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THE

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY,

JULY 13,

1935.

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This Indian archer is soon above demonstrating his capacity in archery during a festivity in Simia in the Punjab in the presence of thousands of spectators and the Viceroy. Lord Willingdon.

"BLIND FLYING" ceiver.

MADE SAFER

PERFECTION OF RADIO COMPASS

STRIDE IN AIR NAVIGATION

The Instrument takes its influence directly from anу he tive radio transmitter.

Lear's compass, adopted by the U. S. Department of Commerce for its "blind flying" experiments, does everything but mind the baby and darn your socks, Major Kelly explained. Foolproof in all tests | yet "conducted, it Comes as near to solving the problem an any-

JAPAN PLAYS AT. WAR

ENEMY AIR FLEET To ATTACK

Tokyo, July 6. The entire Tokyo Bay district thing yet offered the aviation including Tokyo, Yokohama, and

industry.

numerous smaller towns and cities

Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam, were placed under strict super- the famous aviatrix, demonstra vision of the air defence forces at

its practicability. for cross- country purposes on her lights a

ted

noon fo-day as part of the annual

few werks ngo from Los Angeles air defence manoeuvres.

The manoeuvres will last until te Mexico City and from Mexico to-morrow morning. City to New York.

Aloft, the pilot switches on his!

buildings will be darkened and all street lights will be disconnected shortly after 8 pm.

While the residents feel their way about the street to find their homes or favourite places of his shin amusement, the Army Air Corps will work out its problems. A

mythical enemy air force will attack the district and drop bombs

Pittsburgh, Pa., July 6. The perfection of the radio com- pass, a revolutionary stride in the development of air navigation, has dropped fox to the font of

The cities will be darkened to- the list of the aviator's bugbears.

night. Motorcars will be operated "It makes blind flying no more | revalver. He wants to go, say without headlights, business, difficult than dialing a program- to Cincinnati. He tunes in on a manufacturing and" residence Ine on your home receiver and brondcast of a Cincimati radio les hazardous than motoring in station and watches the dice "the fog,” Major J. Nelson Kelly, tional indicator of his instrument of New York, said after a privatepanek" A huminous hand, moving demonstration.

in a 100-degree are, is drawn to Perfected by Wiliam P. Lear, wärd Cincinnati.

The pilot swings young New York radio engineer. the radio compass is an ordinary around so that the fumingus hand super-heterodyne receiver plus a points to dead rentre on the arc fÚ་w direction-finding gadgets. Then he can sit back and enjoy The whole outfit, with it loop his fight without so much as unless repulsed by the defenders, antenna atop the plane, weighs glance at the ground until he rea- no more than 40 pounds. The ches his destination. receiver itself, smaller than some When the ship passes over the midget radios, may be coneraled radin tower, the indicator hand in the luggage compartment of dutters from one extremity of the the cabin or in any other con-are to the other. Dirertional de-ing the streets and warning thuse venient placé. It is operated by vices perfected by the commerce To assist at such times the remote controls on the instrument department will then bring the Japanese manufacturers have de- plane through the "celling" to avisen an electric light bulb much safe landing.

like a straight tube. The bulb is It makes no difference if the blackened except for a small area at the botton which permits a dim light. to be thrown downwards. These are used in cabs до по light rays are thrown DR the street.

board.

Magnetic north is is alien to the radio compass as the crystal de- lector to the modern radio re-

(Continued on next Column.)

This admirabla specimen of a pig measuring seven feet from snout to tail, participates in a loyal Agricultural show held at Sydney, Australia.

Machine-guns and bombs will roar

or-

af periods throughout the night.

Boy Scouts and similar nations will assist in patroll-

wha forget to turn but the fights.

Residents of Japanese cities are now accustomed to the manoeuvres. and the nervousness that attended them a few years ago is no longer evident-United Press.

radio

airwaves are thick with static. The pilot may hang up his headset, safe in the knowledge that the visual indicator will stick to Its business of indicating through any weather.

Volume of the reception In- crenses but little as the plane ap- proaches the point where the siguals originate, and when it does increase, the pilot simply tones it down as he would in his own living toom. Volume of sound does not affect the directional properties of the radio compass.

The instrument is adjustable to Government beacon bands and the brondeast hand, thus guaranteeing 21-hours-n-day service.-United

Press.

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