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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1935

TRANS-PACIFIC AIR MAIL FROM US. TO CHINA

GIRDLE OF BEACONS

NIGHT FLYING

MADE SAFEST

AT CROYDON

EFFICIENCY OF NEW SYSTEM

CONTRIVED BY BRITISH LIGSITING ENGINEERS

Croydon Aerodrome is now floodlit by what is claimed to be the sefest system in Europe, and one contrived by British lighting engineers. There is no doubting

the efficiency of this new system.

The China Clipper, the largest piane ever built în America, takes off to show New Yorkers the new wonder of the air before starting for San Francisco and the inauguration of the California- to-China service. The big flying boat can carry 43 passengers and a crew of 7 on m` 1,500– mile flight. She made a fight front, San Francisco to Honolulu in 14 hours.

One was able to look down CIVIL AVIATION through the calm sky of a perfect September night on Fleet-street,

with particular offices clearly to be distinguished from a height of

.000ft

00 its

а

We return and descend Croydon's zerodrome with great red beacon (visible 60 miles away. The new white biscuit of light with never

And glare gives us welcome..

the friendly yellowi there are flashing lights to mark the boundaries.

the

The batteries floodlights

of poar their brilliance across tarmac and the grass for half a zaile, and a line beacon lights girdle the big aero- drome.

of Hetle yellow

Illuminated Wind Gange

A large beacon with a lighted base gives the pilot his sense of

lights perspective. The

if one be knocked over with the tip of a wing it collapses without causing serious damage.

To the south of the aerodrome a 20ft wind indicator picked out in:

of moveable lights on wagons to

veers, and no bedazzling towers.

Eight Million Candles There are eight foodlights to be switched from Croydon's nerve .centre, the control tower, over such angles of the aerodrome 18

IN INDIA HAS GREAT FUTURE

Need Of Continued Development ›

SUPPLEMENTARY GRANTS VOTED IN ASSEMBLY

was

Simla. The need for the development of civil aviation in India stressed by the Government spokesmen in the Assembly, when voting on demands for

EMPEROR'S FIRST FLIGHT

Soars Over Detachments Of -Abyssinian Troops

Addis Ababa

Emperor Hote Selcerie went for a fight in an aero- plane for the first time in his life recently.

He few over his capitci. Later he soared to the west and few over detachments of his army which had deported "from the capital a week before

for the front.

supplementary grants was taken ROUND-THE-WORLD

AIR RACE

up. Sir James Grigg, Finance Member, moved that a sum not exceeding Rs. 1,000 be granted for expenditure on the develop- ment of civil aviation.

dian

Still In Its Infancy

Home Manufacturers Interested

ENORMOUS PRESTIGE WOULD ENSUE FROM WIN

JARMCHAIRS IN

MAHARAJAH'S

NEW MACHINE

Extensive Comfort Provided

FOUR PASSENGERS AND PILOT TO BE CARRIED

CONTRACT

PLACED

PAN-AMERICANS BID ACCEPTED

BY US. GOVT.

READY TO START IMMEDIATELY

ASIATIC TERMINAL STILL, THE STUMBLING BLOCK

Washington

Inauguration of a trans-Pacific air-mail service by this month was foreseen recently as the post office department opened bids for carrying mad over the route. Pan- American Airways was the sole [bidder, offering` to cary trans- Pacific mail for $2.00 per mile for an initial 800-pound · load] throughout the length of the pro- posed route from San Francisco to the Orient via Hawaii, Midway, Wake, Guam, and the Philippines.

Weight over 800 pounds would be figured at $1 per pound for every 1.000 miles carried. The bidders proposed a 10-year com~ tract.

A saloon aeroplane which has

Juan Trippe, president of Pan- beer built for the private, use American, declined to state how of the Maharajah of Jammu

| soon service would start, although and Kashmir will leave England it was understood that the com- for India this month. *The machine. 2 de Havilland

was

pany would be ready to start al- Įmost immediately."

Dragon-Rapide, selected

Postal authorities hinted that by the Maharajah after an ex the service would be inaugurated tended stay in England. during about the middle of this month. which he spent much time at Heston airport and other dying

seats are

the

TO

Mr. Trippe refused to discuss,

Award Pending centres, and frequently char-

Postmaster-General James A tered aeroplanes for his excur- Mr. Asaf Ali, in moving a token

Farley indicated that the award sions. come ent, complained that money, was

The machine will be fitted to would be made as soon as possible, from a 6-volt current, as harmless being extravagantly spent on the and as incapable of causing fire construction of aerodromes, "with-

carry a pilot and four passengers (although he said that President in great comfort. Its equipment Franklin D. Roosevelt would pro- as a car's lighting set, so that out any benefit to India and main-

includes blind-flying instruments,bably scan the contract first. Mr. ly to the advantage of foreign air

British aircraft manufacturers¦ companies, such as Imperial Air-

a precision altimeter which is more Roosevelt was at the time on his than those commonly way back to Washington after a ways and KLM Royal Dutch are already making preparatory sensitive Air Lines).

plans for racing, machines to come used, and navigation and land trip to the Pacific coast, and was then steaming northward from the pete in the French round-the lights.

Panama Canal the cruiser Finished in Süver lights swings to the slightest Mr. A. G. Clow, Secretary, world air race, to be flown in breeze--and if there is one thing dustries and Labour Department, 1937. The race the biggest in finished in silver, picked out with

The exterior of the machine is Houston. that matters as much to the pilot said that, to a certain extent, that as his compass it is the wind in-was true in regard to the route the history of aviation will the Kashmir State colours, red the location of the Oriental ter dicator on the landing ground. It from Karachi to Calcutta and make even last year's. England and yellow, and showing the State minal of the route. It was re- is a beautiful system of lighting. Rangoon, but even on that route, to-Australia contest seem small.

