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4 CYLINDERS OVER OCEAN,

Last Technical Obstacle to Flying Service Removed, Says Mollison.

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1932,

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would cost at least $500,000 and would weigh about 100,000 pounds,, ho said. It would bo capable of making 160 miles an hour loaded, and would have crusing radius of 3,500 miles. Despite a burden of war debt, Great Britain, he noted, has just built a dying boat weighing 73,000 pounds, a craft unequalled any-

Now possibilities of the use of fly. Whether it is practical com-where in the world. small, compact aircraft for long-mercially I cannot say, but the day distanco fight have been dishas arrived when there is a closed in the arrival of Captain mechanical and solentife basis for James A. Mollison in his De it. Haviland Pusa Moth from Irelar In the Brat sole crossing of the north Atlantic in A westerly direction, writes Wayne M. .Weishaar.

Admiral Moffet Speaks (or

Dirigibles

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NEW GERMAN SAFETY HIGHWAY.

Sodium Vapour Lighting Being Tested Engineers interested in more efficient illumination of landing felds and highways are manifest- Lighter-than-air craft auch us ing considerabló Interest in the dirigible Akron are practicable technical reports of a demonstru- The monoplane has been called for trans-oceanic operation and lion of sodium vapour lighting ont "the flying gas tank" because of could be used as the basis for an a test mile of roadway between the efficient manager in which the American merchant marine of the Monstricht and Nijmegen, Hal snug cruiser of the clouds stowed air, Rear Admiral William A. land, Taat month. The 100-watt nway its fuel. It's fitness in Moffett, chief of the Bureau of lamps were placed at a. height of other respects provides planes of Aeronautica of the Navy, told the About 26 feet and the distance American make a worthy mark, In National Aeronautic Association from lamp to lamp was about 31 the international competition to at its recent meeting in Washing-feet, and yet the Illumination was build ablps of stamina, stability ton.

enough to enable motorists to and economy.

A ship like the Akron, he assert-drive a car at mile a minute speeds

without headlights.

While the Installation time for trans-Atlantic travel to found to require only five kilo- two and one-half days. In view of Watts of power to illuminate this saving he suggested that mile of road, or an expenditure every effort be made toward the for current of 10 to 15 conts an building and improvement of ships hour, ita results in terms of visual of the sort. The last year has acuity indicate a similar improve- aven much progress made in the ment. The lamp utilizes an in- equipment for handling large air) candescent filament. A low volt- craft. One of these Innovations} age discharge takes place in a is the construction of a telescopic mixture of about three parts of mast pulled by a tractor at the sodium vapour and one, part of fore end of the vessel and a beam neon gas. hauled on a truck the after end. In order to obtain sufficient 80- This equipment, it was explained, diuni vapour pressure, the bulb does away with the necessity for must have a temperature between Gasoline taxes provide 71.9 per In 1981 auto insurance com- employing a large body of men in 200 and 300 degrees of centigrade cent of the revenue from all panies paid out $309,108,047 to the landing cre've and enables the

the lamp la put in a vacuum by special taxes collected in Arkansas holders of policies involved in ship to be walked into a hanger use of a second glass envelope. between July, 1928, and July, 1932. accidents. even when there are crosa winds. When the lamp is first switched on Admiral Moffet reported that it sheds a reddish orange light, the Navy had also made progress but within two or three minutes

In the first place, the Heart's cd, need not fear any weather at Content, the English-made plane sen. Such afteraft could cut the In which Mollison made, his crossing, has a length of 25 feet, span of 36 feet 9 inches and weighs empty without extra gasoline taalts about 1,210 pounds. Four-Cylinder Motor Used Successfully

With no intersecting streets to cause accidents, the above superhighway, just completed in Germany after three years' contruction, is the latest attempt in that country to cut the growing list of automobile accidents. The road, near Wenseling, is more than 65 feet wide, and is approached on rampa running in the direction of moving traffic. It crosses all feeder roads by means of bridges.

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It is very different from the usual run of trans-Atlantic ship, with their supercharged engines and rent ft. The Gipay, mark III inverted engine develops 120 horsepower and its four cylinder Turning and twisting up 500 feet in 12 miles ..

in-line engine is almost entirely cowled in. It is a quiet ship, too, road up Pike's Peak, a rigid test for any car, shown above.

as modern planes go, modest in Below, Chuck Mycra, the 1931 Labour Day race winner, is

both gasoline consumption and shown making one of the many hairpin turne,

noise making. To eliminate noise olorado Springs, Colo., Aug. slots in his tyres to the cord. as far as possible, the designers h-The annual Memorial Day This, he explained, would give have led the exhaust pipe back in its studies on so-called "flying the sodium. vapourizes vigorously A new highway between Cologne As R -mile

result of remonstrating automobile

at him better traction up the climb. under the fuselage and the valve boats." Although the Navy has and the light changes to a paler and the city of Bonn, 12 miles in with a constable for ngt giving a ianapolis may be a severe Lest To start off with, Myers was put gear has been totally inclosed. been hampered by lack of funds, yellow. Its rays are said to be both drivers and cars, but the at a handicap when Shultz whirled

his car to the summit in another is a two or three place plane, as soon as possible the largest fly-n visual acuity double commercial be safe for speeds of 80 m.ph.. has been prosecuted at Tenby. Ho While normally the Puss Nath he indicated his Intention to build distinguished by lack of glare audength and 50 ft. wide, and said to traffic signal clearly motorist ry Labour Day is said to be the record time-17:25-cutting 15 Captain Mollison eliminated ing boat in the world. This craft tungsten lights.Exchange. was opened recently.

