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Pacific Coast The whole fleet could be collected together at any point in the China sen by travelling 20 bours out of the 24, in three days from receipt of notice. Each by stripping off some of her additional passenger comforts, could take the air with two tons of warlike material and, with this load, com- plete a round journey of about 800

BRITAIN'S WOMEN

PILOTS.

ARE THEY AS EFFICIENT AS MEN?

FLYING PETROL TANIC

ROBOT PILOT TO GUIDE DISTANCE FLIGHT:

NEW MACHINE FOR RA:F

UNITS

London Oct. 18. A robot pilot guiding a dying “petroï tanke" thousands of feet above the desert is the description of a British long- distance flight record attempt to take place, shortly.

THROUGH TOWER BRIDGE

AMAZING FEAT OF NOTED

"WAR-TIME": "AIRMAN,

"DEFENDANTS AT THE

"GUILDHALL

strious accident was ons narroriy averted,

London, October 15-The feat of firing su aeroplane through Tower Bridge on September 30. led to the- appear in the Guildhall Polici DECREASING IMPORTANCE OF

Court to-day of Major Christophor THE STUNT" FLIGHT,

Draper on a charge of flying, in a For some time past flying: tests manner to cause unnecessary danger No feature of these early years of have been made at Cranwell, Lin to persons and property and, auting The Far Eastern Airways, Ltd,

Ald to Shipping...

privato flying, which may justly be conshire, with n long-range inonong a pilot without holding licence." will own some 25 aireraste, about

regarded as beginning suven years plane, built for the Air Ministry by Apollooman, giving evidence, Sailors view the air nes spirit go with the production in Great the Fairey Company, with which I stated that Major Diaper auddenly sixtoon, of which will be large

which rules and manage their Britain of the first light acroplane hoped to win for Britain the swooped down to within seven feet. ocean-going machines, each costing

friend the sen. anything up to £50,000. At any

Time was when the really suited for strenuous go-anyworld's non-stop long-distance air of the roadway between the towers moment the machins furthest from air ruled the then they were where touring, is more noteworthy racord, held by the Americans, of the Bridge, to the great alam Headquarters, in Hong Kong, willly dependent, one whims than the steady advance of the wo Boardman and Polando

of pedestriana and drivers of bo five days normal travelling away.

away and faacios of the sky of whose man air pilot. Before the war These tests have been successful, vehicles. Ho then flew up the river, sitting, perhaps, at Port Darwin, is and threats they were few, women had proved that the task and now equipment tests are being turned had again flew through the some point on the Russian vaguely able to guess the of aeroplane pilotage and cross made before Squadron-Leader O. R. bridge. As the bridge was being

import

country havigation was by no means Gayford and Flight Lieutenant Dcleared for a ship ta pass through To-day the air is newering to one for men only. In the imL G. Bett, the pilots, make a Amal this bit. It is not yet tamed but mediato post-war years a handful it can be ridden, and, as a mount of women flew aeroplanes engaged of fery temper and magnificant in one or other of the multitude of speed, one of man's first uses of it commercial aviation enterprises will be to carry woming to the which sprang up at the time. shipping folk in whose affairs, it But to-day, in every flying nation, weilds such an immense force. It ,women are qualifying for the

the old story of the tamed elephant being, used to match and tame others of its kind of the sadilled horno tarned to corralling

This will be the first time a robot wan his fellow for the service of ma

the best-known women flyers-Lady pilot has been used for a long-dis- | over." The eyes of the air, patrolling Bailey, Miss Winifred Spooner,tance fight,

?

The secret of the During the war, Major Draper daily the Eastern seas, will record Miss Amy Johnson, and the Hon mechaniam," an export explained, commanded crack squadron on movements of wind and water Mya. Victor Bruce to mention a few is, a gyroscope, which controls the the Western Front. This squadrom which the melborological stations names at random-have proved de rudder through pneumatic linkage, brought down a record number of cannot get in touch with. Their finitely that the first-class woman In addition, there is a pendulum German planes and in recognition half-hourly wirelessed mesages will pilot, can achieve results in com which controls the ailerons, prevent of his service, Major Draperz yas provide such a chock on the pre-petitive and long-distance flying ing the machine from tilting side-awarded the D.S.O and the Croix sent twice-daily weather reports as to change entirely their degres of beat, that men pilots have accom will still no possible, of course, for times in despatches.

comparable with all but the very ways or swinging off its course. It de Guerre. He was mentioned many reliability and mutiply their se plished. Miss Johnson few solo the machine to dive, but a modern He was bounded over for twelvo crazy. Cuman going shipping will to Australia, Lady Bailey alousainchine is so stable that it won's months on payment of £100. be able to choose its courses with round Africa; Miss Spooner has do that if the throttle setting in unerring foro-knowledge and we time and again equalled in severe not disturbed.” shall hear of more fast, comfortable

racing contests the speeds and journeys and less shipwran,

navigational performances of the leading men pilots lying against

milos.

