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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1936.

AVIATION

Men Who

Have Made

Flying History Visit To The Pilots' Room

Captains Of The Air

From outside one hears an Intermittent drone of engines. Inside, as one sits in the comfort- able, dark-pannelled room, one looks up at walls which bear portraits of pilots who have written their names on flying history, This room is the pllets' room at the London air-port, Croydon-a room known and talked about wherever airmen meet throughout the world; a reem as famous, from the view-point of a captain of the air, as that captain's room at Lloyd's where men of the sea semble.

a few

NEW AIRPORT FOR LONDON

Around "you sit airmen who controls of the Company's know their skyways just as sea liners inspire them with such a captains know the ocean routes. feeling of confidence. Eight of Hots stroll in who have just the pioneer Captains of Imperial Tought their craft to earth from Airways have.-between them, now flown a total distance approach- flights which began only hours earlier far across Europe. ing 10.000.000 miles. These eight Others, deeply tanned by tropical, veterans are Captains O.P. Jones, suns, are home on leave from one F. Dismore, A.B.H. Youell, H.H

A.S. or other of the Empire routes, and Horsey,

Wilcocksan, HH. Waiters, and W. are eagerly exchanging views and Petry. L.A. experiences. Foreign pilots mingle Rogers. To talk any one of them with those of British air-laes to the pilots' room is to realise An Aerial League of Nations is that Britain's mercantile air ser- this pilots' room. The camara- vice is being founded on lines just í Railway Besides It, is to be estab- derie of the ale. Ignoring frontiersrs admirable. and as enduring, tilshed immediately near Eynsford, or restrictions, binds in the bonds S that of our mercantile

TO BE BUILT AT EYNSFORD

A modern airport, which will oc- cupy nearly 1.000 acres, with a new on the Southern railway station

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Kent.

of friendship-a friendship Irres-service. These pilots do not care pective of nationality-all those to talk about themselves. who traverse the highways of the

sky.

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Great air captains of to-day, sitting in friendly groups, glance. those up

pictures at the

o! pioneers who, in the Infancy of air transport. were establishing the fine traditions which animate the pliots

operating now world's flying routes,

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" And

Sudden Death" Vivid Portrayal Of Accidents

In America

Automobile

Can Become

Deadliest

Missile

This vivid portrayal of motor accidents and fatalities in the United States of America was written by J. C. Furnas, an Ameri- can newspaperman, on an assignment given him by his editor.

Convinced that the widespread reading of this article would curb reckless driving, reprints were purchased by, business schools. auto- men's organisations, women's clubs, churches, that the land It is understood

mobile clubs, and other groups interested in public welfare, for They has already been acquired after

distribution to the public. negotiations by the Southera Fall way. Already a transformer sub- station has been opened and the lae electrified. The new station has been pegged out and plans prepared.

prefer to talk about civ nying as A whole. They are concerned not with their own personal exploits, sink their own They desire to

general progress identity in the of the movement which they have at heart. It is their endeavour to convince the public, by the smooth precision of their flying. that air travel has left the era of expert- ment far behind. and is now at the world's service, day in and day out, as a swift, dependable, ever- ready method for expediting the transport of passengers, mall, and freight.

on one fact that

MOTOR NOTES

FROM GREAT BRITAIN

Iake the gruesome spectacle of a bad automobile accident it- self, the realistic detalls of this article will nauseate some rea- ders. Those who find themselves thus affected at the outset are cautioned against reading the article in its entirety, since there is of sickening no letdown in the author's outspoken treatment facts.

Publicising the total of motoring Injuries never gets to first base in jarring the motorist into a realiza- tion of the appalling risks of mo- toring. He does not translate dry. statistics into a reality of blood and agony.

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taking a chance or two by the way. If ghosts could be put to a useful purpose. every bad stretch of road in the United States would greet the oncoming motorist with groans. and screams and the educational spectacle of ten or a dozen corpsen, Figures exclude the pain and all sizes, sexes and ages, lying hor-

mutilation-ribly still on the bloody grass. horror of Savage which means they leave out the.

