1941-07-22 — Page 21

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 22, 1941.

MUTT AND JEFF

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NEW INLAND SEA

In a valley where once herds of game drank at the river's edge; and the transport rider and trad er outspanned their wagons. 211

known as

the Vaalbank

Dam,

NEW 'PLANE

FLIES ITSELF--

WELL, ALMOST

(By Albert D. Hughes)

I DON'T KNOW how to fly. But I took an aero- "inland sea" covering 60 square plane off the ground at Newark, turned over the miles has been formed. It is controls long enough for the real pilot to get some largest irrigation project in the altitude, and then did a very passable job of pilot- southern Hemisphere. It lies being the ship across Long Island and the Sound to tween the Orange River State and Transvaal, about

the Connecticut shore. miles from the town of Vereenig- ing.

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This giant dam has been con- structed across the Vaal River at a cost, logether with other sub- sidiary works, of £4,000,000 which the Rand Water Board con- tributed £500,000. The dam wall is 1,900 feet long and 169 feet high, and when filled to capacity after seasonal rains the resulting lake will be 90 miles long and 131 miles across at its widest point near the wall.

There with the weather thickening a bit and with darkness falling fast the pilot took over and brought us into New Haven where I caught a train for Boston I would have been unable to catch in time in New York.

To Speed Training

sident of the company, a veteran Charles W. Sutherland, Pre-

pilot and well-known in aviation circles, told me without local

any reservations that he could toke a casual passerby off the street and with an hour's train- a sporting he would be able to "solo"

The plane I was piloting gave me a real thrill of pride-local pride--for it is the first aeroplane to be built in Massachusetts in nearly 15 years. Oddly enough, it is being manufactured at the same plant at the Lowell Airport in South Lowell where back in 1926 the De Ravilland "Moth "' 'plane, was manufactured under a It is ex- licence from the English com-

pany.

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With Johannesburg only miles distant this dam will pro- vide a reserve water supply for the Reef towns, besides irrigu- tion over a large area. pec'ed to become a popular hali-; day and sporting centre for Inland' South Africa, and modern hotels and boarding houses

being built at the new township called Denysville. Reitz, Minister and author of "Commando.”

The lake, in common with all are frequenting the area.

are

after Col. Denys big dams in the Union, has been of Agriculture, declared a bird sanctuary. and already numbers of wild birds

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one of these planes. It the per- son could drive a car, Mr. Suther- land said he could not only solo, but also make perfectly banked turns after two hours. With ten hours' instruction, he told me, a pilot could make "spot" and pre- cision landings and begin to get the bang of judgment in distance, weather

speed phenomena, air and other factors that make "just" a pilot a "goni pilot."

With Professor Otto C. Koppen of Massachusetts Institute uf Technology, designer of the 'plane, Mr. Sutherland had a pioneer model built incorporating conclusions as to what a safe aero- plane should have. Beginning backwards, as it were. It worked startlingly well, too.

From this point they began to try and throw but many ideas, carefully scouted whatever "safety" plane designs there were, for the "faults" they might have and tried to avoid them in their own design. When the right time came-two years ago they got financial backing and used this money to perfect their design and work it up into a ship having eye appeal as well as good flying

characteristics.

When they got through they had a 'plane which, in the lan- guage of the CAA, to "charac- teristically incapable of spin- ning." It could take off and jand In a cross wind and handlad well on the ground because of Its tricycle landing gear. In take-off the flaps, give the added "lift" which aid the rise from the ground and in landing provide the "drag" which slows the landing speed and permits a rapid descent.

Present Price $2,500

In the air the 'plane is turned by its ailerons through the same control which steers the nose wheel of the tricycle gear on the ground. It is a high wing mono- plane for better, flap action, rents two in side by side arrangement and has suitable interior fittings and baggage space. The "Sky farer" translated to automobile terms, will give you more than 20 miles to a gallon of gas,600) `miles to a quart: of... oil, has a range of 850 miles and a cruising speed of 95 miles an hour. Slow- er, possibly, than other ships of the same type, but sacrificed for the safety features. At present the ship: retails for $2,500, but there is in very interesting story behind this

`. If it weren't for the war and the metal priorities, Mr. Sutherland told me, this plane could be worl ed down on a production banig' to about $1,000, At present there are | only" about 03, workmen at the

Lowell plant.

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