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AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.

BRITISH FLYING NEWS.

A NEW SINGLE-SEATER FIGHTING MACHINE.

Thus equipped and with full ser vice load on board the 8.8.19 sus tained a speed of 194 miles an hour fa official tests and reached a height of 13,000 feet above the ground in nine muter...

Other interesting performanco figares, similarly recorded by the R.A.F. test pilots, are, the speed LONDON, Feb. 24. Unexpected developments in the of 170 miles an hour at ground future of air fighting are implicit level, the steady increase in speed with gain in height as the super in the design of a remarkable new British single-seater fighting aero-charger fitted to the motor comes plane which has completed, in the into more and more effective action hands of Royal Air Force pilots, till at 10,000 feet the machine sus sceret tests at the Martlesham tains. 189 miles an hour and the Heath Experimental Establishment, comparatively low landing speed of

57 miles an hour, near Ipswich.

WAT

NEW BRITISH FLYING-BOATS.

SOME DETAILS OF THE

BRITISH AIR SERVICE BADGES.

FORMAL DISTINCTIONS

ADOPTED.

MR. ARNOLD BENNETT,

(Continued from Page 1.)

The objection, in social inter- course to this kind of unbending rectitudo is that it lends its pos- sessor into becoming ungracious or Officers of our mercantile air even unpleasant. by showing plain- e service are now to be distinguishedly when he is bored with his com- by badges analogous to those of pany."

the mercantile marine. Pilots in Arnold Bennett never shows that command of the air-liners of Im he is bored, because he never is. perial Airways, according to in-Some sort of seeret fund of amuse structions which have now, boon issued, are to wear two half-inch gold bands on the sleeves of their

lub uniformi

KENT CLASS.

Successful trial flights were made last month from the Rochever sea-

Second officers of air-liners- plane, base, Kent, with "Scipio," there of three new metal flying-pilote who although fully experi

bonts, each weighing 14-tons, and driven by four engines developing a total of 2,400 horse-power, which i

have been ordered by Imperial Air- ways, Limited, from Messrs. Short Brothers, Ltd.

encod and having had many hours in charge of smaller craft, are not yet entitled to take solo charge of a large, multi-engined machine -are to wear single half-inch gold sleeve-bands.

After having flown for five years in charge of Imperial Airways craft, pilots will be entitled to wear an eight-pointed gold star just above their sleeve-bands.

ment seems to well out of his own personality and sweaten every hour with fun for himself...

His Real Delight.

I once induced him to come for

and round Scotland. I enjoyed motor trip with man right through

every hour of it and I believe ho did the same. We had our talks: and adventures, and our dinners- and plenty of good fun I came to the conclusion that Bennett dit not like being driven too fast.

So on

one occasion I had the car speeded up till the indicator pointed to seventy-five miles an

During fifty hours of intensive This machine. the first of its kind in the world, is equipped with test flying the BS showed no no fewer than six machine guns sign. of strain or stress though it instead of the two guns normally was put through every known aerial fitted to similar one-man maneuvre including power dives at 'planes. Two guns are placed in more than 320 miles an hour. Not a single repair was needed to the grooves at the sides of the fuse lage, arranged with synchronising structure of the machine Pilots gear to fire through the disc swept remarked on the unusual ease of by the airscrew; four other guns control of the aeroplane, the robust- are mounted in the wings just out-ness and rigidity of its structure, side the airscrew radius, the bar- the case of maintenance, in strenu rels projecting a few inches from ous day by day flying, and the the front edge of each of the upper good view in all directions com flying-boats of the same manuine-between two half-inch gold bands never mentioned the incident again..

and lower wings.

At the will of the pilot these six guts may be fired simultaneously, throwing out a continuous "cone of fire." the guns being sighted to converge on a target some han Little im dreds of yards away.

bined with, unusual comfort in the cockpit.

STREAM-LINES.

When they pak into service these new ying-bonts, which will he the largest British marine-type passenger aircraft yet constructed, will be placed on the Mediter- ranean sections of the Imperial Airways routes to India and Afrien, The machines epitomise all that has been learned-nad such lessons have been extremely valuable-in operating 3-engined "Calcutta "

Pilots who have risen in the hour. Company's service till they are at I held on grimily-o did Arnold. the head of a group of pilots fly ing in any of the divisions along Hennett. He would not speak a main routes, are to be distinguish-word of caution. The pace grew ed by wearing three gold sleeve.

terrifying na the road wound bands.

through the valley.

Station superintendents of In- to be distinguished by a quarter perial Airways of the first-ofag ATG inch white cloth sleeve, band in

I decided that the game was up, and the speed was reduced. He

But when we got back to town a hook beautifully bound and splendidly illustraz ed. On the frontispiece is en- graved a tominstone and on it is written, "In memoriam of the Scotch escapade. Hie jacet *3. m.p.h."

ture on the Mediterranean link of while second-class station superin

he sent me tendents will have one half-inch the Indian airway. These 3-engined gold band sewn over and immedi bonte, during their period of serately below a quarter-inch white vice, have proved admirable craft cloth band. The work of these alr from a commercial point of view, way station superintendents is analogous to that of a purser in In shape the acroplane is beauti-hoth in the air and on the water.

the mercantile marine, . ful and "clean," its lines recalling Their metal construction has been Station and flight engineers in

agination is needed to realise the the Gloster VI, monoplane built

deadliness of fire concentrated in for the Inst Schuicider Trophy con- this way by six guns on a target test. It will probably be seen for fairly located near the focal point the first time in public at the next on which the guns converge. Dam-annual R.A.F. Display, due to be age done would undoubtedly he held in Hendon Aerodrome in June. terribly serious, even if the stricken machine were not literally disinte- grated by the storm of hullets.

