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AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.

FROM LISBON TO PORTUGUESE AFRICA.

MR. EDUARDO BLECK'S ROMANTIC JOURNEY,

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A GYPSY MOTH TRIUMPH.

BRITISH FLYING NEWS.

AIRSCREWS OF VARIABLE PITCH.

HUGE FIGHTING DIRIGIBLE.

ABLE TO DESTROY A

FLEET.

LONDON, MAS 2.

Now York. America's newest Japan and Soviet Russia are fighting machine, the giant dirigi. among the Powers, which have re-bie Akron, now nearing comple ceutly acquired British variable tion, is described by General Wil Fow air travellers nowadays, pitch airscrews, built on the Hele-liam Mitchell, Chief of the United when the light plane trip across Shaw principle, from the Gloster States Air Forces during the war, the world is almost a commonplace, Aircraft Company. This remark as' man's greatest attempt to son: can hope to enjoy the thrills of able invention is the most success

quer the air. dying where no man has ever flown ful materialisation yet achieved of before to the extent described by an iden pursed by engineers for Mr. Eduardo Bleck in his vivid many years, and ranking with the account, of a journey of 12730 wing of variable camber and-area miles from Lisbon to Portugueses a development which from time "Guinea and Angola and back to Portugal, which he made in com- pany with Lieutenant Humberto da Cruz early this year.

He writes that in many places

to time is confidently expected to have incalculable effects on the fature of aviation.

Tho' vessel, which will be launch ed this summer, is one-third again a large an the biggest British dirigible and more than twice the size of the Graf Zepplin, ***

According to General Mitchell; it will be able to cross the Atlantis four times without refuelling, and at a reduced speed it will be able to circle, the globe on the latitude of New York. Built into the front part of the great envelope there

LONDON CLUES "MUST REFORMI

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club of

· JACK DIAMOND IN PRISON.

CHARGE OF SECOND, DEGREE ASSAULT.

DRIVER'S ALLEGATIONS OF " TORTURE."

Traditional Clubland was at its zenith in Victorian times, when such Intitude was inconceivable. A man went to his of an evening not necessarily to get away from wodien (long though the club has

· Jack been semi-humorously regarded as notorious

Logs")... Diamond, the Now York gangator a refuge for the much-married or chief, who last your vainly tried the unhappily married), but be cause there was no method of meet ing women in his own walk of life other than in clandesting and un- comfortable fashion or at halls and dinner-partics. To-day there are restaurants and dano-clubs, the tres and cinemas to be visited with

either scandal or a chaperon..

out

Vanished Mystery. With these altered conditions the clubs know they must compete no tively. Some few years ago they put up a negativo "form of com petition by, in many cases, abolish ing heavy entrance fees, lowering subscriptions, and clecting candi- dates without inquiring too closely into their qualifications..

to find a home in Europe, has been arrested it will be remembered and charged with a second degree BB- eault" on a lorry-driver who was transporting a load of liquor be.... longing to a rival.

Diamond was taken quietly from his home at Acra by...the Sheriff, Deputy Sheriff, and State troopers and lodged in the county gool at Catskill, New York State, No one else in his household was arrested. The charge is presumed to be tho result of the appearance before. grand jury of a middle-aged lorry driver named Grover Parks, who, his face covered with bruises and scratches, alleged that Diamond

The noual airscrew has fixed their "Gipsy Moth" two-scator bip- blades, and is most pficient during lane was the first light aeroplane one phase only of the-flying done tc be seen and in others the first by the aircraft to which it is fitted. flying machine of any kind to land. Thus, a screw designed for high: Evidently there is still much to do speed may be inefficient while the date from four to seven aeroplanes, putation for being in need of mem-tions, about a load of aider Las

delivering in the way of air exploration; the aeroplane climbs and make take-hose can take off or land on the bers or, worse still, for vitually ambitious privato, owner need not off difficult; conversely, a good hip at will. All the machinery is touting for them, and its days. But a warrant naming his assall-

I built inside the ship.

