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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1931.

AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.

THE SKYWAYS OF ASIA.

This Canadian territory, he states, is now being flown, practically as far north an the Arctic Circle. The leg between Winnipeg and the Twin A PRELIMINARY SURVEY.-1.Cities will take a letter mailed at Aklasik, almost within a snowball toss of the North Polo, to Buenos

LONDON LETTER.

A SERVICE AMPHIBIAN.

LONDON, January 18. The Royal Air Force have ae- Aires within three weeks, wherons quired a small twin-engined amphi- letter going by dog sled, railroad bious flying boat for specialised and steamship would take nine training of service pilots in navi- weeks to make the trip to Southgation and in the art of naviga

A new nots shatters the age-old silence of the jungle. A Chinese farmer straightens out from his rice field to peer into the sky. A Japancae fishermann touses impro America. The hook-up with Win- tional instruction. The aeroplane, entions aloft as a swelling roar dis nipeg will also make direct connec

д Baro "Cutty Sark" monoplanu turbs his questing cormorants. Intion with the Canadian service to arranged na a threo-seater craft short, aviation has come to the the west from the Manitoba capital with dual piloting control, has an Qrient, bringing with it new ideas

to Calgary and Edmonton. This exceptionally full equipment of and now opportunities.

service will later be 'ebntinued west | electrical gear and instruments, to Vancouver, as soon as the way is lighted.

From Rangoon to Mandalay, can he heard the drone of commercial aeroplanes heavily laden with pas sengers and mail. In Japanavia- tion is no longer regarded as & military science; it has taken on a new lease of life. Awakened China

Glover does not regard the Amerien-Japán air route as, improb able. "It is not an improbable route by any means," he declares.

He adds that: "With the conteni-

LONDON-CAPETOWN AIRWAY

OPENING OF NORTH AFRICA SECTION.

The 2,070 miles North-Africh sec tion of the Imperial Airwaya Lon- don-Cape Town air route will be opened for trafle on Thursday, March 8, when an inaugural flight: will bo mado from Cairo to Mwanza, Tanganyika Territory, the machine arriving at Mwanza on Monday, March 9.

The route from Cairo to Mwanza Wadi Haifn, Khartoum, Kasti, will be vid Aarint, Luxor, Asequun,

Malakal, Shambe, Juhn, Butinba, Port Bell, and Kisumu. The service will be operated weekly in encl direction.

The flight through from London to Mwanza will be accomplished in nine days, as compared with 24 days by surface transport. A re- turn flight from Mwanza will start on Tuesday, March 10, arriving ni Cairo on Saturday, March 14, and roaching London on Wednesday, March 16.

establish the first connection at The department from London to Cairo with this North Africa Bec tion, will be, on Saturday, February

to Mwanza is 5,114 miles.

has taken to the air and has thus plated trans-Atlantic service from normally provides space in an en-28. The total distance from London.

added another feather in her cap

which she has taken from the plume

of Western civilization.

Europe to the shores of the United States and direct connection by air from the Atlantic to Chicago, the Twin Cities to Winnipeg and North-west Canada to the Far East, mail from Great Britnin to the Orient will reach China and Japan two weeks sooner than by present

Air linea join Chosen. (Korea) with Japan and China. Siam, with its widely scattered centres of civilization, is preparing for rapid development of air-transportation. Forsin, a country of great distances and few highways, is looking to air-methods of transportation. craft to accomplish what the auto- mobile and paved roads have ac complished for other countries. In the Straits Settlements seaplanes, churn the waters where for cen- turies only junks held sway. "Singa- pore boasts of the only light sua plano club in the world,

The "Cutty Sark" is the smallest of a family of flying boata, obtain able also in amphibious form to. operate from land or water, which are being developed by Saunders Roo, Limited. It is powered with two 120 h.p. air-cooled motors and closed cabin for a pilot and, three passengers. Seven of these wa chines are operated by private flyers, who employ them as nir yachts, and by air line companies in parts of the Empire where lar ger machines would be uneconomi. cat in the present suite of air

transport.

