1936-06-20 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1936

AIR TAXIS FLYING INTO THE CITY OF LONDON

"ANTICER” TESTED

BETTER SAFETY

FOR PLANES

ICE FORMATIONS LIQUIFIED

To Be Fitted To All Machines

London.

An air liner fitted with an ap

paratus to prevent ice from form- ing on its control surfaces has been delivered to Imperial Air- ways here by the De Havilland

Company..

This machine is to be used on European air outes which cross

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regions were "icing" as ring of the North Atlantic in record time. Here she is seen using the new The airship Hindenburg recently completed a successful two-way cross- cently caused considerable dis-anchor-mast at Rhein for the first time. On the right Captain Lehmann is location of traffic.

observed superintending the landing manoeuvre.

If the apparatus proves as suc- cessful in actual use as it has shown itself in the laboratory, the Imperial Airways Company will have all its future machines fitted with the device.

Ice Is Liquefied

The principle of the Anticer isi

A DAY AT LONDON'S

AIRPORT

that it makes the ice which forms CONSTANT FLOW OF TRAFFIC FROM

on the wings liquefy." an official

of Imperial Airway said. “A mix-

ture of ethyl alcohol and ethylene

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DAWN TO DUSK

NINE-MONTHS OLD BABY

glycol is poured or to the leading With summer timetables now in operation, more than 60 edges, with the result that ce aircraft, inward and outward-bound, fly in and out of the Lon- liqueted and immediately blown don airport, Croydon, daily. These include newspaper carriers, away by the 'wind."

cargo-craft, specially-chartered planes, air-liners to and from the The Anticer, is under the con-Continent. services to and from destinations throughout the Em- | trol of the pilot. It can be work-pire, and fast air expresses of the British internal air routes. ed for five hours continuously, the Royal Aircraft Establishment. In the early hours of the morn-, which has been responsible for its ing the aircraft which carry news-- development, claims. It weighs 65 papers to the continent are taking pounds and employs three gallons on board their loads and vauish- of liquid. It is claimed for it that ing over the hills on their way to it can remove ice formations three the coast. An early arrival at inches deep in five minutes, and Croydon is a big German mail and that, if used before deep ice oc-freight plane operating on the curs on control surfaces, danger-aight service from Berlin. After our thicknesses of ice cannot this there are the departures of ΣΟΥΤΣ

jearly-morning passenger-planes

FLIES TO AFRICA

Among passengers on an out- going Imperial Airways service to Africa the other day was Geofrey Place, the nine months* old baby son of Mrs. B. T. Place. She was dying' out to Uganda to join her husband, who is in the Colonial Civil Service.

Prior to the air-liner's depar- ture Imperial Airways obtained,

and placed on board for this in- fant passenger, a supply of baby foods sufficient to last him dur- ing his journey out to Entebbe,

ing up

Speed The Watchword

Airway porters are ready to

HONG KONG to

STRIKING PROPHECY SINGAPORE

IN REPORT

ESSEX COUNTY PLANS FOR FUTURE

FAIRLOP PLAIN AS MAJOR TERMINAL

Air taxis to take to the centre of London passengers who have arrived at London airports, are forecast in a report prepared for the Essex County Council on "Air Planning in Essex," and published by the Council at 10s. 6d.

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The report by Messrs. Norman and Dawbarn. presents a striking picture of the near future the county studded with aerodromes of different classes, air ports, flying zones, and ra- dio stations.

"There is little doubt." it says, "that in later years a type of air vehicle will be devised probably with moving wings, cap- able of carrying passengers into the centre of London. Such craft, will no doubt be largely used as taxis to reach the main airports where it will not be difficult to set aside areas where they may land and take off. The possibility must not be ig nored in the case of marine airports.”

It is thought probable that, in country districts, such air- moving wing aircraft, as typified craft might be expected to land by the autogiro. will become cap-jclose to the houses of their able of landing actually inside the owners. The need would always the built-up areas of towns.jexist, however, for aerodromes ac- Operation to such small landing commodating repair and fuelling points would, no doubt, for long stations, garages, sales depots,

be confined to strictly licensed and instructional establishments- pilots, but it might lead to an

Airport Suggestions enormous development of short, With regard to controlled traffic, distance flying.

the report makes the following commendations:

RADIO WEATHER SERVICE

Project For East

African Coast

Experts of the Air Ministry and the Marconi Company have been visiting Mombasa recently, dis- cussing with officials the site for a powerful wireless station. This is to be installed in preparation for the commencement, year of the Imperial Airways fly- ing-boat route down the East Africa coast.

