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NOVEMBER 2,

1934.

DREADFUL MENACE OF NOISELESS AIRCRAFT

By ROGER FULLER.

THE RUCcess, of a new air-

Tcraft apparatus, demon-

strated at Hanworth acro- drome, has shown that air power is now appronching Its ultimate terror-that night- mare conception, feared for years, when warplanca will be able to BWOOр noiselessly through the night sky, their approach unsuspected, their presence unrevealed.

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first

flow in one of the machines to be equipped with a ailoncor-developed in co-opera tion with Air Ministry experia at Farnborough.

The silencer has reached such a state of perfection that there is no point in improving its · qualition further unt greater advance has been made in reducing alrscrow nolaes.

to

The engine beat yesterday was reduced to a mere rushing noise, and Instead of being forced shout. in the enbin It was any to make oneself understood in " normal speaking voice,

LESS NOISY THAN A CAR.

From the ground, even when the machine was Bylng as low as 60ft., the engine nolec was not as great a that of many motor-cars and

By means of a short wave radio

at this parachute jumped told of his sensations during a two mile drop.

was almost crowned by the beat of the alrar tow,

When flying at a height of 2,600ft, the alrerait was inaudible.

The demonstration was fol lowed with kern Interest by technical expert from the Air Ministry research station at Farnborough and by representa. tives of the leading manufac turers of engines for our war- plancs,

their approach being flashed to headquarters from listening posta equipped with sound detectors though the raiders may be hidden by cloud,

Those who operate modern Bound detectors confess that it is often dimeult to locate with any accuracy aircraft with open ux- haunts flying at 10,000ft.

How much more difficult will it be to check craft flying at 20,000ft. with ailenced engloca?

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Such raiders would be Hilent an

night birds, though travelling at three miles n minute.

The silencer has been developed by Messrs. C. G. Vokes, Ltd, of Putney, and has been tested at Farnborough and by Messrs. Rolls- Royce, Ltd., who make very many of the engines used in our day and night bombers,

HELPLESS DEFENCE.

One of the biggest problems facing experts has been how to obtain allence without loss of power, and the new apparatus has almost achievod, thin-the loss on the biggest type of engine yet texted being only from two to three per cent.

A of bazuera waving over their beads, cal'ing for clean movies, 50,000 school children marched down Michigan avenue in Chicago, as shown here. The paraders ware members of the "Legion of

'Decency" formed to combat objectionable films.

every resort.

If the

down to the nca, and it will hold we live on an island, why should we Even Weymouth, which probably five or six people. There are men inck for an excellent cold bath," The principle of the silence in has the most formidable surviving and women guides who, if desired but it was Benle who showed how to turn the pulsating movements of array of bathing machines, has lost attend. The price is 4s, a week, the thing might be done. The exhaust gases under pressure faith in them to the extent that it into a stendy stream. Although has allowed the most famous bath- £1 s. for six weeks, and you seaside resorts celebrate the bicen the gases run "straight through ing machine in the world, the one pay a guide for every attendance. tenary of the bathing machine, as and do not come up against baffles, from which George III. 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, an inevitably poke fun at the way Beale the outer chaing, so that i udjelning machine), to fall from prevents being seen, and unteryer; hut if he had not done 20 the King" (played by a band in an then let down 1 Acreon, which protected his bathers from prying "Linny," "drumming." or "running down" noises are prevented.

its high estate. Up to the time af

If research solves the parallel problema of diminishing afracrew Bolses and vibrational noises from wind buffeting is successful, the era of the perfectly silent nero- plane is at hind.

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

the war It has always kopt in its which you go down the steps into a bathing might not have developed place of honour at the extremo fine sandy bottom."

jat all. In any case, the invention right of the line, and when the

In later machines. there was a

zorved six generations. machines were withdrawn to Lod- moor for the winter the arms were fireplace with chimney, so that the Except that his grandson was removed and put away until the bather. in his shivery anneling money from bathing following seanor. But this haalopment, might warm himself Machines in the middle of the last toric machine, in CONTRON with others, has had ita wheels taken The Victorian machines, daring by leentury, all that we know of Ben- off and has become a tool-shed. It

of day and night bombers. is said that in the early days of Searchlights and anti-aircraft Blackpool the ladies on Wel guns will be almost helpless. Sunday used to be taken to church in bathing machines, but at any rate this was respectful nulsuso!

