1936-03-28 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1936.

BIGGEST AIRSHIP READY FOR MAIDEN VOYAGE

Germany to Backed by seven years' successful operation of airliners to South America from Germany, a proposed airline from New York is ready to start operation in May. A luxury Zeppelin, the LZ-129 (shown centre, under construction), will have a German base at Frankfort (109) and is expected to use the Lakehurst, N. J., hangars (below left) for the New York ierminus. Eckner (left) will be in command.

Dr. Hugu

RADIO FOR

PLANES

“BLIND" LANDING.

IN FOG

Beacon System In

Operation

LUMINOUS INDICATOR FOR

PILOT'S USE

A Junkers 52 three-engined air

NEW AIRPORT AT GATWICK

SLIDING CORRIDORS TO

AEROPLANES

UNDER-COVER ACCOMMODATION

PROVIDED

Gatwick.

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PROPELLER FAILURES

Vibration Harmonics Responsible

Propeller failures, research has proved, are nearly always caused by vibration harmonies and not because of faulty material. Vibra- tions of the blade getting into step with those of the engine will result in failure near the tip, while failure at the hub is raused by the equality of the vibrations of the propeller and crankshaft

WOMAN- PILOTS FEAT Kilometres In 55

Minutes

liner was employed at Heston Air O completion here.

NE of the best-equipped airports in the world is now nearing Port last month to demonstrate Recently scores of workmen were seen laying parquet floor- the Lorenz Blind Approach Systema, ing and beginning the interior decoration of the round "Martello" which enable aeroplanes to reach air station, which is to be a miniature city, ministering to every an airport even in thick fog, and to comfort and convenience: Far out across the 196-acre landing 100

field other men were laying cables for the three 1,500,000 candle- land safely.

power floodlights which will enable the port to give a 24-hour The guidance is both visual and service. aural. Usually, however, the pilot works by the visual method, so Then engineers started erecting airport-whose intersecting beams a pilot safely to the that he can use his telephones for the Marconi blind-landing system, can guide other communications.

the most up-to-date of its kind. It landing ground in the densest fog. Within 20 miles of port an aero will consist of three radio beacons plane is in the range of the main-one of them two miles from the Beacon of this,system. The Beacon senda out on one side of the course

a continuous series of "dots" and act height above the ground by

Circular Station

RECORD BELIEVED BROKEN

Langley Field. Va

MILA

84

AN HOUR

ATLANTIC FARE

ABOUT £83.

Return Journey In

One Week

SPECIAL FACILITIES FOR PASSENGERS

The biggest airship in the world makes her maiden voyage on May

6.

She is the Hindenburg, built by the Zeppelin Company at Friedrichshafen. Her maiden

trip will be across the Atlantic Ito Lakehurt, New Jersey, and the fare for the single journey will be about £83.

If all goes according to plan she will make the return journey in a week

The Hindenburg is designed for a; top speed of 84 miles an hour. She is 815 ft. in length, her greatest diameter is 135 ft. and she has a capacity of 6,750,000 cubic feet.

The gas is in 16, separate cells! the gas-bags being made not of gold-beaters skin as heretofore. but of a special gelatinoid ma- terial

The envelope also has been treated with an aluminium pow- der to minimise the effect of heat

rays.

Diesel Engines

She is itted with Diesel engines! burning crude oil and with a maxi- mum power output of about 4,400, h.p.

The Hinderbury has four times the passenger space of the famous Graf. Zeppelin.

Accommodation is arranged on two decks, one above the other. The upper main deck contains ont lone side the large dining-room, on the other hall and writing and reading room.

There are also observation pro- menades with long rows of win- dows, through which passengers can watch the landscape. Between

these day rooms are the sleeping

cabins. There are 25 staterooms. with 50 beds.

Hot And Cold Water

The smaller lower deck contains the smoking room-the first snok- ing room ever built in an airship and slightly apart the all-elec- tric kitchen and messrooms of the] crew. The two decks are connect Jed by a broad staircase,

Helen Richey, Pittsburgh and Each cabin is equipped with hot! Washington air pilot, set what island cold running water and there The most remarkable feature of thought to be a new international is artificial ventilation and warm- the airport is the circular station,light plane record here early last air heating. arising in three tiers like a con-month when ste covered a 100- The electrical power station of on the other side a continuous needle moving up or down ajcrete wedding cake. There is noth-kilometre closed circuit course the ship is situated amidships, series of "dashes.". These "dots" graduated scale, which is a muching to compare with it at any

in 55 minutes. She took off, at mid- insulated from other parts by and "dashes" "merge together more accurate method than the other airport in the world. It is night and set her tiny ship down special doors and walls. when the pilot is on the true altimeter. The pilot adjusts bis the hub of a "roundabout" which again at 12.55 3. m.

height so that he is at about 600-will deal with air traffic like road it. at the first "maker beacon,"traffe in a busy city.

course.

