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THES CHINA - MATES TEHRSHAYTARISTOSS

THRILLING "AEROBATICS" PROVIDED AT HENDON R.A.F. DISPLAY

GERMAN PLANS FOR WORLD AIR LINE

NATION PAYS FOR NEW PASSENGER AIRSHIPS VAST FUND BEING AMASSED AT FRIEDRICHSHAFEN-

Friedrichshafen.

VAST fund is being amassed here to finance the construction of a fleet of new passenger

Our picture shows the first voyage of a Zeppelin-on July airships, with which Germany hopes to span the

2. 1900

world.

At the famous Zeppelin works here recently visitors were

FALLS 800 FT. TO DEATH pouring in from all parts of Germany and from Switzerland, each

£5,000 GLIDING GRANT IN BRITAIN

State Aid Terms Outlined

By Air Ministry

London-It is understood that the Air Ministry has now decid- cd on the terms on which the pro- mised grant is to be given to as- sist gliding.

Allowances to clubs will be based on the percentage of out- say on purchased capital assets---- such as land, buildings and machines.

The total amount of the sub- sidies is not to exceed an annual agtyregate sum of £5,000. Grazis will be made anly to approved

ARCTIC VALUES

RECOGNISED BY

YOUNG BRIDE

AS WITNESS TO

AIR TRAGEDY

Envelope Fails To Open

PARACHUTIST'S TRAGIC

DEATH

Stockport

of them paying about 1s. 3d. for admission to the vast hangar, where a new giant Zeppelin is nearing completion-

INSTRUCTORS LEAD THEIR "PUPILS"

MIRACULOUS ESCAPES

FROM DISASTER

CLEVERLY EXPLOITED TRICK

FLYING FEATS SEEN

(By William Courtenay)

sixteenth Royal Air Force Display at Hen- don on June 29 was remarkable for the first appearance of the autogiro- officially named the Rota aircraft at an RAF. display in the hands of service pilots.

Hitherto, when one has been seen at Hendon it has been flown by demonstration pilots of the manufacturing company.

Also, the annual thrill display was improved. At the RAF. Cadet College. Cranwell, Lines, which I visited to witness a Te-

Technically known as the LZ 129, but unofficially named the Hindenburg, this new ship, a big sister of the famous Graf Zep- pelin, is shortly due to take her flying trials. She will then be placed on the first regular serial trans-Atlantic service between The start of a balloon at hearsal, the thrall display made me horribly nervous. I was glad Europe and North America.

Potsdam driven by hot air. The when it was all over. balloon is filled with air which

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The passenger accommodation:

is set amidships, being entirely ANTI-AIRCRAFT

enclosed in the envelope and not

partly suspended in the gondola-

in the front of which is the con- trol room-as in the Graf Zep- velin.

water.

and cold running There is also-for-the

There is room for 50 passengers - In sight of his wife-whom he with single or two-berth cabins married - a fortnight before-and each with hot several hundred people, Ivor Price. 27,

a parachutist in Alan Cobham's. “Flying Circus.” fell 800ft to his death at Wood-] ford aerodrome, near here re- cently.

Sir first time in the history of German-built airships-a smoking-

TOOM.

Country-wide Interest

It is estimated that the new

COMPANIES FOR

R.A.F. STATIONS

Colony Included In List

CHANGES RECEIVE KING'S APPROVAL

London.

The reorganisation of Royal

He was taking part, with Miss Zeppelin will be able to fly 8,000 Engineers fortress units in the Naomi Heron-Maxwell, sister of to 9,000 miles non-stop.

is heated by liquid gas, contain- - It consists of a clever piece of ed in the interior of the balloon.flying on the part: of "two instruc

tors from No 2 Flying Training School, Digby, Lines.

NEW FLYING BOAT

STARTS TEST HOP

ON SINGLE MOTOR

Each is flying an Avro Tutor, the standard training machine of the BAF

..** . Unfledged" "Pupil”.

In one machine, painted silver, is the actual instructor în the item

In the other, painted

حنة

BRITISH AIRWOMAN'S FEAT

"#"

Four A Licences No Other Woman Holds

The first woman in the world to qualify for a licence as a fol- y-fedged aero engineer has re- ceived notification from the Buite

passed all the examinations:

She is Miss Dorothy Spicer, of London With Miss Pauline Gower, she Zins a commercial air

yellow ochre, as all training ma-ish Air Ministry that she has chines are now distinguished, is the "pupil He is also an in- Onstructor and a very skilful pilet

