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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1936.

AVIATION

THE FASTEST FIGHTER

More Than 300 M. P. H.

NEW MILITARY AIRCRAFT

ON SHOW

Eastleigh. June 18. The fastest milltary aeroplane in world was flown for three minutes here this afternoon as one of six types of mallitary air- craft produced by the firm of Vickers (Aviation), Limited, late- ly for the RAF It had been intended to show all the paces of this remarkable fighter but leaking joint in the oll system of the engine cause the all pressure to fall when the machine had made only a half-circuit of the aerodrome, and the plat wisely throttled back and brought it in to land.

This tighter, named the Spitare, and climbed admirably, and when has been bull by the Supermarine I had to land it came in with flaps works at Southampton to the de-, down at st; low a speed that it sign of Mr. R. J. Mitchell, who was seemed not to belong to the fighter responsible for the Schneider class.

Trophy seaplanes of 1931, The This little low-wing. monoplane. influence of those craft in the lines its cockpit covered by a trans- of the Spitare is evident at a glance, So are the advantages of the Spitfire. There are no bracing wires above or below the wing There are no corrugations on the smooth surface

of the wing are two of the latest

engines. Bristol Pegasus

which Field 950 h.p. each and make the best use of the power in all cir- cumstances by applying it to three--" Diaded. vailable-pitch, airscrews The nacelies aft of the engines aisu contain the undercarriage legs in fight. Flown to-day by this Flying Officer J. Summers. machine was most impressive. It took off in 10sec, and was clearly fast. The saving of structure weight promised by the geodepic should also enable it to carry a big load,

NEW MARINE CRAFT "Another geodetic structure, the Wellesley general-purpose лего- plane using

Bristol Pegasus engine, gave a good account of itsell in the hands of Flying Officer ul. The three other types were scaplanes the twin-engined Scapa tying-boat, in which Flying Officer

Louis was pilot, the twin-engined ying-boat Stranraer, flown by Fight Lieutenant A. G. Pickering, and the amphibian Walrus, flown oy Squadron Leader H. G. Payn. The six made a fine procession of efficient aircraft produced to meet the varlotis needs Cf the RAF A seventh new machine which was to have been to-day is a lighter with a new air-cooled

the first

It

NEW FLYING-BOAT

FACTORY

One Of The Largest

Demands of the Royal Air Force expansion programme wore a major factor in deciding the Saunders-Roe directors to build one of the largest seaplane factory sheds in the world-a structure containing 500 tons of steel and providing a door opening of no less than 150 feet in clear width and 40 feet high. In the main shop under the new roof is room for the building at one and the same time of 10 to 12 large flying boats in various stages of manufac- ture; the factory is at present busy on an order for twin-engin- ed"London biplane boats ordered by the Air Ministry for the equipment of Royal Air Force squadrons.

NEW LIGHT-WEIGHT AEROPLANE

SINGLE-SEATER

AT £325

Another cheap. light aeroplane, designed by Mr. C. H. Latimer- | time at Wey-bridge yesterday and Needham, who has produced sun- the weather this morning was too dry light aeroplanes and sailplanes had to allow it to be brought to

during the last 10 years, has been the general assembly here.

flown successfully at Barton Aero- It is a low- is 1

low-wing monoplane with idrome, near Luton. retractable legs... The Bristol wing monoplane, capable of using Aqulla sleeve-value engine, which any one of three small engines of gives something over 400 h.p. is

the motor-cycle type. Its speed fitted and the fighter is reported range is reported as from 25 to

90 miles an hour. and its Arc to be fast.

gallon tank is said to hold enough fuel for a Aight of four howm The price has been fixed for the present at £325.

parent cowi, was excellently hand- ed in its emergency by Flying Officer J K Quill, one of the test pilots of the Supermarine Arm He had gained about 500ft. of of the fuselage height and turned down-wind engine. There is a clean, unbroken cowling! when his of pressure began to This fighter flew for over the upper part of the engine fail. At once he cicsed the The undercarriage. retracted by throttle and set the machine on swinging the legs outwards. is а nat glide towards the lee side wholly contained in recesses in the of the aerodrome. There he turn wing during flight .."

