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THE CHRỦA TAILSSATU

"FLYING FLEA" DEMONSTRATED IN AMERICA

GLIDING IN AMERICA RECORDS TO BE SHATTERED? Study Of Winds And Currents

NEW SOARING TECHNIQUE

Motorless flights of several hun- dreds miles, perhaps breaking the world records, held in Germany. were predicted for glider pilots in America last month at the annual meeting of the Soaring Society of America.

Adoption of new technique. such as that in use abroad. was essential to this end, however.Į Emerson Mehlhose, soaring pilot, of Wyandotte. Mich., told his fellow sliders at the Hotel New Yorker. He advocated "cloud street" and "polar front" soaring.

The cloud street, it was explain- ed by Mr. Mehlhose and Dr. Karl O. Lange of the Blue Elll Obser- vator of Harvard University, is a formation of long lines of clouds, of the cumulus variety, often, ac- companied by high winds and al- ways providing thermal lifting currents of good intensity.

Strings of Pearls

Several of the long flights of

The new German, airship LZ 129. since named the "Field Mar shal von Hindenburg,” which has recently completed a successful trans- Atlantic flight, is shown above immediately before taking off or her Grat trial fight over Friedrichshafen.

WAR ACE'S

AIR STAFF DUTIES

more than 200 miles made abroad Squadron-Leader S. D.

Culley

ZEPPELIN CONQUEROR

Squadron-leader S. D. Culley. DS.O., has been appointed to 23 Group R.A.F. at Grantham for air

have been accomplished, it was; explained, by taking advantage of rather high formations, these which were described as resem- bling strings of pearls in the sky. The polar front type of soaring involves getting under and follow ing thunderstorms that sometimes staff duties. sweep for long distances across country. These are distingish. ed from the local, highly turbul-recalls one ent thunder heads of the Summerar episodes when,_lone-banded, seasor, which sometimes present he brought down a Zeppelin over `dangrous conditions. Mr. Mehl the North Sea.

Squadron-Leader Culley's name)

of the most gallant

NEW POST

PUT THROUGH PACES BY PANGBORN

"MINOR DIFFICULTIES

ENCOUNTERED"

LIMITED CONTROL OVER WINGS.

Roosevelt Field, N.Y. THE "Flying flea," a tiny aeroplane two men can carry and built to sell for $300, has just been flown successfully by Clyde Pangborn, famed ocean flyer.

After a difficult take-off, which had spectators holding their breath. Pangborn circled the field once and made a perfect land- | ing. He was in the air about five minutes. It was his third 'try with the widget plane. Previous attempts to get it off the ground. Pangborn said, failed because of “minor difficulties which have been corrected.

The little ship was built in France by Henri Maigney. It was brought to this country by Sidney

Arram, an Englishman, who seeks to perfect it for manufacture in the United States in quantity, After Meignet finished the midget plane, he described it in a book. the French title of which trans- lates into "Flying fea" or "Flying

CUP FULL OF OIL AN HOUR louse," in English

During test of the new Aeronca J.A.P. engine, it developed 41% h.p. at 2,560 revolutions per minute. The fuel consumption was 3.1 gallons per hour, and the oil consumption was pint

per hour-equal to about a ten- cupfal of oil

ICE DANGER TO

'PLANES

Preventive Equipment

Devised

DELIVERED TO IMPERIAL AIRWAYS

Third Attempt

"SNOW PLANES” IN ENGLAND

Special Service To Switzerland

WEEK-DAY FLIGHTS

snow

In this third attempt. Pangborn New England has its taxied the tiny plane to the end trains which take enthusiasts out of a runaway and gave it the gun. from the cities to the snowfields A few seconds after it left the during winter week ends, but ground, the left wing dipped Europe now boasts a daily "enow sharply and the right wing point-plane.”

jed skyward. Watchers thought a Swissair, the Swiss aviation crash was certain. but Pangborn company. now runs service righted the plane and gained every week day during the winter jaltitude.

