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BRITAIN'S AIR UNIVERSITY.
EVERY BRANCH OF AIRMANSHIP STUDIED.
The international flying school at Hamble, on Southampton Water, progresses well. Since the Duke of Gloucester formally opened the school & year ago nearly 200 pupils and officers of the Resevre of Air Forces have passed through it.
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BOOKS and READERS
SOME FAMOUS CASES RECALLED,
"IN THE LIGHT OF
THE LAW."
-bis phenomenal memory. In a case
involving a long and intricate
intricate series. of transactions dating many, FORTS back, his "opening" occupied mors than three hours, without his being soon to refer to a note or book, and afterwards his opponent, Bir Ed- Legal reminiscences make strong ward Chrson, K.C., stated that
· FABOINATING' BOOK OF LEGAL MEMOIRS.
types of power unit widely employed appeal to very many people who though he had checked every state- in the company's air line firet.
For many years the only method employed in Great Britain and elsewhere in the study of problems spinning seroplane was to drop models from the root of a high
Ergines fitted to the " Argosy ", building and to watch their be
trimotor biplanes which were the haviour as they spun, towards the
Underlying the scheme is the mainstay of the British cross ground. In England the research determination to provide in Channel services till recently, when workers dropped their models from civilian organisation the full course they were supplemented by larger the roof of the old balloon shed at of training that was previously and more powerful, four-engined the Royal Aircraft Establishment, only obtainable in the Royal Aircraft, are commonly run for 500 Farnborough, but this was demolish-Force. The school is run in every hours between over-hauls. This ed a few months ago and new means detail on service lines, under the command of Group Captain R. J. Barton, and all of the flying in structional staff are men who have years of experience as pilots of the RAFF. Airmen from overseas, particularly officers serving in for- eign air forces, are likely to form a large proportion of the pupils as time goes on, and enquiries have already been received from most parts of the world, including the United States, Canada, Argentina, Egypt, Finland, Germany, India, Latvia, Nigeria, Sweden and Yugo-ther indication of the tremendous slavin..
advance represented by the present day practise..
Smaller engines in the service of
|
Blind Flying.
error.
have no personal interest in the ment he bad not found a single law, provided that they are divest- ed of legal technique, and treat matters so that the man in the street understand and appreciate
can
thom.
Subsequently, when asked by the author if he had used any system. No all he did was to read his of mnemonics, Sir John said,
briefs over and over again, thereby log in his memory all that he
considered materiál.
Of this order of literature may be classed a volume which makes period, representing approximately its appearance today" In the 45,000 miles of flying, is accen-Light of the Law" (Grant Richards,
Mr. Bowen Howlands will enligh plished without any intermediate
12s. 6d), written by Mr. Ernest tea many on the domestic aspects top" or minor overhaul of the
Bonen-Rowlands, barrister-at-law, of the Bar, particularly with re- kind that was gustomary a fom
sou of the late Judge William gard to the relative consequence of years ago. This means that none
Bowen Howlands, who died in 1906, being a junior" or "King's of the power unita-Armstrong
The author has been responsible Counsel,” “ A.K.C.' ship is a Court Siddeley air-cooled. "Jaguar" en- gines of 425 hp-gets more than routine attention and inspection except at the complete overhaul Those who were cognisant of the state of affairs in the early days
for several volumes treating of legal matters and personalities. In this Intest issue the reader will find his
distinction, not a professional hop
GUE...
It may only imply that the possessor of the appanage is a 'Civil Servant' of high position, a
metnory refreshed about many of the most famous causes célèbres and writer of distinction, or a social murder trials of the last half-cen-worthy. The letters do not imply of civil aviation will need no furtury, and gather much fresh in. any eminence as a practising barrie-
formation about them..
Mr. H. E. Wimperia, Director of Scientific Research at the Air Minia try, hit on the idea of a vertical tunnel, or cylindrical chamber, in which an upward-flowing air current would balance the weight of the models under test. A miniature tunnel, constructed is an experi- ment, gave promising results and a larger apparatus, comprising a chamber 19 feet in diameter, was built and put into use recently. The upward moving air stream flows at spoed of 30 feet per accond, and the weight of the model is kept to a point where it remains at the same level in the air column. Not only does this method give far more satisfactory results than the old; the experimenters can watch the pheno mena much more closely and easily and the models are not damaged by buraque contact with the ground.
In the new tunnel, which is the Aying, the pupil tting in a cock dismentling, inspection and rs- first of ita type in the world, models made of light boleh wood are testly blocked by a hood and steering
pit with his outward view complete assembly.
ed. The type of spin characteristic of each model is carefully studied, as well as the movements which occur when the controls are sudden-
-Three Gallows Taliares.
There is, for instance, the remark-
During an average month the the British air transport comparable case of the Babbacombe mur- school seroplanes flew no less than "Lynx? seven-cylinder 915 h.p. 735 hours, a figuro which deserves | unite-perform still better. Several enhanced value when the poor wen- of them have run for more than 600 ther prevailing on mest days is hours between overhauls, and one taken into consideration. Some of recently run for as much as 641 this time was occupied by instruc-hours before it was judged advis tion in "blind" or instrument able to retire it' from service for
the machine entirely by the instru» ments on the dashboard in front of him. Men who have gone through this course have attained remark
ly moved over during the experi-able proficiency, even to the extent ment by a clever delay mechanism fitted inside the model.
of inaking a cross-country flight over a preselected route and performing acrobatic evolutions guided by the instruments alone.
Instruction to be given,
The Complete Aviator.
