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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1936.

AFRICA AIR MAIL

Fast Flying-Boat Service

It is likely that the first new service to be operated by the big Empire fying-bouts will be that between Cairo and South Africa, This will be a new service in the setise that more than half the toute will be new. It should also be an Improved service, because the cruising speed of the boats will be at least 30 miles an hour higher than that of the land air- craft which at 'present operate the southern section of the route. Day and night flying is also con- templated.

has

its

The first of the new class com-. pleted its first round trip in the Mediterranean recently and

shortened the "performance

Brindisi Journey between

and Alexandria by at least ave hours. Flying on the regular service from Friday Alexandria to Brindisi on

It made the journey. Including stops at Crete and Athens," in seven hours 20 minutes, Instead of the scheduled 13 hours. In the reverse direction recently its time was eight hours. By April 1 It is hoped to have nine of these boats ready for service so that the alternative route to the Cape may be adopted.

The new route will go direct from the neighbourhood of Nairobi out to the East Coast at Mombasa, and will follow the coast from there to Durban, where the mails will be handed over to the air- craft of the Union Government.. When the change is made the whole of the main service through Africa will be maintained by the

AVIATION

"NAVY ROBOT PLANES

W

Manoeuvred With Ease

Pilotless radio-controlled aero- planes have been the targets of anti-aircraft ship Batteries during For the naval exercles recently.

a time these in- three hours at genious small aircraft, which are from a launched by catapult

at have cruiser.

manoeuvred heights ranging up to nearly ten

while the thousand feet

naval gunners have done their best to shoot them down.

So

other far as is kown, no country has developed pilotless aeroplanes to the same level of efficiency as Great Britain. Cri- tics who emphasize the relatively poor performance of the craft at

used-Queen

light Bee present biplanes capable of a maximum speed of about 100 miles an hour- and who express 'doubts whether practice on targets differing so widely from the targets that would be presented to ships' gun- ners by modern adequately answered in the words of Lord Stanley, Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, who has said: "It is a great feat to be enabled to have a flying tar get at all."

bombers.

are

The old aircraft carrier "Argus" is now in course of re-equipment for use as a tender for pilotless. aircraft.

new flying-boats. Between Cairo THE AIR-MAIL ACROSS

and the Lakes they will And alighting places on the Nile. Earlier doubts as to the depth of the water at Juba in certain sea- sors appear now to have been dispelled. The loaded weight of the flying-boats is 18 tons; the top speed 109 miles an hour" and the cruising speed about 165 miles an hour.

THE ROCKIES

A

SPEED AND SAFETY | FLYING BY THE FLYING COMMERCIAL

ON THE AIRWAYS

"We have yet to find the fac cidentless" aeroplane; but we have also to find the

STARS

accidentiess R.A.F. And Navigation

We go

train, motor-car, or ocean-going steamer.-' So wrote "The Rangoon Times the other day. "At the same time." went on this Journal, "there does seem to us to be a certain relationship between speed and accidents. Our modern roads are good. And yet we have our accidents on the road as we have The rail- our mishaps in the air. way train is bullt for speed. But not even trains are wholly safe. It is doubtful, therefore, if man can together counteract the risk of speed. The faster

the more complete are our accidents. But when we relate the incidents of mishaps to the remarkable in- crease in flying speed we are com- pelled to marvel at the striking aeroplane ser- efficiency of our vices. Imperial Airways are about to place on the Empire routes a new type of flying-boat which will add majestically to the speed and equipment of our air-mail agencies. We have every confidence in the builders of such machines, and are assured that every safety device known to mechanical science has been employed in their construc-

We tion. congratulate Imperial Airways on the energy displayed in the past to keep their air ser- vices as reflable as possible, and trust that such a humanitarian concern will continue to be ex- ercised in the future."

section of the trans-Canada" air- mall service. The mobile ground- stations move to different points" along the mountains and then communication is established with the 'flying laboratory over head. In this way practical tests can be made as to any abnormal effects which the existence of the many mountain peaks might have best positions for the radio-stu- the working of regular airways tions across the Rocky Mountains' radio-beacons."

An aeroplane equipped as an ex- perimental radio laboratory, and ground wireless stations Atted up

motor-lorries, are in big

being determine the fa tests to

used

MOTOR

THIS COMFORT

Silence And Springing

THE ROADRIDER” LANCHESTER

What it all comes down to is *this: By

ordinary comfort the man means to-day that his new car shall make as Bittle noise as feel the possible, that he shall bumps as little as possible, and that he shall have as much room

as possible Everything else either of secondary importance ez he is so sure of getdng it that re belleves there, is no need to specify it writes John Pliceau in a Home paper.

JOTTINGS

an

Of New Bombers...

TRAINING OF PILOTS

WAS

that

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When the new bombers of the R.AF. were described in June.

remarked

the much graater speed and longer range they are likely to afford "would demand new qualities

the pilots who had to fy them, and that the good pilot of the future would be one who could and his way about rather than "throw an aeroplane about," These bombers will shortly come into being service, and thought is taken with the object of making

new

the training of plots worthy of their special characteristics. writes the Times aeronautical cor- respondent.