I would be possible for allemt, warplanes to cross the const nt 200 m.ph., drop their tombs over Landon, and be well on their way back within half an hour, while gun crews stood wondering where the Invaders were,

DAWN OF NEW ERA

BATHING MACHINE IS DOOMED

KING'S

SHELTER

A TOOL SHED

WHEN SEA Bathing began.

completely of lone

Before bathing machines become brance of their inventor and ope вете remem-

part he played in the development of the seaside would not be out of place, the more so as this time of the bathing machine's eclipse 18 so the time of its bicentaury, in no far as this can be fixed. When sen hathange itself began has never been determined. Lecky mentions Lord Chesterfield's surprise at: aceing bathing at Scarborough In i 1783, and there is no doubt that the construction of a new harbour at Scarborough in 1784 made rosat » for bathing facilities which gave fillip to the pastime. An engraving

Typical of the progress of aviation companies in China, this now and modern hangar was recently opened by the Chiasse National

aviation Corp-at-Lungwhi

735 shows people hathing there from a shelter on the beach or from covered rowing boats. Rv 1737 a bathing machine hari The news that Deal is convert-peared at Scarborough. ing her last dozen bathing machines

[comparison with the urgiunta, dis-jamin Beale is that the invention intu hen roosts is a reminder of But there is evidence that the Pensed with the lengthy seran at ruined him, and that he à ed poor. an end-of-the season seaside aboriginal bathing machine had been the end, which enabled the bather His widow died in the Drapers' that will soon belong to the past. Introduced at Margate two or to get into the sea and out again | Almshouse at Margate. Beale was - Deal at least will no longer have to three years earlier, and, indeed, the without being seen at nil Also before his time. The golden har-

drag back her once indispensable probability is that it is exactly 200 they were smaller. bathing machines ton sheltered years ago since Benjamin Heale, apot for their hibernation. The his Qunker soul vexed by the in- ment of the Deal bench man that decorum of what he saw on Mar- "with the free quil easy customs of gate sands, bethought himself of Defence against hostile aircraft | to-day machines are No use" the wonderful horse-drawn carayan largely depends on warning af hoed, more

which was, to make sea-bathing less loudly 97".

Private Orms and Government experts in all parts of the world have for years been attempting to solve the problem of alient engines for the benefit of passengers in civil nircraft, and more urgently to produce raiding machines that do not reveal their presence through noise,

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Mysterious disappearance of Willam Young, Oregon. aviator, while on a fight from Portland in 1933 was solved by was found by a keton was 'wedged in the cockpit.

at

consonant with dellency.

DATE CAN BE FIXED,

The evidenter for this is rathe

ing

vest of the sands came a generation Sa little is known of Benjamin Weymouth, and the Regent, at

for m. later, when George Hi, ak, Beale that, though there ar A

| Brighton, had given a. fillip to dozen Beales in the Dictionary of bathing. Ironically, It is only National Biography, he is not since we have learned to dispenso of them. And yet he made buth with bathing machines that the re- practicable. Dr. Richard creation has become really popular, Russell might extol sea water, Sir but somethinar is due to the memory interesting. All the scraps of John Flover spight exclaim, “Sinssjef Benjamla Deale, information, except the latgal about Beale, assign a later date to his discovery. C, H. Woodruff, In the Home Contics Magazine in 1902, gave 1753, and this supported by a reference to the Margale machines in 1764 "curiosities," However, a couple of years ago Sir Ambroso Heal mado a discovery at the Society of Anti- quaries which showed that Beale's machine was being used in 1780, and was probably invented a year or two earlier. He came across Home manuscript notes and draw ings in the society's copy of a book: called "Antiquities of the Isle of Thanet," 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 which appears on the copy of Beale's trade card in the British Museum, and a description of the Invention. Ames had made a drawing of Margate which, already appeared in the book itself, and presumably his object in making this sketch was to give an up-to- date picture of Margate, Including the

new bathing machine. Ames note of the year in which he made this sketch is "173" but, pro- vokingly, the last numeral la torn off. As he went down to Margate to get a copy of the new book, how- ever, it is exceedingly probable that the year was 1738.

DESCRIPTION OF A MACHINE.

Here is Amea' description of the machine.

"It

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