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AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.

WORLD'S LARGEST

AIR-LINERS.

BRITAIN COMPLETES FLEET OF GIANT CRAFT.

EIGHT 4-ENGINED MACHINES.

IN REGULAR SERVICE.

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"Helena," tho, last of the great 4-engined aeroplanes built to the order of Imperial Airways by MOST, Handley Page Ltd., has just been delivered at the London airport, and Britain now possonnes, in regular operation, a fleet of the biggest and most luxurious pas

senger air-liners"in the world,

DEFENCE AGAINST

AIRCRAFT.

VALUE OF MARVELLOUS"

NEW SEARCHLIGHT. 'PLANES ACCURATELY LOCATED AT 16,000FT.

LUNCHING UP IN

THE AIR.

POPULARITY OF IMPERIAL AIRWAYS LUNCHES,

Figures now available show that i there has been an increase, reoent-

18 HOURS ADRIFT

IN A GALE

LIFEBOAT MISSED BY

100 YARDS...

PETROL S O 3,

After a terrible aflight ordent in a disabled motor-boat during a

gale off the Pembrokeshire cost, two men landed safely in St.

GRAND NATIONAL..

SURPRISINGLY SMALL

ENTRY..

IS THERE'A DHARTH OF

JUMPERS?

Every prediction as to the number of entries in the Grand National is falsifiet. It was generally expected that the entry would at least be as large as last year, when eighty-fivo There jumpers were nominated. They had had al 18-hour battle were even, fears that the field would with the gale.

be unduly big this year owing to tho threatened influence of the Irish Sweepstake on the race. It is now certain that the turnout on Marsh 18 will certainly not be above the average of rocent 80280118 and a long way below the pheno- * maal field of 1929, which numbared sixty-six.

The most remarkable searchlightly, of nearly 100 per cent in respect Bride's Bay."" which has emerged since the War of meals and refreshments served promises to reduce the advantage up in the air, in Imperial Airways which the raider in air warfare has machines, while flying between Bon- hitherto had Anti-aircraft arma don and the Continent, ment has been improved, fighter

"An explanation of this growth performance has rudvanced greatly, in aerial catering," said an official but the location of enemy machines of the Company, is to be found

The two men were Major Walter Sturt, of Skomer Istand, and John Edwards, a fishermani,

Major Sturt and his wife are the

Mr. E. A. C. Topham has received only fifty-eight entries for the big

sidorably smaller than had been The cost of entering looked for. a hores for the Grand National is 10. If he is left in after the for fuit stage on March 8, a further Hability of £5 will be incurred and there is an additional Bio for

night has remained most diffi in the size and luxury of our new cult by ordinary methods. The con-4-engined air-liners. In these ma-only residents in Skomer Island, ventional searchlight has two main chince the saloons are as large, and which is two miles off tho Wont There are now sight of these 2,500 disadvantages diffusion of light as sumptuously equipped, as those Coast of Pembrokeshire at the south horse-power" aircraft four being because its beam is cone-shaped; and of modern railway Pullman-cars. and of St. Bride's Bay. The Major steeplechase this time, a tota).con-

a small area of effectiveness even at The result is this passengers. now equipped to operate on the India

great range. Diffusion could be eastward from

regard an air journey as a normal sot out to return to his land home air-mail route

prevented by making the walls of Cairo, and the remaining four be

the bean parallel, but such a beam, it just as on any similar trip by afternoon in

means of travel, and cadark upon about thren o'clock on Monday ing for use on, the Continental ser

" motor-boat, with to be of any use, would have to be surfaca transport. In fact our big Edwards as his sole companion. vice between London and Paris.

Projected by an enormous search. The names of these air-liners fight. The solution of the problem,

machines fly so smoothly, and with classed according to their type, aro discovered by a body of men when absence of noise, that people were not concerned in the first placeat, drink, talk, read, or play carda with anti-aircraft defence, is a com. while up in the air exactly as they posite beam made up of many small

would in any de-luxa train or [boat:”. beams, each of which has parallel

ns, follows:

For India route (Cairo-Karachi):

Hannibal, Hadrian, Hagne and Horan. For Continental route (London- } walls.

Paris) Haracles, Horatia, Hengist and Helena.

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To render them specially suitable"

for semi-tropical conditions on the

India route, the Eastern" HI-

chines provide exceptionally prei

ous accommodation for 18

passag

ers; whereas the saloons in each of the machines on the Paris route

sent an, Fauny as 38 passengers,

Near-East Routes.

In the four air-liners operating in the Near-East, provision is made for carrying 3,506 lbs. of mails and freight, but in the machines on the Continental route, carrying so many the mail and freight capacity is approximately 1,000 lbs.

mere

passengers,

Each of the eight air-liners has

RANGE-FINDING.

