1935-12-28 — Page 7

THE CHINA-MAIL-SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1935.

EMPIRE AIR MAIL PLANES OF THE FUTURE

LONDON IN NINE DAYS

TESTS IN NEW SERVICE

“Dorado" Flights ·

To Penang EXHAUSTIVE RESEARCH INTO SAFETY

The second series of exper- mental Imperial Airways flights began early this month over the 1.300 mile extension to Hong

Kong of the Imperial main route. They should be completed by the middle of February next.

This second series of fights will follow the same course andį timetable schedule as the first six return fights recently com-i pleted: a schedule which gives?

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immediate connection ati

This new

type of British torpedo scouting plane, shown o a trial at Gosport, releases the death missile from its fuselage when in full flight.

Penang to and from London SHORTAGE

and Singapore

Empire route.

on the main.

Mail and passengers

are nati

being carried

on these

experi

mental fights, but it is anticipatDOCTOR USES HIS OWN PLANE ed that it will not be long before i

full-and-regalar service is

available to the public. the Up-To-The-Munte Physician

bringing Hong Kong regularly i

It is within 9 days of London. not so long ago that this short time would have seemed fantasti tic

"Safety First"

The start of this second series the of experimental flights over new route emphasises, once again, i the "Imperial Airways policy of into the exhaustive research- safety and practicability of ail new projects before their inas- guration. To a few impatient people who would accelerate Bri-i tish commercia? aviation policies. it is an excellent example of the thoroughness Thich has enabled Imperial Airways to become the outstanding Aviation Company in

Operates In Chio

Ohio has a physician who dies one of his several aeroplanes to distant parts of the State to pick up his patients and transport them by air to a private hospital, which he operates in addition to a flying school and airport, and the recessary then gives them mevical or surgical attention.

This versatile doctor is Dr. E. D. McAllister of Chillicothe.

When he supplements his zero- plane taxi service for patients by the use of his big sedan with a about 100 miles cruising speed

an hour, "he transports them on low-pressure streamline jumpo tyres which absorb ad shocics and jolts.

the world, judged in terms of the MANOEUVRES IN

pre-eminent factor in commercial aviation: Safety."

AIR AMBULANCE

FOR INVALIDS

Ready Both Day And

Night

IN VIENNA Defence Against Air Attack

REAL TEAR-GAS USED

Vienna First moves for the Protection

OF PILOTS

BIG SALARIES

OFFERED

National Training School Urged

SPECIAL TUITION IN FLYING

OF AIR LINERS

Lordon.

.

BRITISH

IMPERIAL AIRWAYS

DEVELOPMENTS

VICKERS VELOX PLANE BEING TRIED OUT

SORTING OF MAILS CARRIED OUT

·DURING FLIGHT

London.

AIRMAIL loads are progressively increasing to such an extent that Imperial Airways have now found it necessary to employ new aircraft expressly designed to ship the Empire airmals out of the London airport.

The new Vickers Velor aircraft have a cruising speed of 140 mp.h being fitted out exclusively for mail carrying and sorting in transit One is now supplementing the Empire passenger services, which depart from Croydon on practically every day of the week, to the main Empire air centres - Singapore, Bris bane and Cape Town.

In earlier years Imperial Air-) ways, whilst trafic was being

built up, adopted a fixed policy TO HOSPITAL BY

AIR LINER

of combining passenger, mail and freight traffic in one air- craft a very essential econo- mic consideration but now! given the increasing demands made by the public for letter carriage by airmail, the old? policy is gradually giving way to the march of time

It is well known that the Home Government, in conjunction with

First Of Its Kind

to cursor

Seat Booked By Wireless

GREAT HELP RENDERED TO WOMAN PATIENT

The many advantages of com- Imperial Airways, is actively en-bined air transport and wireless were instanced gaged upon a revolutionary de-communications velopment by which it is antici-recently on the Australian section! a matter of principle, of the Empire air route from Eng- to Australia. While the There is a shortage of pilots pated: as for air lines, particularly for that in future letter mails in the land the development of internal Empire will, as far as it is prae- Qantas Empire Airways air Ener "Brisbane" was in fight between services So acute is the situaticable, be carried by air.