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TRAVELLER

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To Visit "Australia And Canada By Air

Mr. Harry Town, the flying commercial traveller,' is soon to be off again by air.

This time he is to visit Indle Australia, New Zealand. and Canada on a business tour which will keep him in the Dominions until sometime next year.

Mr. Town, who is a Director and the Export Manager of the well- known Manchester fro of Wm. O'Hanlon & Co., Ltd., was one of the first business executives to realise the importance of air

As far back ILS travel

1919 he startled his associates by, going busi- over to Belgium by air for ness purposes and has since used aft transport whenever possible,

air

Knes

where postible in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.

Already he has travelled hall a million miles by air and other forms of transport and has the amazing record of having been round the world, no fewer then The new aircraft should be eleven times!" His pending tour capable of fights from England

will take him several months but to some at least of the British even then will be considerably Possessions in the Mediterranean.

shortened: as he is to my by Im- In time of war it might be imperial Airways to Australia and possible. to make intermediate will use the internal landings and hard to obtain the help from directional wireless as in time of peace. It might also be advisable, in order to get the best out of the engines and to avold the tlak, of opposition, to fly high, often above the clouds. a long flight the ordinary On navigation by compass and clock might in such circumstances leave a wide margin of "error. It has therefore become necessary ̈ for. the pilot to be able to check his navigation without aid from be- 10w.

USE OF SEXTANT

ROYAL AIR FORCE RESERVE OF PILOTS

In order to increase the present reserve of fully-trained pilots to meet the requirements of the ex- panded Royal Air Force, a special category of a limited number of reserve pilots will be established in the near future. These re- At a superficial glance the solu-

pliots on entry, will pass through tion might be just as briefly

the same full course of training stated. The R.A.F. might be ad-

as that attended by pilots of the Fised to resort to the system of

regular Royal Air Force, lasting astronomical navigation

which

approximately twelve months. seamen have used for centuries.

On proceeding to the R.A.F. De- The method has been used with

pot when the civil school training success in aeroplanes. Mr. F. C.

Is complete, reserve pilots will be Chichester found his way to two tiny group of Islands 500 miles appointed to the acting rank of pilot officer (on probation) and from land In the Tasman Sex

will be eligible for confirmation in with the help of a sextant. R.A.F.

rank after twelve months service. afficer specially trained have fixed their positions with an error of On completion of their period of a hundred chiefly because it is

less than five miles. The sextant training, reserve pilats will revert to civil life to complete a fre narrow, uphil.. and leads

is about to become

years' reserve services. The sche- mediately to a hairpin bend that instrument in many aeroplanes admite of no trifling, and I was besides the craft of the flying-me is designed to appeal to young spare the twelve much impressed with the Lancher- boat squadrons, which have often who can than

months required for training be- ter's showing. It's a nasty place

fore embarking upon a career,, and and has seriously perturbed more

who are able to make satisfactory than one loyal and enthusiastic demonstrator of “modeïn' stepen-

arrangements regarding their re- employment in civil te completion of the course of train- stou. And the engine and gear- box are very quiet. There is the

ing. Candidates must be between bis, angles. In many Instances usual faint whine from the pre-

their eighteenth and twenty-fifth selective gear, unraticeable under the aeroptaue cannot give its

birthdays. navigator a view of the horizon. way. but the valve-gear and ex- haust are commendably quiet. So Another was the question of far as modern comfort goes the steadiness in the air. Again there

noticeable noise, and you will see that the supreme Importance of sural peace..

Silence relative but common

much more Lerm-means

podteness to your neighbour on the road. It means your own peace of mind, a sensible diminu- tion of strain on your attention, un asing up, greater safety for yourself and everybody else, IL It lets is like first-class steering. you attend to other things.

The saune, in at least an equal degree. is to be said of corporal

a valuable

had to use it. and that may be taken to mean that various initial troubles have been overcome.

One of the main disadvantages was the absence of the horizon, from which the sailor measures

after

comfort: the room for legs and Lanchested 14 gete lugh marks. were the complicated calculations ing officers may practise the

elbows, the insulation from ja: and bounce. If you are not com fortable you are in no condition to take my sort ur car out on to the very dangerous roads of 1937. Those cars that are still noisy. still cramped, still hard-riding at over twenty mile an hour, are out of date to say the kindest thing about them. performance,

The

14-h p. Lanchester, Gew maximum a

called the "Ruadrider," is partially speed of at least a mile a minute, and a multitude of winking gad-responsible for these reflections.

He knows that in at least eight ears out of ten chosen at random he will get lively awift acceleration,

DX

geta. In a large proportion these dight he will also get sensible luggage accommodation, which is For nearly as important as body accom- modation if bags are to travel with bodies. He is almost certain to get dashing lies, which may or may not be an advantage outside a beauty parade, for it is still extremely difficult to combine them with bag and/or body room in any but large cara.