Thus the conception of a real **ain. university" is rapidly becom. ing fact. Every branch of air The mathematics of spinning in
pilotage and navigation is covered free flight are extremely complicat
by one or other of the standard ed. In the words of Mr. Wimperis- Three pupils have qualified for flying courses. The novice may go "it is simpler to put the model the school's certificate of compet-there-as several have gone already straight into the spinning tunnel enca in “blind" flying, and several knowing nothing of aviation, and and let it do the calculations for others are receiving instruction.
emergo at the end of his chosen itself." In the first few weeks of Engine houses for testing are course of study, which may last as operation of the new apparatus being built. When they are finish long as two years if he wish, a fully been learned; the ed the school, which undertakes all qualified airman. There are re scientists have already discovered, overhaul work in the specially fresher" courses for the trained for example, that raising the hort equipped shops next to the service flyer, lessons for instructors, zontal tail surfaces of an aeroplane aerodrome, will be a completely sources for commercial pilots and helps to prevent the development of the fast flat spin-the most peril. block of sleeping quarters attached satisfactory completion of a course
aeroplane flight.
now altogether twenty-six rooms school's diplomas, documents which available for pupils. A slipway on may confidently be expected to fill Southampton Water adjacent to the the same place in aviation as a land aerodrome, enables seaplane degree from a leading university in
other fields of endeavour. (Contenued on next_column.)
much has
self-contained unit. The second private aeroplane owners. And the
ter. And there follows mention of very many who have won distine tion on the Beach and never werz King's Counsel-Blackburn, Bower,
McCardle, and Travers Humphreys Parke, Willes, R. 8. Wright, Fraser,
NEW NOVELS,
derer, Let, and the triple failure of the attempt to bang him in 1885. Mr Bowen-Rowlands has gone most thoroughly into the causes of this failure, with a minute description TORBYZANT. By Wallace B. Nichols. of the mechanism of the gallows,
Mr. Wallace B. Nichols, like which will bear a perhaps somewhat many pocts when they turn to prose, morbid perusal. Berry, the hang has at his command a style dis- man, had his own explanation of tinguished for its force and clarity. why the drop refused to fail three In this historical novel, which is successive times when the lever set in the late fifteenth and earry was pulled, fixing on structuras sixteenth century, he employs it faults; but so late as 1923 the au- with great effect, achieving a work. thor received a communication pro which has a warm, rich quality. fessing to explain what really hapë
He lives in his story, and, like. pened.
Merezhowsky, builds up a world of It appears to have been the eus-his own upon a basis of history; tom at the time of this tragic affair the colour, cruelty, and galmour of for some joiner or carpenter among the Renaissance have fired his im- the prisoners to erect the scaffold, agination, and much of bis an and the story was that the old gaolthusiasm for the period is convey- bird engaged on his task in Leo's ed to the reader. case had confessed that he surrep titiously inserted a wedge which prevented the drop from working at the critical moment, and when
The hero, Pietro Torrigiano (Torryzany), was the sculptor. who designed the tomb of Henry VII. in Westminster Abbey, Mr. Nichols called in as an expert he removed
nothing was wrong, only to re-insert an artist and a seeker of beauty, a the wedge and demonstrated that sees him with the poet's eye, mak
ing him a splendidly vital figure
ous of all spinning movements in to the mess is finished and there are entitles the students to one of the it before Lee was again placed upon man of action who smashed Michel-
A MONSTER FLYING BOAT.
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The largest monoplane' yet con- structed for the Royal Air Force, three-engined. Blackburn flying bost designed for naval reconnais sance or coastal patrol, is under- going extensive trials at Felix- stowe, which is the Royal Air Force station set aside for experimental flying of marine aircraft.
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Innocent of Trickery.
By
the drop. So was explained a
Angelo's nose in a brawl and swash- hiatus which some good folk, attribuckled with the best of the gal buted to the intervention of Pro-lants in attendance on Cesare Bor- vidence. Lee's life was spared, the gis, sentence of death being commuted THE LONDON BRIDGE MYSTERY. to one of imprisonment.
John Arnold. This is a good detective story-- The recent death of one of the ciss definition-with no nonsense. or thriller is perhaps the more pre- participants in the famous baccarat about it. Mr. Arnold gets off the case "The Tranby Croft Scandal" mark like lightning, cuts down -gives topical interest to Mr. character drawing to a minimum, Bowen-Rowland's reflections upon wastes no words whatever, and, an that affair. Unequivocally he states
abort, achieves a thoroughly work. his bellof that Sir William Gordon. Cumming was innocent of the manlike, job. charges of trickery arought agains him, and incidentally relates s story told to him by his father, who had it from Lord Curzon, a brother-i in-law of Lord Randolph Churchill, To Lord Randolph the question was put: What would you have done if you had seen him cheating 7
Backed him," was the laconie re-
I ply.
We begin with David Royle's queer adventure in a train at Lon- don Bridge Station late one night, when a young woman entered the carriage, asked him to collect, a Parésl at Charing Cross, and dig- appeared. In this wise. he comes into, possession of a priceless objet d'art, which is of inforest to a gang, of ruffians with no compunctions: about the sanctity of human life.
Coming to later times, the author comments with equal felicity upon From the first chapter to the last trials still fresh in memory, last the pace is very hot, thrill follow-
of all that of Bywaters and Mising upon thrill with astonishing Edith Thompson
Sir John Simon's Memory
Judges and counsel innumerable`
rapidity
THE MARRIAGES OF GEORGIA Br
Lady Tronbridge
A pleasantly sentimental story
come under inspection in this in about an American girl living teresting book." On Bir John Simon, London who unexpectedly K.C., A man who stands for Pure into great wealth, Georgi Intellect" whose practice in money yey penniless but attractive, is in valus has never been equalled," love with one man-Patrick Otway the Anest enconium is passed, An-but eventually marries another incident is recalled-illustrative of (Uuntinued on Pags
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