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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1936.

AVIATION

RADIO-TELEGRAMS

FOR AIR-LINERS

IN FLIGHT

And Useful Interesting And Facility For Passengers

Keeping In Touch With Stock-Markets

An increasing use is being made, calls up the nearest ground sta- tion on his route, and transmits by air travellers of the facility en- abling wireless message to be sent the message calls operator there. bees that the to passengers, in air-liners which The latter than are in flight, or Irum passengers message goes on by ground, wire- 1433 or cable to the destination: in fight to ground stations

This radio-telegraph or "Aira- Indicated. These messages from the air bear the name of the air- dao service, between air-liners and

eraft or orign in the same way as ground stations, is applicable to

those emanating from a ner at the air-liners of Imperial Airways in fight on Empire routes, and all sea. But whereas the ocean liner's countries except European coun- message bears the letters "R.M.S." tries- although in regard to Italy "Royal Mail Steampship”-those the aft bear the letter permission has now been obtained trom lor "Alradios to be sent from air-"R.M.A." which, of course, stand craft through Italian ground sta- for "Royal Mail Alrerat" Then. Just as an ocean radio bears the Jons to any country. In India these message can only be sent nome of the originating liner, S from aircraft to the ground, and the radio-telegram from the air of the aircraft only messages destined for pluces bears the name

from which the" message comes-- In India and Burma.

such as R.MA: "Hannibal." R.M.A. "Hengist." etc.

The "Airadio" services proves ou

Government! Occasion a boon to Official and business men, and also to mher travellers who-while they are in light on some stage of an Empire journey-may be receiving. or may wish to dispatch,' a mes- sage of an urgent nature.

The ability to keep in touch with a passenger in the the air 'some- times proves of exceptional value. As an example one may take the Tusc..of a prominent Government official who was flying along one Ap- of the main Empire services.

for pointments were being made him to see Government officials at various points lying ahead It was also desired that he should re- ceive deputations at certain of his points of call These proposed ar- rangements were wirelessed to him

In the case of:adio-telegram to be dispatched from the ground to a passenger in fight, this is,

at the accepted in the usual way cable or wireless office of origin. The message is then transmitted in the air-port nearest to where the aircraft is nying. This six- tlon calls up the atr-Uner and up in the air, and he was able to transmits the

her reply immediately, indicating whe- operator, and he delivers it to the ther or not he could mariage to fib passenger indicated. By the in all the functions and inspe verse process. when a passenger tions proposed.·· who is in flight hands in an "Aira- dlo" for dispatch to some ground destination, the wireless operato.

to message

PATIENCE AT THE WHEEL

Queen Of Virtues For Motorists

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connection with the movements of the stock-markets. While he was making an Empire air Journey he kept constantly in touch with mar- ket movements, not only receiving messages while in fight, but also transmitting from the air his var- lous instructions as to what he wished his representatives to do,

NEW FACTS ABOUT AIR CARGOES

have ia Australia Air officiuis been making some special notes. lately, as to the remarkable variety in freight cargoes now consigned by alr.

A good deal of curiosity was aroused recently by one parcel, the contents of which were des- cribed in the single word "tips." This was found, however, to have nothing to do with any question of gratuities. Actually the parcel contained a number of tips for billiard cues.

One recent consignment com- prised a Bute which was sent from Australia to England by AI to have some special adjustment made Ito it. The flute nor only travelled to London by air, but also went back again by the fying route, completing an aerial journey of over 25,000 miles. It was consider- ed appropriate, after such a long voyage by aeropiane and flying- boat, that the flute should have! been played "over the air" by a meniber of one of the wireless broadcasting orchestras in Austra 112.

An examination of some of the recent waybills for goods air-borne in Australia provided the follow. ing list of miscellaneous articles:

Liquid glucose, Door-handles, Parrots, Canaries, Chicks and hat- ching eggs. Apples. Artificial flo- wers. Bacterial cultures, Cabinet of trees, cutlery, Golf clubs, Rose Stockmens saddles, Tennis rackets, and Set of false teeth.

One of the oddest consignments, recently, was that of a box of spiders from West Australia which were consigned.to a museum in Fraguc,

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AIR-PORT PROGRESS

AT KARACHI

Work is proceeding rapidly in connection with the developments and improvements which are progress at the Karachi air-port The huge new hangar is having Having accomplished fights across the Atlantic and from

Another instance which may be taken was that of a prominent buşi- ness man with many interests in Hawaii to the United States she

HUMAN EQUATION'

IN THE AIR

Amelia Earhart Putnam Begins Test

In Plane That Cost $70,000

Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam took her new library airplane for its first test flight at Burbank, Calif., recently. With it she intends to undertake research into what she calls the "human equation to 'flight."

