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AMATEUR FLYING DANGERS.

NOTED FRENCH AIRMEN'S WARNING.

Strong criticism of amatour air, men who, by their ignorance of the proper handling of planes chart disaster, and appeals for more scientific Bying have been expreua- ed almost at the same time but from different viewvpoints by two distinguished French aviators, Louis Bleriot and Captain Thoret. વ Bleriot, who says he expects live 10 kee commercial planes travelling at, 600 miles an hour. goes so far as to predict that the day of the amateur owner-pilot in *on the wand in almost every unan-

try',

And Thorel, one of the foremost of French glider pilots. mays; There are many persons piloting machine-given aeroplanes to-day who really do not know how to dy, whose ideas of flight are as scanty is those of a rabbit 'com- pared with a bird. They are mere- ly driving a motor through the nir.

Basic Idea Different.

"The whole basic idea of air- craft is nilauaderstood by the

average person, whs is like to consider the little two-seater aero- plane in the same light as a car," satd Bleriot.

"Flying a job for the profes slonal navigator, ant for the per- son who wants to go out for a week-end jaunt. You would never place anyone but an experienced mariner in command of a ship. would you?

"

people who would like in

Dy could see the waves, the swirls And the wellies of the air as well as they can see Unse of the sea. very few amateurs would risk fly- ing just for pleasure."

Need Professional Core, Admitting that a certain num- bes of amateurs were perfectly j Lapable of looking after them alves in the air, Bleriot said they were exceptions. Huldered that the future of civil aviation lay essentially L commercial lines, and even In the private "yacht." or an aeroplane owned by An individual, but manned and looked after by a pilot and a me ehnnie.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SEPTEMBER 19th, 1931.

Louis Bleriot,, lowar right, aviation pioneer, and Captain Thoret, left, one of the most skillful of French glider pilots, are united in a ples for greater skill in the management of air. craft. The monoplane in which Bleriot made the first flight *cross the English Channel, in 1909, shown in the upper picture, is safer than some of those built today, he declared, about 20 milles an hour, almost | they made some very fine flights, like a filling lenf, but my original maximum speed was only about 401 miles an hour, which precluded dying in bad weather or against a really strong wind,"

WHEN

Captain Thoret

talking about gliding when he said that many nirmen to-day really do not know how to fly.. As an encour- agement for the art of gliding he strongly supports the contest with a prize of $5,000 offered by the Daily Mail for the first gilder flight from France in England and return.

"When Willen Wright

MORATORIUM IDEA

NOT NEW.

Some Historic_Examples

of the Past...

The idon that the granting of a moratorium to a financially- distressed nation in something re- volutionary may be dismissed an quite Incorrect. it has often bean resorted to in times of stress.

France declared several mork-| torioums during the Franco-Prus- sinn War of 1871 and at the out- break of the World War in 1914 the warring governments and some neutrals invoked them, sometimes for months, In order to

avold bankruptcies from sudden liquida- tions and Anancial upseta.

Lately there have been prop-2981 for moratoriurns on farm mort- gages in Bome Canadian pro- vincus. The effect of It moratorium can he produced In the United States by declaring a series of legal holidays, as the governor of California did after The San Francisco earthquake and fire. As debts are not payable on

King Louis XVI. legal holidays, the power to de- clare enough legal holidays as same thing

amounts to the

power to declare a moratorium.

Prussin Set Style.

demnity payments.

Jackson threatened

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'The Thrill of Glating. "Gliding in the ascendling eur- rents of mountain valleys is far and away the finest sport imagis whle, When you are souving in the air without effort. lifted int your outspread wings by the sin

charges. There wasn't ever any vestors and heirs as a result of gie force of nature, you feel that

repris great hope of getting this war debt their unpaid Civil War loans to you really have learned to fly--- - Indemnities and reparations in sals against French proper paid, but in 1823, with the debt Southern Confederate states. that to all intents and purpose.money, territory or both are as ty, and the Whiga in Con-mounting to about £16,000,000 The great modern example of "A machine needs overhauling

you are a bird,”

ancient as war and have long been gress under Henry Clay repudiated the Austrian Emperor agreed to debt repudiation is Russia's who- se meteulously and so often tha?

