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WINDMILL 'PLANE'S WONDER THE NEW VICEROY OF INDIA.

FLIGHT. VERTICAL LANDING FROM 400FT,

AIR CHIEFS PRESENT AT

REMARKABLE TESTS. 2

The Be Hon. EF. Wood, Who has been appointed to succeed Lont Reading a Viceroy of India.

Mr. Wood lost his left arm when a youth, but he served in the War despite Sir Samuel Hoare, the Air Minister. this handicap and stands six feet two and the chiefs of the Ministry, at Far-inches Handsome rent rolls make him borough on October 19th witnessed trial a very rich man. His wife is also wealthy. fights with the new Auto-Giro aeroplane. About twenty years ago Mr. Wood in- Captain Courtney carried out the tests, herited from his aunt an immense and which were entirely successful,

most beautiful sporting and game estate The machine reached 70 miles an hout in Yorkshire, including the renowned man. with 500lbs. lond, and was easier to cension of Temple Newsam, which was hands- tral than an ordinary acroplane. Captained over to the Leeds Corporation three Courtney landed almost vertically about years ago for the nominal sum of £33,000. 400 feet from the spot over which its descent was first begun.

EXPERTS ASTONISHED.

DAY WHEN WE TALE LAND ON CITY ROUGE [By the Aviation Correspondeat of the. "Evening Standard."}

FARNBOROUGH. On the most remarkable air machine ever seen in this country Captain F. T. Courtney, the famous pilot, gave exhibi- tion flights to-day at Farnborough.

To say that he natonished the specta tors, whe included a large number of aeronautical experts, is to describe mildly the effect produced. When he wanted to innd he just allowed his machine to fall vertically from a height of about 100ft, and although it dropped with every ap pearance of hedding for a bad crash, it simply touched the ground at the end of the journey, bumped a little-and sat considerable Everyone knows that a area is required for the landing or the taking off of an onlinary aeroplane. The one we saw to-day landed so easily from

there.

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The Caurch and Agriculture have been Mr. Wood's special interests,

The Daily Telegraph recalls that Mr. Wood, when at the Colonial Office, toured the West Indira and prepared a valuable raport leading to medical and econoraïcal" development there. Mr. Wocil is a markaba example of what can be done in a decade of public life by dint of talent. patriotism and energy.--

A TYPICALLY HONEST ENGLISHMAN. A striking character sketch of the new Viceroy appears in the Sunday Timex by. Mr. T. P. O'Connor, who says that Mr. Wood is one of the picturesque figures in the House of Commons. He is unusually tall, being some inches over six feet and his modesty and reserve are especially noticeable.

He takes an intensely serious view of life, but can crack a quiet joke. He has. a beautiful, almost a boyish smile, and is approachable "with all his air of cold dignity.

He is not a very fuent and not a bril liant speaker, but is always heard very

The breakdown of the Black and Taa" policy in Irelinal way be attributed to him and the Archbishop of Canterbury. expressing the general distrust felt in the House of Commons of that policy.

A height in such a small space that onettentively in the Commons. He has often visualised the time when machines will be influenced debates and the whole temper. able to realise for us the ambition of of the House. flying to and from crowded buildings with flat roofs.

The Air Minister, Sir Samuel Hoare. watched with great interest, and so too did Air chief Marshall Sir Hugh Tren- chard and Air Vice Marshall Sir Geoffrey Salmond, in addition to the chiefs of the Royal Aircraft Establishment.

THE 1ST DESIGN. The Auto-Giro, ne it is called, is the invention of Senor de la Cierva, who for many years past has been investigating

the problem

Mr. Wood is the typical honest English- man. Politically he is a Whig uniting in himself the traditions of great.hirth and a keen regard for popular liberties.

He is very discreet and slow. in his speech and careful in committing him- seif, probably because he feels so strongly If u that his word must he his bond. sympathetic, attempt to understand and Not until he had evolved thirty designs courteous way of approaching, or being and tested them did he produce the ex-approached, can settle & diffienity he is

the

an for the task. perimental machine that was dying to

He will be able as Viceroy as he will day. And a most unusual structure it is. One cannet call it either a helicopter or converse freely and frankly with even the an aeroplane, but it approximates and be able to reach viewpoints entirely enthusiast and fanatic, perhaps an enemy. much more to the former than to anything different from his own.

else.

