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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1919.

REMARKABLE PICTURES OF MIRACULOUS AERIAL COLLISION.

CHARTING THE AIR.

THE DROP.

BEFORE THE CRASH.

THE COLLISION.

Above are the first photographs ever taken of a collision in mid-ai and the miraculous escape from death of the flyers. Former Army Pilot Robert Kennedy was to drop from one aeroplane to another 2,200 feet above the earth, while cinema cameras operated from a third plane. He started down the rope to the lower plane, as in upper left, when an upper gust of wind turned the lower machine up into the one above. By a miracle, Kennedy swung out of the way, shown in centre, and when the machines struck he was far out of danger, upper right. At 1,200 feet the machines dived down. Kennedy still holding the rope. The pilots managed to right the planes before they reached earth and Kennedy succeeded in landing without a scratch. Below, Kennedy is shown standing beside one of the wrecked planes.

detailed gures can forward

general information based on aring experience of the weather

HELPING THE AIR PILOT. conditions. For the rest it is

necessary to send Government aircraft repeatedly over the pro- Weather played a far greater posed routes, and these craft part in the Great War than is should, whenever practicable, generally known; it will play an carry technical officers whose sole even more important part in the duty it would be to watch and, future. There can be no great note every detail of the at- expansion of civil or commercial mospheric conditions. The type] aviation until the atmosphere is of aircraft pre-eminently suitable) charted. Ar the very outset for this work is the it must be realised that airship Rigid airships of the such routes as Lojonte R 34 class, having a cruising Faris or the French seaside range of 2,000 miles from their resons do not form the alpha and base, can cover a great distance omega or the scheme. These and large areas of unexplored projects have already been under-air without risk of loss such as taken by private, hrs. and no is always liable in heavier than assistance is needed Government. Our aim should be to link up the Empire by aircraft on the lines of what has been done in establishing the "All Red" wireless and rable routes,

the air craft, owing to engine failure. They can ease their speed, and watch atmospheric formations. and every tavity is available for the technical officers. Who would i cared to collect information.!

Primarily, it means that our

Supposing the investigations aircraft will have to set out into were to start from the British! unexplored parts of the aerial Isles: the Eastern part of the North world. Where ne has gone Atlantic Ocean could be thorough- others will follow, and if the Goy-sounded by dights from air sta- ernment gives the lead private tions already erected in the enterprise is sure to come after: British Isles, and would cost the but at the present juncture the Government practically nothing: unknown dangers of the air on as the airships would, in any case, long distance voyages form an be flying or requiring upkeep if absolute barrier to the commercial not employed on such work. air industry.

The way would then be open to Exploration of the upper air Gibraltar via the one sea route can be carried out to a large ex- and half the Atlantic towards rent from the surface but in order Canada and America would have actually to describe the daily been explored. The next step is happenings in the atmosphere to erect a mooring station either and the effect that they have on in the Mediterranean or on the aircraft, it is absolutely necessary American continent to explore the to send technical experts into great inland sea, or the remainder the air to examine its state of the Northern Atlantic. The at first hand and at close cost of the equipment of such a quarters. The results of such station is a mere nothing when investigation will be of twofold compared with the erection of interest. On the one hand, the even a temporary site for way will be clear for the air pilot. aeroplane operations. It is im- Instead of launching into the possible to conceive a less costly unknown, he will be it posses-and more efficient method of sion of such knowledge that, he charting the atmosphere than will be, at any rate, on nodding airship. acquaintance with the vagaries and whims of the weather through which he is travelling. The other person to whom this intelligence will be vitally necessary is the designer of the craft that will undertake the voyages. He must know before he draws the first outline of design what his products will have to contend with, and once in possession of the facts he will concentrate his energies in build- ing the most efficient machine, equipped in every detail to com- bat the natural elements.

Granted this necessity for "mapping the air" we have to consider the best and cheapest mathod of doing it. We are already in possession of numerous meteorological stations at home and in different parts of the' world which can give first class technical knowledge and records.. There are also the R. A. F. units abroad, which although they RAY not be able to give

DOINGS OF THE DUFFS.

OH SAY, PANSY, MRS. HELEN AND I ARE GOING DOWN "TOWN AND WILL

YOU IRON THIS SHIRT WAIST FOR MẸ WHILE I'M GONE, PLEASE

The aviator who miraculously escaped in the collision shown above.

I SHO WILL;

HONEY

Fresh from the Chinese prison to which they were committed after their protest against the Shantung award, 137 Chinese students have just arrived in the States to enroll as freshmen at various American Universities. The delegation includes seven young women. In the group are the leaders of the recent student outbreak at the Tsing-Hua Collega.

Pansy is Very Sensitive About Her Morals.

WONDER IF YOU WOULD DO PAKSY À LITTLE FAVOR WHEN YOU ALL IS Dova! TOWN? | WAKHTS TO GET MY MAN.. A PAIR OB SOCKS BUT HAUT GOT"

NO TIME TO GO TO DE STORE –

ILL GET

[ÉM DEUSN

OH, PANSY, WHAT SIZE SHALLI ASK FOR ?

DON'T ASK NO SIZE- JESS GET DE BIGGEST ONES DAY DEY GOT.

1.SEE, PANSY - AND YOU LOWLY WANT ONE PAIR

THEN?

BY ALLMAN,

LOOK HERE YOUNG LADY, YOU AIN'T TRYIN": "TO HSMUATE DAT I HAS MO DAN ONE HUSBAN

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