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AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.

LONDON AIR-MAIL

SPEED UP

SAFETY AND CONTROL.

A

JOY-RIDE" VETERAN.

EIGHT YEARS' ACCIDENT- FREE FLYING.

NEW POST OFFICE AT THE THE HANDLEY PAGE, WING

TERMINUS.

FIVE HOURS BETWEEN 'POSTAGE AND DELIVERY.

It has now become possible so to! expedita air-mail transportbe tween London and Faris that from

the actual delivery in Paris, the total timo occupied including ground connections as well as the

aerial journey from Croydon to Le Bourget is only a little over five

bours.

SLOTS.

MOTHER OF PEER SAVES PONIES..

HEROIC DASH INTO BLAZING STABLE. -

BURNING ROOF FALLS IN AS ANIMALS ESCAPE.

M.P. AND WOMAN IN DIVORCE SUIT.

JUDGE SUGGESTS HE IS SHIELDING HER.

A judge suggested in the Divorce Court that an M.P. was sheltering. a woman whose name was mention-

A herole dash into blazing stablened in his wife's suit.

Avdeerès abi was granted to by the Dowager Ludy Dunloath saved the life of her favourite peny living at White Walls, Hythe Mrs. Elisabeth Nicholson, now

when fire broke out iuring the

Few single inventions in aviation of the last few years have known the almost universal adoption-given-

Eight years of flying, 63,100 night at Ballywalter Park Count, and formerly of Cross Way te the Handley Pago slots, a British

passengera carried without Down, the residence of Lord 'Dun. Midhurst, Sussex, for divorce from wing device which has done much slightest injury to

her husband, Colonel Otho William. a single oc divest heavier-than-air flying of "cupant, and now being prepared At considerable risk Lady Dun-

Nicholson, M.P. for the Abbey Di- its greatest menace--the uncontroll for her ninth consentive son of loath, accompanied by the cook

vision of Westminster, p the

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tho

leath,

a veteran Avro 304K vourite pony to safety. She then

unknown woman.

The suis was not dofended,

the time of posting.in London, to ed divo, and spin following the trendons "jay-ride" flying, In a fentered the stables where the gut Bround of his misconduct with an stall "oss of flying speed).phrase that is the astonishing rebreak occurred, and led her the At the Bident when the main wings are beginning to lose their rip of the pig, when the angle of attack of the plane is nearing the Threo-quarters-of-an-hour are sav. critical point of steepness, the slots ad by the establishment which tiny wing-shaped auxiliary lift- has just bean affected, of a new ing surfaces which in normal flight sub-Post Office in the Airway Tor- lie snugly against the front edges minus of Imperial Airways of the main wings-move outwards Joining Victoria railway station, on ranke. In that position the London, S.W.J.

slots have the curious property of restoring smoothness to the airflow over the structure and, therefore,, lift to the wings.

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Automatio Type.' At first this device was invariably

In face of the fames Lord Dun- against the stables, and used the leath climbed a ladder which was

he was compulled by danse smoke household Ave extinguisher until

to beat a hasty retreat.

Mr. Bush James (fóx Mr. Nichol- son) said that there was an allegas · tion "ugainst a 'Mrs. Woodrow and also against an unknown woman. Langton, Mr Nicholson was given inder an order of Mr. Justice

the unknown woman liberty to prove the charges against before those relating to Mrs. Woodrow, Colonal Flames Under Control.

Otho Nicholson admitted the al- Newtownards, were called, and the woman, but denied the others. Mrs. Fire brigades from Belfast, andlegations joparding, the unknown

flames were got under control after Woodrow had intervened and filed an hour and a half,

an answer, He (Mr. Bush. James), proposed to prove the chargo re- garding the unknown woman.

cord of biplane, bearing the registration helped the cook to reseuo two other marks G-EBIZ, which belongs to ponics. the Cornwall Aviation Company.

March 1924, and even then had "The old warrior was purchased in

At that time she was a three-senter undergone first reconditioning. In the hands of Mr. P. Phillips, distinguished pilot of the original Royal Flying Corps, I spent her first senser at Fowey and New Your hegan saries of

annual jay- riding tours, the machine travell- ing inland from March till the end of June and spending thy summer

g). The next

and south-eastern coasts. At Mar gato, where " 12" stays fourteen weeks each summer, she is recognis ed as one of the town's standing holiday attractions and many of the same people come along year after year for a flight in her.

Joy Riding King,

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wog that

Tho centro portion of a long block of buildings was severely damaged and bay was destroyed, “Untrus Explanations."

