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THE PILOTLESS PLANE,

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AN AFTERNOON IN A TYPHOON RECALLED.

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Some, prars ago it was during the war-1-happeued to the single passeuser on one of B. & S.'s ships emning up from Hongkong.. and we were in a typhoon. The man who tells you that he would like to be in a typhoon in the China Sen, because she is fond of a little rough weather, at sen, is either a fool or a liar. Personally, I am a good sailor, but when

1 Is the typhoon signal ap cancel my passage The trip that I have in mind was not, therefore, bewilderingly pleasant to me, as you can imagine. had drunk all the, drink the ship caprio (I believe), and began to look around for something prostable to do to pass the uncomfortable time away, when the skipper, came along and asked me whether could keep a secret.

* Wel, how could I tell?

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scarcely knew what to answer, but yelled out in the face of the wind that I would try, and as the said 'skipper was slightly deaf my gell in his ear lost the tick to the raging gale. So I asked him -to step inside the saloon and there se.

cessfully rated my message that would do my best. He didn't say a word, but merely cocked his right eye, and had nu follow him.

MYSTERIOUS BUNDLES,

I see that this pilotless neroplane can by made to take off automatically and climb into the air with as much certainly as if a pilot were aboard, by the air pressure of its motion setting small two-bladed screw revolving. As soon as the forward motion causes the screw to revolv at a certain number of revolutions a minate, it operates a gear which inclines the rear levators as an angle which causes the machine to gise gradually. When it has attained some pre-determined height, an

ther automatic device checks its ascent and sends it forward on a horizontal path So far as 1 remember this was the

ever scheme explained to me, and for the sake of that sceptical skipper of the China Coast I hope that his is the iden that

asis of all this official has been the investigation and experiment, and that he will get fall credit therefor-in other words. I hope that the idea has not been stolen from him in the way that he feared I might have stolen it from him while I was enjoying the hospitality of his, cabin

QUESTION OF ALIGHTINO,

The question of alighting has caused great worry to the inventor, I believe. Well, wireless has now solved this pro- bem, and the machines will be able to alight quite safely, and with no fear of damage to anybody or anything. As the plany nears the aerodrome in opera

signal which tor on the ground taps out causes & wire weighted at the end to un- roll itself from the bottera of the plane. The weight at the bottom of the comes in contact with the surface of the aerodrome some seconds before the aeroplane itself touches the ground and causes the controls to set themselves for a smooth and safe landing.

In une of

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reads the report from which got my information, it is understood that these aeroplanes could be loaded with high explosives, which they would disgorge at some predetermines spot."--precisely what the skipper said.

I suppose, however, that the idea will now be worked out to workable efficiency and will become one of the factors of the But as I read about it I could next war. not but feel regret that the British War Office did not net when the thing would have been of some practical benefit. As I listened to that imaginative skipper, us the typhoon roared through the rigging. I felt that he had something that was

Facing the roar of the wind and the rain, we made our way to his cabin, where he brought forth from a gigantic drawer certain mysterious looking bundles, which he proceeded to unwrap. But first he took another look at . repented his question, received a fairly assuring reply and again fell to untying the many pieces of red tape with which these several parcels of documents were reinforced. and laid out on his table blueprints and originals, letters from everal modern governments, memoranda and so forth. He did not at once disclose what this all meant; however. Laying his large-nauti-worth much to his country. I personally cal hand on the papers to prevent them could not understand it, because my mind from being whirled into the Pacific and does not run along mechanical lines. But probably getting into the hands of the enemy, he said to me, slowly and with deliberation.

Do you know that 1 believe that could win the war in a--month!" believe it was a month that he said).

As I gave no sign, but sat on in in. decipherable amazement. he asked me whether I was interested. Interested why, I was all ears. But he kept watch ing me pretty closely. At last he un-. wound himself, with considerable enthusi asm and showed me what, was or his mind. Personally 1.have never been able to do much with my hands, and could not, therefore, appreciate the multifarious wonders that these plans embodied. But remeinher they related to some mar- vellous upe of pilotless, planes, which could be manufactured for nest be mos thing, which needed no human factor to take them over to Berlin, and that you would be able to get them together by

have imagination, and I could sense the truth of that invention as a practical reality in the imagination of that genial seafarer.

