1935-01-03 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1935

AIRCRAFT WILL SOON COMPLETE CIRCLE ROUND THE WORLD

BRITISH AIR

FIRMS ARE

KEPT BUSY

Large Orders For

Various Craft

PLANES AND AUTOGIROS

NOW

The first of the high speed luxury air liners being completed for Imperial Airways are nearing completion at the New- ton Heath works of A. V. Roe and Co., writes Caplain Courte- pay, the famous test pilot.

Recently I had an opportunity of inspecting them and of looking over these Manchester works where 1,500 men and women are working full Lime On many interesting orders.

tiere one saw evidence of the of flourishing and healthy state

the British aircraft industry.

For the first time biplanes are,

giving way to low wing mono-

planes, such as America has exem-

Mrs. Roscoe Turner embraces her flying husband an, the Ameri

can speed ace returns to Los Angeles from Australia after finish-

ing third in the London Melbourne air derby,

CONSTANT SPEED

AIR-SCREW

BRITAIN TO CO-OPERATE

ASSISTANCE

TO BE GIVEN TO

PAN-AMERICAN

Flying Boat Scheme Formulated

CRUISING SPEEDS OF 150 TO 200 MILES AN HOUR

Before the end of 1935 the gurd- ling of the entire globe by air routes will be almost achieved. It has already been announced that boat service between Great Bri-

tain and the United States us to be established, and now the news comes that at about the same time similar service across the Pacific Ocean from America to the Philip- pine Islands it to be opened.

When Sir Eric Geddes referred

plifted in the Douglas and Boeing SAFER AND CHEAPER to Atlantic air services at the

transports among others, and Ger-

many has specialised in with the Heinkel.

The two machines which "Avro"; are building at Newton Heath aref low wing monoplanes with luxury accommodation for four passengers, Fitted with two 300 hp. Arm strong Siddeley Cheetah V. en gines, they will have a cruising speed of 160 m.p.h. With Cheetah VI. engines, the cruising speed is raised to 160 m.p.h. and top speed becomes 190 m.p.h.

FLYING CLAIM

(By Major C. C. TURNER)

TRIALS have been made in the United States of a "constant TALS Crew. Although it adds only four or are pounale to the weight, it maintains automatically at all altitudes and load variations any selected rate of revolutions and, at the same time, adjusts the pitch of the propellor blades through their full range without action by the pilot.

Variable-pitch propellers are

three 1 capable of either two or These machines can be fitted for variations, and in some types these eight passengers and two pilots are controllable by the pilot. The

and are in their normal stato de French type of variable-pitch pro- aigned as such. Here we have the first approach to the high speed (peller used on the British "Comet" air liner comparable with some of which won the England-Melbourne the eight-and ten-seaters built last air race, was capable of two year in America.

changes, one for take-off, the other

"

AIR DEFENCE OF CANTON

$3,000,000 To Come From Rent Tax

PROCEEDS EARMARKED FOR BUYING MATERIAL

ment.

annual meeting of Imperial Air- [ways he indicated that the route would be operated jointly by his company and Pan-American Air ways, each operating as far a3 Bermuda, which is more or less a halfway stage on the long Journey across the Atlantic.

•The

somewhat fantastic scheme of mooring "seadromes" in mid-ocean to be used as air- ports is clearly not looked upon with favour by the aviation com- panies, who prefer to make the necessary southward detour to Bermuda and be assured of a safe port:

Dramatic scenes after the strange death of Warren E. Eaton (inset), wealthy Connecticut manufacturer and glider expert, who, was killed following a 1,200 feet plungs Into Biscayne Bay, Miami. Eaton was jerked from his seat when his glider was caught in the backwath of the towing plane. His motorless craft was almost un- damaged.

NEW YORK STOCK

EXCHANGE

S. E. Levy And Co. And A.O.F.C. Quotations

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M. Silver-S

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CHINESE AIR MAIL

RATES HIGH

SIKORSKY

GIANT PLANE

GIVEN TEST

"No. 5" Inaugurates Transpacific Line

ABLE TO ACCOMMODATE

38 PASSENGERS

A giant flying boat was recently cruising over Bridgeport, Connecti- cut for some weeks. Yet Bridge- porters, accustomed to, huge aero- planes over their city, home of the Sikorsky flying boat plant," pro- : Bably gave it a peremptory glance and went about their businesses. 1: Outwardly this craft looks like: the Brazilian Clipper, Sikorsky- built boat, recently delivered to Pan American Airways, which carries 88 passengers and reduces Miami-Buenos Aires schedules to five days.

Inwardly this new flying boat, the "Clipper No. 5," is startlingly different, Pan American Airways disclosed the reason. With seats. Idisplaced by sleeping quarters' for

e crew and tanka to hold eight and: one-half tons of fuel "No. 5 is to he used as a laboratory for trans oceanic flight tests and crew train- ing with dight across the Pacific

sher, ultimate purpose.

1100-Miles Test Flight

Plans for No. 5 call for De- partment of Commerce licensing tests at Bridgeport after which she will make an overwater flight to Miami out alght of land. A mere "hop" is this 1100-mile flight to Miami, since "No. 5′a" wing tanka alone hold 1250 gallons, sufficient fuel for 1268 miles, proved in past. performances. Special pumping. equipment transfers fuel for pas-

Tonger cabin tanks to the wing range of 3000 miles. longer than

Striking Contrast Proposed British Postage

ABOLITION OF SPECIAL FEES

SOUGHT ABROAD

tanksgiving No. 6" a cruising

any overwater jump from the Pact- fic coast to China?

