1934-12-27 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1934

TRANSPORT BY AIR OF PERISHABLE GOODS

Seventeen years ago last month Eddie Rickenbacker was mak- ing headlines as America's ace of aces in France. He is still mak ing headlines in the air, with record-breaking transcontinental Alights and round-trip fights between New York and Florida be tween dawn and dusk. He has just succeeded in clipping 58m. 10 sec. off the previous fastest time recorded between Los Angeles and New York, The fight was made at an average attitude of 14,000 feet and his average speed was 221 miles an hour.

AMERICAN

AIRCRAFT

ACTIVITY

Giant Trans-Pacific Air-Boat Launched ·

95 HUGE BOMBERS FOR U.S. ARMY

Baltimore, Md.. The Glenn L. Martin factory .on December, 20 launched", the largest clipper-type air-boat in America for. Pan-American Afr ways, which the latter is sche duled to use shortly on its first America-China

SYDNEY WANTS AN

AIR RACE TOO

Around The World Course

TO CELEBRATE 150TH BIRTHDAY

THE IMPOSSIBLE NOW SPEEDING UP

ACCOMPLISHED

.

TROUT EGGS CARRIED TO TANGANYIKA

LONELY

OUTPOSTS NO LONGER

EXPANSION

OF AIR ARM

600 New 'Planes Next Year

ECONOMIES IN THE PERSONNEL

P

The acceleration of the R.A.F.,

The coming of the mail-plane has worked wonders in the expansion programme announced tropics.

by Mr. Baldwin, will involve an

At Mpika, a small township in the heart of the jungle in increase by 80 to 90 per cent inj Tanganyika, the manager of the local hotel now obtains practi-the number of aeroplanes ordered cally all his supplies of perishable foodstuffs, such as meat, but- next year, as · compared with the ter, eggs, and bacon, by air. These are dispatched each week hy present year's. figure. The total the air-mail flying northward from Cape Town. They are loaded will be between 600 and 650. on to the plane at Broken Hill, and reach him two or three hours It does not follow that all will be later. The only other method of obtaining supplies is by motor-dalivered and paid for in the next van, travelling over rough tracks, and occupying two days or financial year. The total cost for more on the journey.

¡year's Estimates.

One of the difficulties experienced by farmers in South Africa new aircraft and engines will, how- Jever, be approximately £8,550,900, The has been to obtain pedigree poultry stock from Britain.

as compared with the £4,750,000 transport of live poultry over distances of 8,000 or 9,000 miles is too expensive, and, when the importing of hatching eggs by provided for the purpose in this steamer is tried, it is often found that when the eggs arrive in Africa they are unfertile. Experiments in having eggs, sent out by the air-mail have proved extremely successful, the average bring up the strength of the hatchings which have resulted being in the neighbourhood of 60 Air Force to 117 or 118 squadrons by the end of 1936, is being made possible by a number of circum-i

or 70 per cent.

Manning of the new units, which

Recently the Tanganyikajit is difficult, if not impossible, stances and measures. An import Angling Club had a number of to grow anything but dates, ant consideration is the reduction of young trout swimming round in a fresh fruit is now available, re-the average number of aircraftmen hatching pond belonging to the gular consignments being flown per machine.

This is a result of economies in Club; and these trout had all from India, by the weekly air- been hatched from a special con-mail, to the various points of call the maintenance of aircraft, metal signment of eggs which had been along the Gulf.

construction, and a new "tradas" sent by air from the Government

organisation. These factors have Hatching Station at Jonkershoek, The value of this service was the effect of taking the whole of the In South Africa,

illustrated at Bahrein, not long personnel of the Air Force, of ne-

A Saccèssful Picnic

At Juba the local baker now re-ago, on the occasion of a picnic (ducing the average personnel per ceives a weekly consignment of party organised by the staff of aircraft from 23 to a little below fresh yeast from Khartoum by one of the companies which are 20.

Increased Training air-mail, and the fact that this investigating the oll-fields be-

.

IN THE

TROPICS

George Littlejohn (left) and the now missing Captain Charles

T. P. Ulm, Australian acen, are here shown in Canada planning their takeoff from Vancouver for an attempted flight to Australia In the plane shown. Ulm flew from California to Australia with Capt. Kingsford-Smith in 1928.

