1936-05-23 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1936

LIKES AND DISLIKES

DISLIKES OF AERIAL

OF AERIAL PASSENGERS

TEMPELHOF AIR FIELD PLANS FOR THE FUTURE

To Be Made Largest In Europe

RADICAL CHANGES PENDING

Berlin.

Tempelhof Airfield is to be made the biggest airfield in Europe during the next three years. Land- ings by day or night will be made foolproof through ultra-modern landing facilities and no aeroplane

Mrx. Amy Mollison, above, the well-known British aviatrix, has recently broken the double record for the fight from London to the Cape and back.

HISTORY OF AN AIRMAN

11,000 HOURS IN THE AIR

P

Senior Pilot's

Recollections

30 DIFFERENT TYPES OF AIRCRAFT FLOWN

One of the senior pilots of Im- perial Airways, Capt. H. J. Horsey has now spent more than 11,000 hours up in the air, and has flown nearly 30 different types of air- craft.

As a boy Capt Horsey was in-

will have to remain in the open be AIR "PRIDE OF tended for a Naval career, thus

tween flights for lack of accom

modation berths. From its present

600 acres the field will be extend-

ed to 1,600 acres.

concrete sheds.

Radical Changes

and the

30:

REGIMENT"

Squadron Badges For R.A.F. Units

MINISTRY'S APPROVAL

carrying on the traditions of a family which had one of its mem- bers with Nelson on the "Victory" at Trafalgar.

But young Horsey had other who, instead of wanting to be an

ideas. He was one of those boys)

lengine-driver, or to embark on a isca career, had made up his mind!

airman. become an

And in to

CATERING WORRIES FUSSY FLYING TRAVELLERS

Lunching And Dining In The Air

FLYING SHARPENS ONE'S APPETITE

Flying sharpens one's appetite gives an added zest to every- thing Passengers say they en- joy a meal up in the air much more, as a rule, than they would

Dr. Hugo Eckener, above, der if they were sitting in an hotel or

signer of the German dirigibl Field Marshal von Hindenberg, in once again in the good graces of the German Nazis, following a period when there was a ban on the mention of his name in the newspapers.

'PLANE CRASHES

NEAR VOLCANO

Prince And Princess Dead

FATAL ACCIDENT IN U.S.A. New York

restaurant down at ground level. No doubt it is the invigoration of the air they breathe, thousands of! feet aloft, which makes them furn to the menu in the air saloon with such an added interest.

The quickened appetite travel- lers bring to an aerial meal is catered for by a service which is

to

in many ways unique—and which, those privileged to study it provides one of the most interest- ing aspects of all the remarkable work going on daily at the big London airport at Croydon.

It is here that Imperial Airways

Increasing air traffic enormously increased speed of commercial aeroplanes have rea dered the present aerodrome cb.

there ix solete, because

Efforts are being made to stimu- enough space left for aeroplanesi with

an exceedingly high land-late the equivalent of "pride of re-1916 he insisted upon joining the

Thrilling Experiences ing speed, and there are too many siment" in squadrons of the Royal Royal Naval Air Service. zeroplanes stationed at the sero. Air Force. The 'squadrons will

have established a department drome to be properly sheltered by continue to be known by numbers. Among Capt. Horsey's recollec- some of which are associated with bons of the Great War are some

Fourteen people were killed last which has had to face, and solvé, thrilling experiences while on famous war-time exploits.

patrol. Sub-month when a large three-engined Many new squadron badges, now anti-submarine known as unit badges, are being marines. he found, were fairly passenger plane crashed in the the many problems that arise This will be changed radically approved by the Air Ministry, easy to spot from the air. even mountains near the 18,000 ft vol when catering for passengers who Even the fastest aeroplane will in These are displayed

on aircraft when submerged, but it proved leane Popocatepeti, 30 miles south fir

Every

and pound of future have no difficulty in land-land on other property of the unit. difficult to bomb them accurately of Mexico City.

All the passengers are believed ing safely and hangars will be Recently the Air Ministry decid-with the crude bomb-sights which

available in to have been Germans, tourists weight are important up in the entails the use of Frected to house 120 passenger ed to supply squadrons which was all that was

a liner on a world cruise air. This

lightweight And nero-engines from zeroplanes of all types the fought in the last war with some those days.

