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AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.

ONE MONTH 'ALOFT.

EXPERIMENT BY MR. AND MRS. VICTOR BRUCE.

VALUABLE INFORMATION AND WORLD RECORD

EXPECTED,

Information wich may prove of considerable value in the future operation of large commercial acro- planes is expected from the enter price of Mrs. Victor Bruce and her husband, who are planning to

begin about the middle of July an attempt to fly non-stop for a month. Their machine, three engined amphibious Saro "Windhover" flying boat, will be refuelled from a special tanker 'pine at intervals of a few hours all through the flight.

PREPARING FOR HENDON.

··AIR~~COMBATS- AND. BOMBING RAID,

THE REALTY MARKET,

SHANGHAL

TRADING FOR JUNE.

occasional renovation of old build- ings and new construction of the cheaper class of hongs and shopa.

Western Extension District. Since the rumours of the impend ing settlement of the long disputed outside roads question have become more definite, Chinese and foreign In our last issue, says The Realty, public interest has been consider Market, Shanghai, the reported ably aroused, but in spite of the transactions for May amounted to ecemingly great activity in that dis- Tls, 4,000,000. The month of Juno trict, few deals have actually brought well over Tis. 3,000,000 in jaaterialized, This is partly due to London, June 21.

property deals, the outstanding the purchase of the Burkill property The vast areas of Hendon acrotransaction of the month being the by a Club which gave the native drohe is ready for the world's sale of a 32-mov vacant lot on Kiao-wners, mostly farmers, an Breatest air display the annual chow Road, north of Connaught aggerated ideo of prices, the result pageant of Service, flying by two Road, at

Leing that the would be buyers a price reported to be hundred aeroplanes that ranks as approximately Tls. 28,000 per mow, indicators to sollers for putting up effera have served, in most cases, as the supreme event of its kind in It is interesting to note that is their prices higher and higher. On the world.

the other hand, offers made by sell- mow out of this lot changed handsers have in the great majority of in July last at Tls. 18,000 per mow, cases proven valueless, ere when as reported in our August issue. acepted the same day.

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Around the Inading ground are grandstands and enclosures able to accommodate up to two hundred thousand spectators and many thou- 'sands of motor-cars. · Given the fair weather that has favoured, almost

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Other interesting transactions in- very previous Display all of that clude the purchase by the newly Apace will be occupied next Satur formed club-joint Chinese and day, while as thousands more will foreign-of the Burkill property at watch from vantage points outside the end of Hungjao Road for Tls. The amount of pay-load that the aerodrome. Last year nearly 200,000. This property has an area commercial aircraft can carry is re-half a million people moved inta

of 50 mow, beautifully developed, stricted by the need to hacend with the Hendon district on the Display including a garden and a fine re- sufficient fuel on board for the whole day; 170,000 of them paid for nd sidence. The old Western Exchange of the contemplated journey. If it mission to flying field-a record Telephone building adjoining the were possible to deviso a safe and which may easily be surpassed this absolutely efficient means of refuel-week.

Embassy Theatre and forming the cornor piece at Bubbling Well, Carter and Burkill Roads, having

ling in the air pay-load and range. Over on the far side of the arroan area of 1 mow, has been sold

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drame that will be destroyed in a great bomb attack which is the cul- mination of this year's prograinmc.

largely increased. The subject also" disused fort used for the storage SM.C. of surplus land at the corner possesses-interest for the Service, of bombs” and the enemy" acre and Royal Air Force experts will watch carefully the working of a simple method of re-fuelling devised by Mrs. Bruce which is thought Three likely to eliminate certain difficul-

ties of the mid-air transfer,

of Foochow and Kinngee Roads, measuring mow 1,709, as reported in the Press, has brought Tia. 200,500 per mov.

The Council

posed building shall conform to the alipulated that the style of the pro-

standard of the buildings recently erected in the vicinity and that con March 1, 1933. The two latter struction is to begin not later than

transactions are regarded in red!

from the buyers' standpoint.

Other Transactions.