This proved to be not merely solution of the problem of prevent

ing diffusion and to increasing the

Four Course Luncheon...

"In our, 38-passenger machines ou the London-Paris route uniformed stewards now fly rogu.

two

When about half-way across Jack Sound the motor in the boat failed and the two men had then to revers to sail and cars.

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In the gale and the heavy seas their little craft was soon driven out to sen. .,'

starters.

Thus the total amount involved, for a runner in the race is £100. The Liverpool Race Club gives

3,000 to the stake, which makes.it along way the most valuable of all.. steeplechases in this country. The unexpected shortage of entries this

Their plight was seen from the headland, and the St. Davida life larly, and, in nildition to the usual boat went out. For several hours light refreshments, they serve athe lifeboat searched, while all still more important question of machines are in flight on the mid-kept vigil along the coastline. faren of effectiveness but also of the four-course luncheon while these through the night willing watohers year will have the natural effect of

capitals A typien, menu for one despaired. At last they got to the day service between the two.

The two men" in the, bont never of these mid-air luncheons, which toward of some rocks. are now becoming so popular, is As follows:-

fixing the position and direction of

the raider when caught in the light. The anti-aircraft battery of to-day is equipped with good range-inders, and its electrical control allows of rapid operation, but the target must be held by the light for reasonable length of time. The new searchlight, produced by Major Jack Savage and his sky-writing staff at Hendun. simplifies the pro- ceas of range-inding, while at the same time it diminishes the maiding pilot's chance of escape from the beam. The beam is composite, and

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Hors d'ocuffe

Consomme on taxscy;- Cold buffet. Salad. Cheese and Biscuits.

*Fruit. Coffee.

The culoring facilities we now provide in these big airliners are, we find, appreciated especially by

a' crew of four-a pilot, assistant its composition permits it to assume businessmen, more of whom, every

pilot, Wireless operator, and many different forms. The 300 raya day are now making a regular use steward; but in the machines of which it is built may be worked of the airway when on urgent jour. operating daily between London into a great variety of patterns. neys." and Paris, on which a four The familiar conical beam may bo course lunch is "now" sorved--while simulated. A straight line of light

5.0.8 Signal.

A anil was rigged up, but the wind tore it to ribbons. An old CANVAS was lighted with" petrol to act as a distress signal, but this was soon burnt out.

Throughout the night the two men rowed backwards and forwards in the shelter of the rocks.

At break of day, deciding to make for land, they rowed about for some time in the mist and rain.

Then from the shore they were | discovered off Little Haven; a small village in St. Bride's Bay, and the

in flight, two stewards ara carried, may be stretched across the sky, ing into it from the darkness like boat was attached to moorings.

one for each saloon.

Major Start mentioned that the

reducing the value of the race co

rakle received 20,365. This time the winner. Last year the owner of

the winner will not get more than £8,000. There will be £500 for the second, £500 for the third, and £900 for the fourth.

Reasons for Decline,

I ascribe the smallness of the an tay mainly to fact that there is a dearth just now of horses of the real Grand National type. "The new con dition which came into force last season and have boon tightened up to some extent this year must also have had the effect of keeping a

certain number of horses out of the

entry.

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Three previous winners, Grükle, St. Davids lifeboat passed within Shaun Goiling and Gregalach, enn a hundred yards of them, but they

There may be a series of circles, spark, and is soon across another. Each of these luxury airliners arce, or squares. The most obvious Actual experimental work was done. is driven by its four angines at a application of the idea is to be in one hour at Biggin Hill re. cantly, with the help of the new maximum speed of 120 miles-an-squares to make a grid.

Artillery man squares on the searchlight, which would ordinarily failed to attract the attention of try conclusions" again over the hour and cruises at 105 miles-an.!

the crew

Liverpool country. The youngest of hour; while by the placing of the ground may now have their counter- have had to be spread over three

During the night, he said, he and the entries is Colonel Toljambe's ongines away from the body of the part in the sky with important re-

Within certain very wide limits Edwards lighted matches and tried Inverse, who is the only 6-year-old. machine, and the employment of sults: Set aid of 16, squares in

the sky, and the aeroplane which there is a great choice of patterna in other ways to give signals, but An interesting competitor will be special sound-deading materials in

comes within the meshes of this net which the anti-aircraft defences with no success. the hull-structure, noise has been

is puzzled, in the first place. na to may use, and there is very little

so reduced that passengers can talk

to each other in the salcons, even when flying at high speed, without there being any need to raise the voice.

Fleet of 41 Planes.

In operation, or construction, Imperial Airways now have a Beet of 41 aircraft, tutalling 58,000 horse power. Four years ago, in 1927,

the total air-fleet of the Company comprised 20 aircraft, totalling a horse-power of 18,000,

The new machines now in process

of construction are eight 4-engined monoplanes designed for operation

on the African air route between Cario and Capetown...

