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AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.

NATIONALISM AND THE AIR.

STRATEGY: VERSUS

BUSINESS BASIS.

[BY E. BRASIER CREAGH)

One of the chief legacies of the lato great war was the multitude of ex-pilots and ex-servicem

THE HENDON AIR PAGEANT.

DISPLAY BY WORLD'S

FASTEST MILITARY

PLANES.

Novel featurce at the 12th Royal Air Force Display held at Hendon on June 97, included a demonstra log of dying by the latest types

BRITISH FLYING NEWS.

NEW RECORD FOR THE INDIA ROUTE.

LONDON," June (6.

lished a new record for the solo Mr. John Grierson, who estab

fight from India when he landed at Lympne aerodrome in Kent. 4

118 hours and cov them near

between

Up to the end of April, including

AVIATION AND ARCHEOLOGY.

some of the worst months of the ANCIENT CITIES CHARTED

year, the club's machines have fiqwn in 1931 409 hours, represent- ing approximately 32,000 miles of distaococovered. There is not much wrong with lots or dero. planes at Renfrew.

BRITISH FIGHTERS FOR",

SWEDEN.

aghting acroplanes, each consisting Two flights of swift single-ster

FROM THE AIR.

Secretà, of antiquity, that have remained hidden for cent pies are" to-day being brought again to the knowledge of men by the neroplane. In Britain, the Middle East, and other historic regions throughout the Empire the air-borne camera is revealing details of towns, aottle- |ments and works of olden timea

their reconstructions of the world that are assisting archaeologists in

JZ AGONI

chined that remained in the hands of airoraft designed for service uss days 10 hours after leaving, Kara, of four machines and piloted by an it was fifteen, twenty er mora

of the belligerant countries The USA, France, Italy, Germany and Great Britain found themse

vos possessed of thousands of

on

land and at sea.

Of cutstanding interest was the Arst public appearance of No. 1 Bomber Shadron equipped with

chi, has provided yet further proof officers of the Swedish Flying of the astonishing abilities of the Corps, have flown lately from Bris British light aeroplane. Bis machine, a wooden Gipsy Moth "

tol to Sweden, where they have

centuries ago.

mero or Less efficient airmen and Hawker Hart' aeroplanes and biplane, is the cheapest in the been added to the flying equipmentton, 38 frequently the most efff-

multitude of material,

In the case of Germany mill

fight of No. 43 Squadron which Moth series. He bought it has been supplied with Hawker secondhand when it had done a

No aspect of aviation is moro picturesque. The aeroplane, C5505- tially a twentieth-century inven

of the service.

cient menus available of. looking These machines, Bristol "Bull. back into the past. Even to the

bankments or earthworks, complete

tury aviation was forbidden and Tury": "Interceptor Fighters, Both considerable amount of dying end, dog!! biplanes similar to the craft naked eye details of ancient em-

her whole air force disbanded. In the other countries, both men and machines were very slowly sorted out and, in this gradual process and in the concentration on mili tary efficiency with the reduced armies which remained, much that might have boca turned to civil

1180

was wasted.

of these aircraft which are fitted last October, few in it to India an

with Rolls Royce "Kestrel" on being detailed for special photo employed extensively in the air gines of 500 h.p. have been specially graphic duties with No. 11 (Bomb-defence squadrons of the British develop by the Afr Ministry for

the air defence of Londoner) Squadron on the North-West Royal Air Force, are supplied to Day Bomber Squadron gave a

Bowfrontier, massed exhibition of squadron

In India the plane was housed

Sweden as a direct consequences of splendid work done by an earlier

drill The Hart aircraft are in a go-down, affording " poor batoh which have flown many then the fastest day bombers in any protection against the sun and a country, and are capable of a speed temperature, incidentally, which sanda of hours in the Swedish ser sometimes approached 130 degrees vice. Each flight went from Bristol in the shade. Recently he decided to

of nearly 180 miles per hour, which is of coured greatly execeded in diving formation.

invisible on the ground, some

times become astonishingly percep tible from the air. The earth may

have been turned over count.ess times by the plough, but from above the ancient outlines can still be glimpsed. The super-sensitive eye of the camera reveals much more, and photographs sccured

arb

SA often found to show down to the

don, and thence on to Malmslatt, a settlement lost to human kon

to get back home by the fastest to the London Air Station, Croy-san,ler details the ground plan of The "Fury" fighters which are available route his own light acro in Sweden, by way of Amsterdam more than a thousand years ago. the speediest military aircraft in plane. For a fortnight before leav- the world will gave a thrilling doing he spent every possible moment and Hamburg monatration of fight aerobatics, overhauling and re-conditioning his amongst the evolutions being the machine. No-one in England krew Prince of Wales feathers and a that he was coming, except the

The Bulldog fighter of the British service is a powerful all

Roman Britain.

