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BRAZIL.

IN A ZEPPELIN TO they guide the navigating omsor on the first stage of our long jour ney. Soon there is little to- beseen. but aitornato stretches of water pad felds, and the passengers retire to bod,

The Journey.

SEVENTY-TWO HOURS.

MARVEL OF MODERN TRAVEL,

VEL

WATER COOLED OR

COOLEDT

REVIVAL OF AN ANCIENT CONTROVERSY.

STREAM-LINE RING MEANS NEW RADIAL ENGINE BRA.

NOW FOR MPH

LIMIT OF SPEED BY NO MEANS REACHED.

British exports are convinced that Flight Licutonant Stainforth's ́spend” récord of 408.8 miles an hour Despatch to Martlesham Henth, |-doo not represent the limit of pos- the official oxperimental air stationsible netrievement. Mr. R. J. Mit- At dawn wo are already over

of the Royal Air Force, of a new chull, has plenty of ideas yet to Southern France, passing the waste

high speed military asroplage develop and the Rolls Royce com- of mud and water that marks the radial air-cooled engine has revived vellous racing engine to give con- which is driven by a powerful pany can still persuade their "Mar- mouths of the Rhone. We go neat Marsailles, but do not see it; soo one of the abiding, and most im-siderably mors power. we are over the soa, the deep blue portant, controversies in aviation.

Old Machines. “ Taked. Up."" The journey from London te Mediterranean, and we sight no Fundamentally the argument

gon. Friedrichshafen can be done in land, except a distant view of the corns the apparent absurdity that a

After all, the new British high

THE CASE FOR ITS IMMEDIATE-Pain

MATERIALISATION.

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[BY MAJOR E, B. BRASIER OREAGE, M.C)

I have just travelled from Fried richshafen to Pernambuco in three days), writes a correspondent in the Manchester Guardian

Our

ment.

Radical Schneider Engine,

this year gave one horsepower for But there has remained a large weight) and this knowledge could, every oven-tentiis of pound of

From quite another point of view many ways we phose an afternoon Spanish coast until we cross Mapenny enn be pushed through the spood racers were only the 1829: that expressed in previous plane from Croydon to Cologne, jores at half past ten. In the late air broadside on with as little machines improved,-even if won- articles about this mythical, but followed by the night train Gawards, afternoon we come up with the coast effort as a halfpenny. The obvious There was no time to work out an derfully improved — in detaile so desirable, Hong Kong com The afternoon, for wonder, was again, and at half-past six, we are retort is that it cannot, and that entirely new design. In "motor- mercial Aviation Company, I shall

fine and sunny and so calm and off Gibraltar, with a magnificent is a main point behind the recent racing parlance, the new SeB racer deal, to-day, with the sheet that still that on the dead flat plain be view of the famous Rock as we pass concentration on water-cooled one simply the Se of 1999 fazed up' the presence of such an organisatween Brusela and Cologne we flew along the front of the harbour and ines for really fast flying machin a few months to do a certain tion in Hong Kong would have:

only a few hundred feet off the through the Straits, seemingly rines. Today, the Schneider racers job. Every day more and more With the management and repair ground. By lunch-time next day crowded with shipping after

the world's fastest fighting and knowledge is secumulating about organisation of a line of large par we were in Friedrichshafen, the rather lonely day. A subsequent bombing aircraft, even the swiftdat high speed dying and the produc songer and freight airplanes located beautiful little town on Lake Con-view of Tangier just before dusk large flying bout, are powered with tion of titanic power from a Findl in this Colony, there would be stance which has been made world proves to be all we see of huming liquid-cooled motors, which repre amount of engine (for example, the created a very efficiently equipped famous by the ambitious experi- habitations for many an hour, for the "halfpenay" of the argu- runter ätted to the Schneider racer's testing service, which would be ments of Count Zoppelin and the we pass over the Canaries at night, under the control of the Dircator of men who have followed him,

and It is actually ten-time of the Air Services, an office at present merged with that of Harbour Con- the rest of the day in Friedrichsha Cape Verde Islands and circle round field for the "ponny or the nor given the time, money and incen-