NEW WEAPON OF AIR

.. DEFENCE.

1.

SEVEN THOUSAND FLYING

CLUB MEMBERS. Latest statistics of the operations during last year of British light aeroplane clubs, collected by Major Oliver Stewart, demonetrate in no incertain fashion the importance of these organisations in the growth

vice.

broidered five-pointed star.

..

"Arnold Bennett's real delight,.

eminently successful, while their possession of one ground engine-however, i. in yachting. There wo Bristol "Jupiter" engines, haveer's licence are to wear a gold-em- can rarely come together becauso rendered consistently reliable ser- they have gained two ground-en-we est quite different kinds of is this. gineers' liconess, they will be on-food. The distinction titled to wear a couple of stars. When he embarks on my yacht L If they have three or more ground engineer's licences they will have give him the kind of food he likes one gold band sown on, but below, while adhering to my own. But of

quarter-inch light blue cloth his own yacht he will not give me. band.

anything except his own dietary. And he prefers his own yacht to mine,

The new machines, of which "Scipio" is the first, and which nre also driven by “Jupiter" en- gines, are considerably more power fut editions of the "Calcutta" type. Not only will they have an improved commercial performance, but their factors of safety and reliability will he still further in-

creased.

Engineers who are in possession of three or more ground engineers' licences, and who have served ten years with the Company, are to be distinguished by two gold bands with a quarter-isch, light blue band between them.

WORLD'S LONGEST

AIRWAY.

Arnold Bennett has always been a pretty keen politician. I should' ray that his brand of Liberalism; was very much that associated with the name of Mr. Lloyd George. That makes it the more curious, that when he wrote an article during Lloyd George's war Premiership: declaring that the existing Minis iry was collapsing and must be re constructed, he laid it down as a condition that the new Government. should not contain Mr. Lloyd section of the Imperial Airway George in any capacity whatever. Londor-Capetown route left Croy don on February 29.

OPENING OF CENTRAL AFRICA SECTION,

The first air-mail from London on the 2,670 miles Central Africa,

The single-seater fighting aero plane is primarily the weapon of

Speed 100-130 M.P.H. air defence. It is the most effec- tive answer to the air raider, and of aviation.

Capable of attaining a top speed the controllers of London's air

In 'round £gares, the number of of 130 miles an hour, and cruising. defence have therefore paid much

flying club members is now 7,000 at 100 miles an hour,, the new attention to the development of

and club aeroplanes total about, one ( 4-engined boats will carry a paying this type of aiveraft. British inven-

hundred. The highest aggregate fond of 7,500 lbs. as compared with tion and research directed to the

of flying hours is recorded by a pay-lond of 4,420 hs. in the perfection of the interceptor fighter National Flying Services, whose 13-engined "Caleuitas.”

a single-senter of high speed and sachines flew in 1080 no fewer than A feature of the new craft, and rate of climb intended to ascend 143 hours, but this figure, achiev- one devised to cope with growing at brief notice to intercept enemy ed by a big, organisation control- mail-loads on Empire air routes, is raiders-have resulted in the proting several clubs and interested in that in addition to seating 16 pas for India and Africa, the mail maing obscure to me. I am sure it duction of machines which are the other flying activities, is not strictly sengers in a large and woll equip swiftest and most efficient military comparable with the records of inped saloon-which will have con craft yet in service in the world, dividual club. Nevertheless the reniently-placed tables between the outstripping the best service aero- planes of any other nation by forty lying time is notable, representing armchair seats, and shaded electric an hour in sheert a conservative estimate one lights above each passenger's head they will have a large compart speed and climbing at a rate whigh million miles of distance covered.

Typical of the inherent energy ment in which there will be space leaves all competing craft far be hind. Now, in this new "multi-of the club system are the satis for more than tons of urgent gunfighter the defence Against ties of activity recorded by the mails. nis attack receives fresh, accession Lancashire Acroplane Chuli.

or fifty miles

This

Engine noise will be reduced to a

At Cairo, the airway junction

transferred to

were

The reason for thin hostility re-

Practical Capacity,

A big was not caused by prejudice or any Atmatrong-Siddeley aircraft which personal issue. And yet I cannot took them on to Khartoum. Here any that Arnold Bennett ever really they wore placed on board & Short flying-boat, and flown on above the succeeded in explaining to mu why the shores of Lake Victoria, in politics. rivers and lakes to Mwanza, onthe objected to Mr. Lloyd George's Tanganyiga territory, the tempor ary terminus of the Central Africa,

At the beginning of 1918 Aruola, soctor of the airway.