An old Avro was acquired, and this was modified by taking away the ordinary wings and fitting one of small surface; There is an ordinary acro engine and undercarriage, but surmounting the whole thing at the top is a high central column of four vanes like those of a windmill.

man

creeds, a sense of the moral superiority Above all, he will give to all races and of the thorough English gentleman, one cf the finest embodiments of character that rules the British Empire more than

swordis,

Lady Dorothy Wood in a worthy heiress of the same high traditions as her hus band.

These vanes revolve horizontally, while the machine is driven by an ordinary pros peller. There is no motive power for the

INDIAN NEWSPAPERS' COMMENTS.. vanes, and once they commence to revolve Commenting on the appointment of the they continue to do so by the action of Viceroy Elect, the Stuferma says the the wings as the machine drives along. Rt. Hon. E. F. L. Woodcomes equipped On the Auto-Giro as used to-day the with a combination of qualities likely to vanes are not provided with any self-carry him far into popularity with the starter, nå would he the case eventually, peoples of this land,"

and to make up for this the expedient The Englishman states that Mr. Bald- had to be resorted to of winding the e pro-win has indeed chosen wisely in selecting jections of each vane with wire.

a man "in whom a kindly tolerance and a profound Taith in human nature and fervent idealism are perhaps the most dominant characteristics.'

Half a dozen men running out with this wire set the vanes revolving on the same principle that one spins a top with string

At the same moment the pilot with ordinary propeller whirling in front takes off. He does so after a short run, and then the machine, with its vanes revolving at about 140 revolutions to the minute, flies round,

SAFE LANDING IN FOG.

It was good to see this, novel machine flying about Laffan's Plain, and nothing apparently could have been more stable The revolving vanes, in fact, gave so much stability that it is now considered un necessary to have ailerona.

Captain Courtney made several flights," in which he was able to demonstrate the remarkable case of landing. Captain Courtney has overcome whatever anxiety

The Nationalist paper Amrita Basar Patrika maya: "Nothing is known against him and that is saying a good deal"

observer a greater opportunity of watch- ing For bombing purposes it is also of It could be used in the Navy with great greater utility than the normal machine. success, and it would be able to land on the deck of a ship with ease.".

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he may have had at the outset. in testing perinl Airways (Limited), a new Handley. THE BARBER ASPHALT

so novel an air machine, and when he came down he told me that there would be no doubt a maching so fitted is very mucit safer than an ordinary aeroplane in and ing because of the revolving vades ensur ing stability.

,,!!་! ༈ With a machine like this," he said. you feel that it would be easy to come straight down, and land in the ing

Page aircraft, fitted with three air-cooled Siddeley-Jaguar engines of 400-hp. each, in place of the twin water-cooled installa tion of the previous types, was handed over to Sir Eric Geddes, the chairman, last month."

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Captain W. G. R. Hinchcliffe demon- trated the increased reliability which is obtained by e use of three engines.

INVENTOR SATISFIED.

At a height of 5,000ft. he stopped ond Senor de la Cierve, the inventor, was emergency the machine could continue its of the engines, showing that in cast of well satisfied with the results of to-day journey on only two engines. He restart- This is an ordinary Avre," he said, ed the engine in mid-air by diving slightly. "which aas been adapted for the purpose, This new machine is the latest "in and it is taking an extra load of about passenger-carrying craft," 500lbs. It has, however, the defect of a Geddes in an interview.

said Sir Eric model, and there will be many improve ments when a complete machine is built. the development which will make night!

It makes dying much safer, and it is My claim is that it gives the same flying succesful and safe. performance with this attachment as an ordinary aeroplane loaded for commer-if at any time in fight one of the engines "The advantage of three engines is that cial purposes.

But there is the great should fail the other two are powerful advantage of absolute safety, for if the enough to take the "plane home. If two engine fails the landing can be made with fail the remaining engine will take the out trouble. The machine comes downplane safely to ground. practically vertically. It is, practically The new machine is the natural speaking, a helicopter, but not entirely, development of civil aviation. It is the for it requires a short run before taking first of a number of similar machines off. It rises much quicker, however, than which will be added to the Imperial Air- an ordinary aeroplane, and is able to ways fleet." bover overhead when conditions are favourable."

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