cd cautiously up-wind. By this EASY MANOEUVRES

time be had lost so much height, Aerodynamically the Spitare that he had to demand one final obviously superior to the seaplane burst from his engine to carry him from which it derives. The power clear of the hangar roofs. Imme- at its disposal from the new Rolls-diately the flaps were depressed Royce Merlin engine is probably and the Spithre, settled down com- less than half that used in the fortably. last Schneider Trophy winner. Among to-day's assembly was Yet it is acknowledged that the another

addition to is 20ft, The engine is mounted be- Aghter has a top speed of more R.A.F. types. This was the twin-hind the pilot's head-fairing than 300 miles an hour: how much engined bomber built on the geode-the fuselage and drives a pusher more may not be revealed for the system of construction which alrscrew. The wing is tharply, ta- some months. It may also be as Vickers firm has had in develop pered, and has split flaps to stee-

glide pen the surprising In construction as in ment and on trial for three oz.

and reduce the The aeroplane is design, for it has a comparatively four years. This, too, is a shapely tanding speed. amall wing arch, and. though aeroplane with a fuselage stream-

of wooden construction, and » has carries a big military load. is not fined like the R 101 class of air- many of the characteristics of the heavily loaded. as Its easy' inan, ships, It big middle-wing sailplane in both appearance and

L oeuvres to-day showed. It took off monoplane. In the leading edge of construction.

Important

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MOTOR NOTES FROM GREAT

BRITAIN

Impressive Figures

At a convenion of motor distributors and dealers recently. held in London it was revealed that the used car industry now.. employs. 200,000 people la selecting, repairing and selling reliable used cars, while stocks amount in value to more than £20,000,000.

Among reputable dealers there is Two European monarchs, by the nowadays a common aim to deve; way, have recently purchased lop the good name of the used car Rolls-Royce cars, the King of market, and. the most careful met- Rumania, who is having a Phan- hods are employed in the examina- tom. 111; and the King of Greece, tion, overhaul and reconditioning whose choice is a 20/25 hp, model, of cars found worthy of resale. The latter's brother has ordered, Twenty of the principas London | similar Cer. Phantom ill has and provincial dealers alone spend also been ordered by the Viceroy half-a-million pounds annually on of India for use on State occa-

this work.

at the same time, It must not be forgotten that the used car buyer of to-day is the new car bayer of

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The total load of the building transmitted to the piled founda- tions by the stanchions is about 2.200 tons. The ground floor load is carried directly on the sail The slipway alongside looks to the ru- ture; it was built for use by fly- ing-boats of a structural weight of up to 50 tons, which is nearly three times the unladen weight of the biggest marine aircraft yet built in Great Britain

Heating and ventilation of the main erecting shop demanded the installation of powerful machinery. Steam-heated fan heater units maintain a temperature of 55 deg. Fahrenheit all through the winter. Hot water' radiators are Atted in the offices, working on the acceler- ated system with a steam calorifer and motor-driven pump to main- tain a temperature of 60 to 85 deg. In the dope shop, where protec- tive enamels, varnishes and lac- quers are applied to the airframe components, & temperature of 75 deg.

2 is maintained and about

This machine, known as the Buzzard is a single-seater, with a wing-span of 40ft. For housing million cubic feet of air per hour the outer sections of the wing! is drawn over steam heaters and may be detached by the removal | exhausted by means of an enot~ of six bolts, and the diminished mous centrifugal fan which sucks span then amounts to only 7ft. U the potentially noxious vapours The length of the little machine rising from the dopes and

charges them through a due well (Continued on Previous CoL) above the eaves of the workshop.

A GREAT CHAIRMAN

SIR ARTHUR STANLEY'S FINE WORK FOR THE R.A.C..

THE 14-LITRES

A TYPE WHICH DESERVES MORE ENCOURAGEMENT FROM THE PUBLIC

The

dis-

machines, so that they can be built Independently of the home models. Incidentally, the last 6 months have shown an increase After twenty-six years at the

R.A.C. International -»Car of nearly 20 p.c. in Overscas helm. Sir Arthur Stanley has re- business.

sgned the chairmanship of the Hace in the Isle of Man, consider- Fifteen

"Tigers" with

In 'no torque Royal "Automobile Club.

