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AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.

Canton Air Force THE NEW ROADS

MORE PLANES, MACHINE SHOPS, AERODROMES, TRAINING CLASS

Elaborate plans for the expan sion of the Cantonese air-force have been formulated, declared high official of the Kwangtung Air Force Headquarters in the course of an interview with a representa- tive of the Daily Sun,

Several aeroplane machine shops have been added to those establish- ed in the Shau Kan Ling making a total off six. Each shop is un- derstood to have accommodation for six aeroplanes.

Preparations for the establish mont of more aerodromes are being made, while more aeroplanes will be purchased from abroad. so as to make up the strength of six squadrons. Machine shops for the manufacture of motors, however, will be established in the next "stage of the expansion scheme.

The Aviation Academy,

Fonding the arrival of new planes from abroad the various air squadrons will be subject to a thorough organization. The newy scheme will call for the reorgani zation of the Aviation Academy and the inauguration of an avis. tion training aquadron with Gen- eral Hu Chi Bhen as commander, Advanced aviation, elementary aviation and military aviation will be taught to student aviators.

A special aviation training clasa for overseas Chinese students is being opened, offering a three- month course in aeronautics. Over. a dozen young men who just came back from the Philippines have up. plied admission, to the class.

FLYING ON HEAVY OIL

NEW BRITISH ENGINE

TESTED

A heavy-oil engine, suitable in all respecte for use in aeroplanes, has just passed a 60-bours Air Ministry. type test, and is being fitted into military aeroplane at Farnborough for flight tests. This is the first British engine of this kind in which weight, efficiency, and general di mensions have been such as to war. rant its application to the nero. plane Its power output is 500 h.p. and its weight is only 1,504b.

EMPIRE

OF

HUGE NETWORK OF AIR SERVICES

WHAT REMAINS TO BE DONE.

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Rapid expansion in the very near future of the air services of the Em pire is certain to come from the numerous feeder " lines started wherever the business prospects are good, and often the enterprise of comparatively mnall concerns,

Those lines, any of which are unsubsidised, apart from their own, private success, arq of immense im portance to the whole schens of Empire air-route development. They operated by Imperial Airways, and bring traffic to the main routes will do this at an accelerating rate, so that it is reasonable to expect from now on a much more rapid growth:

At

to Luluabourg, which since the güela railway opened has been the southern terminus of the Congo air- ways. Central Africa is being open- ed "up to productive industry and transport..

In Africa, too, there is a lion from Lagos to Tiks (Cameroons),

alternative air route by way of THE FLYING DINING-

trand-tropical African line to India.

Rivals are Eusy.

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HOT MEALS IN THE AIR

An example of the danger of de lay is afforded by our slowness to "extend from India to Australia. Already the Dutch air line to the Fanb is quicker than utron and r Dutch extension to Australia is la¦ CATERING ON THE AIRWAY the programma with a schedule tw ́| or three days shorter than that of the Imperial Airways extension, which may be made next year, but on the other hand may be postpon

ext

One of the features of aerial transport to-day is not only a re

markable increase in the number, of passengers, but also an extreme

In India private enterprise has rapid growth in the habit by provided an extension from Karalight refreshments while in fight. air voyageru of taking monls and

Great Britain,

chi to Madras. In Australia exist ing services will be stimulated by

In the early days of the air Bon-completion of the trunk route from Press," explained an Imperial 'Airways. Official, "the sheer novel- be a British air line from Trinidad the fact that saloon wore noisy In the West Indies there ought to ty of a flying journey, coupled with

French have an air route from ple front calling upon the catering to British Guiana; but while the and gone too large, prevented, pens Paris to Dakar and South Amerien, department to any great extent. establish a mother ship for fly-excited to eat t and a German line is preparing to Many of them, in fact, were too and one from Bulawayo to Salising-bonts, a halfway halt between "But nowadays things are very bury will soon be established. Tho Dakar and Port Natal, Brazil, there different. You sit in saloon as Cape route connects with lines to Durban, East London, Windhoek, for a route by way of the Azores noise has been so reduced that you is not in existence any British plan big as a railway Pullman, and

towns. Walvis Bay. and intermediate

and Bermuda to America which can talk to your friends and com- take practical form for at least two panions without needing to raise

your voice. amat and small air links in the perience, of course, and always

At-long-last there are signs of

"Flying is still a wonderful ex- British Isles. The "forry" service will bec. but there is no longer any- across the Solent, the air line bething primitive or uncomfortable tween Bristol and Cardiff, the sea- about it; nothing to make anyone sonal lines to the Isle of Man and nervous; and so people when they from London to Clacton (in con- settle themselves in their armchair junction with road services), and seats, and look around the big ait the Free State project of a line, saloon, ara naturally in just the from Galway via London to Berlin, name frame of raind as any Pull- are bat the beginnings of great man-car traveller. A next little- movement for which provision of table is before them, and an atten- the suitable aircraft and organisa- tive steward within call; and they tion only awaits the call of enter order their meals, and refresh- prise.--The Observer,

ments, and thoroughly enjoy them, just as they would it they were travelling by land or 203.

