1947-04-26 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1947.

The wonderful world of tomorrow is beginning today

250-ton stratosphere liners crossing the Atlantic

Ten thousand

by

passengers in a night

Design for a jet-engined airliner of the future, considered practical by scientists

If an economical power-source can be developed.

ANDRE LABARTHE

Doctor of Physics and special scientific corres- pondent at the Bikini tests who has been in the United States studying new discoveries and inventions.

SING

INCE I left Europe I have covered more than 45,000 miles by air. Like myself, there are twenty thousand others who each night sleep up in the clouds and during the day keep their business appointments down below.

In this air age, just begin- ning, distances will be measured in hours, not in miles. Every village will have its air- field, its gateway to the sky.

A speed of 95 m.p.h. an the roads and 115 m.p.h. on specially construct- ed rails would requiré n driving power which would prevé unecono- micat.

In 1010 Transatlantic steamers did 27 knots. Today an 80,000-ton ship of 150,000 h.p. does 32 knots. It is impossible to attain a speed of 40 knots,

Holidays will be spent in those regions of light which now can be seen only on the screen in India among the contem. platives; in Egypt among the aircraft will continue to mummics; in South America among the exuberants; in China among the philosophers.

It will cost less than to cross the Atlantic today. A Super-Clipper will go off on á world stroll with 120 passengers in its cabing placed in the wings.

Men will shave in the morning and will look out through the trans- parent leading edge of the plastic wing driven by a rocket engine, and watch the storms gathering on horizon:-

of

Contrary to ships, the speed

increase, without increasing charges-arid even sometimes reducing them.

This is due to the flying height, to the carrying loads of 600 pounds to the square yard, to the rates of speed, the precision of design, and to the aerodynamic resistance of the fuselage being only Л negligible fraction of the resistance of the air- crati.

In 1030 the transport aircraft went at 190 miles an hour.

In 1948 it did 280 miles an hour. Today heavy machines are being

which the constructed

will go at 400 -m.p.he for-a-distance-of-3,750 miles.

Plans are nearly completed for planes which will go 500 m.p.h. for 6,250 miles.

The engines will be entirely placed in the wings and will be accessible throughout the flight by a connect- Ang corridor. Such a machine Bow under construction.

is

The trip from

New London la "York will take eight hours and cost

£25.

In the near future the airplane vill have all the comforts and luxuries of a liner--showers, bath

rooms and sunbathing, rooms, games rconis, cinemas and television.

No limit to size of plane

An idea of its size is given by the Mors. a sea-bomber bullt for the U.S. Navy but now used for trans- port.

It has a storage capnelly of about 145 cuble yards. There are two rudders, 13ft, high, and ullerons longer than the wings of a fighter.

Flying liners will become bigger and Elgger. There is no limit to the size of a plane, Its only limit will be the cargo load which it will be able to carry.

Stratospheric aircraft, flying at n height of about 40,800 feet for above the layers of storms and frosts, will accomplish long trans-oceanic.flights equipped with engines fed by turbo- compressors, automatic pitch pro- melters, pressure cabins and jet en- Hines or gas turbines.

Slight touch alters course

At present, 13 to 10 crews Cross the Atlantic every night piloting. 40- ton aircraft. 'Navigators handle the compass, the protractor and the charts. They converse through. the fog with neighbouring radio stations.

Then they tell the pilot: Course 210. A light touch of the rudder- bar, and the aircraft Imperceptibly allers ils course,

Behind the crows about 40 pas- Bengers are sleeping. They carry in their dreams worries and cares from "one continent to the other.

Shortly; each night, 100 crown will pilot 250-ton airliners; 100 naviga- tors, will trace their course,

und 10,000 passengers will cross in single night from cast to west.

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By land and sea, apeed is rapidly reaching its limit, Only in the air can it be Increased.

New York and back in a day

And, better than all the mall- plane, with a speed of 1,000 m.p.h. will be delivering inait from London to New York and from New York back to London in single day.

every

faster than the luxury liner.

The plane is at present eight times And 100 tons of the total weight of an aircraft carry 200 times more passengers than every 100 tons of the total tonnage of a liner within the same period.

CUPID:

NEUR

Fountain pena and pencils in Cellulose Nitrate and all office ac- .cessories in Polyvinylic Alcohol.

Chemistry line triumphed over wood and Ivory, copper, wool, ture, coltan and silk.

Chemistry invents materiala thinner than paper, finer than silk. n's clastic as rubber, lighter than wood or aluminium, with sumcient resistance to stand up against projectiles even at 40 degrees below zero or at 150 degrees above.

