1935-04-17 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1935

NINE BRITISH AIRMEN HOLD

FOUR MORE

MORE GAINED

RECENTLY

HEAVY QUALIFICATIONS NECESSARY

MOST COVETED AWARD FOR

COMMERCIAL FLYING

THOSE Master Mariners who, standing on the bridges of ocean liners, guide their great vessels through storms and calms, now have their counterpart in our Master-Pilots of the air aviators whose long-acquired skill secures for them a certificate which is one of the most eagerly-sought distinctions in British air trans- port to-day.

It was in 1929 that the Air Ministry decided. to institute a Master-Pilot's certificate for com- Sailing from New York for mercial airmen, but the requirements for obtain- ing this certificate were such that it was not un- til last year that the first awards were actually made.

Europe. Col. Hubert Julian, "the

Black Engle of Harlem" and ex kend the Abyssining air force, hinted that he was' enroule to

Lu

the Abyssinia

for prepare threatened hostilities with Italy.

FASTEST TOURER

NEW "GULL"

THREE-SEAT

MONOPLANE

CAN DO 172 MILES PER HOUR

PROVIDED WITH WING-FLAP

AIR BRAKES

HAWAII HOP

OF CLIPPER

POSTPONED

TO OBLIGE STAMP

· · COLLECTORS

Every applicant for a certifi- Icate must possess 8 current [license as issued to pilots flying for hire or reward; also a license as an aircraft navigator; and} both these must have been in force for at least five years. The airman must also have! flown for at least 1,000 hours as a pilot of civil aircraft during the five years prior to his appli- cation; and, in addition, consider- able night-flying experience is called for, including a minimum, of 20 night flights above land Pan American Airways an-and sea, each beginning and end- nounced last Saturday week that ing during the hours of dark-

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TESTS MADE WITH LOAD OF 11 TONS

San Francisco.

date the tentative.

had been nesя. changed for the flight of the Clip- per Pioneer to Hawaji. Original- Mr. E. W. Percival, who design-ly set for April 8 it was changed to ed, built and flew in the King's Cup last Monday in order to accom- Air Race last year the "Gull" modate stamp collectors who will

send covers on the first trip... monoplane entersd by Prince

The giant flying boat continued George, made private trials at her tests at Alameda. With a load Gravesend last month of the 1935 of 22,000 pounds she made the hop "Gull," a high-speed three-seater from Alameda to. Eureka and re- turn. This was the first of a series designed for touring.

It is the fastest machine of its of load test flights, preparatory to

the big hop. class in Britain. It has a top

The first major flight is expected specil of 172 m.p.h. and a crylsing to be a round-trip hop to Honolulu, while the Trans-Pacific crossing by speed of 152 m.p.h:

It is a low-wing monoplane, way of Hawall, Guam and the Philippines is expected later in the with the sides and roof of its ca-

summer-Associated Press, bin all window. It has wing-flip air brakes for the reduction of speed before alighting, and wheel

brakes for checking speed on the FIRST AIR ATTACHE

ground, "

After Mr. Percival had given a striking flying display, including aerobatics, he took me up, and I was able, to observe numerous-in- genious contrivances introduced for the needs of the average amt- teur pilot and the comfort of the

pondent.

AT TOKYO

Officer Who Served In Japanese Navy

QUALIFIED AS FIRST-CLASS INTERPRETER

-

Squadron Leader R. W. Chappell, passenger, writes a Home correa.C., who was appointed at the end-

of last year Air Attache at Tokyo, has been granted acting rank as wing commander.

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AIRCRAFT ORDERS

DOUBLED

Lord Londonderry On Expansion

AIR FORCE RECRUITS MORE --THAN-DOUBLE-

This is the first appointment of an Air Attache to the Japanese

capital, but the step had been ex-

pected for some time in view of the number of such appointments made to other centres, including Shanghai and Moscow. Wing Com÷"], mander Chappell passed In Japanese in 1927; and requalified as a Arst

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Mr. C. W. A. Scott, Joint winner with Mr. Campbell Black of the England to Australia air face, as he appeared on his arrival in

· Melbourne.