The gross Atlantic traveller gets next day when we approach the trai. Such a service, keeping to thefon, broause the Zeppelin does not. St. Vincent, the capital and only

may

type of radial air-cooled-tive, be applied at any moment to exceptionally high standards set in usually depart till midnight; but considerable town, where we droprotein spite of the great resist. the design of machines capable of Great Britain, would be of far is not wasted time, for the little a mail parachute. Our reception offered by a power unit in which

ance to movement through the air considerably higher spoede then 'high technical qualifications than town, with its individual brand' of

in this isolated city is cstatic; the large cylinders radiate ke the after the experience of the last few. anything else of the sort in the Far hikers arrayed not frequently rushing into the narrow streets, and

Staiaforth recorded. Anyhow, whole population appears to be

spokes of a wheel around a central- in garments which the English br-the one large ship in the harbour crankshaft. Even as late as 1997 sume that the limit is yet reached. Well Equipped Aerodromas,

years, only a rash man would sa- ther would regard as distinctly, rag-roars a welcome from a seemingly one of the machines constructed for, With some 20 commercial craft god, is more than a little attrac- rather rusty siren.

the Schneider contest was a mono-|

Temporarily Marking Time. to take care of, it would be equip...:tive..

Over the Equator,

plane fitted with a radial engine, ped with the very latest machinery,

Without the urge of international The next evening and night we

with the cylinder heads enclosed in competition, attempts to build stild” wind tunnels, experimental labora“ The passengers are. marshalled have plenty of company on the carefully streamlined helmets," faster neroplines are unlikely for tory and so on, and it could not during the evening at the Kurgar- ocean, passing no less than enres and though it crashed during prac some time to come. The work done but exert an important influence on tea Hotel, where they take their great liners besides much small fytice before having a fair trial the far has provided data of im the standard set for aircraft operat-last meal before leaving the ground, they glide, over the smooth, dark machine showed a remarkable turn mense value in the future design of looking wonderfully attractive as ing within the boundaries of South and promptly at 19.30 am. the waters 800 feet below. In the morn-of speed. Further, the majority of more pormal machines and, to China at least, if not even further hotel bus draws up and takes then ing To reach the Equator, but the single seater fighters used in the paraphrase the words used by Mr. afield. There is, for instance, being down to the hangars. The Graf new-comers have to be dispensed Royal Air Force and many other Mitchell himself a day or two ago, usual ceremonies for the benefit of built up, at the present time, au Zeppelin occupies the smaller hon with; ducking" and similar air services are equipped with we have perhaps now reached airport of considerable size at

sports are not for airship life, where radial power units, and the later stage in high spied development even the waste washing water has Singapore. There will shortly ba

East

The Departure.

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to be carefully retained to avoid types employed are neither slow where we may safely call a hals to another at Korat, in Siam. Heng Mr. Arthur Butlere must perforce content ourselves Bulldog fighters of the RAF knowledge and experience.

possible displacement of weight. Sonor inefficient, the famous Bristal digest and utilise this mass of with saluting Father Nepture with for example, reaching a maximum 'three revolver shots fired from the. control car, to the accompaniment speed in level flight of nearly 130. of a shrill siren-whistle lelonging miles an hour.

Kong will co-operate with both of

these..

Then, one learns that the naval aeroplane factory, at Shanghai, has- recently completed the construction, at a cost of $40,000 each, of two amphibian machines, every part of which, with the solo exception of

of materials produced in China!

the Wright Engines, has been buit on his England to Australia Further, 2 machines, at a cost ofDash relied on: — $100,000 each, were, during the month of September, imported from the U.S.A.

There is no reason why the manu. facture of aircraft should not be. undertaken here, in Hong Kong. T we find it cheaper, and antisfactory, to make ships in Hong Kong, why not ying ships?..

south.

