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AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.

THE POSSIBILITY OF COMMERCIAL FLYING IN HONG KONG.

POTENTIAL AIRWAYS IN THE FAR EAST.

BY MAJOR EB, BRASIER-CREAGH.]

There is no need for me to make any bones about the truth-which is,thne I have been trying, for the last six months, to arouse in Hoog Kong an interest in the subject covered by the headlines to this article. It has fallen to my lot, as ib must have to the lot of many a man before me, to discover that there is nothing more interesting in

the way of a hobby than to take

MODEL AIR-LINER FOR BLIND CHILDREN.

GIFT FROM IMPERIAL

AIRWAYS

BRITISH FLYING

NEWS

AERO CLUB'S 10,0007

PILOTS.

MOTHS" FOR CHINA.

50,000 MILES A YE

A VETERAN FLYING BOAT.

More than 100,000 miles Bown two years as then achievement."of G-EBVG, the first Short "Onisutta" flying bont delivered to Imperial Airways for operation of the Mediterranean soutions of the air Froute to the East. The Royal Aero Club's annousee. The machine, which is to be super ment that it has issued its 10,000th.seded in the Mediterranean by the Avintor's portificato is an interest- larger four-motored "Kent” boats, ing landmark in flying history, is confing off the service for over- Blind children, like all other The Club's certificato is the only haul. She is in excellent condition young folk, are Interested keenly recognised proof of proficiency that and good for many more years of in aviation; but their affliction the private flyer in this country service. prevents them from grasping the may gain, and he must possess it The operational statistics show various features of aeroplane con before the Air Ministry will grant 1.100 hours spent in the air and struction unless they can actually him the "A" Heones, without which distance flown of 104,400 miles. handle model aircraft of a con-ho may not pilot an aeroplane out. During the years on service the venient size.

side the immediate vicinity of an machine was,nover in a henger, but Recently the Principal of the

aerodrome.

was anchored out day and night, love the fuming costs of the actual North Wales -School for Blind More than twenty-one years ago, subjected to extremes of tempera- engine, but the pilot, wireless and Children at Rhyl wrote to the on March 8, 1910, Mr. T. C. ture and widely varying weather ground staffs remain just the same London air-station, asking whether Moore-Brabazon, "still one of the conditions.

Big . Small Machines, Now, at this point, I discovered that my forerunners, in this dream of a Canton-Hong Kong Air Line, had reduced the size of t machine to two-or-three-passengers capacity. Tais certainly brings

1

their

This request was brought to the attention of Imperial Airways, and

lcutta

AIR-TRAVEL IN COMFORT.

as with the larger craft and little it might be possible to obtain a leading figures in British aviation, Like all other Calcutta Boats. up a subject about which one, at is saved in the end. In any case model of a modern sir-express for was granted "Avintor's Certifcato G-EBVG in biplaco deriving the beginning, has no knowledge and to myself, what is the obstructional purposes. “Blind | No. 1, to be followed soon after power from three 300 hip. " Jupi- whatever,

jeet of starting, with an undersized children," she wrote, miss so much wards by George Cockburn, Cody, ter" air-cooled radial engines. She This I can now afford to admit, air transport vehicle if ong expects of contact with the ordinary sights Coell Grace, Grahame-White and has accommodation in a spacious for I have reached' is pomt in my the traffic to grow bigger each year of life that it is impossible for other famous pre-war flyers Ap saloon cabia for fifteen jassengers researches when I doubt if there Botter far to show the public the them to realise, without handling apropriately enough in these days of and half a ton of mails and urgent is, now, anyone in Hong Kong whe big craft from the beginning and model, what such a thing as an equality and competition of the freight can be carried in a special knows much more about the subject

sexes, No. 10,000 is held by a woman compartment. 80 encourage confidence, wonder seroplane is like " than I do. I can, therefore, afford and experiment-the Chinese like

pilot, Miss Taabel Craig Watson, of The Royal Air Force employs to take all my readers into my con- to do their travelling in groups,

Wishaw, Scotland.

similar machines, modified for ser fidence and here goes.

Thousands of war-time pilots vice use, and lñsh year, the French I still hold, therefore, to the 10-12 letter was sent to the Principal, First, like, I suppose, ninety-scater typp and the cheapest, at offering to forward to the school, chose to qualify for the Club's Government paid a great tribute to nine investigators out of a hundred, second-hand, works out at, nothing immediately, a model with ft. certificate, and they swelled the the excellence of British flying bout I bethought me of nice tight less than $120,000 Mex. Six of these in. wing-span of one of the Com-register more perhaps than might design by ordering two Calcutta

the oquipment of the little service between, Hong Kong would be required and a resultant pany's Haudley Page W.8 biplanes, otherwise have been possible. The boate for the oc and Canton. Less than an hour capital of at least $1,000,000. This offer, the Principal replied,list also includes a number of for French naval air arm. French ex away by air. (Mr. Harvey did it in My next step was to investigate he would be only too delighted in airmen. But when all allow perte frankly admitted that no boats

ance is made for these factors, the comparable. With"the" 23 minutes, the other day, on the possibilities of taking into the sent off at once, and, after it or granting of the 10,000th certificate were built in France

to accept; whereupon the model wus fighter) there is, obviously, quite a sweep of the service Kongmoon, rival, the Principal wrote again is impressive evidence of the growth large traffic in passengera, mails Heungshan Sialam for the West and precious and urgent, goods be- River towns of Wuchow and Nan

