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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1936

CHEAPER FLYING MOVEMENT NOW POPULAR

In disfavour because he refused to issue a special appeal in the recent Nazi elections. Dr. Hugo pert in construction and operation of lighter-than-air craft. faced banishment from the command of the burg, newest and greatest of zeppelins, last month. The press ban on the mention of his name has

TWO MORE ASCENTS STRATOSPHERE - PLANS

Polish Aviator's Proposals

ALL PREPARATIONS MADE

Warsaw.

Captain Zbigniew Burzynski, the winner of last year's balloon race; for the Gordon Bennett Cup pro- poser to attempt to reach the etratosphere

FAMOUS AVIATOR'S

NARROW ESCAPE

Paris: The trans-Atlanție air- man Assolant, the only man to

Rown have

the Atlantic with

a stowaway on board, recently had a narrow escape from death. Picking up the mails at Elisa- bethville, he was about to take of when the machine refused to gise from the rain-soaked portend. At the same moment, the brakes failed to act and the machine bit the barriers of the aerodrome with a terrine impart.

The aeroplane

badly Was smashed, but Assolint. his, me- chanic, and two passengers, were unly slightly hurt.

the in balloon MODERN R.A.F.

"Polonia" during the next few days.

TRAINING

Squadrons Soon At Work

NEW TRAINING SCHEDULE

Eckener, world's foremost ex- "Field Marshal von Hinden only just been lifted.

BRITAIN'S AIR FORCE

EXPANSION

UNDER 3D. A MILE ULTRA-LIGHT IN AEROPLANES

"Feather-Plane" Is Latest

DEMONSTRATION AT HANWORTH

The "cheaper flying" movement is rapidly gathering momentum and it now seems certain that the "feather-plane." as the new type of ultra-light aeroplane has been called, will play an increasingly important part in British civil aviation.

A demonstration given at Hanworth Air Park recently of ал Aeronca-J.A.P. two-seater ultra-light aeroplane showed that dying at 24d a mile is now possible in a machine cap- able of standing up

to bad weather and having a reason- able margin of power.

The machine is the fifth type of ultra-light aeroplane to be market- led in Great Britain. A sixth type has been designed and it also will shortly be available to the public. Others are in process of develop-

ment.

Approaching Solution It seems, therefore, that, de-

LORD TRANCHARD'S WARM PRAISE signers are at last approaching a

solution of a problem which, in spite of numerous efforts, has so Westminster. Har baffed them. Within a year "ARM praise from Viscount Trenchard of the energy with or two probably it will be possible WARM from the aur Force had been pressed or two at ir po me a closed the second day's debate of the Government's defence pro-cost as low as it is to own and gramme in the House of Lords recently.

drive a car.

He declared himself amazed at the progress made in the last! four or five months.

Priced at £395, with full equip- ment, the Aeronca-J.A.P. carries a He was completely satisfied with the scheme for a Minister pilot and passenger in a small, en- of Co-ordination of Defence. It was a great step forward. All closed cabin, with the seats side the Services would welcome it and expect from it a solution of by side. The view is good and many problems.

there is a fully equipped instru-

The Marquess of Salisbury had he urged, should look into thement board. previously expressed fears that possibilities of the offensive. there was a tendency to minimise the position of the new Minister.

The cruising speed, according to the manufacturer's figures, is 85) Bombing Range

miles an hour, and the top speed: Dealing with the relation of air 95 miles per hour. Petrol and cil This was founded in part on the power to sea-borne trade, he pre-cost about 5s. an hour at cruising appointmen: of Sir Thomas dicted that for the next 50 years speed. The Aeronca climbed the Inskip, in part on the provisions the range of bombing aircraft first 1,000 feet in about 140 sec- of the scheme. Lord Trenchard would be on the increase and in onds and can, it is stated, reach declared that the position could narrow seas they would be the 12,000 feet. not be minimised.

Short, Service System

dominating factor.

All preparations have beea made, and Captain Burzynski, is awaiting suitable atmospheric con-

Other Machines ditions to make his ascent from

Lord Lloyd, who opened the In addition to the Aeronca- Jablonna-Legionowo, the head-

On the development of our air debate, was most concerned with J.AP., the other featherplanes quarters of the Polish balloon de-

Under the training schedula in-power he made important sugges-the naval side of the programme, now available in Great Britain are tachment.

troduced for the Air Force expantions. The short service system, He feared that the provision of the Sky-Bug, invented by M. Henry The passenger

on this fight,sion scheme

new squadrons be-The insisted, was particularly valu-cruisers was inadequate, thought Mignet; the Caden-Baynes Auxili- that the destroyer position was ary, which is a power-assisted sail which will take place in an open come efficient trained units as soon able in times of expansion.

as they are formed. This result is

They had then a great need of the most serious of all, and asked plane of most ingenious desigu; gondola fitted with all the neces due to the complete training now junior officers. With short ser- for multiplication of the present the B.A.C. Drone, originally pro- sary apparatus, will be Dr. Kon-given to the individual pilet be- vice men would not be thrown out strength.

duced by the late Mr. Lowe-Wylde, at 40 with little chance of find- Lord Strabogli, having announe- and stanty Jodkunarkiewicz, assistant fore he joins a squadron.

