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Eastern Engineering

AND

Commerce

A monthly journal dedicated to

the promotion of engineering industry and commerce in the countries of the Eastern Hemisphere.

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1932.

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AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.

A POWER TEST,

SUCCESS OF BRISTOL ÁIR-

COOLED ENGINE.

Remarkable figures were obtained during recent official tests of a Bristol "Mercury" gine cylinder supercharged air-cooled radial motor, a new power-unit developed

for, use in high performance single

seater fighters or similar nizernin

capable of speeds, at great heights of 200 miles an hour or more Several of the newest British mili tary craft were designed round this engine: ons' of them, the new Vickora "Jockey" interceptor fighter, is credited with a maximura speed of no less than 238 m.p.h. at operational height of 20,000 feet The engine is rated to give

*AIR UNIVERSITY' FLEET.

DISTINGUISHED STUDENTS :

AT HAMBLE.

con-

FOREST FIRE PATROL.

CANADIAN PILOT'S FINE RECORD.

Trophy for 1981/

Fourteen neroplanes. now

More than 70,000 miles of flying stituto the Best of the international in the course of one of the most air university at Humble, on exacting taaks imposed on any aero- Southampton Water, which was plano pilot have won for George opened ten months ago by Ain Ser Phillips, senior pilot to the Eastern vice Training Ltd. They comprise Operating Division of the Ontario four powerful" Atlas two-seater Provincial Air Service, the Mekoe biplanes similar to the craft ased in the Royal Air Force für army co- operation work "Biskin "fighter, three D.H. 93 two-senter craft, two Avra Tutor service training machines and our

planes.

Some of the

Avian light

Like the Britannia Trophy in England, this award goes each year to the pilot who is considered to have done the most meritorious

BOOKS and READERS

BY SYLVIA LYND.]

TALES OF THE SEVEN

SEAS.

An Incoming Sea.

His next ship was the sort of "Adventures of sui Obscure Vič- boat of which one can imagine the torium" By W. - Go Riddell, } characters in Mr. Conrad's "The Macmillan. 78. 00.

Rescue taking charge. It was Mr. Riddell is a character La torribly oaky and rottenly-suilt search of au cathon, and the ad-ship, and there was a wild night thor whom he should have attached coming through the Bay of Biseny himself to is Mr. Rudyard Kipling, with a cargo of grapes and iron in For Mr. Riddell is just such a which Mr. Riddell fought with un character as Mr. Kipling would incoming sen for ten hours. Thon love to have invented in the things the very drunken chis! engineer. he has seen, the things he has done, a ́splendid reprobate called Gregg, the fools ho han laughed at, the jaws whom Mr. he has punched:

Riddell encountered again in happier circumstances Mr. Riddell is clearly the posses later on, came down the ladder. sor of far more than the average He looked about in rather a dazed supply of cleverness and strength way and said: "There's a hell of

wirtues But so casually, so un

long have you been on, watch, Min- I told him. "Well, Mix-

work for aviation. It is not neces sarily given for any spectacular Avians" have been effort but for consistent good work. and the virtue which includes all a lot of water in the bilges. How maximum power of 500 h.p. at an equipped "for night flying in readi.And the Ontario Provincial Air omphatically does he tell his atory + " altitude of 18,000 feet, normal take-ness for a group of pupils who will Service, entrusted with the respon that we have to extract these faels ter," he said, "that's a damned off power at ground level being 530 be taking this form of instructionsibility of checking the"fire danger in the great forests, may fairly h.p. and the rated power for during the next few weeks before Sround-level running being 430 h.p. going on to quality for the Air claim to do work that is not sur

passed'in usefulness by the activities Ur commercial tent Ministry's "B" In the special category "

of any other aerial organisation. Imposed by the Air Ministry, a pilot's, licence.

During the dangerous months deped fuel was employed, but no. nodifications were made to the en-

from May to October, when the gine. The programme of the test

summer heat and the carelessness included power and throttle curves

of prospectors and tourists combine up to maximum engine speed of

to inereuse the hazard of fire, the 2,500 revolutions & minute, an en-

air patrolmen are on the job con-

durance test at normal speed of

Two well known aviators

Bro

studying at Hamble. Lady Bailey, famous for her lone flights through Africa a year or two, ago, recently obtained her "B" licence and is

preparing to take her second class

for ourselves. He is the lost shame," Thes he noticed soma. egotistical of autobiographers, and white fioth streaming down a bulk- thia, entertaining record of hardship head and said: "What's that:71 overcome with courage, brains and I said I supposed the sen had got laughter might easily,, pass by un amongst the grapes.