"TAKE IT EASTER” point. They need to be brought closer home..

Last year a state trooper of my acquaintance stopped a big red Hispano for speeding. Papa was $ responsible person, obviously obviously set for a pleasant week-

end with his family-so the of-

UNIQUE GALLERY Un-que is the picture gallery of ploneers which one sees on the wabs of the pilots' room, It tells a personal story of air transport

Traffe conditions are such th from Its carliest day, "Hero, for

" QUIETNESS UP IN THE AIR many of London's main streets to- that vehicles occupied in example. is Capt. Lawford

Pasengers who recall air travel day seventeen years ago now, piloted in its early phases, and who make essential work in these thorough

A passing look at a bad smash the first British passenger plane journeys in air-liners to-day, com- tares must take up as little room on the daily service to Paris. Here, ment

strikes as possible and do their work with or the news that a fellow you had that ploneer in scientific them particularly. This is the the greatest speed. In this connec- lunch with last week is in hospital too, is instrumental fiying, the late Capt. quietness of present-day lying, as tion the new machines recently with a broken back will make, any

in pioneer taken into service by the Gas Light driver but a born fool slow down, ficer cut into papa's well-bred. F.L. Barnard Here, also, are two compared with that

at least temporarily.

expostulations: T1 let you of aerial adventurers, superb pilots times. Early passenger-planes & Coke Co. for special duties in

But what is needed is a vivid this time, but if you keep on this both of them, who vanished while were not only small but noisy.gas-line upkeep and repair are of

and SUSTAINED realization that way, you won't last long. Get nights Gol Their engines, attached to the particular interest. on early Atlantic

normal every time you step on the throt-going-but take it easier." In the first place the

a Later

passing motorist Hinchcliffe. fuselage within a feet of the cabiri, Minchin and Capt.

Dennis 45-cwt. tle, death gets in beside you. hope-

hailed the

and ask- trooper And here is Lieut Shaw, who caused such a d.n that ordinary wheelbase of the

That single horrible accident ed

the red Hispano had made history with a magnificent conversation was impossible, and chassis employed has been reduced fully waiting for his chance.

no got a ticket. may have witnessed 18

"No." sald the bad-weather flight during the. frst passengers had, to adopt the ex- to 7ft. 8in., giving a turning circle

That isolated horror.

sort of week of London-Paris flying: also pedient of scribbling notes which of 30ft, while the short

trooper, "I hated to spall their length results in the minimum road thing happens every hour of the party." "Too bad you didn't,” said that pioneer who blazed long-they passed from hand to hand.

One of the task of Imperialarea being occupied, distance air trails which are being

VERY COMPLETE EQUIPMENT

If you really felt THAT, perhaps flown commerially to-day. Sir Alan Arways, when the Company came

Describing these machines. The into existence, was to increase the Cobham

Commercial Motor points out that the stickfull of type in Monday's of air passengers, Al Sitting round you in tne puots' comfort

are airmen

the important step in noise reduction the first active stage of repair work paper recording that a total of 29 Who wore trends anu colleagues of early has been to remove engines from consists in opening up the road to local citizens were killed in week-

disclose the pipe, and this must be end crashes would rate something, puots who flew in the era before any direct attachment to

carried out quickly. Pneumatic more than a perfunctory. "Tenk! organised fuselage, and to place them out

Tehk!" as you turn back to the air-lines were our

road-breakers are employed, the Careful researches scientifically-in those days when on the wings. every night was apt to be an ad- have also been carried out with compressed air plant occupying the sports page. the employment of venture, and when landing-grounds a were hacked out of forest to open sound-deadening materia's 'n salcon the construction. The result, to-day. up routes which now span Empire to India, Africa, and Australia, Bere.. for instance, flight

100m

view to

the

superstructure chassis.

erected

overau you

on

the

day everywhere.