Lady Dinleath told a reporter Mra. Nicholson's caso blazing up above. My concern was were married on January 19, 1927, "When I got there the stable was she and Colonel Otho Nicholsons for my favourite pie-bald. I called ber and she followed me cut. The They lived at Ormonde-gate, S.W., at St. Margaret's Westminstes other two-the chestnut and the and had two children. She allegou black mare were also very good that her husband neglected her They trotted after me and were almost from the beginning of their brought to safety.

married life, and particularly

Hitherto, late letters intended for the air-mail to Paris which leaves the London air-port at 12.30 p.m daily have been accepted at the General Post Office, E.C. up to 11 a.m., after which they have had to be placed in bags and sent connected with the ailerons (fying at scavite town on the south to dha Airway Terminus at Vilateral controls) and operated me- toria to catch the passenger-car for chanically by movements of the con the Croydon air-port which leaves trol levor, but nowadays the typu at 11.45 a.m. But with the sub-most generally employed worke en Post Office now at the Airway Tor-tirely automatically. Since the minus it becomes possible to post days when the big advance was a late letter at this now cffice up made to automatic working the to within Д minute of the depar- slotted wing has made great strides tura of the car for Croydon,

all over the world. Eighty per

'; Time Cut in Air Trip.

cent. of the aeroplanes in the Royal Afr Fores, the majority of machines In 1929 she was converted, into a Those who thus save three-quar-in a dozen foreign countries, British four scater, but continued to take- ters-of-an-hour in the late pusting commercial craft, light aeroplanes off and alight every ten minutes or of urgent letters alep have the ad-of all kinds, are equipped with so from a moderately size field vantage that the air schedule heslots. According to the latest avail with the regularity of a train, al-

Fond of Animals. tween Croydon and Le Bourget has, able figures, no fewer than 1,037 ways piloted by Mr. Phillips, who

The Dowager so far as the new 4-engined air British light aeroplanes of one type surely will soon qualify for con who is 70; is a daughter of the late paid by Colonel. Othu. N

Lady Duulenth, linexa of Imperial Airways are alone have been fitted with auto-sideration as the world's "jay-rid Captain tho concerned, been accelerated by 15 natic slowe

Hoa Somerset and a woman to a flat in Elsham- minutes, the time occupied in the

ing" Eing.

Richard Hamilton Augusta Ward, road, Kensington, S.W. This kind of aviation, which in. She married the second Lord Dun Mr Justice Bateson-D should 230-miles flight now being only 2 Aircraft Establishment speaks mest volves thousands of axcente" and leath in 1881, She is very fond of like to know why tha, case against

Thus, with the new postal facili developments of the slot idea, the exacting as n test of the machine of the Foreign Bird Club.

highly of one of the more recent descents every year, is all the more birds and animals, and is president the named lady is not gone on.

with. (To Mrs. Nicholson): Do ties at Victoria, and with the fas-"interceptor or spoiler," which because for the whole of the eight

you know Mra. Vivienne Woodrow ? ter air-liners, it means that a letter is employed, absurdly enough at months of activity each year IZancecoded to the title last March. Lord Dunleath, who is 46, only

Mrs Nicholson.-I have Dev posted at the last available moment first sight, to destroy the work ofis kept out in the open. But in He is a widower, his wife, Sylvia

heard of her in London, and leaving by the 12.30 the alot at certain moments. The spite of all the wear and tear an Henrietta, daughter of Sir Arthur conduct proved was before p.m. airliner from Croydon, is "interceptor" is a thin flat plate annual overhaul is sufficient to keep Douglas Brocke, having died in alleged against Mrs, Woodrow. delivered in Paris' shortly after which rises behind the slot on one her going for several sensons yet. 1921. five o'clock that same afternoon, awing or the other when the machine Hor record is a wonderful example total saving of approximately one is performing certain evolutions, of the long life and trustworthiness hour as compared with previous such as might frequently be employ that the owner may expect from his schedules.

hours.

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Now & report issued by the Royal

"It is very fortunate we gos them after the birth of the children. out at once. It would have been Latterly, he took to staying out roof fell in where they were," where he had been he gave explana, terrible, for shortly afterwards the late at night, and when she asked

tions which she found were untrue. Evidence was given about visits Nicholson

The cost of sending an ounce les between two fast war planes. The and intelligently flown.

ed during an aerial dog fight"eroplane, if it be carefully tended BAREFOOT HERMIT

tor from London to Paris by air, action of the slot on that side of

including the air fee as well as the machine is thus temporarily

B-crown.

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CRASH.

PHOT HILLED IN RECORD

ATTEMPT.

the ordinary charge, is fourpence. killed and the pilot's control is very 300 MILES AN HOUR Twelve years ago, when the Post much amplified. For example, the Office entered into a contract for pilot may wish at any moment to the carriage of mails on the Lon-pull his machine instantly out of a don-Paris. route, the feo was half-stalled" attitude into a normal flying posture; the quicker he can Post Office Advantages.

do so the greater is his chance of The advantage of having a Post getting his adversary at a disad- Office at the Airway Terminus at vantage. The combination of slot Victoria applies also in the cass agd "interceptor enables him to of late latters for the Indian and, do so with certainty and safety. African air mails. The airliner with the African mail now leaves Croydon each Wednesday at 12.30)

Developments of this kind may p.m., and it is possible to post late! lotters for this outgoing Empire moved from the interests of the

seem at first sight rather far

service up to within a minute of the departure of the connecting ca

ordinary commercial or private time of the crash his small mono from Victoria at 11.45 am. The control is however, a matter of plane had reached a speed of over flyer. Improvement of acroplane sap applies alec in regard to tha

vital importance in aviation. 200 miles an hour and that the departure from Croydon szch Saturday, at 12.20 p.m., of the air still remains for accomplishment; "The control system appears

Much has been done, but something record was in his grasp.

mail to India.