Direction Needle

Other Installations

Officials of the National Aeronautic Association judged In addition to the aural signal and at about 60 ft. at the edge of "Six "spokes" project from the

the time. After instruments are

U. S. LANDING FIELDS round tower. Each is a covered checked the Association will ac- there is a luminous indicator. The the aerodrome.

Thirteen passage-way leading from the cen-nounce whether or not a new mark position of a needle on a scale in-

and a half miles isi

between dicates when the aeroplane is on Heston is the only English aero-tra! waiting-room.

for women pilots has been estab-the average distance the true approach course, or, by drome equipped with this system. An arriving aeroplane taxies, lished.

aeroplane landing fields in thei the needle's movements right or which is already installed at Ber-round the tower and stops befofe Her plane, an open-cockpit, United States. left, any deviation from it. lin, Hanover, Cologne, Frankfurt, one of these passages. Then a high-wing monoplane, powered by

The pilot, moreover, is informed Vienna, Hamburg, Nuremburg, "telescopic

* two-cylinder, 36-horsepower adding some 30 feet to the length engine (Aeronca), was lent her aerodrome by "marker bezcons,”! Standard Telephones and of the passage and extending it for the flight by Ben King of |

of his exact distance from the Stuttgart and Leipzig.

corridor" slides out,

Bathrooms And Police Station

a

POLAND'S PROUD RECORD

of which there are two, ons two Cables, who carried out the instal- right up to the door of the 'plane-Washington. In preliminary Polish airlines have established miles from the aerodrome, the lation at Heston, have also pro-

Irun over the course she bucked an enviable safety record. Dur- other at its edge. As the pilot duced a "tcompass-bearing home- Inside the station the traveller headwinds in 20-degree weathering their 15 years of service, they fies over the first of these an in-finder." This shows whether the will find his every need catered and made the circuit in 50 minutes. have never had a fatal accident. dicator light is shown, and an-transmitting station is north, east, for. There will be: A post office; other light appears when he comes south, or west, and the exact de telephone kiosks; a restaurant snack to the second.

Igree of the compass card pointing with open-air terrace; a

bar; a cocktail lounge; shops; and The pilot is notified of his ex-to it,

bathrooms, dressingrooms and a barber's shop for owner-pilots and passengers wishing to dress) for dinner before taking the Lon- don train.

Four air liners, flying in bril-[to go back; did so and landed at Even the air-minded criminal liant sunshine with a pall of fog Le Touquet.

Boy Of 19 Completes

Darwin:-Mr.

Flight To Australia

Air Liners' Adventures

When Marooned Above Fog

has been thought of, for there is a blotting out: Croydon Aerodrome A third from Paris landed at R. W. Gropler, distance, Gropler finally landed all police station and a cell, be beneath them, had an anxious time Littlestone Aerodrome.

Iside the Customs hall On the last month, ***

Continent

A 'plane, from Rotterdam few the 19-year-old airman who left safely near Komarno on the Han opposite side of the waiting-room Portsmouth on December 9, ar-garian frontier. As he could not is a steel safe for gold consign wireless from

The four pilots were told by over Croydon Aerodrome for an Croydon control bour and then had to return to rived here on January 20.

make" himself understood, he was Mr. Gropler, who is a native of immediately arrested, but after ments in transit to and from the tower that they could not land at Rotterdam after five hours in the South Australia, has had an ad- explaining matters to the Aix

Croydon. This is what, eventual-fair.

Of the three machines from venturous flight since he set out Ministry he was allowed to con- New Railway Station

ly happened to them:

Paris, two belonged to Commercial alone in a three-seater open mono-tinue his journey.

Crowning all these rooms 'und] One from Paris tried unsuccess- plane on the 12,000 mile journey Another mishap held him op departments is the control-room, fully to get in at several zero-Air Hire Ltd. and one to Wright- home from England.

when his aeroplane tipped over in on the highest tier of the tower, dromes. Fog too bad. Flew ways Ltd.

A wireless beacon is being in- When he had been gone only a taking off in the snow.

Walled with glass, it has a clear backwards and forwards along stalled at Croyden Azmodrome to few days he was reported missing] Although he had hoped to reach view of the country for miles the coast for hours, then landed at help airerat to hand in poor between Vienna and Belgrade, Australia by Christmas Gropter around. At night, in clear wea Littlestone Aerodrome. Bet visibility At Berlin "airport

After leaving Vienna be en-was not attempting any record-inther, approaching pilots can see with only enough petrol for a few radio beam enables a suitably countered a very thick fog and in his flight "down under. He had its beacon lights 50 miles away. more minutes flying

equipped plane to land in thick the intense cold ice began to form only about 75 hours solo fying ta A new Southern Railway sta- Another from Paris got as Zar tog Experiments not being cao on the wings of his machine. his credit before he left on this tion, Tinsley Green, has been built an "Littlestone Aerodrome; plutjried out may provide

Following the Danube for somajtrip.

to serve the airport.

was told by Croydon control towerlaystem at Croydon..

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