"You're right, Mister," he said, "and I've thought appreciated.

of a damn fine invention. We'll » eatch it and sell it for Eno's Fruit Salt."

A Wonderful Place:

Here is the outline of the story. Mr. Riddell, the son of well-to-do After this, Mr. Riddell tolle us people, found, when he was 16, that that he woke up again"

need

per sent. excess speed, a rate of hertificate in air navigation. Mi tinuously for ten and, twelve hours his parents owing to extravagance asked for the second engineer, "Go

2,250 p.m. and short bursts at 15 revolution which is now permissible for five minuts periods on all the engines in the now "Pegasus" and

Mercury seriek.

Astonishing Power.. Astonishing horsepower readings

wore got on the brake. At normal

Winifred Spooner, who is in charge of Mr. Lindsay Everard's landing ground at Leicester and is probably the only woman aerodrome manager in the world, has been accepted for courses in instrument flying and in

a day. Each is allotted a "beat," above which he ties ceaselessly in a light seaplane ever on the watch for signs of a

new conflagration among the trees below. At the first hint of danger he summons bigger suppression planes, which carry

engine speed the power developed the difficult technique of instruc-fire-fighting equipment to the scene

773 h.. at 10 per cent excess speed | tion. the recording instruments showed 862 h.. and at the highest speed

%

Blind Flying.

attained the motor was developing Among pupils now at the school

no less than 293 b.b.p.

six qualified recently for the "A

the

It is believed that no other air-certificate which is the usual badge cooled type of engine has ever passed 1 test of comparable of proficiency sought by Reverity, certainly not outside Eng amateur pilot, three gained "blind" land. It means that in normal use flying certificates and three their the engine has an iminense reserve

"B" licences. of power and the well within its capacity, thus ensuring long life

A new lecture room is furnished

of action. Frequently the warning

the outbreak is simple, and each is given so quickly that checking

year the air patrols save millions of dollars' worth of timber from destruction, the work is strenuous indeed;, at During the summer

the end of the long day's flying the pilot must see that his machine is and trustworthiness in all ordinary with an extremely ingenicus Padjustments and routine inspection ready for the next morning and any

paratus which supplements instruc tion given in flying by instruments must be done before he leaves the

A Small But Doughty Plane. George Phillips is a king among In 1931 the flew alio these men. gether for 770 hours 30 minutës, of which no fewer than 745 hours

conditions of use.

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to God we are " said Mr. Riddell, And "meant it.".

afford to continue this education, said Mr. Gregg, and added "And and financial losses, could not up and send the drunken-down," The boy loved country life and come back yourself," Mr. Riddell wanted to be a farmer, but instend told him he was going for a sleep he was sent to. Glasgow to learn to whatever happened. be an engineer. His mother was too proud, in her new poverty, to Mr. Gregg, "if you don't come back Look here, young fellow," said

apply for help to influential friends, we will all be drowned." "I hope and no proper apprenticeship was troduced into an engine works by arranged for the boy, who was in

Foundered With all Hands. the brother of an ex-housemaid of his grandmother's. This worthy, !

The whip escuped that voyage

turner's apprentice nt id, an hour absted, Mr. Riddell would not sail but dull, man started him as a however, as the storm suddenly

with the prospect of rising to 24. is her again, and next voyage she an hour in the fifth year-and there foundered with all hands.

all his life wäre it not for his own this hardy and uncomfortable life, Mr. Riddell might have remained! For three years Mr. Riddell led,

abilities and ambitions. Dull cera and we learn from him of other pany and frightful cooking wore storms and other jokes, of how ho his lot in his lodgings; but his first nearly murdered a man and later chance sight of the Clyde convinced of how he tried build ships for him that he was after all in the Russian Fleet in Finland. How wonderful place."

be extricated Himself and Larned. himself into a rich man, he dous not tell us. That is the one fault.

It of this fascinating, true story.

An Expert Swearer." At the end of a year of making 60,000 miles-on his own particular bolts and screws Mr. Riddell got is not long enough"

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and 641 hours-equivalent to nearly

Gipsy Moth" bearing the regis- himself transferred to the actual tration markings G-CAPC. This building part of the works, and craft was delivered list Apr:3, and there an excellent workman named by the end of the year had piledBaldic Dens taught him, he tills ep a mileage that few motor-cars

export

reach in three years of stendy run- us, not only do be "an ning. During the height of the swearer" but "how to use a chisel summer Phillips was spending more had file almost as well as he did. than 200 hours in the air each himself Whether in feats of en month. Apart from his fire patrol

work, ho made many special fights, durance or feats of ingenuity, r especially noteworthy being a jour Riddell quickly surpassed the world ney made one night with a doctor

in the passenger's cockpit to a men in the yard, and he then, as

FUTURE OF SPEED. summer camp on Lake Superior, the next step in his career, went

LONDON-NEW YORK IN SEVEN HOURS.