"Compare a ship of this size," says General Mitchel, "costing £1,100,000,'', with a surface nero- Flane carrier that costs from £10,000,000 to £18,000,000 The airship alcne, or with its nero-

and two confederates" held him up This course, particularly the last near-Acra beat him, and tied him part, was soon seen to be unwise, to a tree with his feet over a fire is a hangar which will accommo-Let any establishment acquire u re because he refused to answer ques

yet sigh like Alexander for fresh worlds to enquer.

Tornados.

The journey was full of incident and pleasantly spiced with adver- turo. The airmen flow through tornados, were chased up a height of 8,000 feet by a whirling and storm, dodged torrential rains and sometimes failed to dodge them-fought against the harmattan wind from the desert and flew for hours in low clouds and bad visi. bility, At sonis tropica! aerodromes the air was rare owing to the great heat; once the aeroplane stalled for fost flying speed) coming in to land but the skill of the pilot corrected the error in time. At the next

aerodrome they decided to take no chances of the same thing recur- ring, and lavoled out to land at the extraordinarily high speed of 95 miles an hour, thus keeping wall above the stalling point even in the thin hot air,

climbing screw may affect the maxi- mum speed of the machine. Com promiso is one answer, as in many other problems of aircraft design. The designer fits the airscrew which gives best all-round results in the Aying the particular aeroplane is intended to de; aeroplanes built planes, can destroy a whole fleet of for special work, the racing sea-

sc vessels, and a group of them can defend themselves very well planes constructed for the Schnei-against air attack with the assi- der Trophy contests, for example, stance of their own planes, their will naturally be equipped with power of concealment, and their airscrews more cficient at speed] than in other ways. The choice of the right airscrew is most import ant and, on the basis of present knowledge, often exceedingly diffi- cult. It is one of the key problems facing the builders of the Schneider Trophy racers this year.

maneuvring ability."

The Akron will he 185ft. long, 48

até

Parks refused to take

numbered. Gone is the mystery ants, and left the courthouse hur Gone the exclusivencas. The pro riedly after, giving his evidovce. sent method--greater attractions and facilities to entertain ladies- is the right type of reform, and the only possible one.

A certain number of clubs will continue to guard their szerets, and, like Ajax, will defy the lightning, They will remain tranquil, sombre Eve-less Edens. And that they will have long waiting-lista is not be yond the bounds of possibility."

compared with R 100's 700ft. The ESCAPE BY SEA OF R 100 contains 5,150,000 cubic feet

A MURDERER. of gas, while the Akron wil contain 8,800,000 cubic test, In

Arrest in Bed

When aroused in the small hours of the morning Jack Diamond rub- bed his sleepy eyes incredulously at the sight of the axmed officers standing at his bedside. When shown the warrant he grinned sheepishly and ejaculated, "Them

guys are crazy," then dressed and accompanied the officers without further comment."

-Diamond, who pleaded not guilty. to the charge, was remanded-for apresant, at any rate, without bail,"so that he is still lodged in prison. The Court, however,

addition to its aeroplanes, the FLIGHT IN HIS OWN YACHT. granted the racketeer five days in

"Akron will be equipped with 18 machine

Kuns.

power

which to withdraw his ples or to demur to the indictment. When he

A BOGUS INVENTOR'S CRIME. requested that bail should be fixed

HYDRAULIC GEAR.