AUSTRALIA-LONDON AIR-MAIL DISAPPOINTING

The Postal Department in Mel- bourne, is disappointed over the large decrease in patronage given the second air mail to leave Aus- tralia for England during Decem-1 ber. Only 8,861 articles were. posted as compared with 55,967,"at the opening of the service Reu-

ter.

LORD SEMPILL'S LONE FLIGHT

Forced Landing In Darkness

BROKEN FORT ELEVATOR MENDED WITH WIRE

Melbourne.

After being missing since he left Adelaide Lord Sempilf landed at the Melbourne aerodrome after

Portsea, where he landed in dark-

regs.

AMELIA EARHART spending the night at Ocean Beach. 'PLANS NEW HOP

Honolulu To America In Near Future

The port elevator of his machine

was broken, and when he arrived it was seen to have been patched up with wire.

arrives so fresh has a great deal lieved to exist in this territory. The training of a sufficient num- to do, he says, with the excel-Early on the day before the her of personnel in time to man the lent quality of his bread. picnic they sent a cable to new squadrons thus becomes sim- Karachi, asking for supplies of pler, since the output of every 600 One of the residents in Juba fresh fruit and other dainties to trained aircraftamen from Halton was explaining, the other day be sent down to them by air. supplies a larger number of squa- how air transport has banished And this consignment duly drons than formerly. A. big in- that feeling of isolation which arrived, after a flight of 1,500 crease in the number under train- those in Juba used to experience miles, at 10.15 the following lug at Halfon is to be made nent

* Washington, Dec. 17,

Lord Sempill, who lost his way "Before the coming of the air-morning-that is to say, on the year.

Amelia Earhart, wife of the pub. ke

because of heavy clouds which he mail," he said, "if we wanted any-day of the picnic.

lisher George Palmer Fulham, was unable to penetrate, landed off Arrangements are now being thing which did not happen to be Another interesting develop-made for a larger entry to the Air noted aviatrix and the first woman his course, rather than continue his It is suggested that the

in stock in the town it used to ment of the air traffic along the Force College, Cranwell, for per- to cross the Atlantie by aeroplane, night, and slept beside his machine, 150th birthday of Sydney'

take us weeks to obtain it, and Persian Gulf is that it is benefit manent commissions. Meanwhile, the United States, the United Press plané a solo flight from Hawail to that made us feel right out of ing not only the Europeans but more short and medium term com-learned to-day from reliable, ppur. He reached Melbourne, whither

In 140 Hours' Flying should be celebrated by an things. But now this feeling has also the large Indian population missions are being granted. air race round the world, gone entirely, and one of the which has settled in this not-too- Throughout these arrangements

he flew to participate in the Victo. from Sydney back to most frequent remarks one hears hospitable country...

nothing has been done to prejudice Though the date for the flight ria Centenary celebrations, in 140 Sydney.

is: Wire to Khartoum and There is nothing the average the careers of permanent officere, has not as yet been set, it was hours flying time from London, With the increasing range of

have it sent down by air?" Indian worker loves so much as Had this consideration been dis-learned Amelia, first woman to Although some anxiety was felt experimental aeroplanes it will probably be the Persian

Along the southern shores of his betel leaf, which he chews as regarded, the problem would have make a solo fight in an autogiro, for him when no news of his arri Blight, via Honolulu. Midway perfectly practicable in 1938 to colonies of Europeans, stationed gum. The betel leaf must, how-gency, squadrons could be manned Yilege of broadcast over water from it was mitigated by the reflection small assiduously as Americans chew been a simple one. In an emer- has already been granted the prival at Melbourne reached Adelaide, The Clipper 7, as the giant fix a course for such a race by coast is desert country, and the these Indian workers on the fice of efficiency and at the cost of

Amid the Arab tribes. This ever, he fresh. But hitherto more quickly, but only at the sacri-her plane.

that he had already made two land- ship is known, will carry 47 pas way of Suva, Fanning Island or amenities of modern life have Fersian Gulf have been deprived a heavy casualty rate during train-the 2,400-miles hop, have been in his flight in Australia and had Extra fuel tanks necessary for ings in unexpected places during sengers, in addition to mail, and Honolulu, Vancouver, Montreal: hitherto been lacking sadly. of facilities for satisfying this has a cruising speed comparable

ing.