Much work was done recently in Britain along the line of Hadrian's

In the European countries, other than, Germany, many private in- dividuals bought old war machines and began to sell to the public short distanco Blights; few manu facturerá turned their experiences with bombing craft to the develop mont of large passenger carrying machines-and the more efficient of these became fused together, and, under encouragement from their to the Royal, Party, at the Royal Aero Club officials who issued motal machine able to fly at 160 Wall, constructed during the Ro man Occupation nearly two thou his travel carnet, till he was on miles an hour and to climb rapidlysand years ago to keep back the the way News came from Persia to any given operational height up "barbariana" "iving north of the that he had arrived there, and

to a ceiling," with full military Tweed. Royal Air Force pilots | after that, silence for bree days.

load on board, of more than 29,000 few along the line of the wall and fect the height of Mount Everest In addition to Great Britain and

enormous speed of over 250 miles

an hour.

governments, developed the ong Empire serving air transport com- panies, such as Imperial Airways, Aeropostale and K.L.M which Both these events served to ill are the chief feature of today.ustrate the notable quality of Bri-

Out of the clash of these interests tish Service aircraft and the arose the International Air Can-portant lead which British air vontention of 1019,

craft manufacturers have gained in military types.

Germany und America stood cut of that Convention, and it is what

In other directions the program

took a series of photographs na part of the regular service train- ing af their unit The results

Then, a telephone call from Lympne aerodrome announced to his friends that he had safely reached England.

Twice Mr. Grierson lost his way Sweden, the Bulldog is used in were apprising and antiquaries over the desert near B Baghdad.

which has interest for us in the Far East Germany and America have certain factors in commen; oach is a conglomeration of separ ate states, each with its Own local government and only cose-tred around the destruction of a ly foderated under a central con-powerful long-range gun hidden in troli, ench, by its peculiar situa. the middle of deserted farm build-up with petrol and of each worn- ing, flew all day, fooked over the tion, was more or less cut off fromings adjoining a small wood, were the rest of the world; each has seen aircraft similar to those which sparking plugs and the petrol fiter but up in the twelve years since would be employed if the destruc- cach night, and carried on the next the armistice, a completely satis tion of a gun of this type had to

day Simple! factory internal air system; each be undertaken in war: has held its own interstate con- vention and laid down laws, for

of the Bervice work of the Royal nent à Bedouin settlement and cluding Denmark, Australia, Siam, Air Force, and the varied duties asked the way, saying "Baghdad" Latvia and Estonia which the flying Service under a great many times and using the takes at home and abroad. In the universal language of signs. Other "Set Piece," which this year cen-wise the flight went through with out incident, Mr. Grierson filled

happened in these two countries me was thoroughly representative Each time he simply descended the air orces of many nations, in recoiyed them with delight. Four...

the control of air traffic, far mere thorough that the unweildy inter national agrement, bristling with reservations and exceptions, to

fiod their adherence.

The massed spectacle was pro vided by six Squadrons, compris

WEATHER-AND FLYING. The April statistics of the Scot

RACING"ABROAD." British pilots have had consider able success, látely “ abroad.

discovered; parts of the wall and comps,previously unknown, ero

the accompanying earthen ram- part were shown in much greater detail than the most painstaking ground survey had ravealed, and the big settlement of Housebeads, races | which sprang op cutaide the Ro- man camp of Boroovicus, aras, out- lined in such detail that "anti- Two British pilots won racer at

BARRA Quaries may reasonably claim that a race meeting at Zagreb, in Yugo the plan of it is as well known, to Slavie, last weekVA British angle day as it was to the settlement's seater fighter, a Bristol "Bulldog"" inhabitants, Points in disputą, such as the precise ccation of the of the Royal Australian Air Force

parthen rampare at one of the chain

ihg ad fighters and bombers pasttish Flying Club make humorous ran away with the Victorian Aerial of forta along the wall, were "setti the Royal Enclosure in sorried reading in their revelation of the Derby at an average speed of no tu finally by the air phot ranks. The Bomber Squadrons con- charming weather which the British less than 183 miles an hour. But Now the archaeologists sisted entirely of three Squadrons private flyer experiences during

powder Lage der gesting to the Air Min

that

which the other nations have signi- of the Auxiliary Air Force who much of the year. They dispose the outstanding personal achieve other sections of the wall should

ars the Territorials of the air. The finally of any suggestion that the ment of of the last few days must be carefully surveyed. France, Britain, Italy and Holtwo London Squadrons and the land have sot up, and maintain at Middlesex Squadron which are aeroplane is a due-weather, vrhicle be credited to Mr. A. C. M. Jacin,

are and show it capable of travel in

curved to maradhit my final day Egypt's Water Supply. considerable expense to their tax-manned entirely by voluntary pilota

man, a well known owner-pilot who payers, thousands of miles of air and mechanics took part for the given skill and care in the pilot. anything except the thickest fogs,