Obviously the performance of any aircraft could be improved by an engines fitted to the airship R.101

Berlin. A murderer who escaped airscrew so constructed that the belonged to this category of

plant, but their excessive weight from Germany in his own motor: blades, moving automatically in prevented their ase in heavier-yacht after a long overland flight Mr. Bleck states that the ma fight under the carrying loads im-than-air flying machines.

in a motor car has been arrested The advantages of using com. chine, spent 170 hours in the air, posed on them, should always take flying nearly every day. For 25 up the angle of pitch best suited pression-ignition motors increased near Cuxhaven, where his accom days it was picketed in the open to the flying state of the aeroplane, range because less weight of fuel is plices landed to get supplies

consumed, economy, simplification The story of the crime is a very at the end of the day's dying with whether it were moving forward at because an electrical ignition sys.extraordinary one. out any sort of cover, under blaz-full throttle in level flight, climbing, tem is not required, and freedom ing sun in some places, deluged by taking off or 'diving." terrific rains at others, but on its

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the Court asked the District At- torney whether he was in possession of the prisoner's record. The reply being in the negative, Justice F. W. Bliss said he must have the record before he fixed bail, adding that: The record might maks great difference to the bail,”

The District Attorney subse Are risks are sufficiently attrac The fugitive is Eriedrich Jonas, quently, explained that the warrant tive to make experiments worth a Luebeck plumber, who, styling was issued in order to bring the The Hele-Shaw gear, working on while. The greatest difficulty is to himself Count Hohenau and posing gangster before the grand jury. return to Lisbon machine and en-hydraulic principles, is, embodied in reduce the weight of the engine, but recent development has auc-

as a German-American, for some One of Diamond henchmen, gino were in perfect condition, the the hub of the airscrew, and goes eeeded in reducing the weight to a time succeeded in raising consider, Harry K. Line, is at present in fabric spick and span and as taut

apng way to meet the Jemands of reasonable figure and a British able sums to work a pretended gaol at Catskil in conection with as an the day the airmen loft Lis the aircraft designer. The earlierenoplane fitted with a heavy oil process for the choop manufacture the disappearance of nu inn-owner motor is expected to take the air bon two months before.

models of the gear were complicated during the summer.

of hydrogen from water. and heavy, but steady development

Not long ago he was arrested by the judicial authorities at Gastrow, that his invention was a genuine in Mecklenburg, but, as he insisted

An Amateur Repair,

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At Abidjan, on the Ivory Coast, has brought down the weight and the craft was pickoted for the night considerably simplified the mechan under trees. A violent tornadoism.. Severe endurance trials have broke suddenly, one of the holding failed to reveal any, weakness of ropes parted, and the machine was design, and the Gloster company lifted and flung against, a tree, are now working on the construc- smashing the port elevator. Notion of hollow steel airscrew blades "spare" of this magnitude was which may still further reduce the nearer than England and a local carpenter was set to work to make weight of the airscrew unit. A new elevator, using an elastic In actual fight the gear has com- indigenous wood called avoduri pleted about fifty hours flying with The new elevator was covered with" what remained of the torn_fabrica Bristol "Jupiter" air-cooled and coated with two tins of mo- radial engine. Further trials are torcar paint."

planned with Rolls-Royce and Arm- strong Siddeley motors.

The test dight" declares Mr. Bleck, "was most exciting as: we ware not quite certain of its (the evator's factor of safety How- ever, the machine took off all right and once in the air we rocketed it violently and as it stood perfect to this test we decided that the elevator would see us through, And lib did.”...

In accordance with normal Air Ministry procedure, research work possible to state that the British on this subject is secret but it is experiments have produced a motor

at least the equal in efficiency of any constructed abroad. Air ex-

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whose bloodstained car was found in a Brooklyn garage during a anoighbouring police raid on

arrested Diamond's chauffeur. apartment, where the officers also

one, ho was allowed to continue his Just over a month ago fifty State perts will watch its future with he had rented in the town of packed into twelve "cars, stormed "experiments in a small factory troopers, the cream of the force, koen. interest.

Malchow.

Diamond's Aera stronghold at For this purpose he was driven dawn in the face of blinding The Iraqi Air Force arrived in over every morning to the factory floodlights, kirked down the doors, formation at Baghdad last week, under the escort of an elderly and rushed in only to find that drome in England by easy stages in him during the day and brought of the raid, which was ordered by their max had flown, The newa having flown from Hatfield aero-police-sergeant, who kept guard on

fourteen days.

him back to Castrow in the evening. Governor Roosevelt of New York,

had leaked out. -

A DESERT AIR FORCE.

