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AIRWAYS AND AVTATION

LIGHT PLANES FOR BRAZIL.

TO BE TESTED ON ARRIVAL.

TRAINING MACHINES FÖR

THE GOVERNMENT.

DIVING AT 400 M.PH.

SUPREMACY OF BRITISH

DESIGN...

SUPERIOR STRUCTURAL STRENGTH EXHIBITED.

BOOK

FADERS

TEST DICATIONS

VIEWED.

EVOLUTION OR ASTROLOGY?

Darwinism has Deceived Hu- manity. By 8. Van Houwensvolt. Routledge 78. 6d.

thy interests clearly defund.

to have

These, as well as the tensity and sinperity of this book makes it worth roading and keeping as a first-rate example of an ably writ ten and clearly thought out murder

When M. van Houwen volt was a story. It is entirely out of the or- boy at school, one of his teachers dinary and should have a wido told him that men were descended success. from monkeys. To this day he bo lieves that this is what Darwin propounded in his famous theory of 'evolution "and what the world of Diving speed is not included, in sotenon has foolishly accepted as recognised performance tests, but truth over since.

A QUICK RECOVERY.

Kindled Flamo," By Margaret Pedler Hodder and Stoughton. 75.

Gront structural strength and magnificent design are implicit in Captain 8 Broad, chief test the revelation that British single pilot of the de Havilland Oom scator fighters have recently exceed pany, and Mr. W. T. W. Ballan-ed the world's spoed record of 4074 tyne, his assistant, bave sailed in miles an hour in vertical dives the Andalusia Star for Brasil, from heights of 20,000 and 25,000 where they will make full flying feet trials "of every machine in the Arab- bately of Afteen Moth" training aeroplanes recently acquired by the the ability of a military acroplane Darwinians, he tells us, "have" od Brazilian army air service The to withstand without structural rather funny views of

on and

When Ms Pedler allowed her aircraft are packed on board the failure the stresses imposed at make of it just what they please, as hero to figure as the co-respondent same vessel; and acceptance teste terminal velocity is of the first it happens to serve thoir parpose." in a divorce onse, she was creating will begin at Rio de Janeiro im importanco It

means that the Thousands of them are searching as much trouble as she could mediately the machines are uporat Aghting pilot need fear no. collapse for evidence of our descent from desire. Her heroine, engaged to à od and rigged for fight......... of the peroplans, no matter what monkeys, because, if they find any man she doesn't really love, makes

speeds he may reach in diving! after an enemy or how swiftly be they suddenly become famour, M. dreams.

or think they have found any, then the co-respondent the hero of her may twist and turn in aerial comnn Houwensvelt simply does We are not surprised that ber bat. And it is a quality in which know what he is talking about.

fiancé objects. Neither apparently British Aghting 'planes are pre- eminent. Bome even of the latest

is the author. She clears up the tangle with rapidity, and loarea US foreign built fighters carry a print-

with the feeling that the hearts, she ed warning that they must not be

has bruised will recover amid the dived at speeds more than 20 per

delightful country and county life cont. of the maximum velocity

she allows them. attainable in level fight. The British machines, with their un rivalled maximum speeds of 215-250 m.ph. have dived at around 410 m.p.-nearly double the top level speed-without a sign of disturb ance or undue vibration..

The Company has arranged to put every machine through the most severe dying tests, culminat ing in a full serobatic display. One of the firm's mechanics is de tauled to instruct the Brazilian perionnel in the maintenance and routine adjustment of machines and engines he will stay there for several weeks till a sufficient num bor of the army's senior mechanics are competent to care for the new

machines.

Firat for Brazil,

The Bont Aura:

not

MR. WALPOLE'S CUMBER- LAND FAMILY HISTORY,

Judith Paris. By Hugh Walpole. Macmillan. low ed. net.

However, he claims some know ledge of the "aura," which, he alleges, surrounds every one of us It is, he writes, "between 18 and 20 centimetres thick and of a light blue colour. It consists of many fine and straight rays. In cases of sickness these rays are bent or they cross each other near the bodily organ These new training machines

concerned. So the next time we specially equipped "Math biplanes

get influenza we can tell the doctor with Gipsy air-cooled motors-

that our "aura" is bent and that. Foreign Contracts.

In Judith Paris! Mr. Walpola are the first new British aeroplanes

wa want him to put it straight and continues his story of a Cumber to be ordered by the Brazilian Three types of single-seater air be quick, about it. He will very land family begun in "Rogus Har- Government. The contract was craft have reached these tremendous probably diagnose some other more vies. He repudiates the idea that placed after a sureful study of velocities in the dive up to the pre-

serious trouble.

it is a sequel undertaken after the aoven competitive types of machine, Bent, the Hawker "Fury" and