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Fairlop Plain, near Ilford, as the largest form of Class I airport and as a major terminal for the City) of London. The City Corporation have just decided to construct an airport there at a cost of £600,000. Next in importance Southend, where provision should be made for the extension of the present municipal airport site" to Class 1 dimensions.

Southend and Colchester to be re- lief airports to Fairlop. Class airport for Colchester, to serve North-East Essex, to be planned upon the Berechurch site. Final relief airports at Chelmsford and Bishop's Stortford.

For marine aircraft, Class 1 air- ports at Gravesend Reach, in the Thames, and, as at present ap-

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days by AIR

DORADO

ISPERING, ANNOUN

Fast four-engined air liners leave Hong Kong on Fridays, reaching Penang on Saturdays and Singapore on Sundays

At Penang connexion is made with the London- Brisbane route. Now operating twice weekly. This brings Hong Kong to within a few days of England and Australia

Fares: HONG KONG ✡:

Penang £30-Singapore £35-Brisbane £87-London £175

IMPERIAL AIRWAYS

AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES

MAILS PASSENGERS FREIGHT.

In addition to the wireless sta- proved, at the port of Harwich, Bookings & information from Imperial Airways" (Far East) Lid, tion, which will have directional

in the waters of the Stour and Or- well

Decontrolled Traffic

sidential districts.

NEW AIR BUREAU from the east, it is suggested,|

AT ZURICH

Operation

The future main lines of traffic

should be two, one to follow the Lea valley and the other the gen- eral line of the Thames. These

Inlines could be planned to avoid

the Fairlop local control area.

Suggested sites for Class 2 and; 3 air ports within 20 miles from Waltham Abbey,

How, Where, Why Of Ice for the Continent. 'A Dutch ser The experience with the Anticer vice leaves for Amsterdam. A big will, it is said, be of great service machine departs for Cologne. A to aircraft companies in general, French air-liner ascends for Paris..

jand position-finding apparatus as a result of the international air Other services are signalled out;

working on medium and short with regard to decontrolled traffic convention held at Amster-to Brussels and Lille. The traffic

wave-lengths, Mombasa is to have traffic, the space between the local dam last year. There it was decid-of the airway operates with the

a meteorological bureau which control areas should be available] ed to issue a questionnaire on ice precision one is accustomed to at

will gather data as to upper-air in all weather for the circulation formation to each airway company a big London railway terminus.

wind, strengths and other data of of air traffic. Sufficient space den, from Budapest, the big mimportance from a flying point of should be left to allow free cir- in Europe and to pool results. As soon as one aircraft leaves the

Eventually it is hoped to collect departure platform, another takes chines 3-gliding down and tax view. The Air Ministry and Mar-lculation of such traffic between f sufficient data

to the arrival platform coni experts are also visiting Dar-all the main centres of population to discern exactly, its place.

Among passengers inward-bound es-Salaam, with a view to provid-and the recreational, and re- how, why and under what specific

Inland Airways

by the Imperial Airways services ing similar facilities. conditions icing occurs on air- Here, now, is one of the fast ex-fare those who are completing craft. Little is said to be known presses of the British inland air-fights from various points, along to form when it could scarcely ways, bound from London up to the Empire routes. have been expected. Once formed, Glasgow. Then come machines ice on the leading edges and coa-joutward-bound for Paris, Zurich, trol surfaces of an aeroplane re-Rotterdam and Budapest. By the duces speed and lessens climbing Imperial Airways express services handle the luggage. Postal vans Special Teleprinter powers. The camber on the wings one can now reach Budapest for stand waiting for the mails. Cus may be altered and it often hap-Brindisi in a day's flying.tems and other officials are basily pens that ice forces an aeroplane] Passengers outward-bound at work. Speed is the watchword A new and luxurious air ter London, are down, sometimes to disaster. across the Empire mingle with of the airway, on the ground as minus and

Mechanical De-Icer

waiting room have those who are about to make trips well as in the sky. And soon the just been opened by the Swissair Broxbourne, Stapleford and Erith. The British chemical Anticer over the Continent. After flying motor-coaches are carrying incom- Company at Zurich.

The possibility of the use of Fair- has a rival in an American patent, from London across the. Channeling passengers up into the heart This is a mechanical method of in one of the big 4-engined air-of London.