It is exactly the size

of British Hying and no menn Simon for our tween the two cities. At such a ning. The thing is far above the purpose. Had it been bigger, the achievement on the part of the Club, short range, very little would be beads of the ordinary Chinese complete model might have been which has had to make arrange needed in the way of weather news travellers and would depend utterly beyond the tactile comprehension of monts for the official observation of wireless equipment and so on, and, upon the casual tripper or the mili: the smaller children; but as it is the required tests by every-ny- with the river stretched out so tary or civil personalities who, it they are all able to feel the complicant. And much less than an handily throughout the whole route, is most likely, would demand special pleto model within the length of other twenty-one years period will a great degree of safety could be rates.

their outstretched arms. The child see the passing of the second ton assured by the use of such float- I decided that this line of thought ren are delighted with it, thousand; last year alone 934 cer- fitted machines as are used by showed little promise of success

tificates were granted and there is When forwarding the model, it China Airways in the North; fur for the reasons that the entire de-war explained that the aircraft of ther, both places have good aero-mand would have to be created which it was a replica was driven OPEN SEA PATROL. dromes situated conveniently close amongst Chinese there was too by two Rolls-Royle engines develop to them and a regular service could much competition and, lastly, being a total of 150 horse-power, and left. Felixstowe recently for a pro- Two now long range flying boats practically guarantee to get passen-cause of the jealousy that exists, carried 14 passengers, together with longed test flight through the gers or mail from door to door in matters of the air, between the pilot and engineer. It was also Mediterranean and the Red Sea to within the hour. It seemed just too two places. The Colony, as a unit mentioned, as a point of interest, determine, in actual service use, made for sleep. The total distance alice allowance of eight hours a day, was of the Empire, hus subscribed to that the particular aircraft of which is the better fitted for constal to be flown was 2,159 miles, accem- The Snaga.

the International Aviation con- which the mods! had been made had reconnaissance and long distance plished in reasonable conditions But, before I had been at it forvention decreos; Canton that is, flown more than 500,000 miles in the sea patrol with the Royal Air with ease in 20 hours of flying.. long, I soon began to run across China-does not. Neither, there Company's service. the snags.

Forec Each is capable of excep Thus, hpurs available The greatest of these fore, exists, nerially, to the other.

able for sight- Increases in the size, power, and tional performance, the more power seeing and refreshment amounted ia competition. The train service Did you ever read of auch non luxury of modern aircraft, and the ful of the two, styled the Short to roof et has, recently, been speeded up and

concentration by Imperial Airways Singapore II," being the fastest The places to be seen were well or nearly twelve hours a day. oife can now get from city to city,

I gave this up and, still negligent upon great machines driven by dying boat in the world, and the worth that expenditure of time in about four full hours; the timings of the lack of understanding be three and four engines, have now other, the Saunders-Res A7, having lon, Ctesiphon, Samara, Mosul (the Baghdad, Ur of the Chaldees, Baby- for departure, and arrival are con- tween Britons, and Chinese, viewed led the smaller twin-engined a practical cruising range far aur ancient Ningreb), Jerusalem Fel veniently arranged both for pathe chances of an air line between machines to be diverted from cross-passing earlier types. sengers, and mails and, in truth, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Anyone channel passenger services, and they Driven by four Rolls Royco "Ksibly manage the trip within the myra Damascus, Acre and Petra.. And no ground traveller could pos with the river boats in addition, to who thinks, or has thought of these are now used largely for freight tref" 480 bp, motors, the Sings week. the trains, day travel is amply pro- things at all, will see repeated, in carrying purposes.

pore" boat is able to reach a speed equal to those attained by the

easy.

vided for.

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BONGO 1

At night there are what I have done, their own" pro-

overal excellent steamers which Loesses of reasoning.

give one a night's rest as well as

Hong Kong and Shanghai,

transport. There are telegraphs, wireless and, now, the telephones Of course, Shanghai is bigger Far East is a unit. Japan, Chian, connecting Hong Kong and Canton than Canton: at least, it is more the Philippines and Malaya to land or water fares do not execed modernised, more "up" in western

no sign of sinckening,

2,000 MILES A WEEK.