stalled in her plane. The noted turned up safe and sound the next to most of the fastest of the St. Johns, Newfoundland, Lon-The advent of the flying mail has, craving. Now, however, quanti-. The addition of the 41 squadrons fornis, plans to sail for Hawaii fo

woman aviatrix, already in Call-day. don, and then back by the India however, changed all this con-ties of fresh betel leaf are car of the expansion programme, to lighter aircraft.

siderably, the big air-liners on ried by the air-mail machines take effect by the end of 1938, will in Hawail Mrs. Putnam will lec- his departure that, if necessary, he The ship was one of the four route to Australia.

the near future.

In addition, he had said before which Pan-American contracted It is pointed out that such a gularly up and down this Arabian southern shores of the Gulf one and about 5,000 other ranks..

the India route now passing re-leaving India, and all along these call for a total of 800 nery officers the Martin factory to bulld race would create the most in-side of the Gulf. Even in some can see the Indian workmen con-

ture at the University of Hawaii. Would land en route-Reuter. several weeks ago, in prepara tense interest throughout the of the most arid districts, where tentedly chewing their betel.

Shortly thereafter she will starty. tion for the inauguration of its world, and that both the start Trans-Pacific service, scheduled and the finish would focus the

DEFENCE AGAINST her solo fight back to America.

AIR ATTACK

Sir J. Gilmour And The Government Plans

Wake, Guam and Manila.”

within the next few months.

To Undergo Tests

attention of the globe on Sydney and on Austràlia.

There re

The ship will undergo severe

enthusiasts who trial flights here shortly, then think that there might also, by will depart for the West Coast that time, be a round-the-world for another series of exhaustive race by way of South Africa, reliability tests. Thereafter she South America and the Pacific will be pronounced fit for the Islands. trans-Pacific jaunt.

Ninety-five planes for the United States army, capable of 220 miles per hour, fully loaded, are also being turned out by the Martin con- cern, one of the largest of its

giant bombing

CIVIL AVIATION IN

ENGLAND?

kind in the world. Delivery is to Development Measures

start early next year at the rate

of three weekly.

With

speed surpassed only

by one-seater purauit planes, the

To Be Taken By Air Ministry

Council

London, Dec. 18.

Gulf are

AIRPORT SITES IN CALIFORNIA

Pushing Plans For Pacific Service

PAN-AMERICAN PRESIDENT ENGAGED IN SURVEYS

Los Angeles, Dec. 15. Pushing plans for establish-

ment of regular trans-Pacific air service, he says, Juan T. Tripper, president of Pan American Air- ways, has been surveying pos- sible sites for the California iterminals.

Arthur Eldridge, city harbour

This photograph which has

been received from Melbourne shows how C. W. A. Scott looked

after the exhausting experience of piloting the winning England-to- Australia marathon plane half way across the world in record time.

4.

Sir John Gilmour, Home Secre tary, speaking at the annual con- ference of the Scottish Unionist Associations-in-Glasgow, said:

United Press.

GERMAN AIR FLEET

"12,500 Planes By End

Of December" -

The Stockholm.newspaper Dagens

"I am one of those who have to Nyheter, discussing German" re- consider what might happen to our armament, says: many

people in great cities if they were ever subject to an aerial attack. All I can say is you are not to as- sume that the Government has rot visualised this possibility.

"At the end of December Ger many will have a fleet of 12,500

GREAT TRIBUTE TO WRIGHT BROTHERS

First Flight Made 31 Years Ago

7,000 PLANES TAKE PART IN CEREMONIES

Dayton, O., Dec 17. Noted fliers, officials and civie seroplanes of the latest construc-leaders Joined to-day in paying tion. Nearly all these machines tribute to the Wright brothers on are bombers of great range." [the thirty-first · anniversary, of "It is now laying plans to meet General Denain, French Minister the first flight in a mechanical these dangers-effectively, we hope."of Air, declared in a speech Infaeroplane.