Police Duties.

The League of Nations would have a lusty oriental policeman in the F.E.A.L.

.nor

Fishing Fiests.

pilot's ticket in ever-growing numbers. They represent a formid able minority in the ranks of flying club members, while the exploits of

her.

But, for a police forco, to be of any use it must be trained and disciplined. How is a commercial gody such as an air line to be brought to this pitch of perfection

We have only to look at the orginius of the men who are the moving spirits of the existing great airlines of the world-they are not youngsters straight from school, are they elderly financiers dictating their policy from tall office stools.. Those who are build- ing in the air the new police of and and water are the same men who said the War, through 16 years Trom another angle, the fishing ago, mon to whom fighting and fleets will be saved as much as

First All-Women Esily. bloodshed are anathema As the three days a week by the use of ".

Fa Great Britain the arst nexial man of the open spaces fears fire, arcraft to spot their quarry and meeting for women competitors but uses its destructive power to follow up the movements of shoals. clear lanes that will chock its wild. The time will soon come when only, held at the Northamptonshire Aero Club's perodrome at Sywell, advance, so does the soldier create lezen or diesel-oil will be in gen-indicates sufficiently, the prominent his force in peace-time that its very eral use among the fishing boats of position attained in a few years by efficiency will quickly shatter the China. They will catch quicker and the airwomen. Though the weather offender's strength and save the reap greater profits for less outputs very poor, not one of the women world from a repetition of horror. of time and money. But he hates the iden of fighting,

The air, again, will sound the because he known what it is like

death knell of petty piracy. They who wish to master a coasting sthamor will first have to scupper the wireless, cise their doods will

Trained Executives.

The men who will manage the Far Eastern Airways, Ltd, will always

test flight to Abousuoir, the R.A.F. station in the Nile Delta. If this attempt is successful, the plane will be prepared at Cranwell for the actual record attempt to Cape Town. It is unlikely that Cape Town will be reached, but the pilots are confident of flying 6,000 miles non-stop-1,000 miles aboya the American record.

Major Draper had a distinguished: flying record in the War, when he whe known as the mad major."" owing to his daredevil exploits. He performed the feat that landed him in court to day without prec- tice of any kind. It was the frat time he had flown for ten years and his object was to prove that he still as highly skilled an

TELEGRAPH SERVICE FOR AEROPLANES.

There is more hehind this fight than the attempt to break the re- cord. It is, intended to provide new type of machine, which will

London, October 17,--4 reinforce overseas R.A.F. units with-grama from the sir" service was in- cut baving to land in hostile ter- hugurated to da

to-day on the London ritory. Another feature of the Paris air service and it is plane is the petrol-filled wings, ed it shortly will be ad ted; on carrying nearly four tons of petrol, passenger The machine is for all practical purposes & flying petrol tank,

BIG SHOCK FOR LORRY.

DRIVER

nir

Barvices all over, the worll, Telegrams

...of.

passengers. in neroplanca ara despatched by radin. to the most convenient nie pert and thence, by radio or tele graph to their destinations.

pilots bound for the meeting, some of whom travelled more than 4 thousand miles, lost their way, and JAPANESE AVIATOR WHO LOST GIRL OF ELEVEN CLIMBS

the entire programme of events, cluding races, aerobatic displays and formation flying went through amoothly and without a hitch, No

HIS WAY.

Lordon, October 17-A DITY" driver, driving through Windsor

MONT BLANC.

YOUNGEST ON RECORD.

A London girl of 11 years is now

bear in mind that they are respon bring bornets round their heads fewer than 08. aeroplanes arrived Great Park to-day got a check when the youngest person on record to:

sible for the peace of their neigh-before they have run the ship 10 the landing, ground, including two

an aeroplane swooped down past his bours. They will be trained in a miles out of her course.