was ordered to pay costs. gruelling event in the coun-seconds off his previous mark. Virtually all of the interior furni

Myers took the news stolidly, howshings to gain additional fuel Only the last stretch of the rond ever, set his face in a firm look of space. He sat on a metal stool 19ed for the race, supervised determination, and got ready to with his back to a tank holding

ually by the American Auto- take off, bile Association. But the last When his time came, he flashed in the wings held 46 gallons and 46 gallons. A gravity fuel tank' cich in the most difficult of all out of the pit and onto the road-in front of him was Lank holding) arting at DIGO feel, the road Watchers at the halfway mark mbs to 14,109 feet in the 12 saw a blue and silver bug flash 76 This capacity gives him les, neroliating hairpin along the tangled ribbon of road to claw its way around the sharp -ast year's race was a tarifler. curves and through the short

Shultz, who WON the race straightwaye.

vers out of the last nine,

i milon race up Pike's Peak

ns and cutbucks.

154

The Winnah!

a hiter of the alltime super- arged record of 17:41, was the

At the quarter mark he was four ourite to with his Shultz seconds ahead of Shultz and his atz 32-valve spouster. But the Studebaker-powered special was aner turned out to be Chuck still roaring powerfully. Up the era, who piloted a Hunt-Jen-front range, through the Cove, be dark horse to victory... yond timberline, over the crest of the Rampart Range, up the "Top Not a Chance! Oh Yeah!

o the world." Little Pike's Peak, Myers' victory was doubly im- and skirting the bottomless pit he issive because he wasn't conced-tore, crussing the finish line in a a chance and because he set asidewise skid to check the rocket. wall-time record--17 minutes like zoom. Time-17 minutes 10.5

too, 3 seconds. Then,

he seconds, averaging 43.6 miles an lowed 11 other ears up the hour. untain after the pounding of It should be remembered that ir wheels had loosened the such terrific speed was run over id bed considerably and made it course where ordinary tourists fficult for his machine's wheels travel at little more than 10 miles hold.

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rauge of about 3,500 miles in stit air at a crusing speed of about! 110 miles an hour.

Visibility from the ship is un- usually good. The forward view

nimest na extensive 9 funt from an American sedan. The the cowling low and the cabin use of the inverted engine keeps

roof is fitted with transparent | material giving a view rear above. the tall. Special windows permit sight above the wings. The wings themselves are hinged to the top of the longitudinal members of the fuselage and are braced by streamline steel tubes. Inge is of tubular steel construe- tion in three sections with wooden stringers covered with fabric. The wings are, of wood covered with fabric. They are arranged to fold back around rear par joints. The low pressure air wheels are mounted on the un-

an hour and where the road individed ander-carriage." Myers had anticipated this. some places is little more than a

The fuse-

There was considerable cunosi-

wever, and had cut crosswise shelf on the side of the mountain.ty manifest at Roosevelt Fick as

WATCH YOUR STEP!

The National Safety Council re rts that one-third of all pedes inns killed by motor vehicles lust ar were attempting to cross the reet between intersections.

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to how the little monoplane had "slood the gaff" on the way over. The Toronto mechanics. W. A. R. Calder and Walter Rinaldo, who were at Ilangar F to overhaul the Automobile tyres are to ship. reported that no replace-

from have been made

The en- ments were necessary. rubber mude synthetic

from gine, they said, way in excellent patroleum at a Soviet

plant in condition and it was only neces- Yaroslav, on the Volga river.

sary for them to oil the rocker ärms, grind the valves and generally tune up the motor.

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Captain Mollison called atten- tion to a precaution that had been taken in fitting the ship to combat the formation of ice at the vents of his gasoline tanks during the flight.. Interference with fuel supply in this manner has been credited with the fatal ending of many trans-Atlantic hops. To keep ice from clogging vento of the tanks the cabin was designed so that entrances of the tanks led out from the cabin where the air warm. Warm air Intakes alded in keeping temperatures adjusted.

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The results of the flight from east to west justify one con- clusion, Captain Mollison assorted when he was naked if he felt that the world was nearing an era of trans-Atlantic plane service.

"It would be possibla to-day”, ho sald, "Three things make it Ro. Tho first la dependable motors and plane construction, The second is experience and knowledge in navigation. The third in the excellence, of wonthor forcasts. Predictions are being mado with 90 per cent. accuracy now.

"If a small plane like mine can' mako the crossing safely, certainly It can be made even better 'and more swifty by a large plane for such especially designed work. There is no doubt that scheduled trans-Atlantic plang service is now feasible technical

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