Daly Waters and Brunette Downs tion that one air combine has.

The present development, the in Northern Territory, Australia, increased the pay of its pilots

first Imperial airmail carrier, the Wireless Officer received a by 50 per cent rather than lose!

solely designed as such, is a pre-message from Camooweal request- their services to rivals.

those developmentsing a seat to be reserved in the Experienced, pilots are also. be- ing sought by the Air Ministry to which must be shown up during air liner from Camooweal to Mt. act as instructors at the training the next few years by the ever- Isa, both stations on the Empire schools for recruits under the increasing demand by the public route.

for airmail transport.

The seat was required to con- RA.F. scheme. In some Cases It is not unreasonable to assume vey a patient to Mt. Isa hospital

that in the next two years the de-for an urgent operation: The Cap to pilots

mand for the speeding up of Fremain of the "Brisbane" immediate- Two sources of supply are available the short service com pire, letter airmail communica-ly despatched a wireless message missioned officers who hare iately tiens may be such as to require confirming that a seat would be left the RAF-and the civilian almost the whole of the then available.

available air space for the car- the out pilots who have taken

On the arrival of the "Brisbane” whoriage of first-class letter mail to commercial B licence and

the entire exclusion of passen-lat Camooweal, the patient was have gained experience to

gers, who in all probability will ready waiting to embark, and soon mand air-liners.

then travel in supplementary air after was landed at Mt. Isa, where craft luxuriously fitted for day the hospital and night travel to a slightly awaiting the patient's arrival,

20 per annum has been offered

сот-

High Salaries Competition for the services of

jeach month is keen and high sa- Manoeuvres have been held laries are being offered.

eir the assumption that

The amalgamation of internal

A fully-equipped air ambulance of Vienna against air raids have the experienced pilots available lower time schedule. has been fitted out at Croydon air now been made.

port, to meet the, increasing de- mand for air travel by invalids. with

It will be in contact by telephone forces coming from.neighbouring air lines will be of benefit to pilots with ambulance services day and States would try to destroy, by and lead to the establishing of night, and will be able to start for bombing, the bridge over the better conditions.

In Workmen's Districts

14,000-MILES AIR RACE France Offers Prize Of £16,000

PARIS TO SAIGON AND BACK

Patient Ready

attendants were]

This is a striking example of how wireless and air transport combined can become indirect ar biters of life and death; now even those in the "backwoods" can ob- tain immediate medical assis- tance: whereas, in bygone days, to be out of contact with prompt surgical or medical zasistrace often spelt resignation to the in- zvitable

any part of the country or to go Danube. and at the same time Imperial Airways is the magnet abroad within 15 minutes of a would bomb. adjacent districts of for the young pilot fresh from Vienna by poisonous gas. For a the BAF, and the company's de- call being received.

The Hon Mrs Victor Bruce, of rehearsal of the defence of the mands are expanding rapidly.

In order to supply the needs of Air Despatch, the company res-town against this, real tear-gas

the commercial flying, the provision A great international air race French entrants to which here- ponsible for the venture, said:was made to explode in The machine has been passed by streets Government and foreign of a national training school for from Paris to Saigon, French tofore it has beer confined). This the authorities at Farnborough as military attaches were witnesses commercial pilots with a working Indo-China, and back, over a special award is 900,000 francs arrangement with the BAF is route of about 14,000 miles, will ($12,000) for the purchase of the

winning. machine. most suitable for the purpose of the scenes.

being urged..

Istart on Oct. 26 next year.