HOW in extensive use in professor of experimental physics! When he is posted to a squadron ing a career. They would returned that the Socialists would vote Belgiuma as a club machine; and at the Pilsudski University, War-jhe has already completed training to civil life after four or five years against the defence proposals, the Praga monoplane, which has saw, who will make observations in night flying, formation flying, and be able to get employment, logically devoted the rest of the been recently put into construc- as to the tension of cosmic rays. air gunnery and bombing, in addi- He stressed the value of the perils of attack from the air. tion in England.

The purpose of the flight, is re-tion to air pilotage and navigation. Auxiliary Air Force, and advised

Particular Man

All these featherplanes aim at ported to be purely scientific. On joining a squadron he has, that a squadron should be estab

The Marquess of Salisbury then drastically reducing frst and run- jof course, to become accustomed lished in every town of more than expressed his doubts about the zing costs of dying, and in provid- Another fight to the strato- the particular type of aeroplate 20,000 people. There should also new Minister of Defence. The ing something that, without being sphere from Polish territory will it uses; but, that done, he is a full-be an O.T.C. for the air.

|"particular man”-Sir T. Inskipso fast as high powdered ma- be that of Professor Piccard, who fledged squadron pilot ready for Men of science investigating air was very able, but handicapped chines, will be easier to control. has now obtained the necessary (training with the squadron in problems were always asked

because he had never been in the funds and proposes te ascend to squadron- operations.

consider defence. Some of them, Cabinet and never held an ad- a height of 30,000 metres.

-ministrative office. What was want-

Piccard's Next Attempt

Up. to the present date 17 or 18

The balloon for this gigantic new squadrons under the expan-

flight is being made by the Polish sion scheme have been formed. CHAIN OF AIR PORTS ed was a Minister who could put

military balloon works in Legio-Now that land and buildings

zowo.

acquired last year are ready for Young Millionaire's Professor Piccard will probably occupation, and the output of the make his accent towards the end training schools is increasing, new. of the summer-Reuter.

squadrons will be formed at a greater rate. "

main-

that rearmamentį

י

HUGE PROPELLERS

pressure on the Cabinet and, if necessary, resign.

Some of the huge three-bladed Viscount Cecil gave the Govern-controllable propellers now in use Plan

ment programme a measured and on US. transport planes are from! conditional support He

12 to 13 feet in diameter and weigh Mr. Whitney Straight, the 23-tained, in opposition to pacifist up to 250 poarids. year-old American millionaire rac-arguments, ing motorist, who plans to estab might postpone or prevent war. FLIERS AT WEST POINT

aerodromes all The position we over the country in Britain, has that the whole world was arming. For the last 41⁄2 years only West The new German dirigible LZ taken up three more directorships, Rearmament might provide aPoint graduates who have complet- 200 U.S. companies not directly in 129 has a carrying capacity of 50 according to Jordan and Sone breathing space during which ed the flying course have filled the aviation business maintain passengers and 20 tons of mail list of new companies. company-owned planes,

COMPANY-OWNED PLANES

At the present time more than

50 PASSENGERS

and goods.

Stood On Undercarriage

lish

a chain

were in was

great efforts for permanent peace the officer ranks of the regular

air corps.

He is named as a director of could be made. Exeter Airport, Ltd., Plymouth Airport, Ltd. and Ipswich Air- port, Ltd. new companies each registered with a nominal capital £5,000 to carry on the business

And Averted 'Plane Crashof proprietors and managers of

air

mechanic Doraryches climbed out of the

attempts to

airports and aerodromes.

Passengers Must Not Talk

To Pilot Of Airplane

Moscow-A

Mr. Whitley Straight is also a Washington-New rules to pre-spilot was a possible explanation.

Exeter Aero Club, vent "interference" with the pilot Under the new rules pilots are averted a crash by clinging for 40 cabin on to the axle of the under-subscriber to minutes to the undercarriage of carriage, and after a number of Ltd, which is registered with a of an aeroplane in flight have been to remain at their poets except an aeroplane in mid-air and while unsuccessful

cor nominal capital of £100. He reissued by the Department of Com-when other duties require them to of the aki,cently applied for British nation-merce at Washington.

leave. No passengers are to be it was landing The machine was rect the position

This follows the mystery of the admitted to the pilot's compert- fitted with skis for landing on ice. finally stood on it, balancingjality.

[with his weight so that it remain-

crash into a swamp at Goodwin,, ment. Arkamans, of a transcontinental. The practice of permitting psa- air liner in January with the loss sengers in the -control room.

and are required to of 17 lives.

-allowing pilots to the The Commerce Department have| visit

passengers quar fficient oil and fuel to flý 45 min. admitted that they were unable to ters. 18

The now. forbidden. Government has utes in addition to the time neces-Jestablish the cause of the acci-door separating pilot and passen. ly vertical position. The machine awarded both men the "Badge of sary for the fight to the next dent. It has been suggested, how-igers is to be kept locked at all could not land.

scheduled stop."

ever, that interference with the times.

to the Sverd-jed in the correct horizontal posi- While returning lovsk aerodrome after a training tion.

flight, Pilot M. Ishchenko and Ischenko made a brilliant land-

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Mechanic V. Domrychev noticed ing, and the aeroplane was un-furnish their planes with suf that the right aki of the seroplane damaged.

-had slipped and taken a practical-The Soviet

Honour."

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