Who are the idealists responsible for these inventions?

Some have stumbled by accidents, others by research.

upon them methodical

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Very much earlier, about 1800, colluloid WGS discovered by an amateur chemist named John Hyatt, In an attempt to win the prize offer- ed by a manufacturer of billiard balls, threatened by the rise in price of ivory.

At almost the same time a Protes- tant pastor, Hannibal Goodwin, Who showed stereoscopie pictures to his Sunday school class and often broke the slides, made experiments to see if celluloid could not be trans- formed into a sort of unbreakable

lasa.

One day, after endless setbacks, his modest laboratory blew up. He continued his researches and ended by, discovering nitrocellulose film.

In 1007 Hendrick Brecltland, n poor Belgian chemist, received thou-

graphic paper. sands (or his discovery of photo-

Spont a

fortunc

on his rosearches

tune to carry on his researches and He immediately utilised his for-

discovered bakelite.

Today boats, plinos and airplanes are made of plastics,

Plastics are needed by all Indus- tries, from electricity and printing Saran, which replaces cloth, lea- to navigation and transport. ther and rape and is mode from Plastics announce the era of the chlorie vinylidene resin, was dis- moulded piece. covered by the French physician Regnault, who never dreamed of its industrial use.

Koroseal was accidentally discover ed in 1030 by the research, chemist Goodrich, who noticed ita astonish- To every 25 tons of total weight|ing elnatielty in the course of other the French liner Normandie carried research work, one passenger at an average speed of 31 miles an hour.

A Transatlantic aircraft to every ton of total weight carries one pas- of 250 miles an senger at a speed hour.

Even the most timorous and the old-fashioned have had to adapt themselves; even geography is not) exempt.

map

the

In this air age Mercator's Projec tion is out of date.

On the

Toute from Washington to Tokyo appears to pass near San Francisco. But the great circle routes are the shortest, so that Washington-Tokyo passes through Canada and skirts Siberin.

The route from Washington to Moscow by the great

cirele passes close to Greenland.

Arctic regions are crossroads

are all within the Northern Hemis- Since the most important nations phere, the great circle routes pass close to the Pole,

Plexiglas, transparent methyl metharcrylate, we owe to a chemist of the well-known firm of Du Pont who, while working on synthetic wood alcohol, left a bottle exposed to the sun,

There will be no more fear of worm in the wood or moth in our clothes.

moulds. And these moulds can be The pieces will flow through the complete automobile bodies or air- plane fuselages or wings.

Plastics will be made ntiff as cement, adhesive as veneer. whole technique and possibilities of building will be revolutionised by the emergence of new products.

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The Arctic regions are thus the

of the air 053roads

"They representing nearly one hun- Chinese of Hongkong in coming to age. the hub of a wheel around dred Chinese' bodies or associn- the aid of British flood victims will which radinic all. The great routes. tions would stage an anti-tax rekindle the regard which the people

We shall soon be crossing the Arctic Ocean, and not the Atlantic. demonstration before Govern- monstrated to the people

of Britain have

ave repeatedly

China ment House, and then proceed and Hongkong. Such a gesture is to the Council Chamber, I ex- a assurance that beneath occasional lies a warm differences of opinion perienced a sinking feeling akin and sincere friendship for each other. to profound regret.

become the

The Arctic will Mediterrancan of the North, and one day the main door to the US. will no longer be New York.

prevailed, meeting of the Legislative Coun- Common- His Excellency's remarks of the invested on Thursday were disappointing. "It is natural that the Bill should have

arounor

widespread interest," said the

"It is also

150 per-

Fortunately, the The age of plasties is beginning, sense of the sponsors Curtains, rings, curtain rods, in- sulators and shirts are made in and the protest was Vinyl,

with A sane and dignified Stockings,plates, cups, spoons, approach. self-olling plummer-blocks, in Nylon,

I am convinced that the sincerity haps not unnatural that it should Combs, brushes, mirrars, harmoni- of the Chinese purpose is unassailable, have given rise to a large number cas, frames in Acrylic.

Suitcases,

The Chinese inhabitants of Hong- uf protests. We recognise that the pocket lampa,

toys, kong are as anxious for the Colony opposition is due to boxes, alarm clocks, microphones, to prosper as is the European com- held by many people in this Colony telephones, parlour games, shovels inmunity, for their own success is that this is not the best or the most Cellulose Acetate,

interlinked with that of this small Bullons, buckles knitting needles member of the British

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In the face of such almost over- of

Tuble appointments, travel goods, valises, refrigerators in Polystyrene. Clothes, materials, bottles, thread of all colours in Vinylidene Chloride. State for the Colonies was un- Excellency should have continued.