Astrology, too, is 'n strong point publication of the earlier book. pus forward by constructors of four." Nimrod of the Royal Air Force with M. van Houwensvelt, The This history of Judith, the Rogue's nations. In the final assessment and the Fairey Firefly," recently future, he tells us can be predicted daughter, may be followed, he says, the credit for the order must go to ordered in Inrgo quantities for the by stayding the sturs. His hero in without any knowledge of ber the excellent flying qualities, and requirement of the Belgian air this, field is the sixteenth-century father or curiosity as to her do- robustness of the neroplane; never servic It will be recalled that prophet Nostradamus, who pre-cendants: but he also reveals that tholoss, it is not fanciful to dis the first Firefly order in Belgium dicted Napoleon, the retreat from twenty years ago, probably before cern a clear connection between the was accured after Mr. Moscow, the Great War, the Ger- the later Forsytes were thought of, now order, which means definitely Fairey had offered to demonstrate man offensive of 1918 at St Quente had a plan of writing the story the displacement of rival interests a "terminal velocity" dive of tin, the bombardment of Paris by

of an English family that should. in the Brazilian aeroplane market nearly 400 m.ph. His pilot, he the "Big Berthas," the rise of Bol- and the unprecedented enterprise anid, would ascend to 25,000 feet in shevism in Russia, the difficulties of cover two hundred years and that of the British aircraft industry in Firefly," divo vertically towards the League of Nations, Mussolini, English scene for its centre.

should have, throughout, the same staging last year's great air dis the earth and pull out above the less and much more.

fying machines, submarines, wire, play at Buenos Aires at the time aerodrome within sight of the ex- M. van Houwensvolt has strained of the British Empire" Trade Experta assembled there. Ho invited at the goat of evolution and swal the Franch and Czechoslovakian lowed the camel of astrology, com

plete with aura." new constructors who were competing for the order to do the same. But they deburred, and the order was secured for the British company.

hibition,

The equipment of the machines includes wireless. appara tus, night and """blind" flying in struments, four small bombs, elec. trically operated camera and rocket.

PUSS MOTHS" FOR

DESERT PATROL.

A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE.

The intelligent reader of Mr Walpole here will therefore wish to refresh his memory of the earlier about those to come will certainly generations, and his curiosity

The excited by the announcement of a third volume, "The Fortress,”” in preparation for. nexð autumn, and concluding one, so far untitled, already in contemplation." The intelligent aritia of "Judith Paris" cannot ignore these intimations of a Herries Saga. He may regard the present story as standing by

own

These prodigious diving, speeds signalling gear, In spite of this heavy load the highest attainable are indubitable evidence of the

beautiful streamlining of the aerofior. By Sidney Fowler (S. Fow-itself complete within its

The Hanging of Constance Hil- speed, of the neroplane is well ovari 100 miles an hour and, though in-planes. One of the limiting factors ler Wright). Jarrolds. 78. 6d. net.limits, but he cannot ignors these There is a great deal more in this intimations of a Herries daga. Ho tended primarily for training, they, is the air resistance of the machine. are potentially formidable enough structure; the less clean its enthralling murder story than the may regard the present story na

mere thrills of a mystery tale, as to prova extremely useful in a war. lines the sooner will it reach its such. Indeed there is very little at standing by itself complete within its own limits, but ho cannot forget emergency. Much good work has maximum diving apeed. Tests have tenipt at the mystification of the that in length (736 pages), in scope; beca dona by less powerful and shown that the British single-seater render, and until the final acare noin manner, above all in idea, it has sensational happenings. The atory bean controlled with its companions Blower machines.....

fighters dive so rapidly, faster oven is briefly the indictment and hang by the general plan. He will be without engine power than with it,ing of Constanco Hillier and her watchful of the continuous theme that the ultimate attainable speeds lover, Thomas Mogson, for the

death of Lady Catherine Middle awful word "theme" Mr. Walpole. appearing in it-though from the in the dive may be far beyond ditch, the rich and domineering may take flight as from something those yat recorded. No amount of aunt who has enslaved the youth of too serious and solemn for the Pre statistics and “discussion could tell Constance and her sister It after face to a romance,

wards transpires that tacre has the seronautical expert more about bean a gross miscarriage of justico the fine streamlining of these fight-in, the case of, Constance ilier: ing 'plance.

Mogson had also been-friendly with hor sister and had given: to her the packets of the rare poison which had ended their tyranny. He writes all thimin & confession which

The Revelation of St. John the comes too late to save Constance Divine. With Twelve Drawings by from execution, det, sier Ted

But Mr. Fowler's attitude Frances Clayton. London: Faber The military Puss Moth, these matters is not exclusively that and Faber. Fr. 58. 213. bet. Iraq's air fores, which was though its interior equipment is of an author endeavouring to in. One learned at school that "Re founded ten months ago with a radically converted to service use,terest his readers in the fate of his velations was a howler, and Mins creations; and it may here be men- Clayton's drawings, whatever else nucleus of are light two-seater is outwardly similar to the light tioned that his creations are of they are, are that. They might be biplanes, is soon to be

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Kew Bridge September 1929, signed for test patrol and recon- way of the South Atlantic ocean grown. He notes, ton, some of the One, element of terror in the pit Theatre announce to-day the show success in other Universs): produc:

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