A resolution was carried unani-Paris that Germany had evolved and Federal officials taking part in mously, calling on the Government aeroplane engine driven by heavy the ceremonies included Maj. to provide adequately for the safety oil. She also possessed the most Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois, chief of the country and all trade routes, rapid single-engined transport aero- of the army air corps, Maj. Gen. plane in the world, and had "an Edward L. King, and Eugene L.. NEW SECRET PLANE incomparable-range" of light tour-Vidal, director of aeronautics in

ist.machines

the department of commerce. 350 m.p.h. Claimed By

Mr. Vidal presented to Orville Wright, the surviving brother, a U.S. Designer

personal message from Proaldent Roosevelt, while the party visited the grave of Wilbur

An aeroplane which Its designer,

FEEDER PLANES FOR

CHARTER WORK'

new twin-motored monoplanes being built for the army will. It is announced to-day that the master at San Pedro, said that have a cruising radius of 3.000 Secretary of State for Air, the San Francisco, San Diego, Allen miles, similar to the flying boats Marquess of Londonderry, has de- Field, Terminal Island and San being turned out for Pan- cided to put into operation certain Pedro were being considered, and American.

measures to develop civil aviation that Allen Field was the most Factory Huts

The Director of Civil Aviation likely choice.. The bombers will carry 2.260 will be raised to the rank of Direc- Mr. Tripper, after looking over pounds of bombs, inclosed in the tor-General, with a status equal to possibilities in the San Francisco streamlined fuselage, and mount that of other members of the Bay area, said merely that other three machine-guns, fore, aft and Ministry who belong to the Air proposed sites near Los Angeles which Col. Charles A. Lindbergh belleres will have a speed of 350 Imperial Airways have on order emidships.-Associated Press.

The most spectacular feature and San Diego would be investi is chairman. The Colonel was miles an hour is under construction two biplanes of high performance of the occasion was the flight of To Air Council will, in future,

gatédag

unable to come West now be in Boston Its designer is Mr. from Boulton and Paul, of Norwich, planes here and in cities all over "Experts are surveying air cause of personal business.. confine itself exclusively to the terminal facilities in California Plans are going forward for nautical design at Boston Univer- and are intended for feeder lines as Manila. Beginning at 10.30 am. Arthur Metcalf, Instructor In aero- These will carry seven passengers the country, and as far away as military side of the Air Ministry's that might be utilized in connec- the first trans-Pacific survey slty... work, while civil aviation will be

well as for special charter work they circled the various cities in actively engaged in manufac under the control of the Secretary tion with experimental air ser fight, to be made early in the "So far" "my design is in the Fitted with two Bristol Jupiter a counter-clockwise direction for

vices to the Far East. The sur-year by way of Hawaii and the wind-tunnel stage, and I do not wish engines, each machine will have 30 minutes. turing numbers of the new wing-of State for Air and the Under-vey at present is quite informal." Philippines, to China.

people to get excited about it. about 1,000 h.p. or more and a top less autogiro at Newton Heath Secretary,

Approximately 7,000. planes Trippe said.

Pan American's terminal for "While my design is naturally a speed of 170 m.p.h. The firm boldly laid down 100 and Civil aviation estimates will be

- took part, it was estimated.S. "The decision on our per- its existing South American ser secret, I can say that it is based These, with five of the De Havil The Wrights made their first 80 have already been sold. Some determined by the Secretary of manent terminal for the Pacific vice is at Miami, Fla., and the partly on thin cantilever wings, land four-engined Dragon air liners successful fight on December 17 of those are to go to India to State for Air personally, on the ad Coast will depend on further de huge flying boat to be used in The machine is a single-seater with cruising at 150 m.p.h. delivered this 1903, from Kill Devil Hill on the the aerodromes which many vice of the Under-Secretary, who tailed surveys and recommenda- the Pacific flight is to be tested a cruising range of 600 miles, and year, show how Imperial Airways North Carolina coast. A mon maharajahs have set up in their will collaborate with the Director- tions by the Pan American Air there and crews trained at the we are also studying high-powered are early tackling this problem of ment now marks the Statex

General

ways technical committee, of some time Associated Press, engines suitable for the new cratt." speed.

Associated Press.

NEW WINGLESS AUTGIRO

Messrs. A. V. Roe and Co. are

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