Striking figures of the distances that the traveller may cover com- fortably by air and the time he nyes are calculated by an Imperial

a tour in a specially chartered Airways expert, who recently plan

machine for a passenger who wish- nd to visit Palestine, Iraq and Syria in quick time.

days, or 144 hours First, a dodu

The total time available was six tion of 48 hours, at the generous

world's swiftest single-seater figh-through before any particular aero- Similar searching trials are gene tars only a few years ago-striking plane in Anally adopted for the uvidence of the improvement in British service, a system which vast performance, made possible by the ly minimises the risk of serious faulte being discovered after-az 810 firet class deluxo; a flying ser forms of life and traffic. It would gether with Borneo and New zerodynamical and engine advance order has been given for a produc

of the last year or two-Biplans tion batch, Probably the boat select- vice would be no use at all unless welcome a fresh connecting link Guines enclose a sea peculiarly wings of notably clean design lifted after this latest cruise will take a place in the service midway be- it word as frequent, as safe and as with Hong Kong. There is no tele their own The Dutch along the the craft and its big load of crew,ween the famous Southampton cheap as a motor-bue

phone, no road, noʻrail.. Ships tako south, the British and Americans fuck and warlike material. „Its com boats, modified in accordance with 48 hours against an aeroplane's Let ua imagine that an hourly cight. The place is full of Ameri long, the centro, the Chinese alone potitorios powerfully engined recent theory and research and the three motored 2,100 h.pe." Iris " and slower, three Bristol "Jupitercraft, which are at present the most service was operating from 8 a.m

cans and English and other for the north have continuous territorial 300 h.p. motors driving it at a top powerful flying machines in the to noon and 2 p.m. till 8 p.m. each

eigners who would take to the air rights stretching from west to chat, speed of 190 miles an hour-in Royal Air Force fleet. day (16 trips daily) for six days its lettere, its newspapers, its bank from Europe to the Pacific. This range, however, it is at least equa wock. That would mean a mileageing houses, its police would greatly

"LIGHT "PLANES IN CHINAK bf. 10,000 & week at a cost of ht

aro admittedly far in advance, as The Chinese National Govern- least twice that number of dollars. benefit by being speeded up. Travel area is the last great section of the to the "Singapore." Both bosta

lers would use air transport to world to become developed, accord aeroplanes and in seaworthiness, of confirmed last week an order for ment, which rules from Nanking, One would consider $20 a reason make a quick journey between the ing to western ideals; it is one similar flying machines built any six Moth training biplanes and able fare for the journey, and this two cities. It seemed a cinth! economically, in a broad measure where outside Great Britain applanes, bringing the total of Gould

necessitato 1,000 passengers But

Shanghai is in China - just as a week, 166 a day 10 a trip, just much us in Canton, Shanghai is

ethnically and ends up practically Propriately enough supremacy in Math light aeroplanes sold to

maritime construction for genera China within the last three years, pay costs of operation 1. a port of call, just like Hong Kong in two points, Rangoon and Toko-tions has been followed by the up nearly in 100.

Aviation is gaining a firm hold When one came to consider who and caller does not go on, with hamn. From the first, it is joined establishment of a long lead in the in China, where many of the young- ther the carriage of mails might out his luggage, when he lands up with Europe, 176 Imlin Mesopo-building of sea-going aircraft..er men are enthusiastic flyers: head- not make the picture look prettige, only at another intermediate part.tamin and the Mediterranean; from

The route planned for the test who learned to fly two years ago ed by Marshal Chang Hueh Liang,, the realization was reached that And beyond Shanghai is Japan, the

ernise goes by way of lymouth, Farid 5s now the, possessor of his own Bordeaux, Marseilles and Malta to light plane FRA LANG Aboukir and the Red Sea Early in pow16 the Chinese military nero- The newly ordered oraft are to

September the return" flight, will droms at Changsha, in the Hunan,

district, where the training ma accomplished in three stages only,struction of Chinese service pilots

to

a post office is like any other or last spot on the road to America; the latter, ships, throw off to all ganism (and not like a sausage Beyond Hong Kong is the road to parts of the American Continent. machine)—it has long periods of Australia, India, Africa and Europe.

This · great "China Seu, lies, cast digestion when it has nothing to Leaving paide all the difficulties gernon sono la

two "Puss Moth "*_cabin_mono-

"the "carriage", on urgent business

excrete, even though it may be full of operating under the present and west all in strips, of land alter begin. from Aboukir, and may be chines will be employed in the in-1st of muils, and the present system, Chinese regulation, like China Air nating with river or sea, How in with intermediate halta Malta and the monoplanes, stationed for using the boats, and traine, just ways, forgetting, the difficulty of obit to be developed By a succession and Gibraltar Each of these about the country of high govern keeps it turning over at its greatest taining permits for pilots and percentage of offlelency. add machines to By into Hong Kong for an nir-mail staff would cost more commercial bīrs, there came to me, than could be made poss to je at this point, the thought that the lathe more beneficial 1. The ans

Fontinued at foot of nest column:) to this penislots lies in your¡Atlas-

Cover

of lines, following the

sions or onG"CTOBI

aral diy stages hundreds of miles ment officials. Around Chaugalia tha cruising range of the thin countrvalde for theework of in- craft, and halts are avoided at any new machines will be fitted

Laresting rivers and probably all the

except British stations,

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on with fost landing gen

operation from water.