Hag on each side. The pilot's called, however, that the Pan- American Airways, opened neroli- separate compartment and There is no glare to, meet the in-

Lindian operators, and Indian trafic coming pilot-merely a layer of had substantially benefited.

Famous racing pilots are ne-passenger cabins are decorated and ations simultaneously for landing gotiating with financial backers furnished im one harmonious facilities at Canton, Hong Kong welcoming light; no-hasty rushing Apart from this line, there were to enter high-speed aeroplanes scheme. The

and Macao. It was also recalled this point and to that as the wind important routes operated by In-in an attempt to obtain the chairs, and the two in front have that the Portuguese announced been companies - Karachi

to | £40,000 first prize and the tre-pull-out leg-rests.

that Pan-American had Bombay, Madras to Colombo and mendons prestige the winner

Care has been taken to make granted the privilege of landing Delhi to Lahore and Karachi will gain worth more than the cabin quiet and free from

İplanes there The speaker said the expendi-Lany money prize-

vibration. A ́· luncheon

Mr. Trippe's silence was inter- cabinet ture which the Government pro- France, it is considered, and a compartment for drinks are

preted to mean that negotiations posed to incur was to be distribut ready has z machine capable of provided.

for the landing on the Asiatic ed over the different lines. He winning. The manufacturer of

The Dragon-Rapide is a biplane mainland were not complete. the wine demande. Each is of admitted that the expenditure was the winning aeroplane will assur- with tapered wings and attractive

Maximum Bid hig

edly obtain contracts for large lines. Two Gipsy Six 200-horse- six kilowatts, has the power of a The aerodrome was not at prefects of machines for trans-At-power engines are mounted in Pan-American's bid was the million candles, and laminates)

sent, si commercial position, in lantic work

nacelles carried on the lower mammum Jesuitted in the call 41⁄2 million square feet.

Smail, dapper ex-naval fenter-plane. The waxing speed with for bids Major Mealing, of the Depart the sense that the Government did

The bid proposed to make one ment of Civil Aviation in the Air not get any immediate visible re-ant Owen Cathcart-Jones, one of full load is 160 miles an hour, and

tüm corresponding to the outlay: the Australia race stars, hopes to the usual cruising speed is some trip each week with its multi-me- Ministry, described the far-

but civil aviation, he added, was enter

tored sezplanes. 140 miles an hour. seeing policy which has so made

Stipulations in the call for bids Britain's great port the safest enterprise which was in its He said: "A machine would

provided: and best equipped in the world infancy and he hoped that the hon. Dave to carry a crew of three at for safe landing at night. "Wemember would on reflection, agree-constant cruising speed of 275 know," he said, "that night flying that it should be undertaken at miles an hour to stand a chance of winning», Its maximum speed must come and-must come quick thi. stage by the State.

Concluding, Mr. Clow aid that would have to be in the 300 mph ly. We must dy not only in the daylight hours, but in the hours) the Government would bear in region.

*Twin engines are necessary for of darkness. Flying is a means mind the desirability of avoiding from strength to strength, and in every possible bikelihood of extra-reliability

expenditure. Aviation

Five to Six Days this new development and in vagant

The course, I should say, could of transport which must go on was admittedly an expensive mat- these new demands we have been fer at present, but he did not be covered in five to fix days. The

4. Elanes-o

the trans-Pacifie urged on by our ever progressive doubt that it would develop and 12,000 miles Australia race was

route must be of the multi-motor- Post Office."

that India would reap, in various flown in three days.

The race would be from Paris 40 PER CENT. NIGHT FLYING ed seaplane type, capable of sus - Mr. Villiers, son of Adimi. Vil-ways, a tangible harvest in the liers, and a relative of the Earl of years to come. Clarendon, has been mainly res After Mr. S. Satyamurti had ponsible-for-this-new-standard of also spoken the demand

granted aerodrome lighting.

Low-Cost Air Connection To

to the Far East, across China and back. It is not by any means free was of danger. Entrance costs would

be high.

“It might cost as much as 525,000 to design and build a ma- (chine to enter but the winner

would gain such great orders for] {Seets of the same type that it] would be worth millions to the Prague Eight experimental flights are manufacturer.

Heart Of Russia Planned

PRIVATE BEACON LIGHTS

1 Service once a week each way. 2 Mail loads of 800 pounds," with provision for carrying 247 excess offered.

Private zeronaťtical beacop lights hereafter will be rated by

3. If the contractor Iznds vo- the US Department of Commerce, luntarily at any intermediate so that siren can determine from paints, mails shall be carried to the letters in the rating symbol and from these pointz. what type of light will be found at

given location.

Minimum Power

tained flight ân 50 per cent. of} Night flights comprise 40 per motor power at an altitude of cent of the daily aeroplane mile-1,000 feet. age travelled in the United States.

(Continued on F58r 10)“

DOUBLED SERVICES to England

THE REASON

All these air liners have four engines for greatest "reliability and offer the highest standards

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 fores by sed and diffic Singapore at through rates

Des. SINGAPORE ·Sun. Thors. || Dep.SINGAPORE Art. ALOR STAR Sun. Thres | Arr. BATAVIA

BANGKOK RANGOON

'Sun' Thers.

Floo. Fri

- CALCUTTA Mon. Fri

LONDON Mon. Fri. (week) |

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KAMBANG DARWIN

· BRISBANE

There are big reductions on return journeys, and 10% reductions on farer for Serving Officers in HM Forces and British Government Officials.

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2th November, 1935.

the sudden fall in exchange we regret we are reluctant- ly compelled to raise our prices as from the above date.

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According to the proposed time.

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