. twice that from New York to San the winners of the England-Aus- submarine propellers will enable Francisco The Imperial Airways tralia air race, have been awarded rate from London to Calcutta is the British silver medal for aero-tion required.

an: Island to be kept in any direc nautics by the society,

€122.

Japan Planning New Air Route

To Knit Cities In Mandated Isles

MID-OCEAN RESTAURANTS "On the floor beneath the landing platform", states "M.

Bleriot, "there will be an hotel

and restaurant and accommoda-

on for garaging and refuelling

jaeroplanes, which will be taken down from the landing platform

Yokohama. cussed in headlines around the by lifts. Japan is planning another air world recently when the League There will be spare parts and

of Nations mandates commis- everything required. The float route to kalt her far-flung Pacific]

sion island empire more closely toed Japan's annual report on her dromes with every modern equip- considered.' and accepting islands will be complete aen- gether, this one to connect Saladministration of the mandated ment. pan, chief port of the Marianne or territories, Ladrone islands, and Palau, capi- There have been suspicious of operation the Transatlantic air ser

"It is estimated that in the first year tal of the Caroline group, 1,200 abroad, never proved, that Japan's The estimated fare for the crossing is vices will carry 80 passengers day. miles apart.

building of extensive harboura 80 a head; £13, of which will be paid Both groups are included in the and laying out of aeroplane land-by the passenger in landing fees to the former German possessions, in the ing fields have been for haval or owner and builders of the floating is Seadrome Ocean Deck Corporation, equatorial Pacific which the Ja milltary purposes, landskappie j panese navy occupied at the out Two naval aviators sailed from Th set of the world war and which Yokohama recently to inaugurate vice

“This twice daily passenger ner Japan now holds in firm posses-the Saipan-Palau. service, in which ann

ould bring in $800,000 per slon nominally under the mandate

so an overhauled

of the League” of Nati

Japanese development of these

islands, esp

harbour work

гдеров

: equipp

Jupiter

eruising.

1200 milles.

dian Gover

coast belong to these units.

clase.

UKITED

gun next summer, will; take

Lindbergh AWBY plans being constructed for the trans-

ther gå at the controls are pie

With 11 Passengers

FAMOUS ACE PILOT WAITS

Captain Eddie Richenbacker, the famous American war airman, la waiting in Los Angeles for favour. able weather to attempt another cross-continent record in a pausens ger aeroplane.

Last February he astonished the world by flying in a Douglas ma- chine the 2,650 miles from Lon Angelte to Newark, New Jersey, in just over 13 hours,

Using a sister air-liner to the one in which Parmentier and Moll won second place in the England" Australia, race, Captain Richen-; backer now hopes, by keeping up a 220 m.p.h. average, to cut downi. the time for the transcontinental⠀⠀⠀ flight to 12 hours. Eleven passen- gers will be carried and only one halt made.

ZEPPELINS ON MANCHUKUO AIR SERVICE

It is reported in Japanese cir cles that Manchukuo

the sposal of therPa

Transpo

berorgani

Manchukuo

Uncern. pelins, to be purchased from Ger MARY