C.W.A. SCOTT ON LONG FLIGHTS

Commercial Aspects Stressed

IMPORTANCE OF ROUTES, TO BE FOLLOWED

MASTER-PILOTS' CERTIFICATES

The gliding fight of Clem Sohn (right) st Daytona Beach, Fla., with wings in the manner depicted in the drawing, has opened a new oviation epoch, with enthusiasts all over · America selling to work on wings to duplicate his feat. Thus hla “Miunt” 'may become an historic as the drat human balcon ascension, by de Rozier in 1795 . (lall), or the first flight of the Wright brothers (centre),

AEROPLANE HELPS DEVELOP

CANADA'S MINERALS

Discovery Of Radiom Deposits

Doe To Air Survey

One of the most potent factors in the development of Canada's mineral resources has been the aeroplane. Without the aer- oplans the radium deposits of Great Bear Lake in Canada's Far North might not have been. discovered or developed for a great many years. Mining in Canada is still in its infancy, one of the speakers at a recent dinner told the mining men pre- - sent and "through aviation an infinitely greater amount of the country's mineral resources will be revealed in days to come.”

FRENCH AIR FORCE INCREASE

LINKING SINGAPORE WITH HONG KONG

AUTOGIRO MARVEL

CAN ASCEND

VERTICALLY

FROM GROUND

NO FORWARD RUN NOW NEEDED

LIFTS LIKE HELICOPTER

The autogiro flying machine,, sometimes known as the "flying. windmill," has at fast achieved direct lift off the ground without any forward run. This quality will enable it to leave very small |spaces of rough surface.

Senor de la Cierra, the inventor," of the autogiro, himself made an important announcement to this effect before the Royal Aeronauti- cal Society early last month.

Helicopters Challenged

The autogiro long since proved: Its ability to ascend with a very/ short run, and to alight in con- fined spaces. It has now challeng- ed helicoptera (still in the exper- imental stage). on their own ground.

Senor de la Cierva first succesd fed in achieving directly vertical lift as long ago as

August, 1983. Working in secret, he has so far, solved mechanical difficulties as to justify the announcement he har now made,

GREAT ISSUES DEPEND are to be incorporated in new

ON BRITISH PLAN

KEEN RIVALRY OF FRANCE AND AMERICA

(By MAJOR G; G. TURNER)

HE extension of the Imperial Airways system from Singapore The Hong Kong the natural "Charing Cross", fox, air, lines

in South China is under consideration.

With this proposal is bound up the whole fature of commer- cial aviation in China.

FIRST PLANE

TO ACHIEVE,

REAL FLIGHT

WRIGHT BROTHERS' BIPLANE

LONDON SCIENCE MUSEUM MAY LOSE IT

The results of his investigation

autogiro, which also will have a performance in advance of former {types.

Part Inventor Explains

The vertical take-off, which Cierva called "simple, easier and more pleasant than an ordinary takeoff is achieved by changing the pitch of the autogiro's rotating ́ butter paddles" with the angle of the blades reduced to nearly zero when they are started rotating by

is attained the angle is automati- the engine. When suffelent speed

cally increased to give lift to the The general attitude of China plans at the same time the engine may be summed up as a deter-is clutched from the rotor. The mination only to allow air lines lift imparted by, the blades în to operate over Chinese territory sufficient to cause the autogiro to provided they are at any rate, leap into the air. It would then on paper, under Chinese control but the forward motion Imparted settle back, the inventor explained, This is not unnatural in view of by the ordinary propeller at the the fact that Chinese railways same time gives the necessary ho and shipping (both coastal and rizontal-speed to send the plane river services) are already un-on its way. der foreign control.

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MILITARY PLANE

Gen. Denain Predicts Best In Europe

BRITAIN'S INADEQUATE FOR SIZE OF EMPIRE

French Air The Science Museum at South General Denain, Minister, made statements regard-Kensington may before long have ing the air defence situation in an to forfelt one of its most treasur address at the Sorbonne recently, ed exhibits the biplane on which "At the end of 1986 France will the first fight by man was made have the best air force in Europe, in a power-driven machine, peng he declared. "It is no exaggera- This is the Wright biplane on tion to say that the Air Agreement which, on Dec. 17, 1908, first reached in London is directly bas-flights were made at Kitty Hawk, led on this fact. · ·

N. Carolina, where Wilbur and Or- The increased efficiency of our ville Wright accomplished their air arm is most illuminating. The great work." speed of light aeroplanes has been

Mr

Orville Wright, indignant International armg"" traffic = ex- increased from 150 mph, to 285 at the reluctance of the Smith- m.ph., and the speed and range of sonian Institution, Washington, to Pens in meeting at Geneva, last action of heavy aircraft has been acknowledge the title of the plane month decided, for the first time in thistory, what constitutes a military almost doubled...

as the first to fly, agreed to allow aeroplane, and their decision was General Denain, who urged the it to come to England, but with the received as a victory for the United Importance of civil aviation, the option of regaining it at the end

States. development of flying clubs, and of eight years. The Smithsonian

DEFINED Question Decided By Geneva Experts AMERICAN VIEW GENERALLY ACCEPTED

The autogiro is now in exten- sive use, and has lately been adopted for certain Naval and Army purposes An autogiro, be longing to the Spanish Navy car ried out active service reconnais.

sances in the mountains of the AB- turias during the rebellion last. autusan.