"enemy" squadrons, 21 anti-aircraft battery and a kite balloon are stationed there, and the The new iden, employs a spare destruction of the base is secured aeroplane flying in formation with only after a series of fierce air the tanker, to which it is attached battle, in which several machines by a light line. The craft to be re-aro shot down in flames. fuelled takes up position between People instructed in the her estate circles as quite profitable ones them and when the speeds of all points of flying who have watched three machines are equalised, the previous Displays will be impressed by, the increased speed of move receiving scroplane rises till one ment, in charging formation as well of its occupants can seize the line, as in level flight, made possible by Other transactions of the month which is then grabbed and cut with tho now high-speed aeroplanes sup include: a 10-mow lot in the West a knife. At this moment the work plied to squadrons during the last era residential part of the French twelve months, It will be literally Concession sold for Tis. 300,000 a of the spare aeroplane is done and non-stop show, A. wing of fast mow vacant corner lot on Avenue it is free to land. The occupants day bombers, drilling with the pre-Petain, west of the Shanghai Ameri. of the receiving craft simply wind cision of guardemon on parade, will can School, at Tls. 22,500 per mow; the ling down on a recl, drawing in utilise their big speed-range and smalt forsign residence on 14 enormous power of neceleration to mow on Route Vallon, for Tls. the fuel-line attached to it, the wheel and manquvre practically 60,000; a.) mow vacant lot on feed line is placed in position, the within the confines of the acre Route Kaufmann; 14 mow on Route spring valve opens and the potral dromet Slower machines in past de Zikawei at Tls. 13,000 per mow; years have gone far away to allow tine for formation changes; this Mr. and Mrs. Bruce will be sup-year the alterations are so swiftly plied in similar fashion with daily performed that the watcher is kept food and other necessities. Inside wondering how the machince can the hull of the boat are sleeping reach their new stations in time, yet when the moment arrives each bunks, a larder and a washing place. formation is seen to be perfect. Husband and wife will relieve each

other at the controls as the, craft

runs down.

flies back and forth over England, ranging from Blackpool in the worth

to Portsmouth in the south.

Navigation by Radio.

All through the flight the pilats will maintain communication with

Air Combats,

mow of vacant land, on Tunsin Road at Tis. 9,000 per mow for fan. tar: 31 mow on Amherst Avenue at is. 11,000 per mow, and several Amali lote in the Columbia Circle arda.

The first transaction for the year: in the Northern District, was in- itiated through the sale of a small property of of a mow with some one of the chief thrills of the day, Rond, north of Tiendong Road, for This air drill is likely to provide vld buildings, on North Chekiang

though other events will run it Tis. 45,000 for the lot. Several close, notably the simultaneous small lots have been sold in the parachute descent by six men from Eastern District, which is beginning the wings of three multi-engaged to show signs of activity. No sales biplanes, the aerial combats be have been reported in Chapei which tween bombers and single-seater remains still inactive, outside of the fighters, the inverted flying by a

the ground by radio, transmitting formation of five training. plance, to and receiving from a mobilo and the marvellous synchronised ground "station" consisting of aerobatica by two of the fastest motor van carrying caborate wire-fighters in the. Soices less equipment. In this way the Hendon is not only an air event. pilots will make all arrangements styled "society" has adopted tho That mysterious agglomeration

for the periodical re-fuelling, Lund

Display for years past, following receive the latest weather and other eagerly the lead of the Royal information needed in navigating a

Family and of the dozens of dis course. In mist and low cloud, and

tinguished folk who are to be found sometimes at night, they will have

each year in the more exclusivo en-" recourse to instrument, or "blind,”

closures. flying, an art in which Mrs, Bruce is' proficient.

they succoed in remaining months in the air represcuts about aloft for a month Mr. and Mrs. | 750 hours a drastic feet of the |Bruce will establish a new world's three 120 h.p.: Gipsy engines record. The present endurance re-fitted to the Windhover," though cord with re-fuelling is held by two moters of this type have already American pilots who in August, accomplished in officially observed 1830, stayed aloft for 647 hours trials more than 300 hours flying- nearly 97 days-beforo they were with all parts sealed and no atten- forced down by engine trouble. Ons tion other than the provision of (Continued at foot of nezt, olumn.) fuel and pil,

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Under such circumstances, the task of purchasing land on Kung- jno Road has become an arduous one, and most of the larger real estate brokers have preferred to lay off that district entirely, until the markot becomes stabilised. Whe ther the rush of buyer into that district to purchase land at any price is justified, is beside the point, but the fact is that the indux of an entirely unreliable multitude of sellers in the Hugino district have made it extremely difficult for investors to purchase land out thors.

Apart from the 30-mow lot, an Hungjao Road above referred to, several smaller lots in areas of 3 ing the month, at prices ranging to 10 mow have changed handa dur-

Lotween Tla, 3,009 and Tla, 4,000 per mow. A 24-mow lot on Macleod Road, a quarter of a mile off Hung

ino Road, is said to have changed hands at Tls, 2,000 per mow,

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