SPECTACULAR TAKE-OFF

Pressure Drops One Engine

The item consists of a course of training in flying for the Bridgeport, Conn. A new pupil" by the instructor, and the CANADIAN GOVT. Sir Patrick Heron-Maxwell, in Tremendous enthusiasm is be Far East, Malta and Gibraltar Sikorsky twin-engined. 16-pas- latter performs all of those antics the final turn of an air displaying shown by all Germans in the was announced in Army Orders senger amphibian, designed to from take-off to landing which the

a double parachute jump. His development of this airship and recently. parachute failed to open, and he they are contributing handsomely fell heavily to the ground..

towards the fund for the new

Eskimo Families Being Moved

'COVERING FUTURE CLAIM

OF POSSESSION

Edmonton

:

+

Graf

Atlantic and

ART IN THE AIR

Loss Of Valuable

Miniatures

fortress

Out of Contról

She now holds all the Air. Ministry's licences which it is possible to get for the care and maintenance of aircraft and aero engines. These are the "A" "B," "C" and "D" licences.

No other woman holds them

all, in Great Britain or the Em- Spiretk

MASS FLIGHT TO MONTREAL

Formation Groups In Goodwill Flight

challenge transport planes in worst of ban-fisted pupils could The changes which have speed and performance, specta-ever be capable of Mr. Price and Miss. Heron-craft

received the King's approval cularly took off recently in 15 Indeed, in the 10 minutes of the Maxwell ascended in two "planes The idea is to continue the re anti-aircraft searchlight com

include the formation of a new seconds, using only one engine.item the sum of all the flying and jumped at the same moment!gular service, which the

Capt. Boris Sergievsky, chief errors it is possible to make, short, Miss Heron-Maxwell's parachute Zeppelin has carried on for more pany in Malaya, the redesigna-test pilot of the Sikorsky plant, of death itself, are added together opened and she began to foat to than two years, to South Ameri-tion of anti-aircraft searchlight explained that as he was taking and extremely cleverly exploited.

com-off the fuel pressure on the en- earth. In order to forestall any fu- Then the spectators

can, and to enlarge the system to companies as saw Mr-include the North

panies at Hong Kong and Malta, gine dropped, making it neces-First there is the take-off. The ture claims of possession from Price falling with ever-increasing the Dutch East Indies.

and the establishment of two sary for a mechanic to hand-instructor takes of normally and

·other countries of the great speed and turning over and over,

mixed defence electric light and pump the fuel Before Captain gently climbs, not turning until tracts of Arctic lands stretching his hand tugging desperately at

anti-aircraft searchlight com- Sergievsky realised, however, he has reached a safe altitude of toward the north pole, the Cana-the rip-cord.

panies at Gibraltar.

that the fuel pressure was down, about 2,000ft The new dian Government gradually is His wife, who had seen the

anti-aircraft search- he had already risen from the The papil" who is supposed to

Montreal imitate him, gives moving Eskimo families to the tragedy, collapsed, and several

light company in Malaya is to be water

an alarming Sixty planes took part in the Arctie islands.

exhibition of taxying completely Roosevelt Field international so that these women in the crowd fainted.__*__

designated the 30th (Fortress)

Feeder Line will be occupied by wards of Many Spectators Unaware

one of two out of control The machine is goodwill fight to Montreal Company. It will be stationed The new ship was Canada to within nearly 700) Many of the spectators were un-

with the 41st (Fortress) Com planes which are to be delivered Deadly written off, much to the con-cently miles of the pole

aware of what had happened.

pany, now at Singapore. At Gi to the air line connecting the Ha-jaternation of the spectators, beforeFlying in formation London. The future claim of possession They thought that the falling

group. This line will he manages fually to stagger inte from various American cities they The loss of valuable miniatures braltar the new mixed defence waiian of these Arctic islands is not an body was a dummy, dropped as from the Pierpont Morgan collec-electric light and anti-aircraft later act as a feeder line to the the air

included some of the best known Once up, you breathe a sigh of pilots in the United States. improbability, owing to the ra-part of the show.

tion on their way to Stockholm, searchlight company will be de- trans-Pacific line pid development of the aerial Mr.Price fell in the centre of in the recent Datch air-line dis-signated the 32nd (Fortress) The new amphibian is the first relief, feeling at last he is safe great variety of makes and models routes in the Far North and also the aerodrome. Immediately an aster, draws attention to the com- Company

ship of smaller design whose compared with his behaviour on of American planes took part in The 1st Anti-Aircraft Search-characteristics are based direct the ground

the fight, which was supported light Battalion at Blackdown hasly on the development of the He is now supposed to follow by many prominent aviation lea which is taking place in the Art-loud-speaker, to remain in their and works of art when being con-been redesignated the 1st Anti-large 38-passenger flying bost the evolutions of the instructor ders in the United States

places. Nobody moved and officials veyed by air. Scarcity of Game

which made the pioneer test hop and repeat each one accurately. Many people prominently iden- Aircraft Searchlight Group. Another reason for the gradual Price was lying. It was apparent on many occasions, the Du-

The 6th and 15th (Field Fark) between California and the HaThese include a sharp turn with tified with the seronautical in moving of the Eskimos closer to that he was dead

send pictures of great Companies (cadres) at Alder waiian Islands recently..

font loss of height

dustry were passengers in the value from London to Paris and shot are to be expanded to the polar regions is because of

Of course the "pupil" turns too planes. The National Anthem was then vice-verse without any accident full establishment, and another new ship will have a cruising speed and nearly spins into the ground, spare!

