1935-10-26 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1935

IMPERIAL AIRWAYS NEW

NEW AIR ROUTES DIFFICULTIES

OF FLYING IN

STRATOSPHERE

ROSCOE TURNER

PESSIMISTIC

600 M.P.H. POSSIBLE, BUT EXPENSE COLOSSAL

Toronto

Heavy gas. consumption, and technical difficulties of flying in the stratosphere will make flying in the upper air lanes a practical impossibility, in the opinion of Col. Roscoe Turner, the American airman who holds the transcontinental speed re- cord of 10 hours 2 minutes. He recently visited this city.

In stratosphere fiying the cost becomes too great for commer- cial fixing, as motors have to be supercharged and the cabins made airtight, Colonel Turner explained. He predicted that a medium will be established be- tween the stratosphere and the present air lanes where commer- cial planes can

operate economi-

cally. The average speed for these commercial planes will be between 250 and 300 miles

20

The only trans-Atlantic fier of the year is Felix Waitious, native Chicagoan, shown with his plane and in the uniform of a United States reserve officer. He hopped off from Floyd Bennett Airport, New York, with hopes of making a non-stop fight to

Kaunas, Lithuania, birthplace of his parenta. -

hour, according to the flier, who CHANGES EXPECTED IN

imself has flown

an aeroplane

over 300 miles an hour.

Cana-

dian air facilities were criticised.

AIR TRAVEL SOON

Colonel. Turner contended that NEW BEAM SYSTEM AT CROYDON

Vancouver is the one city with a good airport.

PLANE HITS FUNNEL

OF COURAGEOUS

Saved By Guard Nets

Alexandria

AVIATION development is going ahead so fast in Britain that

Here are some of the things

a few years air travel will be revolutionised."

that are happening:

A demonstration is to be given SECRET ARMY PLANE

at Croydon shortly of a new beam system which is claimed to

be infallible.

By the beam system the pilot! While attempting to land on the will wear a pair of headphones. deck of the British aircraft car. If the air liner is on its proper rier Courageons after a reconnais-course he will hear a regular pattern of morse dot-and-dash sance flight, an aeroplane swerv-i ed and crashed on the funnel of notes. the Courageous.

But if he is off the route: the sounds will change until he It spun round, but was prevent-readjusts his course.

ed from falling into the ses by steel nets. bart.

Pick-A-Back Plane i

CRASHES

High Wires Said To Responsible

1,200 POUNDS OF LEAD CARRIED

Los Angeles. The pilot was not back plane is to

- Next spring the first pick-a- A "high line" near the muni

have its trials cipal airport was blamed in part before being handed over to Im-for the crash of a secretly-con- U.S. AIR MOTOR FOR Perial Airways for the Atlantic structed "fying fort with the

AUSTRALIA

• Instructional Purpose At College

Reath W: Australia.

service.

loss of two lives.

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FLYING

BOATS

DECLARED FASTEST IN WORLD

ORDERED FOR EMPIRE

ROUTES

CRUISING RANGE OF 1,000 MILES

AN-order for a fleet of new flying-boats for the

main Empire lines has been placed by Im- perial Airways.

They will be capable of a speed little short of 200 m.p.h, and will have a range up to 1,500 miles, according to the fuel and load to be car- ried. They will thus be larger and faster than any aircraft in service on Imperial Airways routes, and will be in advance of any similar craft in the world.

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All previous marine aircraft on Empire routes have been of biplane.construction, but the new boats will be of the unbraced high-wing monoplane type, with wing-up floats. They will have a span of 114ft, an over-all length of 881⁄2ft, and a height on the beaching chassis of 291⁄21⁄2ft.

Their total loaded weight will.

be 17% tors about 415 tons

-

greater than the present lar- WENT TO THE gest Imperial Airways machine.

of which 31% to 5 tons will be STRATOSPHERE: available for passengers, mails LOST ON EARTH and freight for normal stage flights.

Distance Flight Record Claimed

Four Engines Each

The new boats will have four engines, but the type of engine has yet to be decided. An in-

resting feature part of the hull.

decks in forepart

1,380 MILES BY RUSSIANS

Moscow.

The upper one will accommodate

Two Soviet-stratosphere pilots, crew, mail cargo and the ship's BA. Romanov and A. L office, and the lower one passen Babuikin, missing (believed dead)

gers.

The Government has intimated since September 3, turned up that by 1937 it is hoped that all here on September 26 with a first-class mais between this claim to have beaten the world's

distance record... country and Australia and New

They declare that they made a Zealand will be carried by air. Negotiations are proceeding with fight of 1,380 miles, at an average of four miles, before! the Dominion Governments, and altitude until they are completed it will their balloon came down in the steppes of Southern not be known how many flying boats will be needed.

ATLANTIC FLOWN TO MUSIC

Lone Airman Crashes

In Ireland

A heavily loaded seaplane is Don Smith, head of the firm lifted into the air by a large fly-that built the new all-metal bom- PETROL NEARLY EXHAUSTED ing boat and then released: ber-attack craft, said the pilot,

An-Air Ministry mission just Thomas Van Stone, was forced

Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo. back from Newfoundland recom- into a fatal turn to seek a szfe The Atlantic has been flown by mends Port Botwood 38-an At-landing place because high ten-ja Jones pilot to a musical accom- lantic air base.

sion wires were directly ahead of paniment specially broadcast to Flying Ship Service him when his motor failed on a him dudng the most difficult part Britain's Empire air services test fight With Van Stone, aged of his journey by Athlone wire- can aeroplane engines, the Direc- are to be flown by flying ships 32, a former army flier, was less station.