GROWTH OF IMPERIAL AIRWAYS.

Improved Control.

aeroplano fight.

TC-

Detroit, Dec. 6-While attempt ing to create a world speed record for land planes, Mr. Lowell Bay les, a well-known pilot, was killed here yesterday.

LEAVES £250,000.

25 YEARS AS A RECLUSE ON A SMALL YACHT.

Mr. Bush James said the mis-

that

Beal Person Sheltered."

Mr. Justice Bateson.-It looks.

very much as if Colonel Nicholson was sheltering. the roal person. It may be the same woman,

Mr. Bush James.--I think not. "Mr.

Justica Bateson, granting Mrs. Nicholson a decree nisi, with custody of the children, said that there was no doubt about the hus band's misconduct. Whether the case had been evolved by an Auckland (N.Z.).-A fortune of did not matter very much, but it tempt to shield the other woman £230,000 is reported to bave been certainly seemed to him to be con- left by Mr. Henry, Charles Swan, sistent with that.

Mr. Norman Parkes, who hold a an Englishman, who has died here watching brief on behalf of Colonel after living the life of a reeluse Otho Nicholson and Mrs. Wood. for 25 years on a small yacht an-row, Baked that she should be dis

missed from the suit as there, was chered in a tidal cruck at Hender no evidenes against her.

Bon, near Auckland,

Mr. Swan was understood to have been educated at Oxford, and be- His friends claim that at the came a barrister of the Inner Tem plo. After practising at Newcastic 3 years ago. on-Tyne, he came to New Zealand

He bought an orchard besidu-the ercek, at Henderson, and settled down to pursue his hobbies-botany astronomy. His reference

and

Mr. Justice Bateson.It is true, that the charges against her are 395 proceeded with to-day, but it loaves it open to the parties to proceed with them whenever they choose. I think they must remain, soluto is pronounced. at any rate until the decree ab-

SPAIN GREETS ITS FIRST PRESIDENT.

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the interceptor 37 represents one more step along the road to perfect have broken down under the intense library he kept in a cave, 12,000 MILES OF AIR which aircraft, designers have been earth like a stone and the fuel one. He gave all the fruit of his and assured control at all speeds strain, for the plane hurtled', to His life was an extremely simple

(Continued from Page 33 PRESIDENT NOT TO LIVE ROUTES.

troading since the beginnings of tank.exploded. Under the flight orchard to the poor, and went bare-

IN PALACE. conditions Bayles was not permitted sional visits to the town did he footed Only when he paid crea

FAMILY PREFER HOME to rise high enough to avert disswear sandals.

Madrid: The, rapid, evan spectacular. In the

President following year the total leapt up

ter. It was believed that the pilot Mr. Swan (says the

does not propose to reside in the Centrri

former Royal Palace, but will to 6,400 miles. This year the open

had broken the record on Tuesday, Nows) was a man of many accom-merely use rooms in it as his Figures quoted by Sir Eric Gading of the line to Central Africa but a time check showed that he

plishments. He studied astronomy, executive officca.

No des about the expansion of British has added another 2,400 miles and main air lines show vividly how the imminent extension to Cape had fallen short, by less than five and spent much of his time read They are too much attached to "I shall live in my own home was a fine singer of Border ballads,

with my own family," he says." quickly the network is growing. In Town will soon bring the aggre miles, of the speed of 276.49 miles ing the best English literature their home to leave it for 1024, when Imperial Airways was gate up to no less than 12,000 miles. founded, the company operated And there is no sign of slackonings per hour reached by M. Bonnet of aeroplanes over 1,700 miles of proposals affecting, the opening of

Sometimes as a special treat child-Palace.

To-lay Senor Zamora formally | regular, zoutos.

ren were allowed on his boat to announced the end of the provisions In 1928-20, the nearly 1,000 miles of additional France in 1924. total was still only 2,100 miles, but lines are already engaging the ac

gaze at the stars through his telesa thenceforward the advance has been itive attention of Imperial Airway

Britain holds the seaplane accord cope. He gave generously to char In Continued at foot of next column.) experts.

at 407,5 miles per hour.

ity.

Covornment on his election. Il hoped that a coalition similar to that headed by lenor Azana will be formed-Heuter.

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