from London to Basle and Zurich After landing he said the near using American Douglas trans- accident was a result of limited ports. control over the wings, which are The Swiss service leaves Croy- not equipped with ailerons or ele-don at 8.25 am, arriving in Basle vators, as in conventional designs-at 1.10 p.m., and at Zurich at 1.50 Cp and down movement is con-p.m. It is possible therefore to trolled by movement of the entire leave London after breakfast and wing structure with the "stick"dine in a favourite Swiss sport re- He said he had to reach behind sort the same evening. for the Equipment to prevent ice form-and control the wing with his aright arrives in time to catch, a hose said some of his fellow soari At that time, in 1918, the Cer-

to almost any point in ing pilots even had hopes of beman airships were hampering their on the wings and propellers is when a crash threatened, much as train ing able to utilise such a polar movements of Laval vessels in and installed in a new De Havilland! was done in the early flights bylswitzerland.

air liner, the Dryad, which was the Wright brothers. out of Harwich.

The Swiss front across the continent.

air company has delivered to Imperial Airways re-i

Other Difficulties The method of launching gliders

arranged with the railway com- They kept at an altitude which cently. from a winch, operated by an their commanders discovered our

Pangborn said other difficulties panies to forward heavy baggage This machine will be used on

snow gear ahead of the automobile engine, was described dying boats could not reach and European sections of the Empire could be traced to non-heaviness and by Gustave Sheurer of Irvington, at a safe distance beyond the routes,

of the little ship. Asked if he fight for convenience, though it over regions in which would make another attempt to can N. J. He explained that some limited range of the single-seater icing" has recently caused delays it, he smiled and replied. "Not fight.

be transported during the

land dislocation of traffic.

4.000 launchings had been

told.

Standardisation?

made scouts.

Chosen As Pilot

In certain conditions ice forms to-day. Maybe later, but not to-

day." on the leading edges of wings, on

blade section.

"The "Flying Flea" is 10 feet "ROAD MAPS" OF

THE AIR

long; with a wing spread of only a tandem biplane.

by this method by his club with- out mishap. It is a means of get- ting the motorless plane in the air which is superseding the auto- As a means of attacking theme struts and on the blades, of mobile tow and the shock cord we hit on the device of towing a the propellers. Not only does it method abroad, the meeting was Sopwith Camel single-seater scout add to the load, but, what is even 20 feet. It is

lout to sea on a lighter from where more serious, it deforms the wingpen cockpit machine, for a single person. The take-off and landing) it was to be launched against Zep-

In the case of the wing, this al-speed is 30 miles an hour and the Innovation In America pelins. Professor John D. Akerman, Lient. Culley, R.A.F., who cameters the flow of the air and affecta maximum speed is about 50 miles

the response to the controls. In the The little black and silver plane MACHINE FLIGHTS CHARTED ing department of the University from the Royal Naval Air Service,

was chosen as the pilot for this case of the propeller, it reduces is powered with a tiny two-cylin-| of Minnesota, urged upon the society the adoption of a standard-

On August 10, 1918, the experi- ised type of glider for training ment was tried, and this officer

Two or three methods of coun-evcle engine. Fuel consumption around is a helpful service that purposes. He said such a glider,

duly taken out with the teracting icing have been inventis low. The gasoline tank holds which could receive the approved-Camel on a lighter type certificate of the DepartmentNorth Sea towards Heligoland un-Dryad is chiefly due to researches sufficient for four to six hours in/latest of these devices is American the ed. The method employed on the bat four gallons, estimated to be about in various fashions. The

head of the aeronautical engineer-

duly.

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of Commerce, was sorely needed. ti a Zeppelin was sighted.

Plans that could be approved Į

the speed.