The machine acquired by the R.A.F. is considered peculiarly suited to navigational instruction

because it may be flown indiffer- ently over land or water, while costs of operation are low.

"The post offer departments of both Canada and the United States at the recent conferences have given the proposition careful study and do not intend to stand idly by and, permit this opportunity for direct hookup with the Far East to be supplied by any other coun tries than those of the Unitedly States and Canada."

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The largest yet built of the fami- called the "Cloud," ranks among the most powerful, amphi- binns in the world. An amphibian at this type, fitted for use as an nir yacht to the order of its Cane dian owner, Mr. Robert Holt, was

Mails and freight will be carried through from London to Mwanza, but at first passengers will not be Prior to the putting on service 6aried South of Khartoum. of the new 38-passenger Inndley Page air-liners, the European sec tion of the route will be operated by machines of the Armstrong Siddeley

"Argosy type, while Short Calcutta" flying boats will be used on the Mediterranean section. The North-Africa section between Cairo and Khartoum will be flown by "Argosice," and then

"Calcutta flying boats will carry

on

the route to Kisumu and

Mwanza, along the Nile and African-

Jakes.

The Orient has turned air-mind- ed, thereby opening a new and ex- tensive field for the sale of air- craft and equipment, Aeroplano manufacturers of the world are looking to the countries east of Suez for a rich harvest in this class of trade... Stern competition he is increasing. all the time. The Wales most of the way from Lon: be at Nairobi, Broken Hill Salis

developed with America, Britain, Francs and Germany striving to gain footholds in the business of aupplying the Orient with the means of flying..

Glover further stated that great progress has been made in civil aviation in Canada and that figures showed that the number of passen- gers carried on Canadin air. hospiloted recently by the Prince of don to Southampton Water and

og de

planes leaving Winnipeg flying at right for Regina, Metlicine Hat, back. Calgary and Edmonton are all carrying full passenger loads, he said. He declared that such was not the ease in the United States, where but few persons embrace the opportunity of flying by night. Canadian Railways Facilitate Pacifo Air Mall,

Foreign Trade. British aircraft form part of the equipment, of no fewer than twenty- four foreign countries, a fact to which attention is drawn by re- cent large orders received for ser vice aeroplanes from Belgium and recce. The hundreds of machines comprised in these air services in

With a realization of America's quick dominance of the automobile trade fresh in mind, other countries are moving rapidly to prevent a

The Canadian railways which repetition in the aeroplane industry. have already contributed so largely But American manufacturers have to the development of rapid trans- buen fully alive to the possibilities pacific communications have declude British aireraft of every type, in the Orient. At least six Amerifinitely entered the aviation arena in a rail air hook-up destined to become of the greatest importance te future Far Eastern communica

tions.

and it is estimated that no other nation in the world has supplied so large a number of service arro-. planes to foreign countries.

Much of this success is due to the durability and strength of the ying machines built in British

can air-craft corporations have ne- tually representatives in the field demonstrating American planes

By the endorsation of the and soliciting business. Other com Canadian Government, in a recent the Canadian panies have started correspondence Order-in-Council.

National Railways has been enabled with Orient trade representatives to participate with the Canadian to sound out market conditions, Pacific Railway, Western Canada factories. whilst the British, French and Ger. Airways, Lid, and the Aviation Corroration of Canada in the for- mans are not permitting the grass mation of a large company to be to grow under their feet. British, known as Canadian Airways, Ltd. French and Dutch are rapidly de. The Canadian National is purebas veloping the Southern Asiatic airing 10,000 shares of the capital stock of Canadian Aairways, Ltd., routes to the Far East and Aus-an investment of 50,000. The tralin, while the Germans and Canading Bailway is taking a

similar interest. Russians are concentrating on the Northern approach to China and Гарав,

Across the Bebring.

