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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1934.

A WEEK OF BRITISH

FLYING NEWS

Fresh Triumph Of British Device

any

HOME RULE IN CEYLON

Sir H. Page Croft's Criticism

LARGE CIVIL AERODROME

to

heen established in the city for the landing of aeroplanes.

Owing this inconvenience. and with a view to developing the present situation, the Authori ties of the Canton Public Works Department recently decided that.

Soon to be Established a large civu aerodrome should be

in Canton...

AT

bullt in the city.

TO-MORROW KING'S

THE

It is reported that the Authori- ties have chosen a large place of spare ground in the south-east of It is understood tha: the air the Lau Wong Temple of Ho Nam. Ar arraignment of the working of the semi-democratic system of route for communications between the land being over 800 mows.

It is said the surveys have al- government established in Ceylon Shanghai and Capton has already Purchase by the French govern- and then by unexpected incidents three years ago was the first sub-been opened, but the Canton Au-ready been made and tenders are thorities often and incovenlent now invited for the construction use and which brought out the virtues of ject of the private members' day. ment of the rights to

has of this civil aerodrome. manufacture in France the Hand- the invention, For example, a few Much of its interest was derived since no proper aerodrome ley Page automatic wing slots months ago Mr. Donmere, a French from direct or indirect reference.. marks a fresh triumph of the test pilot, was engaged in trials to the policy of extending self- British device that has done more of a new high-speed single-seater government to India

fighter when, ac a height of 3,000 Sic

Croft. Henry Page

who to make flying safe than

feet, the airscrew broke. Damage opened the attack. laboured to other invention. Six governments have nbw effected agreements was immediate and extensive Air-ettorce the Indian analogy. That screw and the gear linking it with | the Constitution of Ceylon had with the Handley Page company.

the engine were torn right away. been a "starting failure" was a either in the form of a lump sum payment for the slot rights or by The "header" fuel tank was elim- warning against any further ex- a combination of lump-sum pay-finated and the front of the engine periment of the same kind Great cowling ripped off. Approximately ment and royalties of Britain, France. Indis, the United 220 pounds of weight of metal were lost in a second.. from the nose of States, Sweden and Finland.

the machine, making it extremely Canada and Italy the rights are

tail-heavy..! owned by companies formed specially to handle the invention, and In Japan a private company has acquired the naval rights. In no fewer than thirty-four other countries the slot is used exten- sively оп military and civil aircraft.

for

In

Experiments in the use of the slot device began near the end of the War.. Up to that time, and some years subsequently tul use of the slot became general; the vast majority of all fatal flying accidents-one estimate places the percentage as high as

attitude the pilot had

aero-

The Constitution had

been

conceded, he said, on the principle that "immediately you give some form of popular government grat- itade wells up." But Ceylon had refused to implement Ottawa There was to be no future for the

Mr. Doumerc acted with sure- ness and presence of mind. He suc- ceeded in bringing his craft al-white man in Ceylon. most to a level keel and then open- cd the wing slots. From that 'mo- ment the aeroplane responded to the controls in practically normal ashton and the pilot after a fine- y judged descent, was able to land it at Villacoublay, the military ex- perimental aerodrome near Paris. withcut further damage.

The immediate remedial pro- posal which he suggested was, however, the seriding of a Par- liamentary Commission to Ceylon to inquire into the working of the Constitution.

FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS The agreement with the French government covers use of the slot on civil as well as on military air-

ninety-were caused by the pilot craft. One of the qualities of the inadvertently stalling his

device and one that is becoming plane or. In other words, losing

more and more important-is that it may be used in conjunction with, movable flaps at the rear edges of the wings to increase the lift given by aeroplane wings as the tower end of the speed range. The re- sult is a reasonably slow landing speed even in very fast machines- 3 point of great importance with the modern insistence on highest

tainable crusing speeds.

flying speed. In the stalled no longer any control. His allerons (lateral controls) were inoperative; rudder and elevator quickly followed them into uselessness. The result was an uncontrolled tilt over to one side as the machine began to fall under the influence of gravity, a nose dive followed by a spin. and, if there were not sufficient space between aeroplane and ground for recovery, a headlong crash.

A racy and original speech on this came from Col. Wedgwood, who, taking the charges against the Ceylonese as proved, drew the. inference that they must stop the ragging and badgering process" if they wanted to save their down. He was heartily in favour democratic system from breaking of their adult suffrage Constitu tion, but equally sure that Go- vernors there and elsewhere should not go native," but be firm on safeguards.