AIR RACE FOR THE KING'S CUP

Eliminating Course Longer This Year

947 MILES AS COMPARED WITH 800 PREVIOUSLY

The eliminating course in the

The importance of the practical flying instruction as vital for na- Institution has tried four times to They ruled that a fighting aero- class interpreter last year. He was commecial side of long-distance tional security, said that the Bri- get it back, but Mr. Wright has plan is one, irrespective of de- King's Cup air race, which will be sign, which is equipped with bombflown on September 6 and 7, will flights was streated by Mr. C. W. tish Empire had only 2,800 'planes, refused.

racks, gun guards, or a torpedo or consist of a circuit including Eng- seconded for duty with the Japan-

A. Scott, the England-Australia air which was totally inadequate for Now, however, a technical data bomb release mechanism: ese Navy in 1980-31.

centre Is being formed at Kitty Such machines, they decided, the Isle of Man, and Wales. The Gland, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wing Commander Chappell teftan at a literary luncheon in Lon- such a widespread empire. ·

don recently. Such flights from

Hawk, and the building is to be should in the future only be sold total length is 947 miles compared Brighton College in 1918, and his The Marquess of Londonderry service began

opened early next year by Mr: Or directly to governments, although with 800 last year. with Hartigan's Britain, he said, must lie along

wille Wright himself. A place has purely commercial aircraft may be The course for the final will cons Secretary of State for Air, told the Horse, South African Forces, in practical routes either England to Cape Town, England to Aug- "Parliamentary Air Committee, at a German East Africa in 1915. Re-tralia, or, in the near future, Eng-

been allocated in this building for old freely. abroad to individuals sist of a number of laps of a cir meeting at the House of Commone turning home, he trained for and to Canada or South America,

the first Wright aeroplane, and it A 21⁄2-ton glider, capable of is therefore probable that the ma- last month. that nearly twice as commission with the Inns of Court where there were large British in carrying 13 passengers, is under chine will now return to the land many aircraft will be ordered Jur-O.T.C., and Joined the E.F.C. ing 1985 as in 1934. This is one second lieutenant in June, 1916. His

lof ita birth." foresta

construction in Russia. of the effects of the Air Force de M.C. was gained in France after he At the opening of the luncheon velopment programme.

had led patrols which destroyed 19 Mr. George Robey apologised for

He also stated that the entry of hostile aircraft. officers and airmen this year would Be more than double the number of last year. The number of boy: ap prentices would be nearly twice as great.

Two important new civil linka, he stated, were immediately con

NEW AUSTRALIAN STAMP FOR BRITISH AIR MAIL

GIANT RUSSIAN GUDER

having to leave for a matines and British Monoplanes For

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well as governments.

cuft of not less than 60 miles, with

This freedom likewise was er Jan approximate total length of 850 [tended to the essential component miles, starting and finishing at parts of an aeroplane" including Hatfeld: Aérodrome. Particulara engine for types ofther military or of this course will be announced commercial

The decision ended the conflict. For the eliminating contest com- reliquish, the chairmanship. Hồ

between Great Britain and the peting aircraft will be divided into also apologised for the absence of Miss Florence Desmond and Mr.

land hitherto having Kinaisted that.

miles an hour. Campbell Black. Mr. Black was Lo

are all seroplanes should receive the "Captain." "Cook" and "Captain Oceanie. Airways, which has taken have proposed the toast of "Litern-

same treatment Under the ture and Aviation," to which Miss Phillip" the first two of a fleet of over New England, Airways, The

proposed disarmament treaty, lanes are to be operated between Australia issued a new air-mall Desmond was to have responded.

engined monuspár, mono.

abane, Sydney were named recently at and on "feeder

Mrs. BM main Impe

gn was dele

Australian Service Named United States on the subject, Eng- two classes—above and below 150

templated-to West Africa, stamp for use on letters carried on It was announced a few branch from Khartoum on the pro- the first official Australia-England earlier that the engagement sent Cape route, and to Hong Kong fight. The design portrays the twen Miss branching from Bangkok, #the winged Mercury carrying the Cadu” Campbell Bläck und Australia route.

cous between the two hemispheres, off.

has been"

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The Americans also made a cemion; na the An

For the Anst the minimum handi |cap_speed_will be 180 miles un hour. The Royal Anro Club stat Chat all time spent on con- will count flying time, for pati must decide rts sacrifice speed for fuel

Wakefuld a