In Libya,~Lady Emiley spent made hay of all competition in the lines which, for the first three, he first time in company with the Even the dying club member who first international flying meeting to aerial pictures of ground works fortnight early this year taking almost entirely strategic in their

regular Fighter Squadrons. utility. Russin, too, is covering |***

has not yet taken his ticket man be held at Aix-la-Chapelle. Pilot which mark the sites of towns and her vaste dominion with non-pay-

ages, frequently to put in a bit cl

ing his own Puss oth" light burying places built long befora lying in weather that would scare

the Christian era. Tather south, his contemporary in more favoured monoplane he started by taking in the Sudan, more immediately lands out of the air

first place in the non-stop race practical survey was recently con The Scottish Club, which is from London, averaging 120 miles ouded of the Uppor Nile swamps.. stationed at Renfrew, reports that, an hour. At the meeting he won There" experts of the Physical and

'from

following a month of easterly winds,

24.

ing but militarily inspired com- But the West will come, as it munications. Only Germany and has a ready come to China and to the U.S.A., in their extensions out. Siam, with Money, and wil make side the limits of their own boun- a firm attempt to bay, from the daries, have concentrated pa set Eastern nations the freedom of ting up routes which their inception.

their air, their birthight, Those two have looked upon What alternative has the East and fog, April produced for the long distance race and the their air problems internally. They This, let the nations show that change a continuous spell of blas landing and aerial bombing con- have so worked on the onthusiasm of their people, they have so cut spirit of co-operation which is the terous westerly winds. Winds tests, and led the winning team in away competition that, in com- servant of a community of in reached high velocities and often the relay race. parison

with the respective terests and the master of economy blew across the narrowest width of populations, the averago. Ger-

man travels five nir miles. Let them come together, now, to

and the American three, to the hold their own Aviation Confer the aerodrome-making instruction. Englishman's one. In the one case ence, to decide their own needs and a flying difficult.".

Irrigation Departments of the

Egyptian government studied from the air the country fed by the Bahr Ghazal, a tributary of the Nie which may pay an important part in the bettor utilisation of the Egyptian water supply. The scheme “under consideration-in-designed

Aviation is controlled by political how to supply them. Better stduring the entire month was rocky and covered with scrub as to avoid the leases caused by. Weather, Lake Albert, the land hily, to lead water from the White Nile

and military bureaux, in the other pr

each state, ench pity, each village let them combine to operate, for

evaporation and by soakage. into

hus: boon called into conference their mutual benefit, the Great “O.K.” on five days, and on two forood landing there would have the surrounding country inevitably and encouraged to ally itself with Mail Lines of the Eastern Air, In daye was fait.The records of the been dangerous, but aircraft and linked with passage of the water.. anational drive towards alr consciousness and air freedom. this way will they retain their remaining days show seven with engines worked perfectly and at through the swamp Janda, as at Which of these principles in to be Birthright, set up a precedent of,

It is known tint the strategists,*

for.

ment has to decide whether

the swamy lands and aerial survey was selected to answer the question,

adopted in the Ear Eartholping each other over the stites high, wind and it can blow in that no time the present. The Irrigation Depart worklog from their offices of progress, and dispenso with part of Scotland high wind and anxiety Now maps are being bujd a canal through or around Europe, have already tecided who that all too common dependence rain on seven, gales on six, rain propured of the entire region and shall operate the air routes of the upon Western owned services which has don East. For the present they are in has done so much, to arouse jeni on two and fog on one.

whatever may be the officiat deel difficulty because the inducements ousy between the two hemispheres. which have value in Europe, the They will alm butd up within

Study of these figures night lead sion; to, the credit of the aeroplang exchange of rights to travel over their own states that airminded one reasonab) one anothers territory, have no ness which is to be the outstanding

that will remain an essential prolimin mental characteristic of the little

Aytage in work that should #R and, with

mes-oper suit in vastly increased

| application" out here — nuenstera

power wants to rua lines through twentieth century

La Europe, nono hes consider the adjustment of lime values thus

odt more than its vow „interault set up, identify the tempo of their afed nerda,

national aminds with the rest of (Continued en stet Column) the world

Actually

made an i water to the cultivated, lände

aggregate of 248 fights, Aying, for

This important air pho phio work was allotted to the vey Company and biplanes did the job-

mont

In the extre the territory photograph

(Continued on previous Column.)