Pilotless planes will now.become a com- mon affair in warfare, but so far is 1 know the idea belongs to the Chinn Corst either to Shanghai or Hongkong for that enthusiastic skipper, was rqually at home in both ports, of course,

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The very interesting article in your issue of May 21st on the subject of paddle-steamers, while it touches on inany of the best-known and best-loved of this class of steuner, omits mention of one of the oldest paddle-steamers in the world-the str. Kiangfun although she, too, will have gone the way of most of her kind by the time this letter reaches you.

Although in Shanghai there appears to be some doubt as to her exact origin it is generally understood that the Kinng. jo, a vessel of 2,330 tona gross, was originally intended as a Mississippi

1 remember also that as he unfolded steamboat; that her

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all those papers and plans and proceeded but never assembled,ball was constructed; CHILDREN'S FÊTE

with great care to explain it all to me, I was belogged, and as the wind roared through the rigging and around his snug cabin, and as we two sat there drink ing the very last drink on the ship,-ah. I thought, what wonderful fellows these seafaring people are, to be sure.

As I write I can see those plans and all the tiny lines and the dots and the hooks and the hangers, but for the life of tue I would not be able to give the simplest description of that wonder plane that was going to win the war in

But the skipper was not quite su

was not quite such a fool as I looked, and

and "that the component parts of her shell were purchased by Russel & Co. then engaged in the China trade, in 1872 It is, however, fairly certain that in that year she was packed into a sailing ship and transported to Shanghai, where she was assembled and given engines by the Shanghai Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., her name being in those days, we under- stand, Nankin.

"The remarkable thing about this wonderful old vessel is that she was placed on the Yangtaze service between banghai, and Hankow (and at times &

mont He probably thought that little higher up the river) in 1874, and be kept asking me if I could keep the that she continued in the service, without secret. Why, all I could do was to sit ang appreciable break except for weer hauling, till 1924, record which must back on bis settee, feeling slightly mellow-be unequalled anywhere in the world ed, with my gloss in my Rand, and gaze "When the China Merchants' Steam in wonder at that master inventor who was prepared to run ships up and down Navigation Company came into being, the the Chinn Coast even in typhoons, and, but no change was made in the Kiangfoo was acquired from Russel & Tould win the war in a month

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I fancy, however, that this idea ha method of ber employment, and though been shown to the British authorities, and it scented that she would go on for over, also to the American, but

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time the frailties of old age have at last over- nobody was prepared to entertain it to taken her and she has just passed into the point of undertaking the necessary the bands of the shipbreakers. She wan experimentation to prove that the war both an antiquity and a curiosity. She. could be won in a month. But in the saw all of the old tea clippers, including War Offices of the world men in charge of the Cutty Sark and other famous ships, things are notoriously unimaginative, and regularly brought down tea from the and many of them are like I was-didn't Yangiate parts wherewith to load them; know anything about it, and their in she was the first and the last paddle- tellect unlike mine, I hope, gets befogged steamer on the Yangtze in regular ser., in dull, routine.

vice; and although she was one of the slowest steamers on the river, she was for But, as

was reading my newspaper very many years one of the most popular. last night, I came across the message Her engines were in themselves & curio that in London at the present time there sity and had never been changed since seems to be a good deal of oficial in- she was built; the steam pressure generat. terest in an idea almost identical to that ed was only 9 lbs., and she was started, which appeared in the imagination of that reversed and stopped by means of the B. & S. skipper back when the war was old poker arrangement, operating on at its height Experiments are being a battery of gigantic toes. energetically pursued, I read, by the re- "She was worthy of a permanent place search departments of the British Air in a national Chinese museum, and it Ministry into the perfecting of small seems a pity that so interesting a link especially. But even now nothing of her or in her will be wasted. Her engines motor-driven pilotless aeroplanes for war with by-gone days, and one which, can fare uses. Research shop experiments, so never be replaced, should be lost for all will still be used as engines, possibly va I understand, show that it is possible time. Of course, bad she not been owned another ship; such of her timbers as give for one of these small machines to be con- by Chinese, she would have gone to :ibe promise of a little service afloat will be trolled in fights extending for 100 miles by wireless signals from land signals, in crap-beap 20 years ago but the Chinese accorded that service, and it is a moral have an ingrained idea that good luck certainty that all of her fittings will be precisely the same manner 8.9 Wattaches to all old things-ships and eggs fore long grace some other vessel flying

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