Thoret has guided für over nino recognized by international law. him. Ministers were recalled, and pay £2,500,000 and did, to the as-lesale repudiation of nearly the average person would be quite

hours in an ordinary machineIn modern history Prussia set a war threats were heard in both companiment of tart comment in £1,000,000,000 in private and for- muable to rope with this wide of

with propeller stopped. On an- new style when in her wars of countries. The French chamber the British parliament. A war eiga indebtedness. The Soviet the upkeep se as to insure perfect

other orvasion, with a seaplane 1866 and 1870 she demanded three then vated the money, to be paid time loan of about 8.000.000 took the position that the Russian safety." he added. "A motor car

many fitted with tw› huge douts, weigh-į times as much as all other nations only when Jackson personally expounds to Portugal was cancelled people were not responsible for may be neglected and driven bad

years ago tested his glider above ing almost one ton, he low, or had demanded after all other wars plained or apologized. Britalo | by Britain by treaty in 1815. debts incurred by the Czarist ty, and yet run quite well, but not the bills of Kitty Hawk he noticed rather glided, with engine dead, hetween 1796 and 1871,

offered to intervene in 1836 and The United States still theoreti regime. an aeroplane."

that an ascending wind improved for three and a half hours ever France excited world admira-payment was made, although Jack-cally awes an old war debt. King Defaults on national debts to Twenty Years Ago.

the duration and distance of his

Louis XVI advanced nearly private security holders were not in a closed circle and at times lion-dollar indemnity, then re- There were few inter-govern- $2,000,000 to the Colonies between Infrequent, until recent years. The when he few from France to Eng-jed this elemental Tart this he ranching 1,500 feet altitude. Hej gariled as a staggering sum. The | mental debts before the World War. | 1776 and 1781 which was not re- most spectacular defaults were land, the first time the English made the grave mistake of adding has also performed some remark- peace treaty was signed in May. But in the eighteenth century Great paid, presumably due to the fact those of Argentina, which about Chanel had ever been crossed by An Pagine to his glider," said alde gliding frais over the Alps, 1871, and the lust payment made Britain adopted a habit of sub-that the King was beheaded. But 1890 would have bankrupted the an oplage. The machine he How Thoret, who is now attached to and in more than 20 years of ac- months ahead of time in Septem-sidizing her continental allies, con- there are heirs of Louis XVI alive great firm of Baring Brothers of that day is still in order, and only the French Ais Ministry.

tive flying has never sustained a ber 1873.

sidering it cheaper than sending and it is believed that under the London with inbilities of £20,- a few works ago he flew it himself

seratch.

The United States under Andrew | troops to aid, them and maintaining US: arbitration treaty with France 000.000 had not the Bank of Eng- to prove its air-worthiness. It is

Jackson came somewhere near war standing army. During the Re- a small rickety looking contrup-

with France over a £1,000,000 involutionary and Napoleonic Wars they might bring claims for pay and stepped in. The most impor- lant nation now in default on bond ment. tion with an open sent and a four-

demnity payable to her po account she handed out £67,000,000. Some The British Corporation of For payments in Mexico, which han cylinder moter.

of French destruction of American of it was paid for the Hessians who cign Bondholders was organized a had it varied record of defaults, shipping during the Napoleonic came to fight the American colon- few years ago to bring action for negotiations, resumptions and re- Wars: After many year-France ·|-intai---

£12,00,000 alleged due British-in-arrangements since 1914-- had finally agreed by treaty in 1831

Huge Losses Before.

Blerial won fame in July, 1909, lights, bin hardly had be perevistains of Corsien, moving tion by speedily paying off her bil- { son didn't apologize.

"By so doing. Wright assisted aviation, but delayed the ultimate

"I have made a deep study for triumph of the glater. There fol years of air currents, and it is lowed the wartime flying during most fanating, as well as being which the pilots learned to per at the very rout of the question "My old original machine, and form prodigious Teats with petrol of aerial locomotion. Gliding is those bull'sorie 30 years ago, driven machines, but they did not not rely dieult, but what one were safer than those built at learn how to fly. The Germans learns in lying without power is present for high speed," he ex- then set the example by going in of immense value to the art of plaines, "One could land at whole-heartedly for gliding "and piloting."

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