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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 19,
IMPERIAL AIRWAYS PLANE TO FLY ROUND THE WORLD
FIRST COMMERCIAL EFFORTS
British Imperial Airways plane will attempt the first world- girdling flight by a commercial clipper this spring, say reliable sources in Honolulu.
They state the plane. will start from London, travelling 26,000 miles via Australia, Hawaii and Canada and traversing both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
The flying boat is due in Hono- lulu in May or June, these sources declare, utilising Pearl Harbour as a base, with permission of the U.S. Navy Department.
The Cambria, which participated | în transatlantic flights lest summer in co-operation with a Pan Ameri- can Airways Clipper, is expected to make the unprecedented junket.
LAKE BASES
Sources outlined this itinerary: London to Australia, via India, across established air lanes; thence to New Zealand; thence northward via strategic British islands, in cluding Suva (Fiji), Canton (Phoe nix group) and either Christmas or Fanning, both of which are ap- proximately 1,000 miles southward of Hawaii
From Honolulu, they say the Cambria will proceed to San Fran- -cisco, thence to Vancouver and Montreal, spanning Canada by us- ing lakes as base points.”
The journey will end in London after a transatlantic flight.
On the New Zealand-Hawaii stage of the journey, the clipper will test the most feasible all-British route, said these sources.
3,000 MILES NON-STOP This factor led to renewed belief
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NOT A JOY RIDE. Not out for a joy ride. This picture shows the observer of a Naval seaplane of HLM.S. Shropshire sitting pretty but ready to hook on and got hoisted on board. This is a tricky job carried out at speed and the ship's bow wave, seen in the picture, has to be avoided. (Copyright)-
AIR FACTORY PRECAUTIONS
AVIATION IN THE FAR EAST
The next meeting of the F.K. University Engineering Society will be held in Room E of the Main Building, on Monday, March 21, at $.45 pm, when Mr. A. J. B. Moss, Civil Superinten- dent of Kai Tak Airport, will de- fiver à lecture on “Aviation-in the Far East,” illustrated with lantern slides. All interested are -cordially welcome..
GUARDING GERMANY'S AIR SECRETS
The intense secrecy in which the In a dozen sprawling airplane German authorities still find it de- here that forthcoming commercial factories, where the hammers Oi sirable to enshroud the develop❤ service across the south. Pacifc rearmament beat a 24-hour tattoo, ment of the air weapon in Ger- would be operated jointly by Ameri- inconspicuous guards are protect-many is revealed on perusal of can and British planes, similar to ing the secrets of American milithe annual "Handbook of Avia- the prospective transatlantic agreetary superiority in the air.
tion," published in Berlin and ment. The prospective route of the The government is taking ela-Munich. Cambria does not include any mid-borate precautions against disclos- oceanic base points used by Pan ures to foreign powers as it builds The reserve shown on the Ger- American Airways on its two up its land and sea air forces. man side is comparable with that Hawaii-New Zealand flights.
An eastern manufacturer of fast practised during the Great War. The Cambria is equipped for fiy-pursuit planes recently was
It is all the more striking when in ing more than 3,000 miles nonstop. mitted to show visitors from abroad the same book the most detailed The sources asserted official de-through his plant only after he had figures of the British organisation tails of the Cambria's journey will erected protective partitions shut-are to be found
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handbook. The second Distribu- Pan American has announced it No military machine of any tron of the Air Force contains will resume service to New Zealand character can be exported without three pages devoted to Great Bri- én completion of one of the new the permission of the army and tain. Every detail is given regard- flying boats being built in Seattle. navy. The first plane is expected to ***** be ready for test fights in March and will be placed in service to re- place the destroyed Samoan clip- per
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FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST
ing the sub-divisions of the Royal Air Force, the number of machines în a squadron, the number of sque- drons in a wing, and the “number, and exact geographical position of every command, together with its type and headquarters.
On turning to the German parti- culars under the same heading, the reader merely finds that "the Ger- man air arm comprises aviators or- Mother ganised in squadrons, groups and
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NO GERMAN FIGURES
No indication whatever is given as to the method of grouping, the numbers of the various units or their stations, and the whole of the German entry in this section takes up less than a quarter of a page.
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tives contains full particulars, of the number of British aeroplanes of the first line and reserve respectively, together with the exact numbers of each type, at home, abroad and attached to the Fleet It is added that by the end of 1937 the number of first-line machines was expected to be 2,050, and that the reserves would be doubled
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