THE CHINA
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1935
WORLD'S ISLANDS IN PACIFIC
GREAT VALUE TO USA.
Guarding Precious Air Route Links
CONTROL OF 9,000 MILES OF OCEANIC ROUTE
The United States is determin- -ed to maintain its present naval ratio with Britain and Japan, re- gardless of the. probable scrap- ping of the Washington Naval Treaty.
pro-
In addition to a new
of building up the gramme navy, the coming Congress will be asked for appropriations to fortify strategic points along the Pacific coast. Alaska and Hawaii. The reasons are:
new
1. A European situation sur rounding the Italo-Ethiopias war which may at any time fame into a conflagration.
in the 2 A
situation Pacise involving the safety and security of the tiny islands which shortly will be America's, air sta- tions in trans-Pacific aviation ser-i vice.
"Danger Zone"
10-
new
GREATEST AIRLINE IS IN BRITAIN KLM
The inaugural fight of the trans-Pacific air service was made last month by the 51,000-pound "China. Clipper,” shown above on a recent fight over San Francisco. Capt. Edwin Musick, left, was the pilot of the huge plane, which is capable of carrying 43 passengers.
AN AMAZING PLANE
Can Fly Backwards Or Forwards
INVENTION BY FIRST FLYING M.P.
The most remarkable aero-
Representative Parks. of Ar- kansas, chairman of a House Ap-plane yet produced was shown recently in a private laboratory propriations sub-committee.
in London This plane can fly cused attention upon the
forward with area is the "Canger zone to this backward or nation's peace and security." Hel
equal ease, rise or descend ver- is ready to back a comprehensive tically, remain stationary in the programme of strong defence for-air, or land on a patch of ground
20 yards square. tifcations for the Pacific.
Looming with vital importance į It is the invention of Mr. N. Dow are a string of tiny isles pos-Pemberton Billing, Britain's first sessed by the United States but dying MP, and a practical air- practically unknown until recent craft engineer and designer since months.
1906.
Once regarded as utterly value- less, the islands are now of vital
airi importance to trans-Pacific travel
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"My new design is called the
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Durotan, Mr. Pemberton Bill ing said. "It is so revolutionary The nation holding them wiltin character that it is sure control the air travel over tealy cause tremendous excitement and possibly criticism when it makes 9,000 miles of ocean.
its frst appearance. Yet the ma Hawaii will be an importance;
new trans-Pacific chine transgresses. not one single centre to the
established aeronautical law. air lines. Stretching beyond are Midway Island then Wake Island, then Guam Over that route will be the airway to the Orient.
"It is the result of an entirely new application of old laws. By the time the Durotafin makes its first public fight it will have cost. £9,000."
[type.
Revolving Wings-
*FLYING FORTRESS CRASH
Five Occupants Dragged From Flames
New York.
A giant bombing, plane, des- cribed as the larges and fastest of its type ever and Inown as the "Flying Fortress," crash- ed and burst into fizines shortly after taking off from Dayton, Ohio, recently.
Two Army Air Corps officers, saved the lives of the two pilots, two observers and the mechszic by dragging them all injured- in the nick of time from the burn- ing machine.
Major P. P. Hill, one of the men rescued, was, however, criti- cally hurt, having lost the sight of both eyes.
Its destruction rolves the Boeing Company in a loss of £20,000.
LESSONS OF WAR
AIR RAIDS
Defence SecretsTM Revealed
BALLOON "APRONS” TO DETER PILOTS
IMPERIAL AIRWAYS
£15,000 LOSS TO £20,000 PROFIT
· ELEVEN YEARS PROGRESS
LOOKING FORWARD TO FUTURE PROGRESS
On November 1, Sir Erie Ged- des, the chairman of Imperial Air- ways, presided for the eleventh time over the annual meeting of} the world's greatest aviation or- ganisation.
He was able to tell the share- holders that they are to have a dividend on Ordinary shares of 6 per cent and a bonas of 1 per cent. and that the profits have risen from £78,571 last year to
133,769 for the year ending
March 31 last.
The eleven years of the com
pany's operations have been fall
of service, progress, and expan- sion. But the story is as nothing! to the great future which lies; ahead of Imperial Airways and which, before the end of the next decade, wil bring all the most distant parts of the Empire with- in a few days march of the
Never has the appearance of mother country. an official war history been so
The future will see the growth timely as the publication. re- of Imperial Airways into a far cently, of the fifth volume of greater trading concern than any The War in the Air" (by H. 4.f the great charter companies of the centuries which saw the rise Jones, Oxford. *Clarendon Press,
17s. 6d, with set of of England's splendour. maps. 30s.). This volume
Modest Beginning covers the German air raids on! Rising modestly from the ashes Britain in 1917-18, the cam-of four small private companies paigas. in Palestine, Mesopo- which operated the London-Paris tamia, and Macedonia, naval route, in has grown to girdle In- Australia with operations in the Mediterranean, día, Africa and and training organisation. air routes-
The author has had access to It was on April 1, 1924, that Gergnan "oficial documents, and Imperial Airways was given its AIRPORT NEAR interesting and usefal comparisons first 10 years agreement with the
WINDSOR
King's Consent To Plan
SOME-RESIDENTS OPPOSE
SCHEME
Windsor.
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are possible; new light being Government for the Paris route. shed on a number of affairs.