East Coast route has withheld an British preoccupation with the terprise from the equally great op portunities of a West Coast route routes to India and to Cape Town, many feeder, lines, notably from present although the air probably by flying boats, and with are in full operation, and an ex- Boma and Walvis Bay, and in Ni- tension to Australia next year is geria connecting with the French probable, the traffic, especially the; Saharan air lines, passenger, traffic, is largely made | It is an imparative duty of Great up of sectional bookings, for which Britain to establish air limes here, in many cases there is a bigger pro- and, apart from the assured profit portional time-saving than that for able future of such lines, and their the whole route.

importance to commerce as a quick

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"During the past summer the London and Paris, is that a jour-j demands on our catering depart nay which is already so short ap- ment were considerably more than pears to become even shorter. After double what they were the previous ascending from London, passengers year, and this winter, thanks to usually talk together for a time. further improvements in equip. or perhaps read newspapers or ment, we are able to serve hot books; and then along came the meals as well as cold on the prin stewards with their welcome meal, i cion! air services. On our "Silver Enjoying this in leisurely fashion, Wing", London-Paris service, for voyagers see the Channel paes example, in addition to luncheons away below them, and the French comprising hors d'oeuvres, cold countryside begins to unfold itself buffet, salad, cheese, biscuits, fruit, beneath their windows, and hard and coffee, we now supply hot ly has coffee been finished, and pa- soup, hot roast mest or chicken pers or books taken up again, when with vegetables, tokether with..a the Paris air-port of Le Bourget hot or cold sweat, cheese, -biscuits appears in view, and the flight be- and coffes; and this development is tween the two capitals has been already being commented upon. completed.

very favourably by our passen- rere.”

...

As one traveller_ramarked only If Imperial Airways possessed a tener and enricher, it should not be the other day: "Paris, by air- big enough feet of aircraft the sec overlooked that in conceivable con-way, is now just within easy lun tion Cairo-Nairobi could now be tingencies they would provide anching distance of London.” run twice weekly cach way. Our requirements in the quality and performance of Empire airliners are somewhat exacting, especially on the Cape route with its high- elevation aerodromes; and develop- menta hoped for by next January are likely to be delayed for the in- troduction of important modifica tions to new types

and the service on them is improv As the trunk lines are extended,

ed, feeder lines from regions lack- The importance of this achieve-ing good transport, and therefore ment lies in the fact that a anfor, affording facilities which command simpler, and more economical type lucrative freights, are formed. than the petrol engine will be made These are at the present time at available to aviation at a compara-tracting enterprise, and in the next- tively small cost in engine weight. two years there will be so many of. thom that the main trunk routes

The compression-ignition engine will, with their present equipment, uses a furf which gives off no in- scarcely be able to cope with the flammable vapour until its tempera- traffic.

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ture is raised to at least 100deg. CIt is even to be feared that Great It has no electrical installation, no Britain has taken too low an esti sparking plugs, and no carburettor.mate of Empire air transport, and Its rate of fuel consumption is low, that the present direction has not, and with its simple system of fuel had the foresight to see and provide injection it should be less liable to for the very rapid expansion which failure due to interruption of the will be demanded in 1933 and 1034. supply.

An attempt: has been made to The price in engine weight, de standardise types absorbing much manded at the moment for these ad- capital long before such standardi. vantages, represents about 1lb. por sation is logical. It is as if the horse-power. This partly offect by a L.G.O.C. were to order a thousand low rate of fuel consumption The motor buses of a new type! But petrol engine for aeroplanes weighs big airliners' cast a great deal roughly 2lb. per horso-power and more money, and aircraft design is consumes about 85lb. of fuel per net nearly so stabilised as is that horse-power hour. The correspond of motor-buses. Unfortunately, ing figures for the new compres commitments to any type which may sion-ignition engine are about 3lb. need radical alteration use up re- and 4 lb. This means that on & sources, and there is danger that long flight the combined weight of progress may thus be delayed. engine and fuel would be less with the heavy-oil engine than with the petrol engine.At present the ad vantage is not to be reaped in flights of less than seven hours duration.

Weight of Water..

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Spanning the Gaps.

That feederlas enterprise is im- portant is shown by many instances. Thus, Imperial Airway's geta a num ber of passengers and other freight from the Congo region to Juho, where the trunk route is joined. The disparity in whicht will

Another good example is that of pro- bably not persist. Germany has the coastal route operated by Wil produced an engine of this type son, Airways, joining Dar-es-anlaam which weighs only: 2;44lb. per and other places in Tanganyika to horse-power. Further work is pro- Nairobi and the trunk route. An-/ coeding at the Royal Aircraft Es other extends 200 miles from Wisu- tablishment at Farnborough. The mu, on the trunk, route, by the fight tests now in prospect should shores of Lake Victoria, Jinja, Tor show particularly whether the size roro, and Eldoret, to Entebbe. of the radiator and the weight of. South of this, the aerial connec water can be reduced. Another en- tion with the Belgian Congo operat gine, of different detail characto. ling between Elizabethville · and ristic is also being built. The pre Broken Hill is soon to be extended sent engine is an adaptation of the Rolls-Royce Condor engine, which

Fin its original form develops 850 is one of 74in. The compression.

ratio is 121 to one, and the max

hip

The conversion has been carried mum cylinder pressure 600lb, to out at Farnborough with the as the square inch. The engine con- sistanos of the Rolls-Royce Com-sists of two banks of six cylinders pasyPherousing vleida-460-ip.st in the Bond di, a letter by. It at normal charge and 600-hp, at in. longer, and 3it. higher than full charge when turning at 1,000 the Condor petrol 38 but is

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