Government Reply

Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, who made the reply for the Govern-. ment. confined himself to Ceylon. and declined to admit Sir Henry Croft's statement of the Negotiations are proceeding with Page other imperial and foreigr. gov-conditions there as anything" like ernments, and early conclusion of the whole truth. It was not truet some of them are expected now that the representative body spent that the French agreement is an- its time baiting the Governor. Among the imperial Differences of opinion had been nounced. governments concerned are those few, and none so serious as of South Africa and Austraila; in interfere with the administration the meantime installation of the of the island. There acroplane

slot on military aircraft has been standardized in both countries.

WINNER OF 1934's GREATEST

DI

operation between

to

was Co-

the Governor and his Ministers, and the Governor had the good will of the

people. the

RACE?

De Havilland's £5,000 racer for the London-Melbourne contest in October this year le named

the

-Essentially, the slot device con- sists in winglets which in normal flight le snugly against the front edges of the main plane, they are

like shaped exactly" wings and, in normal flying do not affect adversely the speed or general performance machine. When the aeroplane Fets Into the stalled attitude, whether accidentally or at the will

of the pilot. the winglets move on arms away from the Comel." Mr. J A. Mojlison has main plane: the resultant narrow

ordered one. Serious negotiations slot "between main plane and for the purchase of others make winglet has the property of main-likely the appearance in the race taining unbroken the air flow of five or six of them in all.

The Comet" must be ordered over the lifting surfaces. Without

One arth the slot device the airflow becomes under novel conditions. turbulent and no longer provides of the purchase price must be de- posited at the time of placing an adequate ft.

This unbroken air flow. pre-order, which will be accepted up serves the pilot in full control of to the end of this month. This sum is recoverable if the company his aeroplane. Even when it is fails to full the terms of its con- stalled he remains in charge: the tract, which are that the machine agropiane, because it has lost will comply with the techincal and flying speed. falls towards the other requirements of the contest, ground but on a level keel. There that its top speed will be, not less is, no potentially dangerous nose. than 200 miles an hour, that it dive and spain.

.

will be equipped for a crew of two. and that it will be delivered to the purchaser before the end of September. But no details of the machine will be disclosed, even to buyers, till after the closing date for entries for the race.

Pilots who are considering parti- cipation in the event are studying ways and means of taking best advantage of the governing co3-

BRITAIN PAYS £100,030 In its first practical form the slot device was operated mechani | |cally by the pilot, but the present- day model works automatically, opening under the influence of the air forces that affect the wing when the machine nears the

Thousands stalling angle.

of experiments. have perfected the itions. The rules imply, for ex- mechanism. Some years ago the ample, that only one occupant of British government paid £100,000 any racing plane, styled the "pi- for the right to use slots in Royal lot-in-charge." need travel in the machine all through the race. Here aeroplanes: to-day eighty per cent. of all machines is an opportunity for the use of

Air

Force

relays of second pilots, men who would be taken on board at Karachi, Calcutta and Singapore to help the pilot-in-charge over the next part of the journey. personal knowledge of the section of the French experts. Arst

route that each would fy; the gain take serious notice of the device to the entrant would be consider- when the rights were acquired by aale.

in the Service

with are fitted automatic slots. Very large sums were paid by the United States government and, now, by the French government.

began to

the British government. Squadron British experts declare that the Leader T.H. England, chief test winning machine in the speed race pilot of the Handley Page com- will probably complete the journey pany, took the first "Math" light approximately four days, which biplane to be fitted with alots to means an average speed, includ- France, and gave demonstrations ing all stops, of about 145 miles an at the principal, civil and military hour. Such speed will be well aerodromes. French test pilots within the capacities of British flew the machine, and agreed | craft such as the Comet "which that it possessed a degree of will be entered, and will set a new lateral stability in fight to which standard of qulek communication they were not accustomed. Their which one day the regular air mail view was supported by French services may emulate., aeroplane constructors.

Next stage in the French trials

concerned the fitting of wing On the question of a preference blots. to larger aircraft, including for British goods, he allowed a military 'planes. Mr. Handley serious grievance in the refusal of Page sent over two machines, the any consideration to the cotton "Gugnunc" biplane which was industry, but pointed out that designed to exploit the slot idea that there were considerable pre- to the full in competition for the ferences granted to a large number. American Guggenheim "Safety in of our staple... tradės, Aircraft" prize, and. A slotted Viscount Wolmer ended the de- Bristol Fighter. Reports on this bate by laying further stress on second series of.. tests were the parallel with India. most favourable.

On a division 93 went into the lobby with Bir Henry Page Croft against 138.

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The third stage saw equipment The last half of the evening was with slots of six French aeroplanes, spent on a socialist motion of Mr. all of different types. Prolonged Banfield's to provide retiring pen- trials were made, attended row sions "for all workers" at 60.

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