The race will be held on Sep Harley-street specialists and Ked

Going To Schoni Again The French Aero Club announce Cross leaders re so interested

These manoeuvres took place în After £ve years, or even ten that compulsory landing places tember 13 over a 2,000-kilometres and convinced of the need for such-a-service that we have ar-the second, twentieth and twenty years, in the RAF. 2 pilot has on the outward journey will be (about 1,250 miles) course made ranged for a full demonstration of first districts of Vienna, which to go to school again to leam to as Bagdad and Allahabad, and on up of many laps of a 100-kilo the machine to them at Croydon are mainly inhabited by workmen. Ay a civil air liner, even if he has the homeward rus at Allah dad, metres circuit, beginning and end- The contest is restricted to shortly."

The twenty-first district, which is had 500 hours or more of solo Bagdad and Cairo. Arroplanes ing at Exampes Montdesir

entered must be able to fly 2,100 Florisdorf. had been the main dying.

Jaeroplanes fitted with engines of stronghold of the Socialists dur- What is required is a plan miles non-stop.

In addition to various trophies not greater cylinder capacity than the winner will have the option 18 litres. This means engines of Radio entertainment, an accept the air manoeuvres countless les-given training in their final year of handing over his machine to about 100 hp. The Royal Aero

·ed luxury for the motorist, is now fiets were strewn in the streetsin "blind flying and in operat the French Government for a cash Club has full details of these con- available to the business or sports- calling on the population to riseling cross-country routes to set prize of 1,200,000 francs (sppro- testa man aviator who flies his own against, war and all preparations time-tables, and opportunities toximately £16,000 at the present plane and uses radio primarily, to for war, of which the manoeuvres take the second-class navigator's rate of exchange),

**** Another Content other licences. pick up weather reports and were a part. Some 180 persons certificate and beacon signals broadcast by the were arrested on account of this when they left the Service they The French Air Ministry an- would be equipped to proceed to noncer that the special prize it US Department of Commerce.

RADIO ENTERTAINMENT

ing the February fights

whereby pilots recruited for Therefore on the night before short-service Commissions are

action:

Aviator Conquers Odds

In Daily Flight Plan

Kansas City-

Dr. John D. Brock began his seventh year of daily flights

month with a partial-concession. to winter

He had taken off on his 2,19]

consecutive Light, desp

ing clouds which

most zero-ceiling

tained his reco

|

His determination to dr daily

don't see why I should

withén 10 years—by 1 complications, Some

and at the same

brought him a record

top

name in

along with famesad tro---

He has down to ever state

the United Stat Faces, and be bas

while flying

&

200 MORE PLANES -FOR-AUSTRALIA

Additions to Australia's de

an air line after a six-week re- offers in connection with the - fences, including 200 more agro- Imal contest for the Coupe Dent planes and 560 more Air Force fresher course

sche de la Mearthenwilmi- eyear personel, are provided for in the

Given such co-operation.

tween the Service and the side, coupled with school where alt are z ishing course on the supply of experience |lable, men for

might be

be

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be open to foreign as well as to 1936 estimates

Youth Of Hungary

Learn Flying Sport

According to the

don, an air forc

denied to Flingsry and evELY Put plane is carefully com the yout

SECURITY

FOUR ENGINES Every air finer of these great com panies employed on the main routes has four engines RIGOROUS FLYING TESTS are applied to every type of air liner of these companies, not only by them but by the Air Ministry as well

AFTER EACH FLIGHT every air, liner has its engines. and its whole structure meticulously examined in strict accordance with Air Ministry rules

AN OFFICIAL LICENSED BY THE AIR MINISTRY satisfies himself that each of these air liners is absolutely fit for duty before it is allowed to start on any journey in any part of the world

AFTER A SPECIFIED NUMBER OF WORKING HOURS all the engines in every air liner are stripped, re-built and tested, and this applies to every part of the route throughout Europe and the British Empire

THE CAPTAINS of the air liners of Imperial Airways and its associated companies are the most experienced body of pilots employed by any air transport company in the world NO OVERWEIGHT is ever carried by these zir finers. "Every gallon of petrol, oil and water, every passtager and all mail and luggage is weighed before leaving the groun

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