Enormous Market Open.

""

Mobiloil

to a member of the crew. But four hours later comes genuine excite. inent, in the shape of mere Jand-

A Magic Ring. Recent aurodynamic research and the island of Fernando Noronha, invention has closed the speed gap pleasant enough place to glance and our first bit of America! Abetween the two types still more.

down upon from above, but pos. Experiment in the laboratory and sibly not so attractive to reside in in fight have shown that stream for it is used as a penal settlement lining is not entirely a question of by the Government of Brazil. At

Major" angine, gives its best output

of power, and is therefore one of the fastest air-cooled military hero- planes in the world. Every detail has received careful study in an sort to reduce air resistance. The navigation lights, fitted for night flying,, ara sunk in the wings and, rudder and the engine driven gen

raters providing current for the wireless apparatus and lighting are carried inside the fuselage. Over the wheels are placed streamlined

half-past two in the afternoon wo small frontal area. A well design have laft it behind us, and four ed aeroplane having a comparative hours later we are in sight of land ly fat fusciage befand a big, radial again, this time the mainland Un fortunately darkness, overtakes us

engine may move through the air As we reach it, and we can detect with nearly as little effort as little except black masses of tree slimmer craft built with aanslyser of the kind popularly known and water, save for the brilliant lights of Parahyba as we pass,

streamlined liquid-cooled engine,

an "spats. The fuselage is smooth particularly if it be fitted with radial motor, and the tail unit, nd finely shaped behind the big The Landing.

ternil bracing members being twở ingenious, but startlingly simple, recent British invention. Around the rudder and elevators, in notably clean the only ar-

streamlined struts,

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The present imparts of aeroplanes and parts into China lies somewhere annually. At least one of the three structures; and as our luggage has show up thesis with docks and the greatest diameter of the engine about five to ten million dollars gar of the two, both fine concreta

But at half-past seven more lights local importing companies is doing already preceded us wo can go cu larger this time with docks and very satisfactory business and its board, inspect our cabins, and toll wharves, gaily lit streets and cine placed a wide, fattish ring shares. re almost unobtainable. What the Japanese are doing under at our case by the windows of the Pernambuco or Reeffe; one of the

mas, and fashing advertisements.actually it is shaped in section like license, what the Chinese are doing taain saloon, gazing down with a largest provincial cities of Brazil, tiny aeroplane wing-the limes.

This formidable craft is con- under foreign supervision, both at superior air upon the crowd of have been warned by wireless that, shape of the fuselago Now the Shanghai and

and our American destination. Wa of which merge smoothly into the

structed entirely of steel, except for at Mukden, con surely be repeated in a British sightseers who have paid their the day being Sunday, we may

the fabric coverings of wings and. Colony which can look to supply, mark to see us off. The hunger i have to wait to come town, for Traistance to movement through the not only China which lies to the lit with a grey-blue light, which the soldiers who have been warned dously less, because the magic ring.

fuselage, and is intended for use. north of her, but to all the other

Sunday night is cinema night, and air of the engine becomes tremen a feet fighter, a day and nithi countries to the east, and west and leaves much of it in shadow, and to act as cur landing party are contrives to prevent the air flow fighting of the kind done by certain

land fighter or for inter

interception makes it in imagination almost the at the moment scattered all from breaking up into resistance-quadrons attached to London's air Herein lies another field for ex-aisle of a great cathedral, with the mooring tower and rele slowly making eddies and turbulences, and dance. It carries machine gune, the town. So wo pass over the; amination by those ha think it Zeppelin ruspended in the middle, round the city again to announce the immediate result is a gain in unlikely that au Aviation Company has any place in Hong Kong.

bombs and oxygen breathing equip caving, plenty of space on each side cur presenco, a course which evi One further point. The pilots, of it, and looking for all the world deadly. Plover's slow cruise we re-cronomy, because the former cruis pilot.