Its designers estimate that, the steeply, keeps his nose up, stalls, the scarcity of game in some played through the loud speaker or loss. parts of the Canadian hinterland and the spectators dispersed.

In fact, aerial transport is of cadre, the 18th Company (Field of 186 miles an hour. (Continued on Page 11)

daily occurrence in the art world. sorbed into the 6th (Field Park AIR ATTACK PERIL

Park) (Colchester), is to be ab-

the rich mineral development official asked the crowd, through a parative immunity of pictures

tic circle:

BRIDGE NOTES

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drove in two

cars to where Mr.

MURDER CHARGE

Cases Against Accused

Not Complete

veens

Dr. Gaufin keeper of the Stockholm Museum, said that hel had recently come over with £2,000]

to spend the gift of a Swedish

lover of art.

At one table West opened a low!

It is sad to think that such club With this opening and with

prizes as the £700 miniature by four trumps in one hand and the Hung Ko, aged 28, a tea-house Jean Fetitot of the beautiful bad heart break, South had no waiter. and Hung Yu, a cook, Mary Duchess of Richmond and play to fall his contract The appeared before Mr. W. Schofield Lennox (daughter of George first only thing that could have saved at the Central Magistracy this Duke of Backingham) and that him after the first lead was a de-morning charged with the murder by Isaac Oliver of Philip I of fensive error, which the East-of another Chinese male at Luk Spain (of Armada fame), which West rair declined to make.

Lan Village in the Ting Kwan Dis fetched £620, should be irretrie At the other table the West trict, on May 18 last, and were re-vably lost player, in an effort to reduce themanded for one week declarer's cross-ruffing possibili-Acting Chief Detective-Inspector ties, opened, a low spade-a lead Elston, who appeared for the pro- which, with four diamonds to secution, asked for a formal re- the King-Jack behind the diamond mand as the cases against the ac bid, seemed reasonable enough-leused were not complete. T The lead was ducked in dummy murder was alleged to have taken and South was very pleased to be place in a village which was within! able to win the trick with the the jurisdiction of the Provincial

Government of Kwangtung,

seven in his own hand.

He now led a heard and". "East.

won with the Ace. The latter

player, preparing to take out the

cards of re-entry for the heart the dummy with the club suit by forcing, dummy to ruff, and led another heart, trum shifted to a diamond. South, of this time with his

course, had

the Ace, and

heart

oth

the trick with spade; and now he led

low fed another)spade, won in dammy,

cid- the rest of West's

hat if The dummy, of

he set up except

clubs, conce

The

Company (Aldershot).

FLYING IN DEL

New Aerodromes Constructed

COPING WITH SERVICE DEVELOPMENTS

Motor Workers Join League Of Airmen

Oxford

groups

A

saving himself just in time

This is the most ghastly realis- Loop and Roll

tic thing I have ever seen at an Then the instructor carries out air display aerobatics, including a loop and A The pupil incidentally showa, roll, and in all of these the pupil how safe the Avro Tutor can be staggers across the sky it about in the hands of an inexperienced 1000ft, rescuing the machine consummate skill at the last peril- {ons-moment--

More than 300 employees of The two actors in Morris Motors at Cowley, Oxford, have worked out the gave up their luncheon hour retheir aerial cently to hear the aims of the fectly that the National League of Airmen ex- towards each pounded by Capt. Norman Mac-the The Hague.millan, M.C, its president collis The new, developments of the Mr. Seaward, one of the direc-each other with plenty of zoom to British and Dutch air lines to tors, was among the listeners. the Far East have attracted con- Capt Macmillan spoke of the siderable attention to the accom-dangers to which Britain was ex- modation available for aviators posed because of the weakness of} and passengers in the Dutch East her air defencer,

Indies, which form an important] A-branch is to be formed at intermediate landing-stage be the works following the meeting tween Europe and Australi

With the new Datch service be ROUTE COMPLETED

usterdam, and Batavia it

to:

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1000 Imperial

London to

tralia

Aviators Seek Abatement Of

Hazard From Coal Smoke

KLM

for it seems impossible to it no matter what awkward tade"it #assumes-

most perfect synchronisa- the two pilots and rfect understanding

tion the

equires

item

the

no other

item I

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can recall

ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES TWICE WEEKLY ACCELERATED SERVICE

HONGKONG LONDON

11 DAYS