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DREADFUL MENACE OF NOISELESS AIRCRAFT

By ROGER FULLER.

THE success of a new air.

craft apparatus, demon strated at Hanworth dero- drome, has shown that alr power fa now approaching its ultimate terror-that night. mare conception, feared for years, when warplanes will be able to swoop noiselessly through the night sky, their approach unsuspected, their présence unrevealed.

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dew in one of the first machines to be equipped with a allencer-developed in coopera tion with Air Ministry experts at Farnborough.

The silencer has reached such a sinte of perfection that there is no point In Improving Ita qualities further all greater advance his been made in reducing airscrew noises.

The engine bent” yesterday was reduced to a mere rushing noise, and instead of being forced to shout in the rabin it was ensy to make oneself understood in 11 normal speaking voler.

LESS NOISY THAN A CAR.

From the ground, even when the machine was dylug as low an 6011., the engine nolan' was not as grent. na that of many motur-eara and

By means of a short wave radin

set this parachute jumped fold al his sensations during a two mile drap.

was almost drowned by the beat of the airacrese,

When ying at a height of 2,50011, the airerail was traudible,

The demonstration was fo}, lowed with keen interest by a technical expert from the Air Ministry research stafan 1st Farnborough and by representa.

·tives of-the-lending -nnuófnes turers of engines for our war planes.

Private firms and Government experts in all parts of the world have-for years been attempilog to solve the problem of silent engines. for the benefit of passengers in civil aircraft, and more urgently to produce raiding machines that do not reveal their presences through noise.

Defence against hostile aireraft largely depends

on warning

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their approach being flashed to beadquarters from listening posts equipped with sound detectors though the raiders may be hidden by cloud.

Those who operato modern sound detectors confess that it is often difeult to locate with any accuracy aircraft with open ex- hausts lying at 10,000ft.

How much more dificult will it be to check craft flying at 20,000rt. with silenced engines?

Such ralders would be as silent as night birds, though travelling at three miles minute.

The silencer has been developed by Messrs. C. G. Yokes, Ltd., of Putney, and has been tested at Farnborough and by Messra. Kolla. Royce, Ltd., who mako very many of the engines used in our day and night bombers,

HELPLESS DEFENCE.

that all

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One of the biggest problem facing experts has been how to obtain silence, without loan of power, and the new apparatus fins aftnost achieved this-the loss on the biggest type of engine yet every resort.

down to the sea, and it will hold (we live on an laland, why should we tested belog only from two to three Even Weymouth, which probably five or alx people. There are men tack for an excellent cold bath," per cent,

The principles of the silence is has the most formidable surviving and women guldes who, if desired Saf it was Beale who showed how to turn the pulsating movements of array of bathing, machines, has lost attend. The price la 4s, a week, the thing might be done. If the the exhaust gases under pressure faith in them to the extent that it or X1 Is. for klx weeks, and you seaside resorts celebrate the bicen- Into a steady stream. Although hus allowed the most famous bath- the gases run "straight through" ing machine in the world, the one a guide for every attendance, tenary of the bathing machine, as and do not come up against battles, from which George 111, bathed to They drive into, the sen until the well they might next year, we shall they do not come in contact with the accompaniment of "God Save machine is out breast high, and inevitably joke fun at the way Beale

Re outer easing, so

the King" (played by a band in an then let downt A screen, which protected his inthers from prying

joining machine), to fall from provente being seen, and under eyes; but if he had not done "drumming." or "running a high estate. Up to the time of nolars,are prevented, If research solves the parallel the war it was always kept in its which you go down the steps into a bathing might not have developed at the extreme fine sandy boltum."

fat all. In any case, the invention problems of diminishing alrscrew place of honour

porved six geiorations, noises and vibrational noisen from right of the line, and when the

In later machines there was a wind buffeting is successful, the machines were withdrawn to Lod- er of the perfectly silent her mour for the winter the arms were replace with chinmey, so that the plane in at and.

his ahlvory Bunnel making removed and put away until the bather, in follong reason, But this 11*- toric chine, in common with dement, might warm htmist mechines In the middle of the last others, has had its wheels taken The Victorian mehlnes, daring by leontury, all that we know of Ben- off and has become a tool-shed. is sald tint in the warly days of Blackpool the ladies on a wat Stunlay seal fu be taken to church in bathing machines, but at any rate thin was respectful misuse!

WHEN SEA BATHING BEGAN.