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Even a mangled body on a slab at the morgue, wardly portraying the consequences of bad motoring Judgment, isn't a patch on

tall

F

the

No

This Armstrong-Whitworth plant consists of three principal units, China. is that even when in high-speed a petrol engine, a compressor and scene of the accident itself.

passengers hear nothing

air tank. The engine also artist working on a safety poster that well-known veteran of the more than a drone which is sooth-drives" a dynamo which reinforces would dare depict that in full de air, Capt. Dismore, Cheerful and ing rather than ritating. Con-that included in the normal light-

HUMAN GROANING smiling, and always completely versation is easily possible withing act of the chassis. This, of

The picture would have to in Dismore bas out raising one's voice, while the course, is necessary in vex I the unassuming, Capt. been flying regularly for 23 years. quietnes of modern air travel is possibility of extensive operations clude motion-picture and sound He was handling tiny low-powered lustrated by the number of pas-at night; two sockets for lighting effects, too-the flopping, point- 'planles away back la pre-war sengers who once they are aloft.plugs are situated at the rear of less efforts of the injured to stand days. He flew throughout the lean back in their armchairs, close the chassis for feeding floodlights Up the queer grunting noises; the of the engine steady. Danting groaning of a hu- Great War, and has personal re- their eyes, and enjoy a refreshing

At the near side collections of that early phase in mid-air nap...

are pressure gauges, while there is man being with pain creeping up

on him as the shock wears off. hostilities when pilots were fight- SCIENCE IN AIR, SALOUN,

extensive lockerage for inrips, gas

It should portray the slack ex- ing up in the air with rifles and Those who study the furnishing masks etc. At the rear are drums

pression on the face of a man, revolvers, Capt.. Dismore sat at and equipment of air-liner saloons for carrying pneumatic hose.

Accommodation for a crew of the centro's of some of those in America have been led to hastily converted war-planes form some interesting conclusion three is provided in the cab, and extra men can be carried on steps

which carrying

security.

drugged with shock, staring at the

twist in his broken leg, the in- lane crumpled effect of a child's body after its bones are crushed inward, a realistic portrait of an hysterical woman with her scream ing mouth opening a hole in the bloody drip that fills her eyes and runs off her chits, Minor detatia

bories protruding through flesh in compound fractures, and the dark

passengers in- In the choice of colours a decora- stead of bomb-to-day. with all tions there are, it is found certain along each side, a handraft giving this wonderful experience to draw shades of green which are apt to upon, he files as Commander of be displeasing to passengers; while great multi-engined air-l'ners the use of too much red has an which dwarf to Insignificance the irritating effect. The aim is to lights in colour, thus obviating tiny 'planes with which our com- evolve quite, restful scheme of in- any feeling mercial air era bezarl

terior decoration for saloons, with Colour is, of course, greatly con- colours well-blended and subdued. nected with one's feelings of com- No wonder that passengers It is found a good idea to have fort or discomfort; and the de- red, oozing surfaces where clothes travelling by Imperial Always lower walls and carpets in fairlycorator's aim in an air saloon, as encourages a in other transport "vehicles, is to and more especially those who dark tones. This may be Aying for the first time feeling of strength, and security put say that the men who sit at the Upper walls and ceilings can be ease.

CONFIDENT FEELING

the motorist. "I saw you stop them -and then I passed that car again 50 miles up the line. It still makes

car was all folded up like an ac- me feel sick at my stomach. The cordion the colour was about all there was left. They were all dead but one of the kids-and he wasn't. going to live to the hospital.”

Maybe it will make you sick at your stomach, too. But unless you're a heavy-footed incurable, a good look at the picture the artist wouldn't dare paint a first-hand acquaintance with the results of mixing gasoline with speed and bad judgment, ought to be well worth your while. I can't help it if the facts are revolting. If you bave the nerve to drive fast and take chances you ought to have the nerve to take the appropriate cure. You can't ride an ambulance or watch the doctor working on the victim in the hospital, but you can read..

(To be Contrined)

AIR TRAFFIC RESEARCH

News from Germany indicates the intention of the German authorities to establish an "Acade my for Air Traffic Research." One

it is spid, be to study commercial

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