The United States is planning an extension of its air mail lines which will link the country with Canada then to Alnakn and on to Siberin and the Orient across the Behring Strait. The American. Post Office authorities have, made the necessary preliminary aeronautical studies and submitted a favourable report, but additional investigations are now being carried out. The line would be from Minneapolis to Winepeg. following the Mackenzie River into Alaska, and then across the Beh

The size and importance of the merger in indicated to some extent.

In turn the wide ex- pericne gained in supplying air. craft to every part of the world strengthens and assists the British designer and constructor in the production of aircraft still better equipped to meet the needs of mili tary and civil operators oversens.

Submarine 'Planes. Among the more unusual types by figures relating to the Western of service aircraft produced by the Canada Airways. Over 2,500,000 miles had been flown so far by the British industry are the small sea- planes of this company, operating planes built for reconnaissance in all sections of the country from work from submarines. Ontario to the Pacific Coast and

Considerable ingenuity is needed far north in the Arctic Circle, ano having visited the magnetic North in the design of an aeroplane Pole this year. The activities in which chall be seaworthy and off- cluded also transportation of over 40,000 passengers, as well as mail, cinnt and yet bs, small enough for express and freight services..

Sir Henry W. Thornton, of the compnet storage in the limited Canadian National Railways, and space available within a submarine. E. W. Beatty: President of the A successful craft of this kind in Canadian Pacific, have consented to the Parnall, "Peto,” a small two- become joint vice-presidents in the seater constructed largely of stain- new commercial air enterprise:

less steel, which has made long crui American Aviation Expert for

ses in one of the largest submarines Chirin

in the Royal Navy. The craft ring Strait into Siberia. Further The U.S. Department of Com is a biplane powered with an air- interest is evidenced in Pacific merco, keenly alive to the pos aviation by timt fact that the House sibilities of China as a market for cooled engine of approximately 180 Naval Committen is to select the American aircraft, has appointed horsepower and is specially fitted site of a new naval air base on the Mr. E. P. Howard, a special for catapult launching from the Pacific Coast to cost $5,000,000.

technical aviation expert with the submarine deck. Carrying a mili Present air mail visions of United rank of Assistant Trade Commis tary load of about 600 pounds, ex- States postal officials may be sinner, to the Commercial Attache's clusive of oil, and petrol, the small described without exaggeration as Office in Shanghai. Mr. Howard is craft is able to remain aloft for grandiose.

an expert aviation technician, flying two hours, extending by many Assistant Postmaster-General instructor, airport constructor and hundreds of square miles the area Glover, who recently returned to organizer of aviation schools. For which may be effectively reconnoitr Washington from-consultations with the past two years he has filled the ed by a scouting submarine.

Onco on board again the Poto" Canadian postal authorities de post of aircraft and engine inspec scribes the proposed air mail hook-tor in the Bureal of Aeronautics may be folded into a small space up between Winnipeg and. Minuca-in tho. Department. of Commerce and lowered into a tiny hangar addita Chine map within the submarino hull... The route to China and Japan, rid prompted by a desire on the part maximum sptea or the macam existing Canadian services from of the Commerce Department 110-miles an hour and a high-of- Winnipeg up the Mackenzie River, officials to aid the Chinese with: 5,000 feet, from which a wide ox through Alaska and across Beh their aviation problems-Far Eastpanse of sea may be swept, is reach ring Strait into Soviet Russia, ern Review.

ed in eleven minutes climbing.

The Acroplanes required on the North-Africa section are to leave London on January 17 and 24 to take up their positions on the route. is hoped that by May or June, 1931, the full 8,000 miles route from London to Cape Town will be in operation, bringing London within 11 days of Cape Town as compared with 17 days by surface transport. routo southward from: Kisumu will The main halting points on the

Bulawayo, Johannesburg, bury, Kimberley, and Victoria Weat Intermediate halts will also be made at other points.

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