At the opening ceremony Mr. op, if fully developed, for airship Mittelholzer described the efforts travel can be ignored. breaking up ice formations. Three liners, long-distance travellera] parallel inflatable

During practically all the houry Switzerland has been making to tubes that cross the Mediterranean by Bying-of the 24 this great Croydon air-assist the development of inter- BRITISH GLIDER stretch from the wing root to the boat to Egypt, and then continue port is now a scene of well-order-national air traffic. The results, wing tip are incorporated in aon to destinations in Africa, India,fed activity. Apart from the tasks he said, have been extremely en-

RECORD canvas apron that can be fitted Malaya or Australia Among the of the traffic staff and of the wire-couraging, particularly on over the leading edge of the wing.scheduled departures,

As soon as the pilot

ex-less and meteorological services, service between Zurich and Lon- sees ice presses for destinations in Scan-there are the duties of the skilled don. The new Zurich office is a

Flight Of 75 forming, be can inflate these dinavia as well as in other parts jengineers and

Miles tubes with compressed air.

craftsmen who central organisation for booking The of Europe; while every now and work in day-and-night shifts in seats. centre one is inflated alternately then a specially-chatered 'plane the sheds where the air-liners are with the outer ones. This causes will leave on an urgent flight. a rocking motion of the air which,

housed.

to avoid any possibility of errors So the day wears on-big motor- coming with great force as the coaches arriving

In the reliability of modern air in telephone messages. This tele- with fresh travel much depends on the skill printer is in touch with all air- craft speeds through

Manchester. the air, parties of passengers, and mail-and experience of the air-liner ports in cracks the ice and lifts it so that vans dashing up with bags of crews, and on the rapid, accurate connected by special devices to all prietor, of Matlock, set up a new Switzerland. It is also Mr. A. L. Slater, a garage pro- it is swept off by the air currents. letters to be air-borne throughout working of the wireless and wes-stations in

NEW SPEEDOMETER

are.

the

A teleprinter has been installed

SPEED SOMETIMES MILE A MINUTE

Europe possessing record in a British-made glider}

last month with a flight of 75 miles. He reached a height of 4,500ft

Europe or for thousand of miles ther services; but vital, also, is similar instruments. across this Empire

Night Freighter

the work of maintenance and over- haul which goes on in the big Now the air-liners of the out-sheds, and which ensures

that

ALL-WOOD "FLIVVER”.

He was launched from the bead-|

A new device weighing only 12 ward-bound evening services are every aircraft, when its turn pounds employs the inertia of a departing, and presently, with a comes

An all-wood Aivver" plaže quarters of the Derbyshire and pendulum in recording accurately drone from its powerful engines, smoothly-functioning a piece of sive of the motor, recently made Hill Farm, Great Hucklow, Derby- to take the air, is as weighing only 500 pounds exclu-Lancashire Gliding Club at Camp the true land speed of a plane big night freighter is winging its mechanism as human brains and a successful test flight in New shire, before 2 pan, and by 3.30

while it is in flight,

APPROACH OF ENEMY MACHINES

way from Croydon on its flight to hands can make it. Berlin.

All this outward-bound traffic has its counterpart in a stream off inward-flying 'planes. Early-morn- ing arrivals at Croydon are from such as Amsterdam and

Recent aviation patents include (cities

·U.S. MILITARY PLANES

Hampshire.

Baby Brown Loves Flying

ip.. had reached the East Coast.

He made a perfect landing at Gos- {berton; six ́miles north of Spald- ing. His speed at times was 2 mle a minute.”

This flight is nearly 20 miles longer than the previous best Eri-

a device which is claimed will de-Brussels. Then comes a big air-from Australia the other day was plane flight at tect the approach of enemy aero-liner from Berlin, followed by one "Baby Edward Brown, the 20 months. "He loves flying" says year in the same machine, the planes.

from Paris: Now an inland air months old son of Dr and Mrs. Ehis father.. express reaches Croydon from E. Brown."-

wt|Golden Wrenztekte Glasgow, its passengers effecting

Baby Brown will cross the At- A previous flight of 95 miles connections with services which

lantic by steamer to New York was made in England by Mr. G. E. The average value of U.S. mili-carry them to destinations on the senger, so far, to fly over the to San Francisco, returning to Club, on August 5, 1934, but the This infant is the youngest pas-Then he will fly, with his parents Colling of the London. Gliding ́tary planes built- last year was | Continent. ⠀

$20.221.

12,000 miles' route from Brisbane Australia by the trans-Pacific sea machine be used was of German From Switzerland, from Swe- to London.

zoube,

Iconstruction. ·

Among the arrivals at Croydon Baby Brown made a first aero-tish record, set up by Mr. P. G.

the age of six Robertson, of Nottingham, last]

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Peninsula Hotel, Hong Kong.

́~ 10 DAYS HONGKONG-LONDON

5) DAYS SINGAPORE-LONDON

TWICE WEEKLY

SERVICES FROM SINGAPORE

HONGKONG TO LONDON

£164.

KLM

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