1935-09-14 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1935

AIR REFORM DELAYS IN GREAT BRITAIN

AIRWAYS IN AFRICA

NEW BRANCH LINE-

FROM KHARTUM TO THE SLAVE COAST

Imperial Airways* Enterprise

ELDER DEMPSTER LINE

CO-OPERATES

-London.

Another British Empire airway. which will connect West Africa with the Imperial network, is to be inaugurated in the near future. The Elder Dempster steamship line is co-operating with Imperial Airways to form a joint company

-800

dish. Miles

NOR

Maidugro

∙Kano Illorin

Kadura

Lagos

lof

"New Air Ros

Kha

The proposed British air route to the Slave Coast. ··

Ainch will be known as the Elders TRAINING R.A.F. PILOTS

Colonial Airways, for operating.

air services in West Africa S

Imperial Airways will also operate a service from Khar- tum to Nigeria which will prò- vide through connection from London to Lagos via. Khartum. El Fasher Fort, Lamy. Maidu- vari, Kano. Kaduna, and Illorin. These places as far as Kano are in nearly straight line across the African Continent.

Extension from this service! will be made later to Acera. Kam- asi and Takoradi in the Gold Coast as soon as the ground organisa- tion is ready. Later still will come the extension to Freetown in Sierra Leone,

DEFENCE SCHEME IN AUSTRALIA

Anti-Aircraft Guns Ordered

Melbourne.

AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS “INADEQUATE”

Children Cannot Be Protected Against Poison Gas

London

"The Government's precantions against air raids are inadequate." said Lord Rassell (Mr. Bertrand Russelly at the Oxford Academic Freedom 'Conference recently.

"They lull people into thinking they can be protected" he added.

In the near future" prESSUTE will be brought to bear on teach-

ers to give instruction. I hope they will have nothing to do with 1

You cannot protect children. against poison gas”

RADIO BEACON SYSTEM

Ministry

SHORTAGE OF TECHNICAL EXPERTS

PROGRAMME

CHANGES AND

EXTENSIONS

201

11 Flying Schools For 800 Pupils

SEVEN FLIGHT TRAINING ESTABLISHMENTS

London.

NO ACTION YET ON GORELL REPORT AIRWORTHINESS TESTS FOR CIVIL AIRCRAFT

SUGGESTED NEW STATUTORY ·

No

AUTHORITY

London.

TO effective action has yet been taken on the more import- ant points in the Report...published more than a year 250, of Lord Gorell's" Committee on the control of private fying. With the report there was issued a memorandum by the Air Minister agreeing to some of the proposals.

The committee made one recommendation which has given rise to prolonged negotiation. It was to the effect that the control of airworthiness of civil aircraft should be developed from the Air Ministry to the Joint Aviation Advisory Com- mittee of Lloyd's Register and the British Corporation Register, reconstituted as a statutory autonomous and execu tive authority, to be called "The Air Registration" Board.”

A scheme was drafted and was submitted to the Air Min-

istry. It excluded from the BIGGER FIELD

OF VISION FOR

PLANE PILOTS

authority of the board vehicles!

employed in air transport for

hire or reward.

The Minisy has declared Its willingness to hand over the control of airworthiness to the proposed "board and to make an annual grant to the board. There is every reason to hope that this authority. when it is jestablished.. will be able to carry out urgently needed re- forms

Important Invention

In Japan

“JOYSTICK” SERVES AS TELESCOPE

Tokyo.

Mit-

was

at

The prospect of legislation be An important device which The removal of the Centraling introduced during the pre- gives the aviator in "flight a Flying School from Witteringisent Parliament now appears re-field of vision all round him, to Upavos on next Monday will more. Conflicting interests were even directly below, has been he the first of a large number hinted at in an answer to a ques-jinvented by Mr. Atsushi Nakao.

weeks an expert Parliament some

of the changes and extensions tion in made necessary by the RA.Faro by the Laler-Secretary for subishi Aeroplane Works at

Oe-cho, Minamiku, Nagoya two-gear expansion programme. Air.

Irritation Caused

The patent was formally grant-] including the Central Flying.

Delays and uncertainty are noted on April 13. Serool and the Flying School at

According to the Asahi the new Abu Saeir, Egypt, there are now only causing irritation, but put-/ seven Right training establishing aircraft operators and own-device is a simple one. The joy. There stick" serves as a telescope, pro- ments. Five more will be open ers to needless expense.

special lens which by next March Of these, the is the case of a transport aero-vided with Powerful Bin, anti-aircraft guns Men Wanted By Air first will be No-1 to take the Place condemned to idleness for aires 360 degree vision. As the de place at Wittering of the Centrala fortnight, when it might have vice is also fitted with a level, the for the defence of Australia's six

Flying School The number of been bringing in revenue. There degree of the machine's inclina- capital cities and Newcastle and

pilots under training at each are instances of long delays intion can be ascertained.

Mr. Nakao. the inventor, Darwin are to be manufactured al-

to some parts of the country in îs- school varies from about 50 most immediately at the Maribyr

80, and when the organisation issuing the necessary offel performerly a military aviator, and nong munition factories.

complete next spring the total mits for aeroplane which are fit served with the flying corps

for firing

Hamatsu. Akenogahara and Toko- will exceed 200.