In response to an application

for some typical models of Ameri-

In

desert Kazakstan.

The pilots then walked for two [days before meeting a herdsman, who lent them a horse for a 220- mile ride to the nearest telegraph.

The balloon was the first of its) sort to cross the Urals.

CABIE

DOUBLED

SERVICES

to England

THE REASON

All these air liners have four engines for g

greatest reliability and offer the highest standards of

comfort and service

THE RESULT:

The weekly service to England has become so popular that it has had to be doubled

Ask about through combined fares by seo and air vie Singapore at through rates

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- BRISBANE

There are big reductions on return:journeys, and 10% reductions on fores for Serving Officers in HAL-Forces and Bettish Government. Officials.

IMPERIAL AIRWAYS

AND ASSOCIATIO COMPANIES

gests: "Batterßeld & Swire, Bank Line Ltd. Trading & Transport Ca, Hong Kong

TRANS-PACIFICK KLM

AIR SERVICE

San Francisco To Auckland

PLANS NOW CONSIDERED

Auckland (NL) Plans for the establishment of tor of Technical Education has with bases at Southampton and Dugald Blue, aged 26, as co-pilot He is Felix Valtcus, a 30-years- expressed appreciation of the Gibraltare

the ship when it crashed old former pilot in the United & weekly air service between San United Aircraft Exports Cor- A giant flying boat, with ac-were 1200 pounds of lead, the States Army, who crashed a mile Francisco and Auckland have been poration's co-operation in sub-commodation for more than 100 equivalent weight of bombs it was from here on September 26 after put to the New Zealand Govern- plying for use in the technical passengers in spacious luxury, built to carry in military work flying 3,000 miles from New York ment by Pan-American Airways. Martin seaplanes, it is propos college the first unit of American with staterooms, bars, and dining as well as four 30 calibre machine in 221⁄2 hours. constructon yet used in Western saloons, has just been designed guns designed to be fired from His petrol being nearly exhausted, will be used for the service Australia

the wings in raking infantryed, he was making for Baldonnel and will call at Honolulu, King- Next year Gatwick Airport will Specifications of the ship had been aerodrome, near Dublin, to refuel, man Reef, and Pagopago. The engine is a Wasp model,

fight to flying time will be 40 hours spread manufactured by the Pratt & open as an alternative to Croydon submitted to the United States before continuing a

Several other auxiliary airports, Army air corps. It was equipped Lithuania, when his andercarriage over three days. Whitney Aircraft Company, East

No payment is asked by the com Hartford, Connecticut, and is ac- such as Heston and Gravesend, for cruising at 28,000 feet and its hit the top of a tree and the companied by a number of the will relieve congestion at. Croy- top speed was rated at 250 miles machine came down in a ploughed pany from the New Zealand Goy-

Instruction Manuals don in bad weather

:standard

issued by the company.

In making the contribution they

said: "We feel that these, to-

in Britain

FIRST PILOT'S RANGE

gether with the engine, will allow On transport lines a first: pilot your students to gain a very prac-is not permitted to fly more than fical knowledge of the construc-10 hours in any one month, nor brtion and maintenance problems in more than a total of 1,000 hours 3 volved.".

per year.

Large Transport Plans

Prepared In America

an hour.

SEADROME FOR SUTHAMPTON

All-British Company To Be Formed

Southampton.

The

field, damaging the propeller, ernment. wheel, and a wing

The Government have reached He climbed out unhurt and, no final decision, pending refer-

when helpers arrived, they heard ence of the matter to the other the sound of a popular tune still Governments of the Empire. coming from the radio of the damaged machine.

OIL AND GASOLINE SUPPLY

U.S. AIR CORPS RESERVE.

The United States air corps{TE: serve.consists of war-trained pilots A large air line recently con-who have kept up their flying, The addition of a great sea-tracted for a year's supply of oil non-commissioned graduates of the drome to the existing extensive and gasoline for its ships, 125,999 air corps training centre and gallons of the former and 4,300,000 civilians who have qualided for

*reserve pilots" ratings.

Southampton docks, is planned.

Intimations that one would seejers. He has had a hearten- An all-British air company is to of the latter large transport plans on the air-ing experience with plane sleeper be formed, of which the director-

ways of the United States in the service since, against the advice ate will include certain leading Inventor

Is

Of The Glider Traced By Plaque

next year-especialy large sleeper of older heads in the industry, he shipowners. The initial services planes have proved well found put in the Condor sleepers on the will be to expedite the passage of ed American Airlines has "order-Southern trans-continental run. travellers from the Continent on ed a fleet of the new Douglas en These planes, he says, will pro- their way to the United States by London--A silver plaque bear-[has affirmed his initials larged model and expects delivery vide delightfully large and com- the provision of a fast and coming the design of a glider-aero-date, together with the of them in February. These piznes, fortable berths. In addition they fortable air link from Copen plane by Sir George Gayley and to the meaning of powered with two of the latest will have two dressing rooms, a hagen. They would be able to dated 1799 has been presented re-no clue series supercharged Cyclones, really efficient kitchenette and a land almost alongside their liners.cently to the Science Museum 3381 will be able to accommodate 32 great sense of spaciousness. Oxy- passengers. Their performance is zen will be added to the fuselage expected to be about the same as air when required.

that of the DC-Z series or

an hour faster”- Flo

ard looke

ests DAILY FLIGHT FOR 6-YEARS

Services are proposed later to here. Sir George Cayley has been Lisbon, whence there would be a called "the fucontestable forerum- branch air line to New York visner of aviation.... the Azz

Bermuda, oth

The plaque was apparently

George himself/

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