The only adequate form of defener then will be "offensive defence," by means of squadrons of day

and night bombers, Searchlights and anti-aircraft guns will be almost helpless,

It would be possible for silent warplanes to cross the coast 200 m.p... drop thele bombs over London, and be well on their way lack within half an hour, while gun crews stood wondering where the invaders were.

DAWN OF NEW ERA

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Before Bathing machines became kopopielery ALIONA brows at their invento ana n. 14

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part he played in the development. ut the seaside would not be out of place, the more so as this line of the bathing machine A velipas also the time at its beentenary, in so far as this can be fixed. When presa bathroom atsett began has never Jen letermined. Lecky mentiona Lord Chesterbeld's surprise. Crewing bathing at Searborough in

BATHING MACHINE173, and there is no doubt that

IS DOOMED

KING'S SHELTER A TOOL SHED

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now that Deal is converts Ing her fast dozen bathing machines isto in rooste is a reminder of Can end-of-the season seaside joh that will soon belong to the past, Dal at least will no longer have to drag, back her once fadispensable nathing machines to sheltered hibernation. The spot for their ilament of the Deal bench man that

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the estragrion of a new harfnar at Scarborough in 1744 made room for bothing facilities which wave a fillip to the pastime, An engraving 175 shows people bathing there

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from a shelter on the beach from covered rowing boats. Be 187 a bathing machine had

| peared at Scarborough,

Except that his grandson was from bathing

none

Typical of the progress of aviation companies in Chine, this new and modern bangar was recently opened by the Chinese National aviation Corp at Lungwan,

jcomparison with the originals, dis- But there is evidence that the pensed with the lengthy screen at original bathing machine had been the end, which enabled the bather introduced at Margate two or to get into the sea and out again three years earlier, and, indeed, the without being neen nt n. Als prolability is that it is exactly they were smaller. years age since Benjamin Beale, his Qualeer soul vexed by the in- decorum of what he saw on Mars gate sands, bethought himself of the wonderful horse-drawn caravan at which was to make sea-lathing

geonsonant with delicacy.

with the Free and easy customs of to-day machines are CA mežused, more ut" less loudly

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Mysterious disappearance of Willaim Young, Oregon aviator, while on a flight from Portland in 1933 was solved by Stala Police when the wreckage of his plane was found by a parly of hunters in wild territory on, the, Molalla river. Young's skeleton was wedged in the cockpit,

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The evidence for this is ratinerti interesting. All the, scraps Information, except the rest. about Beale; assign a later date his discovery. C, IL; Woodraft, in the "Home Counties Magazino" in 1902, gave 1753, and this ix! supported by a reformes 19 the Margate machines in 1764 Na "curiosities." However, a couple of years ago Sir Ambrose Iteal made discovery at the Society of Anti- quaries which showed that Benle's machine was being used in 1730, and was probably invented a year or two

earlier,

He came across some manuscript notes and draw ings in the society's copy of a book alled "Antiquities of the Isle of Thunet," by the Rev. John Lewis, of Margate. They were made by Joseph Ames, a friend of Lewis's, } and include a sketch of a bathing! machine identical with the one i which appears on the copy of Beale's trade card in the British Museum, and a description of the invention. Ames hud already made a drawing of Margute which ppeared in the book itself, and resumably his object in making. his sketch was to give an up-to- fate picture of Margate, including He new bathing machine. Ames note of the year in which be minde his sketch is "173" but, pro- vokingly, the last numeral is tom

F. As he went down to Margate to get a copy of the new book, how- over, it la exceedingly probable that The year was 1736,

DESCRIPTION OF A MACHINE

Here is Ames' description of the machine :-

"It contains a room to undress and, dress. in, with a space to gol

jamin Reale is that the lavention ruined him, and that he à ed poor. is widow died in the Drapers' Almshouse at Margate. Beale was before his time. The golden har- vest of the sands came a generation Form Inter, when George H., So little is known of Benjamin Wegraouth, and the Regent, at Beale that, though there 170 dozen Reales in the Dictionary of bathing. Ironically, it is only Brighton, had given a tilip to

National Biography, huis not onų įsire wo have learned to dispense of them. And yet he fute balk with bathing machines that the re-

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piract leable.", Dr. Richard creation has become really popular, Resell mirlit extol son water. Sir but something is due to the memory Juba Floyer, might vu him, "Slaro of Benjamin Beste.

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