A ground engineer may only rozawa. He entered the Mitsubi- Issue permits for those particular shi firm in 1931 as a mechanical | types

of air transport planes expert. He has several other in- radio beacon' Until the opening of the new mentioned on his official licence.ventions to his credit quired the manufacturing rights signal systems and who are ex-Service Training Schools a large It is claimed that a qualified

Production plans pert wireless engineers.

number of ncx personnel recent ground engineer is quite capable of the guns.

There is a shortage of suchy accepted are receiving prelim- of examining and passing any have been completed by the Muni!

technical skill in the country. Men (inary nos-military training at ci-type. Under the present system tions Board.

the with the right experience are, of vilian dying schools under cod-It may be necessary to send a Estimates submitted.

ex-tract with the manu- course, already engaged on

the Air Ministry considerable distance for a parti- 35 Minutes Hop Over Cabinet provide for facture this pancial year of perimental work with radio bea-These schools are at Hanworthcular round engineer, and the to cons at the National Physical Maidenhead Reading Sywell expense has to be borne by the sufficient anti-aircraft uns

Leicester, Yatesbury. Coventry, aircraft operator. equip the Queenscliff, Victoria Laboratory.

The appointments now avail- and Perth. When thepi are * General Hold Up. Garrison, and the forts at Sydney

jable will be as Signal Officers, and moved to RAF. training centres One air-line operator and own. The Flying Flea, which is and Brisbane.

are intended for men who will they will have already attained er of a big aerodrome is unable claimed to be the smallest aero- jhave charge of the work connect-a considerable degree of pro- to get an Aircraft Inspection De plane in the world, crossed the ed with the laying down of a ficiency, and will be qualified for partment official appointed. This Channel recently from St. 1- radio beacon system for night fly-tuition on Service types.

means a general hold-up and con-glebert, piloted by its designer,

M. Henri Mignet. tinuous delays.

Machinery for this purpose has already been imported and in- stalled at Maribyrnong,

London. The Air Ministry are looking Out of a vote of £28,000 lastitor experienced men who have year. the Federal Government acknowledge of

to

SEVEN MILES UP BY PLANE

New Soviet Fighter Creates Record INTERCEPTOR MONOPLANE

Moscow.

Pilot Erseef has established a Soviet height record

new

36235f-pearly seven miles.

of

ing in Great Britain and on Em- pire routes

In Position Such facilities have to be in position by 1937, when the Em-

Pire air routes are speeded up.

In Great Britain they will be built for inland air lines when the Committee under Sir Henry

Maybury recently appointed by the Air Minister have completed their report

Although British and Italian Candidates applying. for the

-

Preliminary Training

(Continued at Foot of Column 1)

JUNIOR FLIER'S

RECORD

1,200-Mile Course In 3 Countries

“FLYING FLEA'S?

SUCCESS

Channel

London

What is suggested is not that It was accompanied by another the Air Ministry should loosen seroplane and landed at Lympne, control, but only that the pro- Kent, where. 1 Mignet passed cesses should be quickened and through the Customs before pro- freed from red tape. The reedceeding to London for supervision has been illas The midget machine reached trated by several accidents, and Lympne at eight o'clock, having it is possible that in some direc-accomplished the fight în 35 tions stricter control may prove minutes. necessary.

The Flying Flea" has a wing So far as manufacture is con-span of about 12ft and a 20-hp cerned, much may be left to res-two-stroke engine, and is only San Diego. Frank Kurtz of Los Angeles ponsible firms, who can safely be waist high

trusted, with guidance from the over Agua Caliente,

janes have reached considerably Air Ministry appointments will greater heights the interesting have to be men thoroughly train-circled fact abuse this Soviet feat is that ed in the advanced theory of Mexico, at 6.45 pm. (9.45 ES.T.),Air Ministry as occasions arise it as made with the latest stan- wireless and direction finding on August 8, less than 14 hours

dard type of Red Army interceptor radio beacons, etc.

fighter monoplane, built under conditions of mass production and

not specially constructed for re- cord fights.

TRAINING RAF. PILOTS

(Continued From Column 3)

Avro “Tutors”. Used The Avro "Tutor" is the prin- cipal type of machine on which early instruction is given at the civilian and the Service schools Then, at the Service schools, "the Audax, Hart, Bulldog, Siskin, Fury, and Atlas are used. Flight!" training is of course, only one of many items in the programme. There are Schools of Naval Co- operation, Army Co-operation, Photography, Technical Train- ing, and others.

After first training, men chosen for flying boats and, for the Fleet Air Arzt recei their special

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U.S. PLANE CONSTRUCTION

Approximately half the aero- planes constructed in the United States last year were sold in for eign countries.

after leaving Victoria, BC, in quest of 2 Canada-to-Mexico junior flying record."

PROMOTING CIVIL AVIATION

MIDLANDS PARIS AIR LINE London The Prime Minister has appointed a committee to con Nottingham and Leicester now sider and report to the Secretary He returned to San Diego and have an air service to Paris, in-of State for Air upon measures landed at the municipal airport, augurated recently by Provincial which might be adopted by the intending to spend the night here Airways. The D. H. Dragon Government or by local authori It was the first flight by a junior type is used for this service, ties to assist in the promotion of pilot over the 1200-mile, three-which is once daily in each civil aviation and their probable

cost. direction nation course.

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