Flat-irons, table thermometers in Phenolic.

appointments,

in Cellulose Acetu-Butyrate.

Car steering wheels and trumpels Wireless sets, knick-knacka of all kinds electric razor cases in Urea and in Melamine.

THE cable to the Secretary of is all the more surprising that His

fortunate, especially at this juncture "I have to say quite frankly that when the people of the British Isles the Government is of а

contrary are the most heavily taxed people opinion. The Government has taken in the world. such a protest in. London is to be sentations that have been made....

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Russian UNO Delegates Slowly Defrosting

The Russians are warming up to the American press

at the United Nations. The temperature is still tepid, but it 'shows a considerable rise since last autumn when the Soviets put the freeze on any reporter without a Russian

accent.

addressed the

While American, British and Other evidence of the relaxation towards the It is dimcult to understand how other delegations handed out of the Soviet attitude

press is seen in the way the Russians any legislation which, in official written statements or whisper- handle their speeches, Last autumn, parlance, naturally gives rise to a ed in reporters' ears, the Rus- when Sovlot Foreign Minister very considerable volume of

Molotov, opposi

General tion and to a large number of pro-sians were stonily inaccessible. Assembly, the Soviet delegation had lests, can be the most appropriate. Written questions submitted to the speech already translated into It is here that the great dif- the Soviet delegation did not English. But they would not give ference between the people of, the British Isles and the people of get even an acknowledgment. It out for many hours after M, Molo-

tov, had finished. Hongkong is so clearly defined. Attempts at oral questioning) At Home, when the Government were brushed off by Russians makes a statement, that statement who said they did not speak is, ipso facto, a statement of the people, by the people,

English.

As a result, the Soviet side of the story frequently was left untold.

The result was that the world's press translated as best it could from Molotov's own words as he spoke. In Russian. Reporters' pleas that they

fine shadings. were losing the meaning left the Russians unmoved.

*** Spoke In English

of

This contrasted sharply with M. Gromyko's actions during the last fortnight. He milde, three important,.

IN my opinion, whleli is shared by A telephone call to the Russitul UN many people with whom I have delegation is still likely to bring only discussed the matter, the Govern a stream of Russian and click of mont's needs could be met by taking the receiver. But the Russian thaw into consideration the suggestions of is showing in other Ways the majority of the community. It Andrei Gromyko, The up prepared statements to the Security the common ground that

Louhell On two of these occasions, the commercial as well as the off- Security Council, has become more he spoke in English Instead or clal side of life here. desires to see of a glamour boy than a bogey mansian- ctisiderable concession. Hongkong prosper It must also be Very, very quietly, he has been More important--from the přess common ground that in order to at- American newsmic Gromyko may two speeches mimeograpfied in ad- holding private talks with selected standpoint was the fact that he had tain prosperity and modernlly, laxn- tion must be increased.

not be quoted, and the resulta of vanco in English. He had

Liveit There are many suggestions in this these talks have not made headlines. copies to a UN press attache, who direction, and if considered agan-But they may herald. id break-up distributed them as soon as he began pathetically in the light of public

of the Ice jam. and popular opinion, the problem: would not prove to be so ituperable.

Othors Following &B officialdom asserts.

The fact that the Financial Seerd. tary stated that there was no in- tention, on the part of Government to apply pressure on traders, to lice their accounts in European forth, is surely an enlightening admisslch of The dimeulty anticipated in makli the tax universal. The further stalo- ment that the new Department of Inland Revenue would have offedre capable of investigating and as Bessing Chinese accounts-in vulgar phraseology stinks to high heaven

Circle Closing t

to speak..

The usually stern-faced Gromyk Whether the Russians will freeze and went out of his way to stinke fora, M. Gromyko has become ac recently stopped in a UN, lounge, up again is uncertain. Twice. bac

anda with the press an act that cessible to the would have been unthinkable last spring, and again in the summer. press-once Jast November when the UN General His present journey into the field of Assembly convened. After recent amiable pross relations, however, in Setuelty Council meetings, Gromyko the most extensive yet,

And this

his visite lounge, chatting with time some of the Soviet-dominated

påviser.

hegada countries: arò following. tance; but the circle is closing in trend which, if continued, should Newaren still watch from a dis- All of this appears to add up to Gromyko kadar it, but seems pre-load to better understanding of the pared-

Soviet viewpoint United Press.