When these new monoplanes come into service, the Imperial Airways

months.

which way to turn to avoid the difficulty in providing the different alone on Skomer Island, awaited dies, who, except for one mistake Throughout the night Mrs. Sturt, Captain R. E. Sassoon's West In- A new pattern may be the return of her husband. There early in the race, jumped these, big- next line of light, and, in the paterns. second place, it automatically gives prepared in an hour and a halfano communication between the fences in remarkably fine style when to the ground defences all the in- Two different patterns are normally mainland and the island, and she formation they need for working carried in the searchlight drun would be without nows of her hus winning the Valentine Steeplechase out its height, speed, and direc-and the change over from one to tion when it has crossed two of the the other takes only four seconds. These particulars may be The light in lf-contained und lines. rapidly translated into terms of mobile, and may be controlled from artillery fire. The efficiency of the a remote point by means of an in-

band's snfoty till a boat went

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with her, owner up in November, Captain Sassoon is also represented in the entry by Smoky Moke.

As I was able to announce on Mon- dy the doubt as to the qualifications

new searchlight in this respect has genious four-way switch. It is gat and Impudent Barney, who been demonstrated recently to re- on a petrol-electric lorry which several steeplechases in bic presentatives of the War Dilled generates the power for it and also country last year. Major W. of the American horse, Sea Saldiens Fighter aircraft, which offered a sets 28 transport. The drum in Barrett's stable has four entries, in have boon satisfactorily settled, and smaller target than the night which, the light is fixed may be cluding Annandale, who was third he is entered in the name of Mr. bomber, were used for the tests, traversed throughout the complate to Grakle and Gregaloch last year, and were plotted with the utmost circle, and may be elevated or de- and The Ace II., a noted perform. AH. Niblack, who is one of a syn- coac Not arly wore they plotted pressed from horizon to park er in his day in France. His dicate of "ten in the ownership of quickly who found but, in con- All these operations are electric ly owner, the Marquis de San Miguel, the horse. junction with sound locators, they controlled, and may be perford is also represented by Gale Book, were found much more quickly than at fast or slow speed.

who could not run in the race Inst they could otherwise have been. '. This is a searchlight in which op year owing to an untimely míslay | tical principles have been applied to On the whole whers are fewer

excellent advant Very tile bad horses in the entry than usual, Mr. J. H. Whitney has Bir Lindsay power is lext te he transmission though such selling platers na Red-and Dusty Fant. Mr K. Mellon.

yatim, which is the secret of the lynch and Harewood have been benz. The light available is

has Glangesia (who has lately been-

· RAPID LOCATION. “

8,000,000,000 candle power, and the nominated presumably in the hope.

American Owners.

Among other American owners

Beet will include, 19, 4-engined air: craft and 17 machines driven by three engines; whereas in 1925, 50

The reason for this more rapid location is the wider area covered far as multi-engined aircraft were

by the grid beam. The sound concerned, the Company had, only 3 locators are capable of fixing the loss in the process of transmission that something will turn up to their in the United States) and Alike. twin-engined machines.

position of a raider within an area does not exceed 11 per cent. With advantage. An effort is to be made Mr. C. §. Bird Jun., en American-

the aid of this sedrohlight fighters The large multi-engined aircraft subtending an angle of deg, from have been picked up and plotted at to get Richmond II., who has been sportswoman well known in the

the listening post The grid benma height of 10,000ft. The modern more or less unsound since he now employed by Imperial Airways subtends an angle of 20deg. along bomber has a higher service ceiling inished third, three years ago, to

Irish hunting fold, than that, but it clear that ita

Oprescuted not only provide greater reliability, any one of its sides and 29deg chance of successful, work are the post this time, but Billasport, by Heartbreak Hill, the winner load capacity, and comfort for paralong a diagonal. To lay the boam, greatly lessoned if it is forced up as foreshadowed by his owner, does of Grand Softon, sengers, but also operate at lower therefore, on the line indicated by to such height No move has been

previ- costs per ton mile than any pr oua machines flown by the Com

pany.

made by tho-War Office to adopt not appear among the entries. It the sound looster is in lost cases, the searchlight for the air defences is interesting to observe that the to stride the target so that within of London, por has the apparatus Liverpool Hurdle-Race has secured a very short space the aeroplane been sold to any other Power, only one entry less than the Grund crossca one of the grid lines, flush though the skywriting rights for

~~(Continuca v}}"next" celiman.)" "| Germany have been disposed of National,

Other Irish entries include Cold Punch, who showed up fairly well

at the Liverpool Autumn meolingi

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