In this privately owned light planes steer lorry, tinned and gentle taxied to central school; they will pass time, an Eastern airways machine, ed by women pilots from Poland a standstill beside him. The occu

through examinations as stiff as with a sund of armed anilors/The Duchess of Bedford, who flewpant was a Japanese who politely Brunner Close Hampstead Garden

those for the finest airforces and they will enlist in the service of the Company fully aware of the clause in their contracts which places them, during their turn of duty under a law as severe as King's Regulations." They will came from all nations, but they will belong only to the League so long as they sarvo Far Eastern Airways, Ltd

This is a necessary step, for, up less it is taken, a force so large

would be a menace rather

to peace

AIRMAN TO SERVE SENTENCE

GAOL SENTENCE IN LOS ANGELES STANDS. AGAINST. FLIER.

aboard, could over more than twelve times that distance and she could put to piracy up a strong diemunsion either from the air or from the water.

And, inatly, on this subject, more traffio of any sort brings more busi upss, quiker, trafo for urge leicers and sumpfes cansa speecher rotation of enders, less rate in aboosing unsaleable goods, more aquid motement of capital. This all means

gger freights mörn work--for the jolly sailor,

have climbed to the summit of Mont Blage

She is Pamela Wilkinson, of with Mr. C. D. Barnard on his retold the driver he had lost his way Suburb, pretty flaxen-haired cord-breaking, trips to India and and asked for directions. The child who has spent two summer South Africa and herself look. the lorry driver recovered from his controls for long periods, arrived

She had often expressed a desire to climb the snow capped peak, and this year she went into training 49 z mountaineer.

surprise sufficiently to tell him holidays at Chamonix with a in her own light cabin monoplant whereupon the airman took off

schoolmaster, friend of the family. to declare the meeting open..again

again and disappeared. Increasing Number of Licences.

clouds.

Official figures show that women pilots hold at present 112 Air Ministry "A" licences, entitling the holder to pilot an aeroplane ontside

a

Apt Pupils. Opinions differ on the vexed ques

For a whole month the climbed almost vertical; rocki Then August 11 she made her firet tempt,

in company with her friend, guide and potter, she reached firanda Mulgte when a storm WAS scen to be approaching and they had hurriedly to return

the immediate precincts of an aero tion of the relative efficiency of men 'pilots. Instructors find drome-in other words, the usual and women badge of proficiency of the trained generally that the woman pupil learns a little more readily than the privata flyer and that five women. possese the "B" licence, granted average man, but that she does not,

seem to attain ultimately an caus! A few days later the same thing only after the aspirant has done A

sar de standard of skill. So far no woman happened, and it seemed as if considerable amount of flying and has gained technical and mechanical pared for a moment with the stup made a further attempt

has had flying experience to be com-

Keekord keilure, but on August 27 the party

· Pamela's "offorts; were doomed "to

endous totals of time and distance Pamela and her coort began their climb at 200 in the morning, recorded by the leading men pilota This time the weather was del 16 will be fairer to assess relativePamais celebrated the achieve in commercial and private flying and they reached the summit. efficiency when a few more years mant as most mountaineers do-by have passed: Almost certainly no drinking champagne, yan woman will over be able to equa During the climb she was like a the astonishing feats of endurance dog training at the leasha pobloved by the star " lòng-die- ja Brescort fold ¿Press represen- tance pilots, among the men, buttative, we had diffico in keep

stunt flight, is fading into lening her inchp and less importance, and there is no The rebords reason why women should not cope that the have lapsed, the figures for easily with the problems of every ascald

day practical aviation in commerce Stratton licences issued to as well as in holi

States in the Olanne Madge, an knowledge, which permits thea Esco monoplane, Mr. Moyle was holder to By as a commercial pilot arrested and convicted on charges for hire or reward. On of the "B" of speeding in a motor car while licensees, Miss Winifred Spooner under the influence of liquor.also holds a second class aircraft

The judge, hfter sentencing: Mr, navigator a ticket." Moyle, learned that he was an Four of the women granted the aviator and that he planned a fight↑ "B" licence are also included in Los Angeles October 15-The from Japan. He decided to allow the "A licencn total, and the total Los Angelce police court to day the aviator to make the flight on tumber women pilots 3D Grent ruled that Mr. Den Moyle, the lost the condition, that he served bis sen Britain to day is therefore 113. A and found many-stops trans-pacific tence upon his return to America. avicken, must begin a 30 days gaol Mr Hayley is back and contence on November 2, before lio will go on November undertook his recont attempt to fly to the ruling handed down today Mr. Cecil There can be no appeal for Mi Japan to the United Moyle.

heroad

Alle

Fnistry since the tourings

force showing: 4

(Continued on next Column.)

£plane,

trola and particularly suitable.

pilot and engine

Chamonix show ild: tó

• guide, who clip- business bed to thegrummitan September

months oldwo months older than Pamela

Mont Blanc. 15,781

the highest peak of