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AUGUST 27, 1925 code system of flares. For instance, one brilliant red mag- nesium flare means : " Bad weather ahead ; exercise caution," and two such flares constitute an imperative order to the pilot to alight and wait for further instructions. One of the most interesting, as well as important, features of the equipment for night flying is the half-billion candle- power electric arc flood lights with which the five major flying fields are equipped. So powerful is this light that the landscape for nearly a mile round in a complete half circle is made as bright as day, and a newspaper may be read with ease at three-quarters of a mile away ; yet the rays at no point extend more than 15 ft. above the ground, and there is no blinding flare to confuse the incoming pilots and prevent them making a safe landing. As they fly Westward over the lighted airway the machines carry sufficient fuel, oil and water to take them to Belfontc, where they are completely serviced. At Cleveland another pilot and machine continue the journey Westward, he, in turn, stopping at Bryan, Ohio, for fuel. Eastward the process is reversed. SWEDISH SEAPLANE VISIT TO ENGLAND Fine Flight Made With Rolls-Royce Engine IN our issue of March 19, 1925, we described and illustrated a twin-float seaplane designed by the German designer, Ernst Heinkel, and built under licence in Sweden by the Svenska Aero Aktie Bolaget, of Stockholm. One of these machines, fitted with a Rollys-Royce " Eagle IX " engine, recently paid a visit to this country, during which some very good performances were put up. The Swedish seaplane, known as the " S.II," was piloted by Commander Flory, who carried as passenger Admiral they had covered a distance of 3,100 miles without trouble of any kind. Commander Flory in a letter to the Rolls-Royce Company, states that " the engine ran like a clock." That, of course, is merely equivalent to saying that it " ran like a Rolls." Although the " S.II " is a service machine, and thus not quite comparable with a commercial seaplane, the flight did demonstrate the possibility of establishing regular direct air services between London and the Scandinavian countries, A SWEDISH VISITOR : These four photographs show the Swedish seaplane with Rolls-Royce " Eagle " IX engine, on which Commander Flory flew from Stockholm to Felixstowe and back. On the return journey the flight from Felixstowe to Malmo was made, non-stop, in 7 hrs. 15 mins. Limnberg, of the Royal Swedish Navy. The outward journey was made from Stockholm via Karlskrona-Malmo- Texel to Felixstowe, but no attempt was made to cover very long stages. After a stay in this country the return journey to Sweden was undertaken, and it is worthy of note that the trip from Felixstowe to Malmo was made without landing, and in a time of 7 hours 15 minutes. After leaving Malmo the rest of the return journey to Stockholm was made via Gothenburg and Karlskrona, and by the time the aerial travellers had reached Stockholm and the fact that the trip from Fclixstowe was made in the astonishingly short period of 1\ hours indicates the enormous saving in time that could be effected. The journey by train and boat from London to Malmo occupies something like 38 to 40 hours. For a beginning large seaplanes would not be required, and machines no larger, or but little larger, than the " S.II " could be used for the conveyance of mails, which would be delivered considerably earlier than is now possible. Even the somewhat roundabout route over Amsterdam and Hamburg does not save as much time as it is possible to save., Air Escort for the Prince WHEN H.R.H. the Prince of Wales paid a visit to La Plata from Buenos Aires on August IS, travelling in the Argentine President's sumptuous coach, he was escorted by five aero- planes, the pilots of which gave skilful exhibitions of low flying throughout the journey. Danish Fishery Inspection from the Air AT Frederikshavn, Jutland, experiments have been proceeding in the use of naval hydroplanes for fishery inspec- tion purposes. The idea has proved thoroughly practical, and it has been possible to exercise very satisfactory control over the territorial waters. 556
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