The first machines were a mis- It is important to bear in mind cellaneous collection of single en- that the aircraft and the air de gine aircraft, developed from-war fences were vastly inferior to types. those of today, the organisation
A prudent policy of providing was poor and purpose faltering: for obsolescence was adopted also that gas bombs were not from the first. Soon twin-engin- used
led, and then three-engined ma- Aunless Bombing
caines were introduced, which Much of the bombing was in-won the confidence of the early Airway To India
travellers discriminate, although military cross-Channel Another route, branching south-} ward from Hawaii, will eventual-]
objectives were generally pre-strongly that they in turn gave Plans for an airport to be contended, and in most cases sought way to forr-engined types. Now ly be the great airway to India
The most startling features of structed on 65 acres of land at Probably on any future occasion the policy of four engines for The United States will control
the new plane are the wings, Ranelagh Farm, Winkfield ad- of war between countries. pos-cross water journeys has become this by its islands of the Palmyra Group, Tiny Jarvis, Howland and which rotate and act as pro-
will be wise for psychological (Continued on Page 10) Baker Islands and Kingman's pellers. The machine has no pro- joining Great Windsor Park, are sessing organised air forces it standard practice. Beef, a mere speck in the beaving peliers of the generally accepted to be placed before the Easthamp reasons, and expedient militarily, stead District Council at their for each side to refrain as far as Pacific. From Kingman's Reef,
These revolving wings are
possible from attacks Om civil aeroplanes will reach. Pago Pagoj
normal aero-engine pext meeting.
populations,
largely due to itexamination of in the Samoa group and thence to driven by a
transmission. The The scheme has been subrait- In the usually sporadic bomb-the means for defence. Defence New Zealand, Australia and In-through oil
wings have ailerons controlled ted to the King in view of the ing for there was only an e-by balloons and balloon “aprons
proximity of the site to the casional manifestation of sustain-is fully described. At Venice in Any naval arms discussions from the pilot's seat
When operated by the pilot Royal Park, and it is understood ed offensive a considerable num-June, 1917, there were seven bal- the future, any treaties or pacts: concerning the Facific, will take they control every possible varia- that His Majesty has given his ber of casualties and heavy maloon stations, each with 10 bal- into consideration America's en-tion of movement of the plane, consent. The Air Ministry are terial damage were inflicted, and loons. larged sphere of interest in that forward or backward flight, turn-also prepared to issue a licence it is startling to reflect that in a The balloons were let up to -area and its needs for protectioning hovering, rising or falling for the site provided that it future war the four years aggre about 10,000ft, with the idea that conforms for the regulations. gate of bombs dropped may be enemy aircraft would run the risk of the trans-Pacific air trade vertically.
of fouling them or their cables. The port will serve the Slough exceeded in a day. Trading Estate, where 170 firms Fewer bombs were dropped by The Germans also used balloons. London had balloon aprons," are situated, in addition to Wind-seroplanes than by airships, but sor and Eton College and the more casualties and damage were each consisting of three Caquot surrounding district, and it is caused by them. This was doubt captive balloons, 500 yards apart, within three miles of Ascot race less due to the fact that zero-connected by a horizontal wire planes attacks were directed more from which were suspended, at 25 purposefully against cities and yards intervals, steel wires 1,00ft towns, whereas airships droppin length. Eventually the height ed many bombs indiscriminately was raised to some 10,000
routes.
AIRPORT PLANS FOR GATWICK
course.
Some Opposition
AIRLINE SCHEDULES
It has been estimated that on Gatwick aerodrome, enlarged average airline schedules, level zhd with remarkable equipment, cruising occupies roughly 50 per w't be open for triffe either just cent. of the total time, descent before or just after Christmas-taking up 30 per cent, climb 15 It is on the main railway between per cent, high-powered elini 2A number of residents in Wink-from great heights, and often in London and Brighton, and a sub-per cent, running up the engines field are opposing the scheme or open country in order to lighten effect, and German pilots were way 130 yards long now nearly on the ground and taxing 2 per the ground that it will destroy the ships... complete, will lead from 'plane to cent, and take-off about 1 per the residential amenities of the train
cent.
Idleness Of Inland Air
Lines Cause Higher Costs
Ineighãourhood. But over 500 re- Įsidents have signed a petition ex- pressed their approval of the pro- posals
Balloon "Aprons"
The "aprons" had a deterrent
very nervous of them, and were kept above certain heights, which The value of this volume is made it easier for the artillery.
If the plans are passed by the Air Survey Of London
Easthampstead. Council the work
eating down several hundred
trees, levelling land, buidme
Home air transport disculties, Dealing with wireless and air hangars, a club house, etc, will were referred to by Lt Col E. C. craft, COL Shelmertine said-be put in hand mmediately. Shelmerdine, Director-General or With this assistance pilots ca “Civil Aviation, when he deliver take off and fly with little oz NO
visibility. To land in those con ed the inaugural Brancker Hemditions, however,
Crequire orial Lecture at the Institute of new apparatus, z new xhnique. Miramisport last month n
|Within a few weeks three- Lon- ost don airports will pos
Col Shelmerülne sod that
--Brifam's internal a
losing money. At pr nal services aircrgit
ing 90 per cent of their the ground, and standing die
opes
equipment,
DIFFICULTIES IN STARTING
Considerable difficulty has
ienced in starting zeropi
500 horsep zero tempe nsport
Helps In Map Revision
The Air Survey Company, which also photographed comecting has carried out surveys of 70,000 original work in Middlesex
that in Essex across the nor square miles in India, the Fr
Greater London The East and Africa recently com 176 square miles, and the plete erial survey around graphs are to be used for
area concernéd is vision of London's
of Middle
newl
A great deal of this
work sould be seen tion recently held
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