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is turning her attention to this, rower each, Barking the "Alclad

other research project as official con- metal cabin. Unlike the

for Purdue University, popular makes used in commer- sultant

transportation, the Electra Months of preparation have gone cial into this new flying laboratory. has two tails, each directly behind The

It cost $70,000 which

has the propeller blasts. been provided by the new 'Ear- Satisfied with the trial perform- the aid of hart Foundation which has its Ance executed with headquarters on the university Elmer C. McLeod, Lockheed test

pilot. Mrs. Putram said: campus at Lafayette, Ind

"We've improved the mechanical

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features of aviation marvelously. But observation

of the human

It is a Lockhead Electra which Mrs. Putnam has chosen to succeed the little red Lockhead. Vega monoplane with which she made factor has been neglected. I pro- her record dashes. The new ship pose to study the reaction to the is the first bl-motored model shel yast array of flying instruments," has had in eight years of flying. having in mind possible changes It is powered with two Pratt and to improve the ease of piloting by

of 550-horse- these dials" Whitney engines

anishing touches put to it, and work is bestly in progress with the new electrical apparatus necessary for the night-lighting sheme.

Equipment for the boundary hights is in positon and, when everything is completed, the more- ment of a few switches" at zne control-point will bring the whole air-port lighting scheme into play. Important work is now in pro- gress in connection with the pro- vision of new roads and improved drainage. The latter will provide a drainage system right round the landing area, and will be capable of dealing with any emergency in When the way of excess rainfall. the present schemes are completed, the new air-port. with its landing ares, reads, and buildings, will ex- tend over an area of approximately four square miles.

ENGINEERS AS HELPERS Engineers, plots and psycholo. gists she listed as helpers in the research to take place over the Los Angeles airport here and over the Purdue campus.

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The Electra is equipped for a flying range of 4500 miles and can carry 1200 gallons of gasoline I has retractable landing gear

215 miles and is capable of hour at 10.560 feet. All the latest The instruments are provided.

Includes equipment ship's Sperry auto-gyco, robot pliot. " fuel minimizer. a wing delcer, radio for seriding and receiving and other bind- flying guides,

Normally used for passenger transport purposes Mrs. Putnam's. Electra has sacrificed passenger

От fuel tanks, space for extra board there is room for one other person besides the plot. and this space is in the control room.

MOTOR JOTTINGS

LEVEL CROSSING ACCIDENTS

NEW PLANE FOR TESTS IN “SUB- STRATOSPHERE"

very rare. circumstances. Unbai- anced persons indulge themselves too readily; some of us are tem- peramentally unbalanced and seek the indulgence habitually, though the police records suggest that rash over-indulgence is less com- mon than is sometimes alleged. Balanced people can temporarily lose their balance under the in- Auence of alcohol or of any form We denounce the speed of mo-

of excitement, and-oddly enogh ter-cars because they travel fast-

--as the result of an auto-intoxica-

The total number of accidents, er than we were accustomed totion which attacks some of us in tavolving the movement of trains, move before the petrol-engine was the later. stages of a long drive at public-road level crossings was invented, and we criticise this ec-

The present writer confesses that

153 in 1934 and 194 in 1995. Four celeration because it happens to be during the last third of a 300-mile bridge have been erected during accompanied by a disquieting journey one of two moods always the past two years at rallway number of "fatal accidents on the threatens nim. Sometimes he be- erossings. In addition four other engers at altitudes of from 20,000 closed. to 30,000 feet. Its designers claim road, which we are apt to ascribe comes tired and finds the last hun-crossings, although not solely to accelerated travel.

dred intles wearisome; but on rare can be avoided by through trame that at the higher level "there is cial analyses of the accident occasions a sensation of power and by the use of bridges construted no "weather," for most clouds are statistics do not support this as- sumption. About a seventh of the annual deaths are pitiably record-

dangerous.

arrogance assails him. and he has

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on by-pass roads. Grants have

to guard against exceeding rationalso been made during the two al speed and taking small risks years in respect of four other ed amongst young children and This latter mood is most litig to schemes, which, when complet occur at speeds little if any higher occur in an open can and may be ed will provide for bridges at on the average than the rates at the result of oxygenatior-he may railway crossings." which many cyclists now travel, be "drunk" on fresh air and over- and at which all stage-coaches exhilarated. But palice records, once travelled. Again, police in- again, suggest that such moment- quiries agree that only a small per-ary logs of normal balance is rare centage of the accidents occur at and is not to blame for a sarimus speeds which national opinion percentage of accidents, gards as absolutely