Escape in a Taxi-Cab. When the hired car arrived to

The fleet reached its destination without trouble of any kind, carry ing for the first time the serial

Shot by Rivals, emblem of the new Iraq state over

"Lege" Diamond, the one-time HEAVY OIL ENGINES.

Europe and the Near East: It was take Jonas back to prison the fac made up of ve "Gipsy Moth "tory was deserted and its doors leader of New York's underworld, Leading British pero engine build two-seater biplanes, acquired to locked. This police were informed whose origins are to be found in

form, the nucleus of a national air;

the slum quarters of Bowery,, WAS ers have spent much time and service, and one Piss Moth and broke into the building, money recently on a study of the monoplane, bought by King Feisul They found that the sergeant had formerly bodyguard to the gang problems involved in building com. for his personal use, which led the been murdered by blows on the head chief Rothstein, who was murdered pression ignition, engines burning Lieutenant Carter, a British officer

formation in the hands of Flight from a crowbar Inquiry then early last year. Upon Rothstein's heavy oil instead of petrol. The lent to the Iraq Government, for a showed that Jonas had driven off death Jack succeeded to bis posi

(Continued on next Column.) term of three years that he might with two men who had arrived at tion as "leader of the vice racket.

assist in the air defence organisa-Malchow in a Hamburg taxi early. He was indicted with the excon- tion. Every other machine was

A Glamorous "Route"," The entire light; except for two "upa" with ariation spirit was done on what Mr. Bleck calls very ordinary motor spirit, some- times containing a large percentage the African coast the travellers of kerosene. The engine got rather few to Portuguese Cuines by way hot once or twice under this treat of Morcoco, Mauretanin

'and' ment, but did not otherwise com- Senegal. Then they shot finland plain, and a slight top overhaul on to Tambacounda and Kayes on the the retura journey, done by the Senegal River and Bamako on the two men in an open beld under the Nigor Next, over virgin forest tropical auh, cheered it up again. to the sea coast at Abidjan, and Four of the biplanes are mini-Elbe, and had put out to ser.. Antwerp he was moved on into. Mr. Bleck, attributes the need for again, along the ecast to Loande ture war machines, equipped for It seems that the impostor called Germany, but soon had notice that any overhaul at all entirely to the and Benguella in Angola, travel offensive duties and for reconnais himmelf Count Walter Hohenau, in he could not remain, and when vory bad quality of petrol citain-ling past Accra, Cotonu insance in the desert with long ranke the hope that he would thereby be with some difficulty ho found a ship ablet

Dahomey, Lagos, Duain in the Like, miffcient for nop-stop fights confounded with Count Paul Ho to take him he returned to the The itinerary Ringe of strange Cameroons Port Gentil in Grboon, of 500 mlet bomb racks, wireless, bend, the well-known American United States Within a month of peoples and glamour, even in days Pointe Noire and the Belgian esmera, water tanks, signalling gear chemist, who caused some stir at a his landing in New York he was when all the world seems known Cage. The return journey was and airtight ration containers. The fuel conference in London a few badly shot by his gangster memics. and few secrets are hidden. Down made almost exactly along the same fifth mohine is intended for com years ago by a paper on a new in an hotel, hut was nursed back (Continued at foot of next column)

munication flying and training.** method of generating energy.

to life in a hospital:

piloted by an Iraqi officer, who had in the afternoon, devict Charles Entratte on a charge gone through a thorough course of Warnings sent out in all diree of killing two gangsters at the flying instruction at the Royal Airtions to the police resulted-only, in Hotsy Toby Club, but was ulti- Force Cadet College, Cranwell, be- fore, gaining experience with one the information that Jogas had al-mately released. It was after this or other of the British service ready embarked on his motor-yacht that he embarked on the liner Bel Agundrens

at Schulau, at the mouth of the genland for Europe. Landing at