What he

is not yet assured of in his liacky

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silent

needed to reduce observations to position nes on a map or a chart. All these awkward points have been dealt with or will have been

It gets high marks for other things, sun as its excellent steer- ing, te confidence-ging brakes and the smooth pull of its engine. In these respects it is a great im-dealt will before the R.A.F. pilot provement on the smaler Light- Twelve. It is fairly low-geared but will show sixty mies a hour and three or four more with- out making a fuss about it. It will do about forty-two on third.

It is lively and picks up really well, and for that reason I was rather surprised at the showing on Pebblecombe Hill," which has maximum gradient of 1 in 5, and

science of fading their position on the earth with the help of the heavenly bodies, but most of the flights will have to take place at night and so will remove the pos- sibility of checking positions by map-reading if there should be

to obscure the earth."

is asked to depend on the heavens rather tha41 on the bearings of the directional wireless stations no clouds for his "Tix." Already the lack of Night practice fights are con- A horizon has been made good insidered, necessary because of the dimeulty of getting sights of two the piloting of an aeroplane by

celestial bodies or or one in two providing an artificial horizon to secure the lateral stability of the widely separate positions in the course of an ordinary flight and so aeroplane, in low visibility.

The definition of the vertical of obtaining the two position lines requisite to a "ix." This may cot for the use of the sextant is se-

ing start. is taken by all care from a stand-cured by employing the bubble long be the case. nor may it long suffice for the sort of work the First and second gear principle. The bubble sextant, as

(normal. procedure it is called, has been tried on RAF w do and the time was forty-eight land, sea, and in the air with re- It is the latest production of the seconds I do not know whether markably good results, and may Daimler-Lanchester group, a 11 the fuld flywheel can slip or not

be considered to have established litre ten-guinea taxed six-cylinder but I got the impression that the itself in other spheres besides that car that has taken the place of drive was not locked. Perhaps it the recent Ight-Twelve. It is a

was a passing "indisposition., * useful sort of car,

Other Pecently-produced cars have shown themselves to be and comfortable, but as che Lan- chester was the last I have tried the impression it has left on my mind of these essential qualities is for the moment the most vivía.

..

Taking the essentials first, it dip are the three things I have has a comfortab's body, a four mentioned.

seater with room for four people, THREE ESSENTIAL POINTS

their legs, their arms, and their Nothing matters to nch to-day ¦ Heads. It has six windows and the as those three. Except for a mer- four doors are as wide as it seems cifully dwinding company of pub-possible to make them. You can 1o ruisances, who mistake clatter get in and out without acrobatick. for impressiveness; who believe but if you are specially slow in the that the more disgusting noise entry you can fold back the front they make the faster people will seat and get a measure or relier think they are going: except for The back seat has a folding arm these natal peate there is, no rest in the middle and all seats motorist to-day who does not are said to give anatomical sup yearn for silence as he used to port at all points, yearn for speed many years ago. Drive only once, hard-boiled owner

The springing is very good have a special stretch on my trial of an excellent but uproarious run that must be taken quite relic, in a car that makes do Howly by ninety-nine cars out of

used were

The lines of the body are very

luggage-boot. but a grid, pleasing. There is no in-built

price is £325.

The

air

It is reasonable to assume that the fast military aeroplane may soon be capable of flights of 2000 miles. It may fly at heights ut of dying, though it was evolved to 20,000ft. which will generally particularly for the benent of the take it above the clouds into layers navigator. Finally, a good of air, where bumps are few. With deal of work has been done with the help of the automatic pllot the object of giving quick, easy, such aeroplanes may afford a and trustworthy, solutions of the most suitable platform for the astronomical triangle, and, it taking of sights and a high de- seems likely that requirements of gree of accuracy in astronomical AUSTIN BREAKS LAP RECORD

the Afr Ministry will be satisfied. I navigation may be obtained. De- The overhead-valve Austin has The equipment and the need for velopments to meet the needs may given most encouraging proof of it have this arisen, almost to easily enough take place when the its speed just as a titbit to wind gether and astronomical obser- occasion arises. At the beginning up the season, for recently Dod-yations will eventually supple-one officer in each squadron will son, with one of these cars, took ment the more familiar map read-probably be given a course of the outer circuit 750 cc. record at ing, dead reckoning, and wireless training to prepare him for this 121.14 m.ph, beating Horton's bearings on long-distance fights, fort of work. He may then have Midget record of 116.64, and then took the mountain record, again in the 750 class, with an average of 77,02 as against K D. Evans' previous record of 75.24 mph. with an MG-Amocar.

NIGHT PRACTICE FLIGHTS Training will probably have to take place at the beginning over England; which will diminish the distances over which the navigat-

a long period of practice in guid- ing his squadron, and upon the success of this experiment may depend the method of extending the training or officers for such full navigational duties.

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