ed together with many other races converters, oli engines" and all small degree has his personality

the Clubs which have been run on the Con- metal bodies have just beer order been responsible for ed for Stockholm, where the trans. phenomenal growth since he first tinent for cars of 11-tre engine port company in question, has took the chair in 1905. Then the capacity, clearly demonstrates that operated 20 "gearless" buses for membership was 2,839; now it is

excellent results can be obtained some time. An interesting feature over 13,000 apart from nearly of the special body on the "Tigers" | 200,000 associate members. In } with machines of this typė, which foot lower than the general floor now it is £781,000! is a 4ft. wide rear platform, one 1905 the revenue was £50,000; are celatively inexpensive to con-

level, which will be

PUBLIC CLEANSING METHODS

It is admitted at once that if a

day, but that only means that if the governing regulations were such as to maintain the type of car. which we use, racing would benefit appreciable.

specially As Mr. E. 8. Shrapnell-Smith struct, and demonstrates also that strengthened to provide standing said at the Club's annual general there is justification to run evca room for 12 passengers.

meeting last week, Bir Arthur na more races for 1-iltre carɛ. been a wonderful chairman, com- bining extraordinary charm of The enhanced status or the in!

manner with singleness of pur-Arm of constructors with unlimit- pose, devotion to the Club, sound-, ed resources were to enter "the dustry is certainly proving a mag-

At the time of writing the In-

ness of judgment and a character feld, these machines would be net to many people for whom the their price of the

stitute of Public Cleansing is hold-which inspires implicit confidence. just as expensive as are the full- new car of choice is beyond their pockets, or,

ing its annual conference, 'on this He has, it may be added, done yeo-

scale Grand Prix machines of to- At the Road Research Labora-occasion at Portsmouth, and in the man service, by his tact and sym- who like so many visitors to Grest Britain, want a trouble-free used tory of the Department of Scienti-vehicles and appliances exhibition pathy, in smoothing over the dif- car for a short period. As a re-fic

Research, a organized in connection with the ficulties both great and small sult, it is estimated that this year chassis is kept rotating over the conference, there is much to in- which have from time to time thousands more people will buy test track until the materials un- terest municipal authorities,

evitably beset the RAC. He pos- used cars than will buy new ones; der test are disintegrated. Refuse collection, and disposal is sesses, and has often used, the art special A.E.C. "Matador chassis, an expense which most authorities of "chaffing" the wrongdoer into i

Unfortunately, there are people fitted with a 130 h.p. electric motor would be glad to reduce, and the realisation of his fault, while hi in place of the normal power unit, fact that the Scammell Mec.tanical most caustic reprimands have been quite unable to realise that any hurtles round the circular track on Horse can, when not engaged on obviously tempered by a great good can come from anything run the end of a structural steel arm refuse work, be employed with any kindness of heart. That Bir Arthur this country, who laud to the at a speed of 40 m.ph.. but to other type of municipal carrier, is respected and loved by the com- akies the performances of foreign A 40 YEARS' REVIEW prevent rutting the track by the makes a strong appeal on

machines, apparently because the į mittee and by the staff of the Club' chassis wheels, the radius of the grounds of economy alone, apart is a matter of course: to them his who, moreover, deliberately be- those machines are foreign, and wheel track is alternately reduced from convenience. Money spent decision to hand the control to an uttle the results achieved with any or increased by a traversing gear, on refuse collection thus becomes other causes profound regret.

Laboratory tests ean thus be productive in a whole number of

car the engine capacity of which correlated with actual experience ways, which will readily commend

is less than that of the big for- with the same materials, and such themselves to progressive munici- small at present, as it represents, this is so it is difficult to say, but This total is of course, very elga racing machines. Quite why research work should bep consi-pal engineers.

no more than the equivalent of a it has been a peculiar feature, of month's imports; but the increase the British racing world for many erably in the search for better

is encouraging, and there is no years. It is evidence of a lack of doubt about the popularity of the mental perspective, and is most "home grown" among notoriat unfair to our home industry. With According to the Secretary for It was only towards the end of Mines, in an answer to a question last year that the first rump to be the timoit entire absence or at-

to-morrow.

A feature of the forthcoming Johannesburg Exhibition will be the comprehensive range of model motor cars, staged to demonstrate the progress made by the Brit motor industry since the beginning. Among the models will be the first 4-wheeled petrol motor.. car pro- duced in Britain. a 6 h.p. Lar- chester with a 5-seater body.

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