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MAY 15 icjit) AlCHT THE KING AND QUEEN OF BELGIUM'S VISIT TO COLOGNE BY AEROPLANE —The Queen chatting with her pilot at the Bickendorf Aerodrome, Cologne, on April 28, before leaving. Facing the camera is General Sir W. Robertson, G.C.B., etc. and ^Auckland. The trip occupied four days, including delays due to weather ; but it saved very many more days of slow and toilful travel over bad roads and steep and rugged bridle-tracks. NECESSITY being the mother of invention, is being almost daily demonstrated in the case of aerial progress. One of the latest devices to render the navigation of the air more safe is the work of the United States Signal Corps, who have been demonstrating with an aerial beacon or whistling buoy. The beacon is a phonograph, run automatically by electric motor, the record of which repeats continually a single phrase, which gives the name or location of the field near which the beacon is posted. The entire apparatus is attached to antennae such as are regularly used in wireless telephony. At a height of 5,000 ft. the device, it is stated, was easily heard. SHOULD this ingenious combination not prove entirely effective, why not " harness " a few hundred of London's -whistling-fiend boys, who might well be spared to replace the "phonograph." Our experience is that their most insistent and penetrating pitch of note would be difficult to match by any artificial device. THE Royal Academy is itself again, the air is heavy with peau d'Espagne and chit-chat—" My dear, whoever is that very complicated looking old lady, isn't she a fright ? " There are the usual interiors, the customary knots of leopards, the familiar young ladies with perfect backs, and extremely -martial young men. The exciting pictures, such as the dope- fiend one and the operation for cataract, draw great crowds, and there are several examples of sturdy British art in the Pear's Almanac school ; widows with V.C.'s and Union Jack backgrounds, avenging women scantily clad cowing Kaisers, and the like. Seeing some of them one could understand why some of the onlookers chose to wear tinted goggles ! THERE are one or two pictures of munition works, with clangorous steam-hammers and flaming ingots very prominent. Mr. Sargent's " Gassed " makes one incline to the view of the forceful Tommy who said it was " more Tike an incar nadined fryze than a clearing station ! " The treatment is unduly decorative. Little impasto aeroplanes lurk about the top of the picture. Those aeroplanes have insinuated themselves on to a good many canvases. Capt. Turner's " Channel Patrol " (F2A Flying Boat taking off) is an excellent piece of work, delightfully atmospheric. " The Avengers," by A. J. W. Burgess, depicts as from mid-air the homing destroyers, and a little scout machine above them humming strongly. " Der Tag," the German High Sea Fleet coming in, by W. L. Wyllie, R.A., shows an encircling blimp, but this work is too tidy to convince. A PICTURE, " Late News," by George Harcourt, shows eager groups with the evening's paper, and recalls memories of days we shall be glad to forget. All the asperities, the raw ' hideousness of the Mighty Shops is shown in Miss Anna Airy's picture of the " L Press " at Armstrong-Whitworth's forging an 18-in. gun. The British tank attacking a German THE KING AND QUEEN OF BELGIUM'S VISIT TO COLOGNE BY AEROPLANE.—The Queen is entering the machine at the Cologne Aerodrome, and the King is seen on the left in flying rig 647
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