The air-mail was due to reach Bennett came to serve in a junior Mwanza, 5,114 miles from London, capacity in a Ministry of which i in 9 days, as compared with the

was the head. He showed such re 24 days of surface transport, The cost of sending a half-ounce lettermarkable gifts for administration by air-mail from London to Tang that in the, end, he rose to ba

Territory, including the

of strength; such a formidable wes.hody has 279 members, 65 of whom minimum in the passengers' saloon nou must, indeed, exercise considerare qualified pilots. It possesses owing to the use of sound-insulat nhle deterrent effect on an enemy are light biplanes, one "fothing material between the saloonariul surcharge, is only: 7d. while Deputy Minister there. This work who may contemplate air raids in and four "Avians, and flying covering and the outer skin of the

bull. hours during 1930 totalled 1,538.

some future conflict.

Though it is not quite so, speedy as Britain's fastest single-senters the new multi-gun" fighter, dea pite its heavy load of guns and ammunition, is able to move in level flight at a speed of nearly 200

to Khartoum the combined postage brought hini iate some kind of per

was

no

and air fee is bd.

sonal touch with Lloyd George, yet When the remaining sections of In addition to its passengers, the African airway are in opera none the less-and contrary to the 35,000 MILES PER MACHINE | mails and fuel load, each flying- tion it will be possible to accom- usual precedent-there

boat will carry a pilot, pilot.plish an air journey of 8,000 miles softening of his attitude towards : PER ANNUM.

from London to Capetown in 1

the Prime Minister. navigator, wireless operator, and a days, as compared with 17 dags steward-the last-named presiding by surface transport, over a fully-equipped refreshment

The Midland club, with head quarters near Birmingham, has 443 | miles-an-hour, and to operate at members and did more than 1,100

heights up to 90/100 fest.

hours dying on four aeroplanee,

+

buffet.

Lloyd George himself a per- Ground Organisation. fectly aware of this hardness of. The Imperial Airways trans tone on the part of the novelist African route is the most complete. But he did not resent it. Just behind the pilot's cockpit, ly-organised of its kind in the

He was

as difàre, he said., tent. The Scottish Flying Club realised in the front of the hull, is a wire world. Along the 5,700 miles be-

tween Cairo and Capetown Aro 27 Arnold Bennett had remarkable THREE MILES HIGH IN NINE

1,415 houre, divided among four less compartment equipped with an

main sorodromies and 30 subsidiąty MINUTES.

neroplanes, and 136 flying and non-installation which will give the alighting points, many or they gifts for public service, and he was flying-boat, while in the air, or having had to be cleared in content to use them, leaving the Styled the 8.8.19, the machine is flying members.'

ad many as 17' wireless stations I can prove easily enough this The aircraft employed at these wireless range of 150 miles. Ai hdr of virgin bush, while personal question aside the latest product of the Gloster Aircraft Company, which has conclubs, though engaged in the ardu. telescopic aerial will also be fitted, have been installed. At no time, Jack of resentment? For when at ous work of tuition most of the enabling the machine to transmit while in flight along any section

of the airway, will the big 3. the end of the war I recomm structed during recent years more than 300 single-seaters for the time and necessarily making count messages when resting on the surgined aircraft be out of wireless Arnold Bonneft for a knighthood, touch with and stations. At the Premier instantly concurred number of the alighting-pointe Royal Air Force. It is driven by less ascents, with the engine run-face of the water.

The two other new four-engined where night halts will be made, and agreed to forward hieromet a supercharged radia) 480 h.p.ning near full throttle, demonstrat Bristol "Jupiter" air-cooled motor. od fine trustworthiness. For exam ying-boats, in addition to "Beipio," Imperial Airways have established Im placed before the King

hotels and

That Arnold Bennett did not be- Around the engine, at its greatest ple, the three aeroplanes belonging are of the same "Real" class, completely-equipped diameter, is placed a Townend ring, to the Cinque Porta Club averaged and are to be named "Satyrus "rest houses for the convenience of come a knight is due primarily

passengers. The ground organisa.. and Sylvanus." the British device which causes during the year 17 hours each, a

When they, and the now marked reduction in the consider: total of individual flying time repre- able resistance to forward, move-senting a distance of 35,000 miles. passenger Handley Page machines, ment through the air of this kind The Scottish club's aeroplanes aver-in commission, Imperial Airways of engine, in which the cylinders aged neatly 233 hours each, the will have a fleet of 34 aircrafts,

Bristol and Wessex Club 320 hours.

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tion also includes hangars, workte Arnold Brunett himself He shops, meteorological departments, wrote a simple and dignified letter,.. and quarters for the airway staff. Many passengers are expected to with op attempt to be brilliant or make the aerial journey above funny or superior, in which he ex- Afrion in order to view the magni-pidined that his would rather that ficent natural and glimpses

from their lofty vlow-point.

The Dairy Farm, Ice & Cold Storage Co., Ltd. achte-like-the-spokes-of-a-wheel Liverpool, stub 331 hours and the developing a total of 45,117 horse. Petra for bonery, hey aim to his name, did not go forward for

from a

central crankshaft,

[power.

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