Phillips took off at 9.30 p.m., flew to sug as a junior engineer. to the camp after they su had set, descending in a sheltered bay on He was lucky in his first ship, for

the lake, and returned to his hend- quarters by midnight, making a perfect descend in the light of the acetylene plant which is located op- Flights over the 3,000 milesporite the Air Service base. separating London from New York. in six or seven hours as a possibility

of the comparatively near future, racers could actually be flown level following on the development by

British experts of his speed racers at a speed of 330 miles an hour

though old, she was comfortable, and the worst thing that happened to him on her was a practical joke which gave him "quite a wrong iden of the position of a fourth engineer in a ship."

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MORE FATALITY IN: FICTION.

¡BY CHARLES WILLIAMS.1

"Murder in the Zoo." By Babette

Hughes, Eenn, Tx. ad Bullets Bite Deep." By David

Hume: Patnam. 78, 8d "The End of Mr. Davidson." By

Oliver Stonor. Heinemann. 78 6d.

The Zoo is the animal labora- tory maintained by the psychology department" in Earl College. It might almost as well be the philoso- phical laboratory maintained by the culture department. For the pro fessor who solves the murder of a' brother-professor has a scope of re- ference to which I hardly remember out that when one of the racers boast to the captain, declared Mr rival in one lyrical sentence be includes Seneca. Pliny, Plato, St. Orlebar, who in 1920 and again began to accelerate for the take-off Riddell to be the nephew of

St. Augustine, Erasmus last year was the captain of the the pilot could see cothing because Cabinet Minister. As a result of Gregory.

Darius, Vincendius Opsopoeus, High Speed Flight, was insistent of the clouds of spray, and the

Bungled Smuggling, for international Schneider Trophy with hands and feet off the con- contests, were foreshadowed by trots. The difficulties of control The joke was that the chief en Wing Commander Orlebar during a werd entirely associated with "land-gineer, wishing for a moment to lecture to the Royal United Service

and take-off. He pointed Institution.

ing"

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on the value of the work done in slipstream from the airscrew swung this statement Mr. Riddell was Producing the machines, which have the machine uncontrollably to the treated with great consideration by set the world's speed record at the left until it reached a speed auf the captain; but he was so inex astonishing figure of 4071 miles an Scient for the rudder to heepme

hour.

that the operative. In landing the craft perienced that this wave him no lessons learned were at least as must be flown in at about 100 suprins:

He contended

Villon and Li Po. He agrees with

Li Po, againe Chuang Tzu, He

Arno Holz, cleo Groacim Mara. quotes Corneille, Oscar Wilde and

I understand that in life Grau-

valuable as the information gleaned .p.b. on touching the water do. This sume chief engineer was a cho Marx is real, But in this book

celeration was exceedingly rapid. from such activities as polar ex- and the pilot's shoulders must be peditions and mountain climbing. And the cost was not dispropor. braced well hack, to avoid his being tionate; a single recent polar ex jerked on to the windscreen and pedition had cost two and half breaking his goggles. times as much as the estimated cost of competing in the 1031 Schneider contest.

Concealed Murder.

great smuggler, but on the return he is the last draw of unreality. from this particular voyage the that breaks the back of the camel. Customs officer had got word that of credulity. he intended to smuggle "at least Wing Commander Orlebar added 9,500 cheroots.". Finding that he that four years of steady, British had no chance of geting them preparation for Schacider contesta ashore, the engineer bad them put Misi Hughes's error is in giving had seen the maximum speed raised in sucks one night, weighted with all this culture to a single mind. from 20 to 400 mp/h. Much could firebare and thrown overboard. The other characters don't recognise. still be learned by continuing this Due of the snoks must have i Po when they hear him. If she high speed research; he thought it burst," mys Mr. Riddell, because would condescend to make culture by no means unlikely that velocities next morning the dock was covered scem natural to the mind and a of the order of 400 miles an hour with oberoots They hang round little more necessary to the plot, her might be attained in the future by the ship's side in the most incri next book really would be delight aeroplanes which could enrry aminating way, bus of course it was fal. For the five minutes of the useful load over fairly long dis impossible to bring a case against murder here are admirably concen

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Racing 'Planes Handle Well. Contrary to general lay belief, Orlebar stated that handling of the racing planes in the air was simple and straight forward. The pilot had an impression of complete control of power that was most stimulat ing; when properly rigged, the 1931 #Odishaved at to % of nezt columu i tances,

anyone.