SPEED, RELATIVE AND This is a democratic country, and

ABSOLUTE Its consensus of opinion, as trans- Isted into law by its elected repre- sentatives, is that speeds up to thirty miles ar hour should be permitted and even" encouraged in built-up areas (subject always to modification by local or varying conditions), and that speeds well over thirty miles an hour should te allowed on the so-called "open" . roads

We shall and that the fidgets and buffets of the road imperil it at almost every furlong. We get stalled behind a broad-beamed motor-coach, chugging along far It follows that in so far as speed more slowly than we wish to drive. 15 to blame for accidents the cul- We get trapped behind a baby car' prit is relative speed rather than taking station far out from the absolute speed. The villain of the near-side Kerh. We are held up piece is not aheer high speed, but behind a bevy of cyclists riding a speed which., though safe and three or four abreast. A level under normal road crossing has its gates shut, and reasonable conditions (such as 15, 20, 25, or 30our engine ticks over for five or, miles an hour), happens to be six minutes before a rumble and a dangerous under the existing con- whistle announce the arrival of a ditions. When a motorist driver train. A couple of drovers mis- An honest driver is perfectly

five miles an hour faster than is handle some hlundering coWB, aware of the perils connected with absolute speed, Sheer speed. py sane under the governing condi- sleepy watchman in control of the which in terms of the road we im- tions his crime is not so much"Stop and Go" discs at a one-way There road repair section displays grie- ply rates exceeding sixty, can br "speed" as "impatience."

who

fore the queen of virtues for all vous lack of intelligence. It seems most exhilarating to those enjoy physical sensations, but motorists is patience, Blazon this overcautious to check an eager car a blind-road Junction or a balanced people realise that, alike word "patience" on the tablets of at

and over in their personal and the publie the mind in letters of gold, and screened bend Over interest, they must apply a self- essay a long cross-country run again our desire to make distance › denying ordinance on the road and with the virtue in the forefront of conflicts with the principles of

safety-Brst. esghew such pleasures except in conscioumest.

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A new plane for tests in the off at a height of 15 feet and us- "substratosphere" is being coming his arms to flap home-made pleted now by the Transcontinent fabric wings. He said he kept on his course with an attached "tall- al and Western Air Line at Chic-

rudder." It is designed to carry pass-

ago,

far below,

HARIFICATION OF AIR

The chief obstacle to such high altitudes is the rarification of the air, which can be overcome for the motors by the use of superchargers, but which presents greater pro- blems when dealing with human respiration.

SOUVENIR COLLECTIONS

Public interest in air transport is illustrated by the hobby of mak- ing soutenir collections of air-mail Air resistance also is less, they

covers carried by ploneer services. which

A representative collection of such point out, so that a ship

covers tells the whole story of the could travel at 200 miles an hour at 10,000 feet might speed up to development of the flying malls." 250 miles an hour at 25,000 feet. The collection of air-mail stamps They also believe that vibration

and covers though a comparative- would be reduced "and passengerly recent hobby on anything like a travel therefore, would be smoot-

wide-spread scale, has, during the her.

past few years, been going ahead by leaps and bounds. It was in 1925 that Messrs. Harmer, stamp auctioneers and philatelic experts, held in London a pioneer auction of air stamps and down" covers.

"Since then," explains a mem ber of this firm, "more and more collectors have been turning their There is a attention to the air. romance about the flying mail which appeals to the imagination. Here-just to take an example-is one of the actual letters which Harry Hawker carried with him in his airplane when he made the arst attempt to fly non-stop ac- ross the Atlantic from New-found- land to Ireland. That night, you may ranember, ended in a forced MAN-POWER FLIGHT

descent in mid-Atlantic. Mr. Haw- Experiments in man-power fight ker and his navigator (were re- stil are going on. The Associated scued by a steamer, but their Press reports that in Edmonton, abandoned plane, containing Alta, George M. Semaka: "Cana-bag of special mails, hosted about dian Bird Man" declared that on in the Atlantic till it was sighted Aug 1 he few 100 yards by taking and salvaged by another vessel

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Wiley Post in his unsuccessful attempts at cross country fights in this "sub-stratosphère" wore a special oxygen tank sult, but far passenger service it is necessary to develop some practical means of maintaining ordinaty atmospheric pressure within the whole cabin of the plane,

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