Special Method

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motor-/ horsepower, similar to a

Something to aid the air passen- ger to identify things on the

ment by Mr. B. Lockspeiser and 300 miles.

the air, or a cruising range of 200

and from which safe primary He was then launched, taking Dr. J. E. Ramsbottom, and has gliders could be built by schools off in a few yards from the been embodied by the Duzlop Rub- and colleges were what was want-lighter. He climbed to 18,000 ft., ber Co. in the Anticer. ed, he explained. The attitude of keeping the sun between himself the Bureau of Air Commerce to- and the Zeppelin.

ward glider licensing was explain-

American

Air-lines have gone

Airlines "erial road map," which charts the various direct courses and variations between every city: served by this company. The folder is in the form of panel

logically arranged and folded so that a trans-continental passenger: No airmail service will be estab-merely has, to turn from one to

The Anticer is under the con- CANADA POSTPONES WESTERN strip maps consecutively and trol of the pilot. On the Dryad it weighs only 65 lb, including three

AIR SERVICE

He decided to pull up the nose gallons of the liquid it employs,! ed at the evening session by F. Rof his machine to get his guns which is sufficient for five hours' lished in western Canada until the next while in flight. Shanley of the borean.

sighted on the Zeppelin, and fire continual use.

CHURCHES

height.

z thin

just before the Camel hung on the The Anticer liquefies

1937, Saskatchewan airmen have The mays

identify various "stall" and fell

been informed by the Federal au-ground beacons and radio stations away to

lose layer of ice in contact with the thorities. It had been hoped to in set up by the Bureau of Air-Com- surface to which it is adhering-augurate an airmail service from merce and American Airlines, air- The adhesion is eliminated, and coast to coast this summer. the wind blows the ice away.

One gan jammed, but the other set the airship on fire in the brief FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST. seconds in which he could take

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Macdonnell Road, below Bowen of three jumped from 81⁄2 miles nounce the following changes in Road Tram Station.

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Saving Of Daya

fields, points of interest, high- ways, railroads, rivers and various noted buildings, schools, and na- tural features. The only ominous:] note observed was Sing Sing pri son depicted on the Boston and New York strip. Perhaps this should have been listed under "obstruction."

The changes will result in many by parachute, and. was the dates of departure of Empire cases in the saving of from one tol found unharmed by a Dutch ship.[air-mail services from London: three days in the time taken to ob-j

Egypt, Palestine, Irak, India.tain a reply to a letter sent by air- Lieut. Culley flew round search-Siam and Malaya-every Wednes-mail

LONDON TO SOUTH AMERICA ing for the Harwich Force. He day instead of Tuesday. The There has been no speeding-up] could not land a scout in the res-Saturday service, éxtended to Aus-of the air liners. The saving has:

The first service from London tricted space available on a lighter.tralia, is unchanged.

been achieved by cutting down the to Santiago, Chile, a distance of So he landed on the sea beside Egypt, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, waiting time at the overseas end. 9.365 miles, entirely by air, began ja destroyer, to be safely hauled Tanganyika, North and South For example, the mail from in January with a mail service by to aboard with his machine. Rhodesia, Union of South Africa London hitherto, reached Nairobi Air France, the French air trans-

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Monday and Thursday: 5.80 - P.I.

IT was discovered that he hadj-every Friday and Tuesday in- on a Monday., The London-bound Port" organisation. Tuesday and Friday: 10 to 12 but one pint of petrol left in his stead of Wednesday and Sunday. plane did not leave until the fol ndon

Incoming Empire air-mails willlowing Friday, a 'wait of four This exploit won him the Dis-be unaltered with the exception days;

NEW EMPIRE- AIR- BASE tinguished Service Order. The that the service from Malaya, Under the new arrangement the famous Camel Scout waLL pre- Siam, India, Irak, Palestine and mail reaches. Nairobi two days Portsmouth has been chosen by The Puble is cordially invited served and can be seen in the New Egypt will be due to reach Lan-later, on Wednesday, but returns, the Air Ministry, to be the new -to attend the Service and visit the War Museum at the Geraldine don on Thursdays-instead of Fri-jas before, on the Friday, a wait of Empire air base for flying boats

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