effectual, for weed, or, alternatively increased met wad no parachute for the the navigators and all the other like a huge tin fish of the type that turn to the tower they are readying speed is attained with Jens operatives who will be in ever growwe used to play with in our bath for us. Once more the sudden expenditure of power. Some single

Air Cooled Racori? ing demand as aviation finds it as buoys. Beneath the saloon win silence of stopped engines, and then proper place in the Far East cannot dows Fabs a long wection rail which the weird sensation of floating slow suater fighters have moved twenty point worth consideration, inci all be drawn from recruiting grounds a party of men are idly holding is downwards until, in the glare of miles an hour faster after the ring dentally the advantage. still re- national spirits of the countries costo, il a pushed gin stand out quite clearly and as aítóil. in Europe and America. The very on to, until presently the order the floodlights below, the people be around us, which spirits are develous of the shed into the dark we are soon able to throw out gredi This device was at first an after, by hauid cooled motors,, which with Go, muine with the war planes" driven loping stronger year by gear showness of the open air. Here Anal bunches of landing ropes. Down thought, placed on a machine which fit load on board are attaining that this cannot long remain the preparations are soon completed; and down we go, until the soldiers was not specially designed to use heads up to and beyond 220 miles case. The great teaching ground of the men at the rails slowly bounce befow have grasped the rail. beneath it. Recently, dying machines of all the East must be organised. Such is tip once or twice, to make sure dur windows; a few sharp orders kinds, commercial and war eir hour. But the air-cooled engine s place was very nearly beguu thin of sufficient play, and at a final and we are puiled to earth. Our craft, are being constructed to ex-is being developed in forms which year at Macae. Why cannot it still word of command they quickly lift saloon door is opened and the stair ploit to the full the new idea, and have none of the disadvantages di be built up?

the rail above their heads and push ladder pushed out; police, Customs allied with insistence on careful

*Croydon of the East,"

In beer speed-not the only

with all their might as we our officials, and other prostie indivi-streamlining all through the atrae the radial unit, and possess frontal sen of cheering faces receding rapid back In the world, again. away into the darkness above, the duale clamber on board. We are turn and the avoidanes of excrasarca no larger than a water cool

cences or arrangements of joint angine. If and when that develop

200 HP...

Our hiend-upd guide, Mr. Howes, unre very aptly pointed out that ly in the circle of light cast by From Friedrichshafen we have which would be likely to cause Hong Kong is ready to be made the the bangar fards, so that we som taken just undhy 72 koure travel added resistance, it is producing ment work reaches the stage "Croydon of the East." thought that strikes the mind as the end of a tunnel into which we over 50 per cent of our engine

It' in at be actually leaving the crowd at Hing most of the way at only a little some remarksly fast aeroplanes production designers will be able well worth every consideration be ourselves are plunging. We come to capacity, for from Gibraltar we fore one sets down the paper and a standstill in die upper air, and have employed four engines instead

to produce, machines driven by ait. says, "These contributors have to then we hear the engines, Ute great of five, and those only at two-thirda an

The machine sent to Martleshampooled motora boually as fast as find something to say."

airship begins to move, horizontal threttle. With an effort we could seater fighter, is a good example of typu. Even the construction around Armstrong Whitworth single any representative of the rival ly this time, and soon we have left doubtless have reached hare twenty the new trend. It has maximum már cooled motor a the langure and the distant crowd, bears carlior or so had the schedule speed of well over 200 milles an Apu.

We see these things. Wo ache to

se them taking place, In our day

and in our Colony We look to you

to support our afford had to help us to get the reality worked but.

and are passing over the town and called for Truly marvel of meat a height of 12,000 feet, where the

watch would

lake our twin farbhlight casting der travel to godu ship Grat supercharged 610 h.p. Jaguarns the 1001 Schneid a brilliant glow on the earth beneath,

Omfimuld be West Dolusin.) 13