At Miami, "No. 5 will continue training flights for personnel and data upon which to base further Chiness air postage remains dig-commercial schedules. Shortly after couragingly high in the face of the first of the year she goes to drastic reduction planned by the California for the first of the ex- British General Post Office and & perimental fights scroas, the Paci- proposal of the International fic by way of Hawalf and the small- Chamber of Commerce. Air Arans-er islands to the Philippines and sport Committee seeking the total China

Associated with this new experi abolition of air mail fees

Under the new British plan, all mental work of Pan American varying postage charges to Empire Col. Clarence M. Young, former As destinations reached by Imperialistant Secretary of Commerce for Airways services will be abolished Air, to whom is credited much of and flat rates substituted. It is the foundation work for federal proposed to chargu ed. (about 85 lighted and radio-equipped airways. 994 cents, Mex.) per half ounce for

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Flying boats of course are the only practical aircraft for such a service, and Imperial Airways have at the present time two giant flying boats in building, yors have been received by Mesara which will provide accommoda8, E Levy and the American Oriental Imperial Airways intend to use for high-speed flight.

tion for 24 passengers and have a Finance Corporation. them for their special charter de. The change in the air, after tak-

cruising, speed of something over partment. They will be in great ing off, was automatic, but induced From Our Own Correspondent]

170 miles an hour."

close 10 Canton, To-day, demand for private, flights, to by the pilot by a steep down-slant

N. Y./Lon These are the craft which will Europe, for sight-seeing down the attaining the speed and air prea Members of the Kwangtüng Air{

don Nile, or for the big game hunter. sure necessary to effect the change. Defence Committee assumed their operate between London and Ber-N Y, Cotton

They have retractable under- Thereafter, however, the pitch posts on Monday morning, Among muda, Pan-American Airways Mar. 12.70 carriages and a range of 600 miles, could not be changed during flight. the members of the new body are will operate with Sikorsky flying July 12.81

Gain Of 12 M.P.M. When it is remembered that;

Lieut.-General Ho Lah, Chief of boats.

American Air Services they achieve this great increase The "constant speed" airscrew Police, Brig. General Lin Fu-yuen, over current speeds on à total ex-was tried on a Boeing Transport Chief-of-Staf, of the Army Air Pan-American, which is the N.-Y. Silk

May 14.143 penditure of only 600 h.p., where-aeroplane, the cruising speed of Corps, Lieut-General Lin Sze biggest aviation concern in the NY Rubber as.in America speeds only about 10 which was put up by it to 188 miles ching, Commandant of the Gendar-western hemisphere, have for Mar. 13.36 July 73.18.75 m.p.b. higher are squeezed out of per hour at 13,400 feet, an improve-merie Corps and several officials some years been conducting re aeroplanes at the expense of any-ment by no less than 12 miles per of the Canton Municipal Govern- search into the possibilities of CWheat- thing up to 1400 h.p., it will be hour.

extending their services across July Been that we have nothing to learn In the case of a twin-engined. General Chen Chi-tang, Comman- the Atlantic to Europe and c. Corn

May in the way of economy of running aeroplane perfect synchronisation der-in-Chief of the 1st Group Army, across the Pacific to Asia

between the two engines is secured, administered the oath of office. Their experts have evolved a W. Wheat

May W *83% and the automatic adaptation to all Actual work began on Tuesday, flying boat of a design suited to

STOCKS: conditions of flight, overriding the the headquarters being located the operation of passenger ser- Amer, Smelt-

not in the building, next to the old vices across the oceans, and a possibility of human error, only increases speed, but ensures Municipal Government's quarters. number of such aircraft are Auburn ... The first half-month's rent tax already built ready for putting Con Gas -- In tests the machine was put, al- levied on landlords has been col-into service.

They have a cruising range of ternately into steep dives and flected by the Police authorities, climbs, the propellers maintaining and the second half-month's over 8,000 miles, which will en- throughout an unchanged rate of was collected .00 Tuesday. Allure perfect safety on the long stretches of ocean route which proceeds revolutions, and the two engines the

Int Tel & will be used for the aerial de they will have to cover,

Tel AMOR. working perfectly together.

The Pacific service will start Loew's Ine fence of Canton, the total amount from San Francisco, the first hop Montgomery being estimated at $3,000,000. The being over 2,000 miles to Hono-Ward money will be used to purchase lulu. The second stage will belers

Nat Distil armaments for air defence such as from Honolulu to Midway N. Y. Cen- pursuit planes, sound detectors Island, about 1,600 miles further tral search lights, anti-aircraft guns

westward

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NEW PLANE'S 350 M.P.H. ATTACK

DIVING-BOMBING TRIALS

(By ROGER FULLER)

The first full trials were carried out last month of a new day-bomb- ing aeroplane, capable of diving at 350 miles - an hour from a flying speed of about 200 miles;

fuel economy..

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the new technique of "diving bombing" was developed to any The significance of this lies Ins degree by the Royal Air Force. the ability of the new machine to It was found that even a small Canton being an important withstand the terrific stress im-bomb, if launched when the ma- metropolis In South China, the posed on it when diving vertically chine had roared down from a military authorities believe that in at this speed with full military height of 10,000 ft. to only a few the event of war it is likely to be load, launching its bombs, and then hundred feet above the target, attacked from the air and that pre- flattening out in a space of seconds. could venetrate the stoutest armour cautions have to be taken.

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