(utensils in the buffets of the air- official reminder of the part they were not by any means so reliable, Six of them were women. Among specially-designed

then, as they have become at the the dead are:

Prince Adolf von Schaumburg-liners, and the planning of lunch and dinner menus which, while Professor Dr. Sagebiel, a Berlin played in it

Each squadron is to be given a present time. This meant that i architect, who has been put

Princess Elizabeth von Schaum-ensuring an attractive choice of dishes, do not mean that a stipt- charge of the extension, plans to document, the original when pos-pilots making long flights out to Lippe. accommodate the field with under sible, relating to some achievement sea found their work dangerous

lated total weight is exceeded in Baron-Siegmund von Stieber. ground roads for mail and freight for other notable event in its his-jewing to the risk of a power-plan: burg-Lippe. transport to the landing ground tory.

same time.

proper.

at

For the first time there will be an "aeroplane platform." A ce- mented road of about 300 metres roof. length and protected by a will supply what platform means on railway stations.

2

Passengers will board the arro planes and leave them under cover! of this roof.

To the right and left of this

"air platform will be erected 15 sheds with a capacity of eight

bigger aeroplanes each.

Begardless of Weather

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conditions,

PILOT DEAD IN TREE-TOP

Fatal Leap After Air Collision

Weight Important

VINCE

iling suddenly. On one occasion The crew consisted of two the various materials employed. hours at the sea, clinging to a pilots, a wireless operator and a Also there are questions affecting

Capt. Horsey had to spend many

Capt. Horsey is just as at homei at the controls of a big flying-boat!

One pilot was the likes and dislikes of aerial partially-submerged plane which technical adviser. had come down owing to engine an American, Adrian Bracher. The travellers. Those who dine and failure; and the rescuers arrived others in the crew were Mexican lunch up in the air want dishes The machine, it is stated, was temptingly prepared and served. only just in the nick of time

operated by a Mexican subsidiary They do not want to eat anything Nothing Risky

"stodgy" or unattractive in ap of Pan-American Airways.

Succeeded In 1918

pearance. They enjoy a really Prince Adolf von Schaumburg-good plate of coup. They are as he is in the cockpit of a giant Lippe was 53. He succeeded to the specially fond of dishes in which land-plane. He laughs and shakes German Principality of Schaum-chicken is the chief ingredient. his head when anyone suggest barg-Lippe in May, 1918, on the They expect an attractive choice that there is anything risky about death of his father, Prince George of sweets on their menu. And Two Royal Air Force machines the work of an air-line Captain of Schaumburg-Lippe, but abdicat they like to glance over a well- collided in mid-air at Easton, near nowadays. It was in fact Capted during the German revolution chosen wine-list from which to Grantham, last month. Acting Horsey who, not long ago, when the following November.

select what they will drink with

FORMER ETON BOY

Grantham.

Grant-

Watchful Eye

Pilot Officer Geoffrey Clive King asked on completing a fight He was married in Berlin in their meals. George and Leading Aircraftman whether he had met with any January, 1920, to Ellen Elisabeth P. J. Pugh, both attached to No. 3 adventures up in the air, turned (nee Nischoff-Korthame), divorced, Upon all matters such as these The greatest advantage of this

to his questioner with the reply: wife of Prince Eberwyn of Ben-the catering department of Im big field is that departures and Flying Training School,

ham, were killed.

"Do you ask an express train theim and Steinfurt. The Princess perial Airways keeps a keen and arrivals can be carried ent

The accident was seen by a)

watchful eye. gardless of weather

shepherd, George Wadsworth driver whether anything exciting was 41

Prince Adolf WW3 Z distant

Soon after one of the big air- and that the aeroplanes may start

routine runs? Of course you cousin of Prince Eugen

Oliners has left the ground, en route from any corner of the vast feld, "There was a big explosion as the has happened to him on one of his machines appeared to collide," he

don't. Why, therefore, imagine Schaumburg-Lippe, who died as say for Paris, you can be enjoy- because a large part of it will be said. "One burst into flames- cersented and form a concrete and "One of the pilots jumped out that a modern air-line pilots, mak-result of the disaster to a German ng an intriguing "airway cock- a couple of ĉeft, solid starting-ground.

and I saw his parachute open per-ing daily trips in a big, reliable plane in Surrey, in November, tail" Then

white-coated stewards will serve In order to enable this exten-fectly. He landed on top of a tree machine over routes he knows like 1929,

you with a meal in which every ston, large parts of the Tempelhof jin a wood 200 yards away, but was the palm of his hand, and with a

(Continued from Next Column) item has been a matter of careful, Field, the old parade-grounds of dead when help reached him. I wonderful organisation of meteo-

on the departure plat-expert study. And by the time Imperial days, had to be sacrificed, found the-second man's body in rology and wireless to help him, is waiting

likely to be confronted by a suc form

you have finished your coffee the and with it the historic poplar the other machine.”

