1937-06-26 — Page 2

CONCES (THE CHINA MAIL, JUNIO 26–1997.

Berlin's famous Tempelhof Aerodrome is to be rebuilt and brought up to date in the near future. the architect's conception-of- the appearance of the new airport when it is completed.

IMPERIAL AIRWAYS' NEW SCHEDULES

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Many new schedules are being worked out by Imperial Airways to enable travellers to make pleasure voyages round the world by a bination of air and sea transport.

Travellers starting a tour from England can now accomplish the first stages of their journey by one of the new flyingboats. In this Here is craft they can fly across France and on over Italy to Brindisi, with an- other stage taking them across the Mediterranean to Alexandria,

New Gyroplane Amazes British Hard the end og bens

Air Experts

The Hafner gyroplane, which screw in front, driven by an engine, vancing side their lift created a sensation at the Royal as in an aeroplane.

Aeronautical Society garden party at Hayes, bears so close an out- ward resemblance to the

familiar

Common Problem

Here change from flying boat to land plane, continuing in stages till they reach Penang. At Penang

a change is made to a connecting route which flies across to Hong Kong.

For a trans-Pacific voyage travel- increases, lers have at their service the big and they hinge slightly upwards. flying boats of the trans-Pacific air In that brief moment each blade mail. Alternatively they can travel "attacks" the air more edgewise, and by boat. its lift is thus reduced. This

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They can then enter one of the and well-established autogiro that One problem was common to both, a national "feathering movement. big mail planes of the American many are curious to know the rea- The blades of a horizontally rotating As each blade returns to the op- trans-continental route for a flight son for the difference in their fly-rotor move faster through the air posite side of the machine, against to New York And after this a ing qualities.

on the side in which they are mov- the direction of flight, its relative final section of the journey can be ing in the direction of travel than speed is less, and it takes a lower made by ocean liner to England. Neither machine is a helicopter, on the opposite side. Thus they have path, "attacking" the air at a coar- for the rotation of their rotors does greater lift on one side than on ser angle and restoring the lift on not depend during flight on power the other, and this, unless correct that side.

from the engine. The rotors ined, would give lopsided lift. In the Hafner gyroplane also the A USEFUL

each case are started by the engine, but after the start they are declutch- ed, and thereafter they turn under the influence of the flow of air due to the machine's speed.

blades are hinged, and they are nor-

In the autogiro the blades are mally set at a neutral angle, so that hinged to an upright, and are free that when the rotor is started up to move to a limited extent up and it does not lift the machine. down and also forward and back.

In both types the machine's for- Owing to the greater speed of the ward motion is due to a normal air-blades when they are on the ad-

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Changing Flight

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NEW TWO. SEATER

Only in an open aeroplane can The upright pylon above the pilot's the real sensation of flying be seat of the autogiro can be slightly experienced, and the two-seater tilted in any direction, so that the "Tipsy" low-wing monoplane, in rotor may rotate on an inclined axis. which I had a flight yesterday on This is the means by which direc- the occasion of its first public ap-. tion of flight is changed. The au- pearance, has been produced in togiro is not ruddered in the ordin-recognition of this fact, writes an

air correspondent.. ary sense, and its controls are without the foot rudder bar of the ordinary aeroplane.

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The single-seat "Tipsy" is al- ready in use by many private owners. The two-seater appears In the Hafner gyroplane an

an in- in response to the desire for genious mechanism enables the an- sociability in flying. gle of the blades of the rotor to be Each occupant has a set of foot altered by the pilot operating two controls, out the joystick" is be- "finger tip" controls. These con-tween them, and can be used by trols can be operated separately or either. Thus the machine has most in combination, like the aileron and of the advantages of a dual-control elevator controls of an aeroplane. type, while at cruising speed the The pilot can vary the angle of the engine is not loud enough to blades in any part of the circle, vent conversation. which they "sweep" as they rotate.

Has a Rudder

The name is derived from the designer,” Mr. Tipps, and the machine was built at the Fairey Aviation Co.'s Belgian establish-

its

The machine has a rudder, but ment, and was shown at the com this may eventually prove unnecesex Mr. Brian Allen, ̈who,

pany's aerodrome at Hayes, Middle-

sary.

understand, is interested in i The blades are so designed that manufacture, was piloting it. in the event of any failure of the In its present form It is fitted pitch-changing mechanism they au- with a Czechoslovakian engine, the tomatically return to the correct Walter Kikron, of 60 h.p.30) angle for ordinary descent.

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Its speed range is about 124

The ordinary autogiro takes a 46 m.p.h., and it cruises at about short run before it leaves the 100 m.p.h. Its clean lines, makin- ground, and it can descend so steep for low resistance, will give it an ly that it has no forward run after economical running quality-mileage landing

3 at Jow Cruel cost. The machine.

would be usefulyam a siner as

A direct-lift autogiro has demonstrated and it is still being well as a tour developed. After having jumped off the ground it descends slightly be fore horizontal flight is begun. The Hafner gyroplane does not lose height between the vertical upspring Isations, Italy celebrated the 22nd an-

and horizontal flight, climbing flight.

By a national holiday and... parades of ex-Servicemen and Fascist organ-

niversary of her entry into the Great upward War, when she joined the Allies a

declared war against Austria