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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1936.

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IN BULLET PLANE

Mystery Ship Built By Veteran Flier Who Will Attempt To Break Howard Hughes' Mark

East Hartford, Conn., Nov. 25.

Before the year ends, Lieut-Commander Frank Hawks expects to smash the world's land airplane speed record here with his new mystery ship, Time Flies, which he believes will attain a speed close to 400 miles an hour,

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Hawks white, completely streamlined plane time. The pilot's seat con be raised its first workout here on Nov. 18 and and said he was well pleased with hydraulic Jack, and the mechanism

gave the sleek, snow-i he landed the plaris here for the first IN THE FASHIONABLE COLOURS & DESIGNS

results.

lovercet by

a hand-operated

proved so mysterious to Hawks he find trouble getting out for a while.

In fight, Hawks con lower the

"It's a swell job, he said, "and there is no doubt in my mind that it will do between 350 and 400 seat, thus automatically dropping the the top window light to enclose miles an hour,”

If it does, Time Flies stands apilot's compartment. When this is good chance of exceeding the pres-done, the plane is completely stream- ent world speed mark of 352.30 miles lined, one of the few speed craft, if an hour established by Howard not the only one; which has been so Hughes at Santa Ano, Cal., a year constructed.

BUILT BY HAWKS ago.

PILOT'S SEAT adjustable Designed and ball by Hawks himself at Springfield, Mass., Time Time Flies, in truth, is a mystery Files is believed to have a cruising ship. Hawks had trouble extricat- ing hituself from the cockpit when speed of about 330 to 340 miles an

hour. "That is the 'speed,"

sold Hawks, "at which it is most cco- nomical to operate. But in the first at

DEFEAT OF DEATH-test fights I am going to ty

WATCH BEETLE WESTMINSTER HALL

FREED

The young of the "powder-post" beetle ilke starch, and the mother) Leetles know in which woods they will find it. They lay their eggs accordingly.

minimum eds. That's all I am

speeds.

Interested in now."

"The plane

ground,"

fecta very stable on the Hawks said after landing it for the first time. "It feels just like ship. It has a three- transport degree twist in the wings, and good lateral control.

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"I won't open up the throttle for

while, he continued, "but when 1 do, just watch it go. 1 believe I'll make a try at the record before winter comes, maybe before the end of November.

This is one of the discoveries described in the annual report of the Forest Products Research Board

WING SPREAD OF 31 FEET under the Department of Scientific Time Flies has a Fratt and Whitney and Industrial Hesearch.

Wasp engine capable of developing These beetles have, it appears, 1,150 horsepower. Hawks said the positive passion for starch. Even it plane "can handle up to 2,000 horse- It has a fuse)- of two specimens of timber con- power structurally." tain enough starch for healthy de-age 2 feet long, and a wing sprend velogiment of their young, they will of 31 feet.

both

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none the less, lay the majority of Special wing flaps permit a lond- their eggs in the specimen which! ing speech of 65 to 68 miles an hour. contains must of R.

When it alone. Ilawka raises the Otherwise known

"Lyetur," pilot's seat and operates the plane of considerably behind "windakirkl," beetles, they are

In a speed Will greater economic importance that attempt, however, he sold he their

the lower the seat, thereby lowering the mort famous cousin.

Timber mer} window High, my "blind." "death-watch" beetle.

top

ship has retractable Jauding chants mud furniture factories are The

lights and gear. their chief enemies.

PARACHUTE USE POSSIBLE The propellor is a Homilion threc-binded, constant Standard speed desigo, and is 10 feet, 0 inches in diameter.

Methods are now being sought by which timber can be rendered free! from starch and therefore immune from "powder-post" attack.

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The cabin has a side door through

FALLACY OF "BAKING" As for the death-watch," stated that there has been little in which Hawks enters and leaves. If

within he has to use a parachute, a trip

creased nativity or spread recent years, and Hall it has been shown to be "nel obviously netive."

in Westminster; control pulls the linge plns on the dour, which drops away, leaving an opening.

it has also been shown that the intensive "baking of new buildings, in the belief that they will other wise be dump and unhealthy, is both wastefte. It has been found that with the installation of normal, temporary heating, the mols-

Hawks has also developed ил automatic pilot, with which he will experiment before a speed attempt is made,

The ship has a two-way radio.

ture content of wood-work falls from SOVIET TO HAVE

The

about 18 to about 12 per cent. latter is the average final level of woodwork moisture in o matured, entrally heated building, so that any further "baking" serves no usefulj

purpose.

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Full investigations of new Empire timbers from countries as far apart well decorated this season. Moscow Nathan Road, Kowloon:

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British Honduras and Ceylon have been undertaken, in conjunction with the Colonial Forest Resources De velopment Department of the Colon- ial Ofee, and the Forestry Commis sion is being helped to market their "advanced thinnings" 45

polee

Moscow, Nov. 15. Christmas trees in Russian homes, made legal only last year, will be

factories arc turning out 30. different kinds of decorations of a total value of 8,000,000 roubles,

Under the new custom, Christmas trees are decorated for New Year's Day Instead of Christmas, and are

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