Acting Plot Officer King George cession of thrills? The pioneer In the buffets of the air-liners Paris airport will be in sight be where the ex-Kaiser, used to re- view the Prussian Guards during was the only son of Mr. and Mrs days of the airway are over. Toare special receptacles for the low. In fact if you fly between annual parades of the Berlin and Clive King George, of Medina day our services operate to their food containers, the whole process the two capitals and more and being studied so as to facilitate more people do so every day- Potsdam garrisons. The historic Villas, Hove, Sussex. He was 21 schedules like boats or trains..

was educated at Eton. He Flying is no longer an adventure. the work of the stewards-agile, Paris is just within easy lunching tree will be preserved and remov-jand

joined the R.A.F. six months ago. It is just a high-speed method of quick-moving men who perform distance of London. ed to some other place.

Aircraftman Pugh's home is in travel"

SEA-HORSES BY AIR

Regular dispatches are made

which are

Wales.

This is the thirteenth R.A.F. 10- cident this year.

BREAKFAST, LUNCH AND

DINNER

to London by air, from the Bay of Biscay, of the queer little fish

Flying by express air-liner, known as sea-horses, needed-to-replenish the tanks a business pen can now breakfast; the acquarium at the Zoo. They in London, have lunch in Leipzig, travel in metal containers fall of and sit down to dinner in Bada Bay of Biscay water.

pest.

Night Flying

Exercises

EMPIRE AIR

ROUTES

daily. miracles of efficiency and It is a revelation of specialised speed while the big air-liners are skill to visit the kitchens at the rushing high through the sky. airport where chefs are preparing the dishes that are to be eaten up HE SHOOK HANDS in the air. Tempting mest and chicken dishes, after they have Not long ago a clever chim-been cooked, are placed in con- panzee, Aying to London to take tainers which keep them.piping some films in England, hot until the time comes to serve (part in

walked up to the air-liner captain them. These containers slide into On the main Empire routes, by and

him their places in trolleys, and are with using air travel instead of sur-solemnly after its keeper had led wheeled round to the air-liners face travel,

save 4 it from the machine.

Great Savings In Time

passengers

days on a journey to Baghdad, 6

to Khartoum. 8 to Cape Town, 9 to Delhi, 14 to Singapore, and 15

shook

hands

(Continued on Col. 4)

to Batavia, while a fight right R.A.F. Collision

through from England to Bris- bane, Australia, is accomplished

Risks.

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Air Ministry Orders last month

"It has therefore been decided

A number of civil aeroplanes firm concerned in Commercial Airțin 1211⁄2 days by air, as compared flew over London one night last Hire Types of aeroplanes vary with 32 days by surface trans-drew attention to a new rule con- to lay down as standard practice month to give anti-aircraft and from small air liners to two-{port, searchlight units practice in sound seaters. location and the use of search- lights,

The district covered last month

was north of the Thames, between)

Kew and Greenwich. Other areas|

EMPIRE AIR PROGRESS

cerning landings in formation fy-that, unless speciác orders to the contrary have been given by the ing. The Orders stated:

formation leader, sub-formations

"It has been found that, when or individual aircraft breaking The mileage of the air routes a formation breaks up before land-pformation before landing are to Contracts were placed early in covered extended from Cowes, Isle operated by Imperial Airway ing, there is some conclusion and land in the following sequente? the year by the Air Ministry and of Wight, to Southampton, and and its associated companies has consequent risk of collision un now reached a total of approxi- less the order in which the respec War Office with special charter Bournemouth.

1 Leading sub-formation or in- dividual xircraft, -

"2. Starboard sub-formation" or aircraft.

and air taxi firms Zor an aggregate Exercises were also carried out mately 26,000 Four years ago tive sub-formations or individual of 4,000 hours of flying for these over Weymouth and in the neigh-the route mileage of the Imperial aircraft are to land has been pre-2 Port sub-formation or air

fair-lines was only 8,320.

viously arranged. exercises. The principal London bourhood of Bigginhill.

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